The Eighth Hungarian Tribe, 1983 (10. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1983-05-01 / 5. szám
May, 1983 THE EIGHTH HUNGARIAN TRIBE Page 3 THE EDITOR’S CORNER . . . PLEASE NOTE: The Magazine publication will continue without any distruption, contrary what you might have hear from other sources. — Many of you did not send in your subscription/membership fee for 1983 —please do so. If you care to make a “Special Donation” toward the magazine’s publication expenses, we’ll gratefully appreciate your generosity. The editor was asked many times for personal appearances on behalf of the magazine and the Foundation. He asks all the Vice Presidents, Board Members, or other interested persons to please make arrangements for a regional Hungarian Eighth Tribe Fundation Day to raise funds for the magazine and for the Foundation and let the editor know of the date, so he can schedule his time accordingly. Presently we do not schedule a Summer Conference. ☆ ☆ LETTERS TO THE EDITOR :— Dear Mr. Chomos: I received your informative letter and am appalled — but not surprised. Mainly, of course, because of lack of support from such sources which should be providing you with enough work to keep your small operation in business. However, being active in and officer of a Hungarian-American organization here, I am quite aware of how difficult it is to make our fellow Hungarian-Americans understand and appreciate the fact that, if we refuse to stick together, work together, and support efforts to preserve and protect our heritage, we will eventually cease to exist as a viable ethnic community within American society. Already, we are meaningless in comparison to the German, Italian, Polish, and other ethnic groups because our Hungarian- American community is split into numerous factions and enclaves oppose to each other. Moreover, those not interested or involved in any way, couldn’t care less. This, it seems, is the cross the Hungarians have borne since time immemorial and explains why it is that Hungary is where it is today . . . nowhere! I hope you will not mind my comments apropos your publication “The Eighth Hungarian Tribe”. The concept is excellent and its intentions laudable. However, it needs “jazzing” up in order to make it more readable and interesting to a much wider market (readership). More Hungarian-Americana, nuue Hungarian history, more profiles of outstanding Hungarian-Americans, I believe, would certainly help increase your circulation nationwide. Special projects, too, could be designated and promoted as, for example, the inclusion of an exhibit on Hungarian immigration in the American Museum of Immigration now housed at the Statue of Liberty, but which will be moved in the near future to Ellis Island. While all other ethnics are represented, the Hungarians are not . . . which speaks for itself., doesn’t it? At anyrate, a more “saleable” publication would certainly give the Bethlen Press a badly needed “shot-in-the-arm”. With kindest personal regards and best wishes. Very truly yours, Paul Pulitzer Union, New Jersey Dear Sir: After asking you to carry a page on Club News, I sadly never sent you any informátion on our Club’s activities here in Toledo, Ohio. However, it was with great interest that we read of the California activities, we often wondered how the “Modern Magyar Rock” dance succeeded? Did it bring in any of the Youth? Our Toledo Club has survived after almost folding a little over a year ago, but we still lack being able to involve our youth in any activities. Yet without them we have only bought a little time before many of us become too old and too tired to support and maintain the Club. We now have four major dances scheduled for this year. February 12: ‘Farsangi Bál’ (Tokaj Együttes from Lorain); May 7 ‘Tavaszi Tánc’; September 27 ‘Szüreti Bál’ (the last two are tentative); December 31 ‘Szilveszteri Bál’. Our meetings are normally at 5 pan. on the second Sunday of each month. We are trying to schedule a film showing to begin at 6 p.m. following each business meeting. A number of films, including some excellent new travelogs, may be borrowed free of charge from the Hungarian Embassy in Washington, D.C., or from the Consulate in New York (write to Dinya Lajos, Vice Consul, 8 East 75 Street, New York, N. Y. 10021). New films with English sub-titles can be rented from New Yorker Films, but they are quite expensive. Copies of old films can be rented inexpensively from László Hőgye, 5976 Jan Mar Drive, Falls Church, Virginia 22041. If any readers know of other sources, I would very much like to hear of them. We also had some excellent program done by members. For example, last March 15 Peter Ujvági, who is also a City Councilman, researched and presented the historical background of events leading to the 1948 Revolution. Lajos Bangó, with the heart of a poet, read Petőfi’s ‘Nemzeti Dal’ with an emotion that caused us all to tremble as our ancestors must have. This year we’re planning a few special programs: 1. slids and films of Hungary taken by members coupled with their travel tips and recommendations; 2. wine growing regions on films and a presentation to be followed by a wine tasting session; 3. maybe one on the dogs of Hungary (my family now has a Kuvasy); 4. My experiences on genealogical research in Tokaj and Tarcal and finding distant relatives still living in Tokaj. All of these activities will be at the Hungarian Club, 224 Paine Avenue, Toledo, Ohio 43605. Anyone traveling to Toledo is welcome and can make contact most easily with the Club thru Rev. Imre Bertalan at 693-6606 or 691- 3033; he lives fairly close to the Club location. Thank you for contiuing your great job. With greetings from your readers in Toledo, Steve Soley Toledo, Ohio The Eighth Tribe magazine’s importance haa been acknowledged in many circles, but no magazine has a future without sufficient funds, which can only come from the subscribers. We ask our readers to get as many subscribers as they can.
