The Eighth Hungarian Tribe, 1982 (9. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1982-01-01 / 1. szám
Page 14 THE EIGHTH TRIBE January, 1982 — COAL QUEEN — On August 23rd, Lisa Elek, 17 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Elek, of Carmichaels, Pennsylvania, was chosen 1981 “Pennsylvania Bituminous Coal Queen”. Lisa will represent the coal industry across Pennsylvania. Competition and winning is nothing new for the petite five foot four inch, 110 pound blonde Miss. At the age of 12 the Carmichaels Miss entered the “Little Miss Greene County” contest and won her first title. In 1977 she was crowned “Cinderella Girl”, and won the title of “World’s Best Acrobat” in Dallas, Texas. In 1979 the talented Miss was named Regional Acrobatic Champion and advanced on to win the National Grand Champion Acrobatic award in New York. The following year she was crowned “Ideal Miss Talent of Pennsylvania”, “Miss Northeastern U.S.A. Talent” in Washington. The current year has proven a busy one for the new coal queen. In April, Lisa won the title of “Miss Dance of Pennsylvania”, sponsored by Dance Masters of Pennsylvania. In July she was selected Albert Gallatin’s “Regatta Queen”. Sponsored by Dance Masters of America, the Miss Dance of America Pageant, held in Miami, Florida, the first week of August again proved an exciting experience for Lisa. Here she was selected second runnerup to “Miss Dance of America”. A senior at Carmichaels Area High School, Lisa is an academic student and a member of “Who’s Who Among American High School Students”. She is also an acrobatic teacher at the Rebecca Wilson Dance Studio in Waynesburg, PA. Lisa performed a ballet acrobatic dance to the music of “Through The Eyes of Love” and was crowned by Emway Resources, Inc.’s Vice President/General Manager George Trevorrow. Mary Bota (Fraternity) The Father Of the Atomic Bomb Was Not Einstein Albert Einstein’s 1939 letter to President Franklin Roosevelt urging development of an atomic bomb—the famous document that started the Nuclear Age—was not written by Einstein at all. It was ghostwritten for him by a relatively little-known Columbia University physicist named Leo Szilard. In 1939, Szilard and Princeton scientist Eugene Wigner approached Einstein to ask a vital favor: Given his great stature, would he lend his name to the promotion of a serious study of nuclear energy’s wartime applications and the design and construction of an atomic bomb? Einstein agreed, although he confessed relative ignorance about nuclear chain reactions. Szilard wrote a draft and presented it to him for his signature on Aug. 2. It spoke of the "vast amounts of power and large quantities of new radiumlike elements [that] would be generated” by a nuclear chain reaction set off in a large chunk of uranium. The message finally went to Roosevelt. Later, Einstein did write and sign two follow-up messages which, together with the first, led to the 1942 formation of the Manhattan Project, which developed the bombs dropped on Japan in 1945. Szilard was one of the project’s guiding forces; Einstein had nothing whatsoever to do with it. “1 . . . only acted as a mailbox,” Einstein later wrote. “They brought me a finished letter, and I simolv mailed it.” Leo Szilard: Ghosted famous letter YOUR SUPPORT IS NEEDED TO KEEP THIS MAGAZINE ALIVE! BE AN ADVOCATE IN ITS BEHALF.
