Fraternity-Testvériség, 1980 (58. évfolyam, 1-4. szám)

1980-07-01 / 3. szám

Graduating With Honors

Karen Lynne Vargo graduated from Seneca Valley High School with honors and will enter the University of Maryland in College Park this fall. She will major in business and have art as a minor.

During her high school days, she had won various awards and recognition for her paintings. One won first place in the state of Ohio competition of Job’s Daughters an organization for girls having a masonic relationship.

At Seneca Valley High School she participated in many student activities, such as being a Cheerleader, Yearbook Staff Committee for which she drew the Eagle which is the school emblem, member of the Student Government, Calligraphy Group and member of the National Honor Society graduating in the top 10 per cent of her class of over 500.

While in Cleveland she was a member of the First Hungarian Reformed Church serving as an assistant Sunday school teacher. Along with her other talents she also plays the organ and has participated in numerous recitals.

Karen is the daughter of Vice President and Mrs. Elmer E. Vargo and is a member of our Washington, D. C. Branch 300.

We wish her much success at the University of Maryland.

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William Szuch Retired

William Szuch, Vice President of the Hungarian Reformed Federation of America announced his early retirement from the Westing- house Electric Corporation’s Transformer Division.

During his 37 years of service he serveu as a member of International Union of Electrical Workers Executive Board and as Board of Director and now Past President of Westinghouse Veterans Association.

William Szuch was very active in the building projects of the Bethlen Home. He was unanimously re-elected as one of the Vice Presidents of the Federation. He served with dedication on the Building Committee of the Bethlen Home. We wish him good health, joy and happiness in his retirement.

SARAH KALASSAY

1902 -1980

On Friday, April 18th, Sarah Kalassay, sister of Karl Kalassay, Vilma Molnár, Margaret Kalman, Ethel Heufeld, Dr. Louis Alexander Kalassay and Elizabeth Vas- vary and over 100 nieces and nephews died at the Fairfax Hospital in Virginia.

Sarah was the daughter of the Rev. Dr. Alexander Kalassay, a Hungarian Reformed minister who came as a missionary to the Hungarian Reformed community in the United States at the turn of the century. She was born on July 25, 1902 in Bridgeport, Conn.

Dr. Kalassay was the founder of many Hungarian Reformed congregations in this country. He was pastor of the Hungarian Reformed Church in Pittsburgh when, in 1920, a single tragic coal mine explosion took the lives of fifty persons of the congregations located in the greater Pittsburgh area. Moved by the depth of the tragedy, Dr. Kalassay left his church to found the Bethlen Home in Ligonier, Pa. The care for the children of bereaved families started in 1921 and for the aged in 1927. Sarah took the responsibility for the care of infants, and thus, as a young woman, she began what was to become a lifelong concern: the care of homeless children.

In between serving in the Bethlen Home and twelve years of service in the Governor Bacon Health Center in Delaware City, Delaware, just prior to her retirement in 1970, Sarah served as deaconness in the Hungarian Reformed Churches in Lorain, Ohio, East and South Chicago. From 1952 to 1956 she was Secretary and Administrative Assistant in the HRFA.

Sarah and her sister, Vilma, moved to the Rotunda at Tyson’s Corner in January, 1979. Almost immediately Sarah was taken ill, and soon entered the Barcroft Institute in Falls Church. Sarah Kalassay was a courageous, warm, loving and generous person. We grieve her loss. We also rejoice in her life of loving service to others. She was devoted to her family, and especially to her father, who lived with her and for whom she cared during the last decade of his life. Sarah lived all her life in faithful witness to the tender mercies and the redeeming love of God. Her body was placed to rest in the National Memorial Park in Falls Church, Va. Reverend Thomas Cox and President George participated in the funeral service. The Bethlen Home received $350.00 donations in her memory. May her memory he blessed. (AG)

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