Magyar News, 1994. szeptember-1995. augusztus (5. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1995-02-01 / 6. szám

MAGYAR NEWS 1990-1995 In 1990 Rozsika and László’s radio pro­gram went off the air after serving the community for almost four decades. It wasn’t a choice, somebody bought the sta­tion and they did their business their own way. Hungarian program was not included any more. Reverend Szilagyi made an ef­fort with a Westport station to establish a continued contact with the Hungarian com­munity. Unfortunately the available time slot and the financial support wasn’t favor­able to keep it alive. Then came along the idea of having a printed organizer of the upcoming Hungar­ian events. The Magyar News was de­signed and discussed at a gathering that took place at the Calvin Hall. This was followed by visits to Hungarian business­men in the area asking for their support in exchange to carry their advertisements. It must have been the right time because all those asked signed up and are still support­ing this monthly publication. We acknowl­edged their participation many times and we thank them again. Without them there would be no Magyar News. After five years they are still the financial foundation. Since, the price of production rose substantially, but we didn’t ask them to take on more burden. First we searched out ways to lower the cost of typesetting and printing. We were lucky to come across a small com­pany, Exact Printing in Stratford, that put production into a reasonable framework. Besides the reasonable actual cost, we found them being friends and we see them going out of their way to secure the good quality that they are known for. The Magyar News started out with four pages and now it is published in eight pages, the number of copies are fourfold, and we are able to print photographs of our events, and of other interest. We are very thankful to those who chose to support us with their donations. As they say, every penny counts and we are trying to put it to good use. In lieu of an annual report, we would like to open the door and let you see how we managed this publication for the past five years. Ending with this past De­cember issue, we wrote 363 articles. Be­sides the editor, 18 people wrote on differ­ent subjects, leading among them is Dr. Alexander Havadtoy. We also had 15 youngsters in their early twenties who gained our admiration for their writings. You may consider this amazing. The number of copies of each issue var­ies depending on money and other circum­stances, but it reaches up to 1100 copies. Usually it ends up in a family with at least one more reader, but in reality more. Then, as demand rises at some churches they xerox many more. We know of California and New Jersey where the Magyar News is duplicated in several dozens. We mail out close to a hundred every month to ad­dresses all over America, and some to Eu­rope. The number of copies we print grows every year, but then the demand is rising all the time. We receive many complaints that there weren ’ t enough copies at the churches or at the business places. Since we only keep a minimal number of the News as reference copies, we have to turn people away when they are asking us for some. We don’t have a staff to deal with these re­quests. Those who want the Magyar News sent to their home address for a year are asked to give $6.00 for postage and mailing, and it would be nice to receive a donation too. We say that it should be minium $6.00. How did we arrive to this amount? Well it is very easy to figure it out. Each copy costs us 40 to 50 cents to produce. Did we make money on it? No. The very rare pennies are less than what is needed. Though the Magyar News is free, and we want to keep it that way, those who are doing a good deed by sending four copies to different friends should consider that they are taking $2.00 out of our treasury and short-changing our local, primary readers. There is nothing wrong with sending copies on your own to other parks of the country as long as we could satisfy the growing demand. And this means that we should have enough money. So your support is essential. None of the people participating in the actual work receive any compensation, unless you think of a free copy that they receive every month. The writers, editors, circulation manager and an assistant volun­teer their time, and chip in here-and-there reaching into their own pocket to cover some expenses. We are very grateful to those who really consider our mission to be in the interest of our Hungarian origin, our community, and our history. We would like to acknowledge those who made contributions recently above the postage and the actual cost of the copies they receive monthly. They are (in no particular order): Richard Nemeth, Mar­garet Ziman, Maria Oslai, Csaba Vatai, Goldie Terebesi, John Toth, Steve Martin, Julia Borsos, George Smiles, Albert Kovács, Izabel Kochis, Lilian Simons, Valerie Varga, Janet Gault, Louis and Stephan Farkas, Andrew Beres, Joseph Miklós, John Balogh, Balazs Somogyi, Elizabeth Bunyak, Grace Hunyadi, John Melco and László Csóványos. We really appreciate and we say thanks to those who made a generous contribution to the Magyar News. They are: Irene Warcup, Helen Sabo, Joseph Farkas and Frank Polke. We certainly could do with some help. It would be nice to have a person at each Hungarian church or organization to write a report on what is happening that is specifi­cally Hungarian or community oriented. Also there is need for administrative help. At the present time we are happy to have Mellory Lesko on board who does the mail­ing to the subscribers. We would have a problem with the distribution to Norwalk on a regular basis ifit hadn ’t been for Mikey Bartha who picks up a portion for St. Ladislaus and the Hungarian Reformed Church. Though we are designed for local reader­­ship our publication has far more reaching interest than the shoreline Hungarian com­munities. There is a wide-spread request from various parts of Connecticut. We also send the Magyar News to several addresses in California, Washington, D.C., New Jer­sey, Ohio, Arizona, Illinois, New York, Virginia, Florida, West Virginia, South Carolina and Rhode Island. Also copies to Hungary. This is a general picture of the Magyar News, excluding the many aggravations and tough moments that are the nature of every volunteer work. Please join us and support us. Joseph Stiber Joseph F. Balogh Circulation Editor and Manager Publisher .......................................................................................................... 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