Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1998 (15. évfolyam, 51-54. szám)
1998 / 51-52. szám
Hungarian Research Center American Hungarian Foundation 300 Somerset Street P.O. Box 1084 NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ 08903-1084 Non-Profit Org. U.S. POSTAGE PAID New Brunswick, N.J. Permit no. 2572 RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED HUNGARIAN INSTITUTE AT RUTGERS On May 17, 1991, Dr. Francis L. Lawrence, president of Rutgers - The State University of New (ersey, and Attila Kálmán, Undersecretary of the Hungarian Ministry of Culture and Public Education, signed a "memorandum of agreement" to establish an Institute of Hungarian Studies at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. The Hungarian Ministry pledged to provide the Institute with a lecturer in Hungarian language for ten years and a base library in Hungarian studies. The director of the institute named by Rutgers University is Dr. József Böröcz. The memorandum signed by Dr. Lawrence provided for a new studies program in Hungarian language, literature, culture and history, and on the culture and history of Central European nations bordering Hungary. It also provides for sponsoring lectures and seminars on Hungarian studies by staff associated with the institute. Dr. Lawrence called the event "a very important occasion for Rutgers” and he noted that with grandparents from Budapest and Vienna, he hoped to be the first student to enroll for Hungarian language courses and to eventually visit his grandparents' homeland. A scholar of French and Italian, Dr. Lawrence is an internationally recognized expert on Moliére. In 1994 Dr. Lawrence was honored by the American Attila Kálmán, left, Undersecretary of the Hungarian Ministry of Culture and Public Education, and Rutgers University President Francis L. Lawrence signing an agreement to establish an Institute of Hungarian Studies. Hungarian Foundation with the Foundation’s George Washington Award. The Hungarian Institute at Rutgers was first envisioned in 1959, when President Mason W. Gross, in his annual report announced the introduction of a Hungarian studies program at the university. At that time, the American Hungarian Foundation funded the new Rutgers program of Hungarian language, literature and history courses. HUNGARIAN REFERENCE SHELF A series of inexpensive publications facilitating Hungarian related research for the English speaking scholar. Please request complete list. 1. HUNGARIAN ETHNOGRAPHY: A Bibliography of English Language Sources, by David R. Howell (University of Virginia), 1976. 319 entries 24 pages. $5.00 plus 75C handling, $5.75 2 EDUCATIONAL MOTION PICTURES AND FILMSTRIPS RELATED TO HUNGARY AND HUNGARIAN SUBJECTS. Compiled by loseph Széplaki (University of Minnesota), 1976, 48 entries, in issue No. 11 of the Hungarian Studies Newsletter. $3.00 plus 75C handling, $3.75. 3. HUNGARIAN ECONOMIC REFORMS: A Selective, Partially Annotated Bibliography, by Gabriel F. Horchler (Library of Congress), 1977. 1,620 entries, 190 pages. $4.95 paper; $15.95 doth, plus postage and handling. 5 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HUNGARIAN LINGUISTIC RESEARCH IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. Compiled by Andrew Kerek (Miami University), 1978. $3.75 plus 75C handling, $4.50. SPECIAL OFFER INDEX FOR HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER, Nos. 1-30: Name index of 2,000 entries, 80 periodicals, 150 organizations listed in 30 issues of HSN. $7.00 includes postage. Order: HUNGARIAN RESEARCH CENTER AMERICAN HUNGARIAN FOUNDATION Post Office Box 1084 New Brunswick, N.J. 08903 12 NO. 51-52, SPRING-SUMMER, 1998, HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER
