Hírközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány, Évkönyv, 2008
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Alexandra Halász: Graphic Designs of St. Elizabeth of the House of Árpád at the Stamp Museum Throughout Hungary, 2007 marked a memorial year to St. Elizabeth. There were any number of programmes, exhibitions, and ceremonies with which the country remembered the princess who was born eight hundred years ago, and who continues to be respected in Hungary and abroad. This is particularly true in Germany, where she is called St. Elizabeth of Thuringia, and is loved as a local idol. This is reflected in the stamps issued. Austria issued a stamp for St. Elizabeth in 2002. And, as a point of interest, St. Elizabeth of the House of Árpád is the patron saint of Bogota, Colombia. The life of St. Elizabeth sets an example not only for religious people, but for many other people of today, the humanist thinkers of the 21 st century. Who, then, was this short-lived princess? The author answers this question in a brief summary which also reviews a three-tableau Stamp Museum exhibit held to mark the memorial year. The stamp designs on display were welcomed by philatelists, she writes, for they are rarely seen. Alexandra Halász: Philatelic camp at the Stamp Museum The Stamp Museum organized a philately camp for interested students on two occasions during the summer of 2007, in June and August. A stamp collecting circle for young people has been part of the museum for the past three years, operating within the framework of the Young Philatelists’ Club. Children have already had the chance to learn the basic principles of philately at its Saturday meetings. However, they voiced the desire to deepen their knowledge as part of a summer day camp, which was offered to them on weekdays, in part taking them to places other than the Stamp Museum between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. The programme was implemented using a HUF 500 000 grant from the Hungarian Postal Service. The camp was not an isolated event but part of a process, the author wrote in her review. The outcome was that a growing number of children have been attending the stamp Saturdays held at the museum fortnightly, because children who enjoy the programmes bring their friends. As far as the learning experience is concerned, a national youth contest on knowledge of stamps was held at the end of 2007, and was won by the group coached by the camp organizers. Ildikó Makkai-Várkonyi: Television broadcasting in Hungary marks 50th anniversary Within the framework of our yearbook series called Following up our Anniversaries, the author remembers one of the most significant events in the history of Hungarian telecommunications, the fiftieth anniversary of the start of Hungarian television broadcasting. She commemorates the Hungarian inventors and innovators whose oeuvre is connected to television broadcasting. At the same time, relying on the wealth of documentation in the Postal Museum, she focuses on the most important anniversary- related events. Hungarian television broadcasting began on May 1,1957, but for this date to become a milestone in the history of technology, the country needed the many inventions and discoveries of the preceding period. From this study we learn that the pioneers of television broadcasting included many domestic engineers and researchers, who are remembered by the profession. Dénes Mihály, Kálmán Tihanyi and Tihamér Nemes are 230
