Magyar Herald, 1988 (1-4. szám)
1988 / 1. szám
IST QUARTER, 1988 MAGYAR HERALD Page 3 NEWS ABOUT OURSELVES Our Magyar Club Officers — Know your Club Leaders — In our premier issue we have published resume biographies of the new officers of our Magyar Club. It is indeed important for us to know ' Who is who ’ and ‘ Who was who’ in the history of our eminent organization. We now continue with the biographies of our continuing officers. Theodore Toth Vice-President Born on Kennedy Avenue in the Buckeye Road community in 1928. Parents immigrated from Hungary just after the turn of the century. Father, Balint, was active in the construction business, operating through the greater Cleveland area. As good Hungarians, parents felt that a musical career would be a fitting way to provide their children with a satisfying and cultural filled life, thus at the early age of five he began a musical learning experience by studying for twelve years with professor Árpád Bognár, the musical legend of the Hungarian community. During the 30’s, he performed at many Hungarian functions under his auspice and with his outstanding orchestra. The reality of raising a family brought an abrupt end to his budding musical career. He married the former Betty Ann Gulyas and entered to a lifes-work in the construction and real estate industry. In the early 60’s he found the appraisal of real estate provided need for a meaningful profession, thus, he began the most significant and productive part of his life. During Professional career as an appraiser served as an officer and director of the Cleveland Board of Realtors and held various positions in state and national real estate organizations, including professional designations in the “Society Of Real Estate Appraisers” and “American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers”. For the past fifteen years he has been employed by the Veterans Administration As Head Of The Construction And Valuation Department. He and his wife Betty Ann have been married for forty years and live in Sagamore Hills. They have five children and six grand children. Oldest son Timothy, is a systems technician with A.T.&T., Thomas is a partner in Masterwood Products Corp., daughter Christine is a registered nurse, Barbara is head of computer programing for the Reliance Company in Philadelphia, Penna. Cindy is a budding equestrian who had recently shown at the prestigious National Horse Show at Madison Square Garden, New York City. Most reliable Vice President. John S. Veres Treasurer He was born on April 2, 1937 as the only child of John and Anna Veres. Father came to America from Miskolc, Hungary. Mother was born here in Pennsylvania. He received his total education in our fair city of Cleveland: grade school at St. Benedict school, high school at Benedictine High School, University at John Caroll. He married wife Joan in 1959. Passed his CPA examination in 1960. Their marriage was blessed by having five children: Jeanine 25, John 24, Judy 22, Janet 18, Jerry 16. They live in Seven Hills. He is a real sportsman. Plays soft ball, tennis, hand ball and jogs. He is president of Veres & Co. CPA’S, 4401 Rockside Road at Independence. He is the promptest treasurer any Club could have. Report on our Club’s Annual Christmas Party The Magyar Club’s Christmas Party was held in the elegant Ballroom of Judson Manor. The social hour was followed by an excellent Dinner. American and Hungarian music was played by Johnny Singer and his orchestra. Christmas carols were sung aroung the biautifufoy decorated tables with individual Christmas tree creations of different nations. Dancing lasted till late hours on the spacious dance-floor of the magnificent Ballroom. Committee deserves a heartfelt gratitude of all present. * Elmer Szabo was elected chairman of the Nominating committee at the recent meeting of the Board of Directors. Committee will present its report properly in time before the election meeting for the officers of the Club. THE PRESIDENT’S CORNER As it could be expected, as president of Magyar Club until this day, I have found both pleasant surprizes as well as dissapointments. 1 am amazed at the diligence and enthusiasm of certain members on the board. I am indeed pleased by the imagination and talent some members have revealed. Yet I find it dissapointing at times that the value of time, the energy and talent, which goes into activities of Magyar Club, does not yield result cornmeasurable with this tremendous input. As a successful businessman once told us: there is no such thing as a bad business — there is only bad analysis and planning. My revised analysis is that the Club is not yet geared for smooth operation. The membership is small in relation to the size of its functions. The working board-members and committee-members are hampered by the lack of a central office. Officers are often overwhelmed with tedious detail-work. However I do believe, as the restructuring of the organization continues, we will see a better matching of input to result. We have created committees which work well. Now, since our organization is finally chartered, we will update the constitution and by-laws. This should increase the working staff and divide work-load and responsibilities. The start was slow, but I am looking forward to accelerated growth in everyway. Dr. John Palasics New Members of our Magyar Club The previous issue of our Magyar Herald published the names of ten new members. Now we are happy to publish the names of seven new members, whose applications were accepted by the meeting of our Board on January 21, 1988. These newest members are as follows: Dr. Ron Balázs, Lél Somogyi, Gustáv Enyedi, Jr., Zoltán Németh, Paul Górta, Eleanore Iván, and Frank Huba. The new ruling of the Board is quoted here: “Applicant shall automatically become a member of the Magyar Club 10 days after publication of applicants name or immediately upon acceptance by the members at any general meeting.
