Hungarian Heritage Review, 1987 (16. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1987-01-01 / 1. szám
Retters ®o jEfrttnr Dear Mr. Pulitzer: Thanks for the sample copy of the Hungarian Heritage Review. It is a fine publication, with informative and interesting contents; well put together with a variety of subjects; and its pages are physically attractive. Because of the aforegoing compliments, I enclose a check for $25.00 for a subscription for one year. Best wishes to you and to your associates, and increased circulation for the Hungarian Heritage Review. Albert Joczik McKeesport, Pennsylvania (EDITOR’S NOTE: Increased circulation for the Hungarian Heritage Review, Mr. Joczik, is what we're out to get this year, and if our readers would “talk it up” with family members and friends, it would be a big help to us.) Dear Mr. Pulitzer: Enclosed you will find some articles from the “Miami Herald”. Perhaps, you will like them. The only thing I don’t like is when they speak and write about Hungary as “Eastern”. It is, and always was, “Central Europe”. Franz Graf Zichy Hollywood, Florida (EDITOR’S NOTE: Right you are! Maybe one of these days it will “dawn” upon some of our politicians, academicians, opinion-making Journalists, and the general public that, while the early origins of the Hungarian people may have been “Eastern”, from the time their “Christian Nation” was founded, they have always been “Western-oriented” and considered themselves to be a part of Western Europe and Western Civilization.) Dear Mr. Pulitzer: I am a first generation Hungarian, who talks and writes Hungarian with less and less opportunities to do so, and I welcomed the monthly Magyar articles to keep “brushed up”. While some first generation Hungarians cannot speak the language, there are many who do — including some of my friends. In fact, my son, a second generation half-Hungarian, has a smattering knowledge. Anything that could be done to add a Hungarian language feature would be greatly appreciated and received with joy — even if the copy was off-set typewriter print! Best wishes for continued growth and success. Mrs. Violet Wray Don Merrillville, Indiana (EDITOR’S NOTE: This letter exemplifies the many others like it that we received last year and which compelled us to oblige with the addition of a “Hungarian Supplement” to the contents of the Hungarian Heritage Review.) Gentlemen: I have enjoyed your monthly publication immensely and look forward to each month’s issue with interest. I greatly enjoyed Mr. Ladanye’s vivid description of his trip with the 1985 Historical Tour of Hungary and am disappointed in not being able to read the entire report of the trip. It was well written and most informative and interesting. Wishing much success to your publication. Elizabeth Fracentese Tamarac, Florida (EDITOR’S NOTE: Several factors forced us to postpone continuation of Mr. Ladanye's fine series of articles: one was space limitation pressures, and the other reason was disastrous decline in travel to Hungary — from the U.S. in particular — last year. We do hope, however, to pick up where we left off and just as soon as we can.) Dear Mr. Pulitzer: Enjoying the Hungarian Heritage Review tremendously and I like your idea of presenting all spectrums of ideas, without endorsing any of it yourself. Have a nice Holiday Season and a Happy New Year. Louis A. Fodor Weirton, West Virginia (EDITOR’S NOTE: Because ideo-political partisanship and advocacy has been, and still is, the root cause of the split up of the Hungarian community into militant enclaves in opposition to one another, from the start we adopted a firm policy of non-involvement. Some people have not been able to understand this and, as a result, have completely misinterpreted our intentions. To be sure, they are in the minority, while we’re concerned with the “Great Silent Majority”.) Dear Sir: I learned — about a year ago — about the Hungarian Heritage Review, from one of the leaders of the younger generation of Hungarian immigrants, when he sent me a copy of it and to you a few of my translations of Hungarian poets. Reading your “Bekoszonto" words made me very happy: finally a periodical, which intends — over the graying and bald heads of the first generation — to talk to the second and third one, and to do so in English, their new “mother tongue” — to keep or lure them back into the fold. With best regards. Nicholas Reitter New York, N.Y. Dear Mr. Pulitzer: It was a pleasure for me to meet you personally and I thoroughly enjoyed talking with you about the socio-ideo-pol ideal structure of the Hungarian community in America and also about the reason why it is almost impossible to solidify it into a united front. However, you convinced me that the only way to cope with the existing situation is to do what you are trying to accomplish with the Hungarian Heritage Review — on the one hand, to reach out to what you identified as the “Great Silent Majority” among the older generation of Hungarians, who have, by now, become so “Americanized" that, while they still retain fond memories of and love for the land of their birth, they are Americans first and Hungarians only second — and, on the other hand, to reach out to American citizens of Hungarian descent, who have some “feeling” for and interest in their roots. Your publication, I believe, will help to bring into being a revitalization of Hungarian-ness and the emergence of a brand new kind of Hungarian community in America. Keep up the good work! Dr. Albert W. Johnson Charleston, South Carolina <€>» «» % «»<€» # « jgfe ¥ # ¥ A-*■ A NEW YEAR MESSAGE FROM THE WILLIAM PENN ASSOCIATION The William Penn Association National Officers, Board of Directors, Advisory Board, Auditing Committee and Employees wish every one of the Members of the Association and all Good Willed Persons a Blessed, Peaceful and Happy New Year filled with the Unity of Hungarian brotherly love. Gay B. Banes, National President WILLIAM PENN ASSOCIATION 709 Brighton Road Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15233 A ¥ w A ¥ * 2 HUNGARIAN HERITAGE REVIEW JANUARY 1987
