The Eighth Tribe, 1980 (7. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1980-09-01 / 9. szám
September, 1980 THE EIGHTH TRIBE Page 7 Dance Music by Chabák-Kára-Németh Orchestra them was Toni Kove-Steiner, who has also performed with the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Incidentally, the festival musicians’ group included a volunteer violinist, Victor Valenti, Jr., who said he had traveled sixty some miles just to participate! The event seems to have brought out increased crowds each year—indicating a good measure of success! The several thousand people that were attending at the time of this writer’s visit certainly seemed to be finding thorough enjoyment and edification from the sights, sounds, and scents of the day’s festivities. —M. Takacs Barboe V V LINDA KARDOS Miss Kardos may be young (a high school senior), and small (5 feet and 85 pounds), but her gymnastic prowess has already taken her to the kinds of places which grown men only dream about. She’s toured the East Coast with Olympic Wunderkind Nadia Comenici and competed in Britain, the Soviet Union, Hungary, East Germany, Puerto Rico, and South Africa. In Riga, Kardos placed sixth; in Hungary, fifth; in South Africa, first. She is currently ranked sixth in this country, and is working toward the ’84 Olympics, should they ever be played. AFTER 59 YEARS, A REUNION Paul Jávor was a blond-haired boy of 11 when his older sister, Pauline, kissed him goodbye as he lay sleeping in their parents’ home in Budapest in 1921. Nineteen-year-old Pauline was leaving Hungary to live with her older sister in Kenosha, Wis., a place that offered “something better.” One night at O’Hare Airport’s International Terminal, a 79-year-old Pauline Jávor Jakubik, glaucoma impairing her vision, strained to distinguish the little boy who had long since grown up as he came off Lufthansa flight 432 from Frankfurt for a long-awaited reunion 59 years later. “What if we can’t identify each other,” she kept repeating to her family as they scrutinized each passenger walking into the Customs area at O’Hare. “He was just 11 when I left. Of course, we corresponded over the years, and I have pictures of him from a few years ago, but it’s been so long. I hope I can recognize him. I should have had him wear a boutonniere or something.” As the stream of passengers thinned, the family grew anxious that something had happened. Jávor happened to be the last person off the plane. Finally, the electronic doors sealing off Customs from the lobby swung open, and Jakubik’s 71-year-old little brother, “Paulie” came through them to an avalanche of hugs and kisses. In Hungarian, Jávor told his sister, “I’m so happy to be here. I’m very happy, very happy. It’s always been my wish to be here someday.” Jakubik said her brother, who was a professional soccer player and coach in Hungary before retiring a few years ago, will be staying with her in Kenosha for two months. The visit was arranged after Jakubik’s son, Joe Jacoby, surprised his mother two Easters ago by placing a phone call to Jávor in Budapest. “They were so excited then, they couldn’t talk. She just kept saying, “Pali, Pali.” That’s what she used to call him when he was a little boy,” Jacoby said. “He’s the only brother she has left.” — Reprinted from Chicago Sun-Times — Give a Gift Subscription to your Children and Grandchildren —
