Magyar News, 1993. szeptember-1994. augusztus (4. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1994-04-01 / 8. szám
FROM THE MAIL The Holy Trinity Hungarian Byzantine Rite Catholic Church will celebrate the 100th ANNIVERSARY on SUNDAY, JUNE 5th, 1994 You are cordially invited to attend the Liturgy at 3 o'clock at the Church on Scofield Avenue, Bridgeport. It will be followed by the RECEPTION at SANTE'S MANOR in Milford. For information call: Goldie 333-0779 or Betty 334-4217 Please consider that the reservation has to be made before May 5th, 1994. THIRD AMONG THE WORKERS Once we gave a list of places where subscribers of the Magyar News live. It is also good to learn how people appreciate our work. I received a note from Nancy Szwejkowski, president of the Women’s Guild of the First United Church of Christ. She writes: “The February issue of the Magyar News did a wonderful article on cookbooks of the First Uni ted Church of Christ that the ladies put together. Since it has been published in the Magyar News, we have received many phone calls and letters from around the country and the state. I received phone calls from as far away as Washington, D.C. recently from a friend who subscribes to the paper. Also many calls and notes from our area like Wallingford, Norwalk, etc. If you do order a cookbook from us, please let us know if you saw it in the Magyar News so we can see how far the news travels. We hope those who ordered the cookbook are not disappointed.” I also received a letter from Margit Horvath, San Diego, California. Here are parts of her letter: “Last August I had received your beautiful newsletter from a friend in Bridgeport and have been meaning to write to you ever since. Congratulations!! It is one of the nicest in the country. I made copies and sent them to my five grown children, plus to the members of the San Diego House of Hungary...for which I do the newsletter and am sending you a copy. For many years I have been active with Hungarian groups in Cleveland, Chicago and the last fifteen years here in San Diego after my husband’s retirement. Our group has worked very hard for the last 13 years with the hopes of building our own club house. The Park District has offered us a permit to build one addition to the group of many International cottages already there since the 1936 (Expo). To our advantage it is the real “központ” centrally located area of the city and will be viewed and discovered by many who visit our city. Hopefully, we can accomplish this by the end of this year or sooner.” We know that some of our local readers send copies to far away places. But very seldom do we get such an account of the distribution of the Magyar News, as we did from Margit Horvath. We appreciate her participation, we also hope to hear from her in the future. It is also good to know that somewhere in America the Hungarian heritage is getting a new foot-hold. We wish Margit and the Hungarian group in San Diego good work and success with the “House of Hungary.” We are not talking about people on the job. We are talking about the almighty KOMONDOR. He is the king of the shepherd dogs. It is considered that the komondor is not so much of a herding dog, but it is more of a guard dog. This is valid in connection of the herd and also the home and property. I had a friend in the Hajdúság. They had a tanya (farm); everything was nicely fenced in. The house with the flower garden was one closed territory; the bam with the animals and poultry was another one. He had a komondor. One didn’t have to bend down to pet the huge dog, but then who would dare to get close to him? He certainly was a one-man’s dog. My friend could play with him, but if anybody, let that be a member of the family, had any business in the bam, the dog had to be tied up. There was no way for a person to go through the gate. Recently, in New York, the prestigious Westminster Kennel Club held their annual dog show. They had the dogs grouped, and the komondor was judged as a working dog. All the dogs in the show were champions, so was a komondor. He was slightly smaller than the ones we were used to in Hungary. We were also used to the raggy, matted, long hair terror. At the show, we saw a charming beauty, behaving like a gentleman, with no messy fur. The fur was in dreadlocks hanging down to the ground. It looked like a blanket from the most expensive store. This outer coat controls the body temperature and is also weather resistant. This komondor came from the Lajosmegyi Kennel. It sounds like a Hungarian breeder. By the way, the wife of the Westminster Kennel’s president breeds komondors, or should I say Komondorok. It’s been over a half-a-century since the komondor appeared in America. They were brought here before WWII, and later Dr. Tibor de Cholnoky started breeding them in Greenwich, CT. A champion of this dog, over a millennium old breed, was paraded at Madison Square Garden and received a great ovation from the audience and a third place from the judge. I would have given him first place. Naturally. (-h-h) page 7
