The Eighth Hungarian Tribe, 1985 (12. évfolyam, 1-11. szám)
1985-10-01 / 10. szám
the second half of the 19th century or the beginning of the 20th century, but there are saddle covers also from earlier periods. The oldest piece in the collection is an Indian- Mogul saddle cover from 1737. The historical significance and artistic value of the collection is enhanced by the fact that the saddle cover making is a vanishing art. The modernization displaced the saddle horses and other saddle animals and with them the adornments used on them. The collection recalls the bygone world of the Asian horsemen and their art. Their centuries old art is reflected in the materials, forms, patterns, colors and techniques they used to make the saddle covers. Dr. Salgo’s collection which shows comprehensive knowledge of history and art of the Asian horsemen was on exhibit in Hungary. The unique collection was displayed in the Castle Museum of Ferenc Nadasdy in Sarvar. The exhibit is a success attracting visitors from all over the country THIS ATTILA HAS UPLIFTING EXPERIENCES CHAMPAIGN, Illinois, Mike Huszka and his wife didn’t sit down after their second son was bom and say, “Let’s give him an unusual name.” In Hungary, which the Huszkas left in 1967, Attila is a familiar choice. “It’s the same as Steve or anything else here,” said Mr. Huszka, whose family lives in Geneva. If anyone made fun of his name, Attila could lift the offender and threaten him with a crash landing. Attila, 16, is a weightlifter competing in the second annual Prairie State Games fin tils at the University of Illinois. He placed fourth overall losing only to older lifters. When Attila meets people, their reaction is “Oh, your name is Attila, cool, wow,” said the younger Huszka. His friends were thinking back to the warrior Attila The Hun, who toiled from 406 to 453 A.D. “My name is pretty common in Hungary, but not around here,” said Attila, who’s known to some of his friends as Mr. Hun. He started weightlifting four years ago and was runner-up at the AAU Junior Olympics in 1982 at the 132-pound class. He had a good example to follow. His 52-year-old father has been weightlifting for 32 years. Mike wrestled in the 1960 Olympics in Rome and in the 1964 Games in Tokyo. In 1963, he tied for first place in the World Championships in his weight class. This summer, Mike was helping Geneva football coach Jerry Auchstetter with his team’s strength program. Mike Page 6 HUNGARY’S FIRST The Hungarian Academy of Sciences has recently commemorated the centenary of the first international polar year whose focus was the scientific exploration of the North Pole. The polar year was Karl Weyprecht’s idea, one of the leaders of the Austro- Hungarian expedition to the North Pole in 1872-74. There is probably no calendar that has recorded the date May 31, 1831. But we know it as the day when the first Hungarian name appeared on the map of the Arctic. It was Sir James Clark Ross who named a bay near the earth’s magnetic pole, above Canada, after Esterhazy, his one-time fellow-student and friend. Hungary took an active part in the exploratory expedition that was launched in 1872. The idea for it was bom in Vienna, but was financed by Hungary, in particular by a generous donation from Count Ódon Zichy, which explains the name “Austro-Hungarian expedition”. With a crew of 24, including a Hungarian, Dr. Gyula Kepes, the ship’s doctor, their 220-ton, 100-horse-power ship, the “Teget-hoff” embarked from Bremerhaven on June 13, 1872 and disembarksaid Auchstetter has been trying to get Attila to try out for the team, but Mike doesn’t want his son to risk suffering a knee injury. Besides, Attila indicated he’d like to pursue a career as a musician. He plays bass guitar in a band called (what else?) “Attila.” LAJOS KATO.N.Y. Lotter Winner. In the end, the vision that tantalized millions of New Yorkers materialized foi a group of men who had come to America in search of the American dream. A group of 21 workers of a printing press manufacturing firm in Mt. Vernon, N.Y. pooled their resources to buy lottery tickets, and now they share the winnings of over 13 million dollars in the New York State Lottery. LAJOS KATÓ, from Hungary, is one of the recent new comers to the United States, who will share in the prize. JAMES G. JANOSSY, (third generation) son of Mr. and Mrs. Gustav Janossy of Gardena, California (formerly of New Jersey), is the author of a newly published professional book entitled “Commercial Software Engineering” for productive program design. Janossy, 37, graduated ARCTIC EXPLORERS ed at Vardo, Norway on September 3, 1874. In the course of their eventful expedition they spent two winters in the Arcic zone but did not wish to risk a third one. Abandoning their stranded ship, they set off on foot and by small boat. After bitter hardships they reached Novaya Zemlya in Russia where they were picked up by two Russian boats. The success of the expedition was in no small measure due to the self-sacrificing work of Dr. Gyula Kepes. What the expedition is really remembered for is the discovery of the Franz Joseph Land, where the endless sheet of ice and snow was given Hungarian names such as Cape Budapest, Cape Fiume, the Isle of Deak, the Simonyi Glacier and the largest expanse of all, Zichy Land. The last in the line of 19th-century Hungarian Arctic explorers was Baron Tivadar Bornemissza, a landholder who traveled to Novaya Zemlya at his own expense and made his way northwards on a hunting trip. On his way he made friends with the explorers of the Russian Tsarist Geographical Society, and arrived as far as 72° 20 N. from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois in 1969, received his Master’s Degree in 1978 from California State University, Los Angeles. In addition to his full time work in commercial data processing, he is a member of the associate faculty of De Paul University, also teaching computer science at Roosevelt University, both of Chicago. James and his wife, Carol, live in Chicago with their four children. The book can be purchased at your local bookstores or John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 605 Third Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10158. TRANSYLVANIA: The Hungarian Minority In Rumania by JULIA NANAY $5.00 plus 75c postage. Bethlen Press, Inc. P.O. Box 637, Ligonier, PA 15658, U.S.A. Eighth Hungarian Tribe
