New SVU Membership Drive

In concurrence with the SVU Secretary General Frank Safertal, the SVU Executive Board has decided to launch a new SVU membership drive and appeals to SVU membership to give us an active hand in this important endeavor.

The campaign will be coordinated by Secretary General who will make available to interested people the SVU membership application forms, as well as the descriptive material about our Society. He can be reached by e-mail: ojsafertal@comcast.net or by telephone: (301) 564-9081 or by mail at the following address: Frank Safertal, SVU Secretary-General, 5529 Whitley Park Terrace, Bethesda, MD 20814-2064.

In order to be successful, the experience has taught us that such a drive has to be conducted on a personal basis, rather than based on mass mailings. We propose one of the following approaches:

1. A member invites a potential member directly, informing him about the SVU aims and activities and sending him an application form or referring him/her to the SVU Website : www.svu2000.org from which the form can be downloaded (see How To Join). The application form with a check, payable to SVU, should be then sent to the Secretary-General.

2. A member sends the name(s) of the potential member(s) to Secretary General who would then invite him/them on behalf of the member.

3. In case of SVU Local Chapters, the potential SVU members can be invited directly by the representative officer of the Chapter or their list can be provided to the Secretary-General who would send invitation letters on their behalf.

In searching for candidates for SVU membership, you should first look at your address book listing your friends and acquaintances, including Czech and Slovak natives, and other individuals with Czech or Slovak roots, as well as Americans and other nationalities with professional interest in Czech and Slovak culture or business.

College and university-based individuals should look through their school catalogue listings, which frequently include Czech/Slovak professors or students, as well as among the teachers of the Slavic languages and Literatures and the area studies.

I appeal to all our members to help us in this important endeavor. Why don?t you make it a goal of finding one potential member every month.

All the best

Mila Rechcigl
SVU President

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