Bethlen Naptár, 1949 (Ligonier)
To our second generation
54 BETHLEN NAPTÁR fifteen different states took part in the jubilee. These assembled Christian men and women pledged continued support to our Home, since they found that the past twenty-five years had been fruitful and progressive years. From a humble beginning “up on the hill”, the Bethlen Home has expanded so that it now includes an old people’s home, a children’s home, a large farm house and two adjoining smaller houses, as well as a farm of 204 acres with the necessary farm buildings, machinery and live stock. In order to better acquaint our friends, supporters and the general public with the aims of our institution and the regulations governing admission into the Home, we are quoting the following from the By-Laws of the Hungarian Reformed Federation of America, sponsors of the Bethlen Home: "The aim of the Children's Home is to care for the orphans, half-orphans and children left without proper care of the members of the Federation, with the purpose of rendering them proper care and education, and enabling them to face the struggle of life when they leave the Home. This aim is reached by direct care, or by placing them in foster homes, or by giving them out for adoption. The aim of the Home for the Aged is to care for the aged members of the Federation who are without anyone to support them. The care of the orphans and aged is not limited as given above, but extends beyond the Federation, if the financial situation and facilities of the Home make admission possible within the fixed quota. “Until further action of the Convention of the Federation, the maximum number of children and aged will be determined by the capacity of the Home. “The Children’s Home and the Home for the Aged, desiring to attain their aim by strict observance of the Federal, State and Municipals Laws, submit themselves in every respect to the same, and acknowledge it as their duty to observe them in all cases. “Admission to the Children’s Home is limited to children from five to thirteen years of age, whether they are wholly or half orphaned, or those lacking proper care. Admission may be gained in the first place by such children who are wholly orphaned children of members of the Federation; in the second place, half orphaned or children of members of the Federation lacking proper care; in the third place, and only exceptionally, wholly or half orphaned children of such parents who, while not members of the Federation, are or were members of such organizations which contributed regularly to the upkeep of the Bethlen Home.
