Bethlen Naptár, 1957 (Ligonier)

Officers and supreme council members of the Hungarian Reformed Federation of America 1957-1961

BETHLEN NAPTÁR

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“Józsi”, as he is fondly known, has been a member of our Federation for 18 years and was elected to membership in the Supreme Council for a term of four years at the 1956 Convention. We know he will be just as dynamic in the Supreme Council as he has been in his church and community. His jovial, bright, and progressive, frame of mind will be most refreshing and helpful.

Helen, his wife, has also been a member of the Passaic Church since childhood and a youth worker as well. The Molnars are as active and enthusiastic today as ever. They are an ideal couple, living in Garfield with their three daughters: Ilona 11, Dorothy 9, and Jo Ann 2.

REV. LOUIS NAGY, taken to Hungary from Donora, Pa. at the age of six, was educated there at the Gymnasium and Theological Seminary of Sárospatak, where he received his diplomas. He served as assistant

pastor in the Putnok Church upon his ordination, and later as regular pastor of the Hubó Congregation, County of Gömör, Czechoslovakia, where he remained until he returned to the land of his birth, the United States, in 1949. His first position in this country was as assistant in the Children’s Department of the Bethlen Home, where he worked faithfully for a year and a half, until in 1951, when he accepted the pastorate of the Free Magyar Reformed Church of McKeesport, Pa., with which denomination he became officially affiliated.

After anxious months of waiting for his family to be given visas to enter the United States Mrs. Nagy and the children joined Rev. Nagy in 1953. Pannika 13. Elizabeth 11, Louis, Jr. 10, and Yolanda 8, have become typical American youngsters, enjoying life in their adopted land. Mrs. Nagy, in order to leam to speak English well, takes time to attend night classes at the local night school.

Now, Dean of the Western Classis of the Free Magyar Reformed Church Rev. Nagy, in addition to his pastoral duties, has found time to devote to his chief hobby: writing. Four of his books, written in Hungarian, have been published thusfar and have proved very popular in Hungarian circles: Stones From the Bed of the Jordan (Kövek a Jordán Medréből), Bells of Home (Otthoni Harangszó), A Brotherly Word to Wandering Magyars (Testvéri Szó Bujdosó Magyarokhoz), and Opportunities at a Price (Áron Vett Alkalmak).

Rev. Nagy has been a member of the Hungarian Reformed Federation of America since 1949, and was elected by the Convention of 1956 to serve on the Supreme Council. His talents, we know, will be valuable to our Federation!

Rev. Louis Nagy, McKeesport, Pa.