Fraternity-Testvériség, 1967 (45. évfolyam, 2-12. szám)

1967-12-01 / 12. szám

MRS. IRENE SAKALO, a native of Anarcs, Szabolcs County, Hungary, has been manager of Federation Branch 153 for nine years and Branch 222 for the last three. She resides in Morgantown, W.Va., where she attended public school and where, for 23 years, has been working in the Sterling Faucet Factory. She has a son, Michael, who is a Korean war veteran, a daughter, Betty Joan, and six grandchildren Sakalo is affiliated with St. Mary’s Greek Catholic Church and the Hungarian Reformed Church. She is a most active — hence youthful — woman who helps with church dinners, campaigns for a variety of causes and funds, is a member of the Eagles and Moose Auxiliaries as well as women’s church guilds. One of the highlights of her spirited life was her trip to Hungary in 1962 with our first Federation chartered flight when she returned to visit her native land.

After completing his elementary education in Mezőtúr, Hungary, MR. ZSIGMOND GONDA stayed on his father’s farm util 1936, when he was inducted into the Hungarian National Guards. Though he had planned to return home and continue farming after his prescribed two years of service he was not discharged but transferred to the Mounted Police. Serving in this capacity until 1945 he was subsequently sent with a Medical Corps detachment to Germany where he remained and married his wife Méta in 1953. With the help of the Rev. Kalman Csia, the Gondas immigrated to the United States in 1955 and settled in Milwaukee, Wise. During his emigre years Mr. Gonda went through trials usual to a man without a country but he has found happiness and contentment in his adopted land. He works in a local factory and we are glad to number him among our very business-like Federation workers, managing Branch 246.

Jovial JAMES LABAS, known to his many friends as “Happy Labas”, a native of Kérsemjen, Szatmár County, Hungary, came to the United States in his youth. He had completed nine years of education in his homeland and entered night school in the New Country continuing his studies for three more years. Mr. and Mrs. Labas are residents of East Chicago, Ind., where the perpetually smiling Mr. Labas had, been at one time, a milkman dispensing not only milk but sunshine and good humor to the residents of the hundreds of homes he visited on his daily routes. He was later employed by the City of East Chicago, then by the local Union Carbide from where he retired a few years ago. Mr. and Mrs. Labas have a son, Ernest E. For decades an officer and trustee of the Faith United Church of Christ (formerly the Hungarian Reformed Church of East Chicago), an honorary member of the I.B. of T., a member of the Elks (981 Old Timer), Mr. Labas has been managing Federation Branch 62 since 1961.

MRS. PALMA GEORGE, wife of the Rev. Arpad George, former President of the Calvin Synod and pastor of the Calvin Reformed Church of Chicago, 111., has been manager of Federation Branch 84 for five years. Born in Long Island City, New York, Mrs. George has both a formal religious and secretarial education and is a great help to her husband in his church work. The Rev. and Mrs. George have Palma, a teacher, now married, and George Robert, a student in college. Mrs. George’s congenial personality, her unlimited goodwill and patience with old and young alike, and her good educational background, have played a great part in making her the outstanding dedicated church worker she is and one of our energetic, loyal and successful Federation co-workers as well.

whom she adores. Mrs.

two children: Suzanne

CHRISTMAS

BY ALFRED TENNYSON

Ring out, wild bells to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light:

The year is dying in the night —

Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.

Ring out the old, ring in the nein — Ring, happy bells, across the snow; The year is going, let him go;

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Ring out the grief that saps the mind. For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress for all mankind.

Ring out a slowly dying cause,

And ancient forms of party strife; Ring in the nobler modes of life,

With sweeter manners, purer laws.

Ring out the want, the care, the sin,

The Faithless coldness of the times:

Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes, But ring the fuller minstrel in.

Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite:

Ring in the love of truth and right,

Ring in the common love of good.

Ring out old shapes of foul disease,

Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old,

Ring in the thousand years of peace.

Ring in the valiant man and free,

The larger heart, the kindlier hand;

Ring out the darkness of the land — Ring in the Christ that is to be.

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