Magyar Herald, 1988 (1-4. szám)
1988 / 4. szám
Page 2 MAGYAR HERALD 4th QUARTER, 1988 (ülic Jttaijuar (Cluh of (Clettelartïi OFFICERS 1988—1989 PRESIDENT Theodore Toth 8501 Countryside Drive Sagamore Hills, Ohio 44067 VICE PRESIDENT James L. Hudak 13534 Mohawk Trail Middleburg Hts., Ohio 44130 » SECRETARY Elizabeth Kondorossy 1890 E. 107 Street # 736 Cleveland, Ohio 44106 TREASURER John S. Veres 7512 McCreary Road Seven Hills, Ohio 44131 DIRECTORS 1989 Imre Balassa Laszlo Bojtos Frank Dobos 1990 Emery J. Szabo Lewis Robinson Zoltán Toth 1991 Dr. Géza Szentmiklósy Éles Dr. John Palasics Frank Wagner HISTORIAN Dr. Dezső J. Ladanyi I SIGMUND T. BRINSKYI 1909-1988 Sigmund T. Brinsky, o.ur „24th president, all his life most active member of our Cleveland Magyar Club, close friend to most of our members, well-known and well-liked by all, ‘entered into Life’ on the 7th day of July, 1988, with sudden heart attack at his Rocky River home. He was widely known lawyer not only in our city but also in our State, with national and international recognitions. He was tremendously active all his life in the ethnic life of our city and even beyond. He was the son of the late Rev. Sigmund A. Brinsky and his wife Gabriella (Martyák). His father, being a priest of the Hungarian Byzantine Catholic Church, was sent over to America to minister among the Hungarian immigrants in the year of 1912, when little Sigmund was only three years old. He graduated from the Mining and Mechanical Preparatory School and graduated from the Georgetown University School of Law in Washington, D.C. He practiced law in Cleveland for 54 years. Mr. Brinsky belonged to the Ohio, Cuyahoga County and Cleveland bar associations. He practiced before the Supreme Court of Ohio, the U.S. District Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals (6th Circuit). He received a doctor of law degree from Monrovia College and the Institute of Liberia for his “concern and humanitarian contributions to the black community of Cleveland.” He received an award of merit from the Church Civic League of Cleveland. He was a recipient of the Aerie Service Certificate from the Fraternal Order of Eagles Forest City Aerie and a Civic Service Award from the Ohio Aerie of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. He became a very active member of the Magyar Club of Cleveland and in 1971 he was elected by the Club as its 24th president. Mr. Brinsky was declared man of the year in 1974 by the Nationalities League of Greater Cleveland. He received the silver jubilee citation from Georgetown University. He was a former assistant attorney general for Ohio and an attorney examiner for the U.S. Department of Justice. He also served as chairman of the zoning board of appeals for Cleveland and served as chairman of arbitrators appointed by the Cuyahoga Common Pleas Court. Mr. Brinsky was president of the Ohio Fraternal Congress and was president of the law section of the National Fraternal Congress, which is 97 affiliated fraternal benefit societies doing business with the United States. He acted as a member of the Board of Education of Byzantine Catholic High School. He was a member of the Greater Cleveland Bicentennial Commission and was president of the Cultural Garden Federation and president of the Rusin Cultural Garden Association. He was past director of the Early Settlers of the Western Reserve. He served as general counsel for the Greek Catholic Union of the United States for 38 years and was legal counsel to the Byzantine Catholic Diocese of Parma. Survivors are his wife, Magda: daughter, Darla Renk; three sisters; and a granddaughter. Funeral services were held on July 10 with high Byzantine Divine Liturgy and Holy Communion at St. Gregory the Theologian Byzantine Catholic Church in Lakewood, OH. We, the officers and members of the Magyar Club of Cleveland, respectfully say a final farewell to Sigmund T. Brinsky with the conviction of the immortal poet: “God calls our loved ones, but we lose not wholly what He hath given; They live on earth, in thought and deed, as truly as in his Heaven. Life is ever Lord of Death, And Love can never lose its own!"
