Magyar News, 1993. szeptember-1994. augusztus (4. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1994-04-01 / 8. szám
EVENTS OF APRIL MARCH 26. SATURDAY. 10 to 4 P.M. at the Bessemer Hall SPRING FLEA MARKET. Delicious Hungarian foods and pastries will be served, or take-out. For info call 367-5213. MARCH 27, PALM SUNDAY 11 A. M. at the St. Emery School Hall FAMILY BREAKFAST. Bacon, sausage, eggs and palacsinta will be served, also coffee. Adults $5.00; under 12 $3.00. RESERVATIONS A MUST. APRIL 10, SUNDAY starting at 1 PM FAMILY SPRING FEST at St. Emery School Hall. Roast beef dinner. Dance music by Danielczuk. Tickets $10.00; under 12 $5.00. Call 335-3575 or 372-8643. JUNE 5, SONDAY Holy Trinity B. C. Church 100th ANNIVERSARY. Call Goldie 333-0779, or Betty 334-4217. See announcement on page 7 in this issue. MAY 21, SATURDAY at the Hungarian Club in Wallingford they are having a MAY BALL. Call for information. The HUNGARIAN COMMUNITY CLUB in Wallingford reopened after the renovation. It is offering dinners, dances and parties on a monthly basis. Also rentals on two levels and a bar. For information call 284-9899 or 238-4781. WANTED We are looking for volunteers to help out with a large variety of matters. 1. One or two people familiar with typing or administrative work on a Thursday morning around the 20th of the month. 2. Hungarian speaking person to catalog audio tapes and set up a card system for it. Could be done at home. You have to have a cassette player. Approximately 200 tapes. 3. One who is interested in local Hungarian history. Work with old documents, photographs, prepare things for exhibits. Call 377-0569. page 2 ST. STEPHENS (continued from page 1) camp and each night on his way to the farm Mr. Fleischer delivered. Our swimming each day was at a pond off Madison Ave. between the hours of 2 to 4. While on one of our swim periods while walking back to camp, we picked black berries leisurely. Just before supper, roll call showed that Teddy Gaal was missing and was last seen picking berries by himself. After supper a search was organized to back track to where Teddy was last seen. Halfway there we found a messy berry and blood stained shirt including a blood stained rock with hair on it. Returning to camp excitably we reported the find. We organized a large search party into a nearby abandoned house. It was very spooky and frightening to the boys. Across the street from the house was a bam. They also decided to search the bam. We searched it even into the hayloft where we found an elderly man hiding in the hay. With clubs in hand, they held the man until the scoutmaster came to question him. The old man said he was on his way to New York and stopped there to sleep. We let him go. There was double guard duty that night and everyone tried to sleep holding club and search light in their hand. No one was allowed to leave. There wasn’t much sleep that night and the fireplace had more boys there than there were boys in their tents. Next morning after breakfast a State Trooper showed up and interrogated every boy. We didn’t even go for our swim. At night we had the campfire with no pep or enthusiasm, even though it was Steve Toth’s birthday. At the campfire he announced that he had a treat for the boys in the large shed (it was the “Old Black Rock Library” building that was moved there for winter camping). The boys rushed to the shed and there in the center of the room, laying on a cot was Teddy Gaal, all bandaged up. As the boys rushed in, the four leaders were in the open attic with pails of water to dump on them as they rushed in. The entire act was a set-up. Teddy’s father picked him up at a certain time in his car as Teddy lagged behind. The blood and stone was planted by the leaders. The old man in the hayloft was the watchman in the so-called haunted house and he hid in the hayloft for the pre-arranged search. The State Trooper was also a set-up for questionning and Teddy’s father brought him back to camp with the fake bandages. At first the boys would have liked to have killed Teddy, but all were satisfied that they were fooled. The ice cream that was served cooled everyone down. In the West End with St. Stephens Boy Scouting, we never had money and some could not afford a uniform and all grew up in the true scouting oath and law. This is what gives the nowliving scouts of the troop the wonderful memories. We also had “Eagle Scouts” and in Sea Scouting, “Quartermaster” rank. That is equivalent to Eagle Scout rank and some had both. Stephen Berecz I Fragment of a photo of1936 showing a Troop §3 flag. Scoutmaster Alexander Csaky (left) in the office. Camp Harmony at the Nagy farm
