Sarasotai Magyar Hirmondó, 2002 (8. évfolyam, 1-9. szám)

2002-01-01 / 1. szám

THE MESSENGER

Newsletter of the Kossuth Club January, 2002. Vol. 8. No. 1.

Yearend Accounting. Our programs and your donations this year made it possible for us to award the following scholarships and provide help to those in need:_______________

Flood relief in Hungary and Carpatho-Ukraine

$655.00

Scholarships to Hungarian students in the Bolyai School, Szabadka

$600.00

Donation to the Sárospatak Theater in Hungary

$500.00

Scholarships to four young Hungarian artists

$1,700.00

Kossuth Scholarships in the United States

$600.00

Hungarian Scouts in Slovakia

$500.00

Hungarian Teachers College in Beregszász, Carpatho-Ukraine

$1,000.00

Donation in kind for the production of “Stephen, the King”

$250.00

Total:

$5,805.00

2002—The Year of Kossuth. This year marks the bicentennial of the birth of Louis Kossuth and the sesquicentennial of his visit to the United States in 1851-52. Kossuth was the hero of the 1848 Hungarian War of Independence and he had a triumphant trip across the country and was celebrated by the American people. As our club is named after the 19th century Hungarian statesman, we will observe this special anniversary with a program to be presented by artists from Hungary on March 28th.

Program No. 1. in January. On Thursday, January 10 at 3:00 p.m. in the Selby Public Library Auditorium (1331 First Street, Sarasota) Mr. and Mrs. László Széchényi show the video they made in August, 2001 in Nagyida, now in Slovakia. For the last 50 years the inhabitants of this 750-year-old Hungarian village have been trying to preserve their ethnic identity through the folk dances of their ancestors. Their dance ensemble, the Ilosvai Group, includes people from the village between the ages of 6 and 86. They do not receive any subsidies and we will take up a collection after the program to help them.

Program No. 2. in January. On Thursday, January 24 at 4:00 p.m. in the Selby Public Library Auditorium (1331 First Street, Sarasota) Dr. Gábor Tarján presents a lecture about Hungarian culture. Dr. Taiján completed his Ph. D. at Lóránd Eötvös University in Budapest, was a museum curator in Pécs, Hungary, and taught at the School of Applied Arts in Budapest. He is currently the director of the Collegium Hungaricum Juventutis Occidentalis. His lecture will be in Hungarian.

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