Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1998 (15. évfolyam, 51-54. szám)
1998 / 51-52. szám
HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER No. 51-52 ISSN 0194-164X Spring-Summer, 1998 Published quarterly by the Hungarian Research Center of the American Hungarian Foundation: Winter, Spring-Summer (double issue), Autumn. Editor: Andrew Ludanyi, Managing Editor: August J. Molnár: Contributors: lulianna Puskás. George Dózsa. Communications concerning content should be addressed to the : Editor: Department of History, Political Science & Criminal Justice, Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH 45810. Communications concerning subscriptions, advertising and circulation should be addressed to American Hungarian Foundation, 300 Somerset Street, PO Box 1084, New Brunswick, NJ 08903-1084. Annual subscription in the U.S.A. $10.00. Abroad $12.00. Current single copy $4.00; back, issues $5.00. BELA CHARLES MADAY (Continued) national relations and cultural anthropology, conducted research and from 1959 to 1966 wrote about foreign cultures, Eastern Europe and on cognition. In 1962 he was co-author of the work Ethiopia and nine other U.S. Area Handbooks concerned with Latin America and East European countries. He served as visiting professor at the University of Washington, State University of California at Long Beach, George Washington University, University of Graz in Austria and at the University of Virginia, where he held the rank of scholar-in-residence. He also lectured for the Peace Corps at Brandeis University. From 1966 to 1977 he was in charge of anthropological training programs at the National Institute of Mental Health, a career position which culminated in his appointment to chief of the Research Training Branch of NIMH. Dr. Maday authored, edited and contributed to over 30 books and wrote numerous scholarly articles. Among his more recent publications is a co-edited work, New Hungarian Peasants; An East Central European Experiment with Collectivization published by Columbia University Press and a study written with L. B. Szalay in American Anthropologist: "Implicit Culture and Psychocultural Distance." He contributed to a wide variety of anthropological fields, including works on acculturation, cognitive studies, comparative studies of society and culture, and applied and medical anthropology. His friendship and counsel was prized by many colleagues and young scholars. Anthropologists came to know Maday, when they served on the cultural Anthropological Review Committee, which for more than a decade was a major source of dissertation fieldwork funds in America. As the executive secretary of the committee, he was the warm and genial host to committee members and a friend to applicants for fellowships. Blending his keen knowledge with a pleasant smile, he brought people together at new levels of understanding. He functioned as an idealist with great effectiveness within government bureaucracies. He also was an enthusiast about the humanitarian and democratic character in American society. "Maday believed that government can do much good with programs designed and carried out with knowledge and goodwill. And in his life he accomplished exactly that with energy, cheer and skill." Maday's wife of 57 years, Maria, was a charming lady, who died in 1987. He is survived by their two children, Kathryn Maday and Steven, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. In honoring the memory and remembering the life of our dear friend Bela Maday, we should also recall his own words and how he bid farewell, when he laid down his pen as Editor of the Hungarian Studies Newsletter in the Winter issue, 1986-1987. It is with deep regret that 1 have to inform you of my retirement as editor of HSN. ... health problems, which make it inadvisable, nay, impossible to continue this demanding job, that I was privileged to enjoy for fifteen years.... The HSN has been recognized as the most important link between Hungarian specialist and between individuals with general intellectual interest in Hungary and Hungarians the world over. I hope that with the assistance of readers the editors of the HSN will be able to maintain the character of this publication. I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to all of those, who contributed to the success of the newsletter and to the psychological disposition of the editor in maintaining the HSN throughout its trying years. In his words to us, Bela Maday presented a legacy of the highest standard and a challenge to carry on in his place. We pledge ourselves to this standard of excellence and the spirit in which he edited the HSN.______________________________________A|M EDITOR S CORNER In accepting the editorship of the Hungarian Studies Newsletter I am both honored and humbled. The legacy established by Bela Maday presents both a demanding standard and a challenging academic and social responsibility. I will do my best to live up to the standards he set and to meet the responsibilities to the best of my ability. At the same time I would like to stress at the outset, that I intend to make the Newsletter into a vehicle for communication between academics and community leaders within the context of both the Hungarian-American community and American society in general. The isolation of Hungarian culture is our greatest challenge, we must become an effective link to all persons who have quality contributions for overcoming this isolation. The first task for our Newsletter in this effort will be to build a bridge between Hungarian-American communities and the academic institutions that have as part of their mission the study or instruction of Hungarian existence. The second task will be to bridge the time period when the Newsletter appeared last (No. 50, Winter 1986-87) and the present. Obviously bridging this gap will require some creative flashbacks as well as some retrospective musings. So much has happened during the past eleven years in reality and in published materials, that we need to devote at least a small part of each issue to "catch-up." I ask for your support in this new beginning and effort to establish dialogue. a.I. PRESIDENT'S REPORT Next year, on May 21-23, 1999, we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the opening and dedication of the museum, library and archives of the American Hungarian Foundation. All our friends and donors are being invited to join the three day, gala festivities and the opening of the exhibition, "The Hungarian Spark in America." Major donors, all whose names and those whose families are now, or will be, listed on the Wall of Honor in the Museum lobby, shall be recognized at a special reception honoring them as "Founders" (Continued on page 3) 2 NO. 51-52, SPRING-SUMMER, 1998, HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER
