Magyar Herald, 1993 (1-4. szám)
1993 / 3. szám
3rd QUARTER, 1993 QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER OF THE MAGYAR CLUB OF CLEVELAND1 MAGYAR HERALD "PERPETUATING HUNGARIAN CULTURE SINCE 1924" It's Not Only Rock'n' Roll in Cleveland Cleveland is neither ONLY the Cleveland Ballet or the Gateway Project, as our town's rock 'n' rollers, ballet lovers, Indians, Browns & Cavs fans keep plugging. In this repeatedly “All American City", we should all get busy to promote this “All American City's" nationalities' firsts. Cleveland's nationalities values are foremost, and among them our magyar values are by no means the last or the least on the shores of Lake Erie. The first issue of our Magyar Herald pointed out the important values of our “firsts". Now, when the Magyar Club's Seventieth Anniversary Year is only a hand-shake away, we should not back away from trumpeting our own values. Cleveland is known all over the world as the "American Magyar Debrecen". Our city was just recently re-baptized as the "Magyar Miskolc" in America. Our city here, believe it or not, has three major Irish-American clubs, the only one in America that has so many. Not all ethnic groups are prospering. For example, Cleveland was once home to the largest concentration of Hungarians outside of Hungary. But in 1990, Hungarians ranked seventh among ethnic groups in Cuyahoga County, according to the census figures. This came as a shock to Kathy Kapossy, president of the United Hungarian Society, a coalition of 29 Hungarian groups in Northeast Ohio. Kapossy said Cuyahoga County was home to more than 100,000 Hungarian-Americans a decade ago, but that figure dropped to 61,681, or 4.4% of the population, in 1990, according to the Census Bureau. The same is true with other ethnic groups. For example, the Cleveland area used to have 130 German-speaking churches, but the number has fallen to a half-dozen. Third and fourth generation children are less inclined than their ancestors to join groups that would preserve their ethnic traditions. Census figures show that the vast majority of Cuyahoga County residents are  descended from Europeans. After German and Irish, the largest ethnic groups in the country, in order, are: Polish, Italian, English, Slovak, Hungarian, Czech, American and Russian. While blacks comprise nearly half of Cleveland's population and a quarter of Cuyahoga County's, the bureau classifies blacks as — a racial group, not an ethnic group. InJ Whatever You Are I think sometimes, what a world we live in - There are place where there are signs that say: Kangaroo Crossing Deer Crossing Camel Crossing - a course where golfers play around the kangaroos; places where caribou have the right of way. There are certain places near or far that acknowledge undeniable, that whatever species you may be, you have the right to be whatever you are. E.B. de Vito V; ^ Here is anotherchallenge! The Cleveland Magyar Club, with the purpose of perpetuating Hungarian culture, abounds in talent. We will be more than happy to publish the Hungarian translation of the above poem in one of the future issues of our Magyar Herald. „A múlt erős. gazdag gyökér, jelen, jövő a múltból él... (Arany János) v_________________________________y
