Madam Speaker. the 115th anniversary of the founding of the first American Sokol unit is celebrated on February 15. for it was on that date in 1865 that a group of Czech immigrants in St. Louis. Mo.. initiated this fine organization in the United States. The first Slovak Sokol SocietySokol U.S.A.-was started in 1892 in my own city of Chicago and these organizations. along with the Catholic Sokols. all have the goal of physical fitness for their members in the belief that to maintain a free nation. its people must be physically and morally strong. In addition to physical fitness.
Keywords matched
immigrants