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Magdolna ZIMÁNYI (GYÖRGYI): The Hungarian Room Designed by Dénes Györgyi at the University of Pittsburgh
documents at her disposal, as well as to historian John L. Lovász, secretary of the Hungarian Nationality Room Committee, John E. Lovász, Publications Editor of the William Penn Association, archivist Marianne Kasica of the University of Pittsburgh, Pál Ritoók, director of the Hungarian Museum of Architecture for their kind help, to nuclear engineer Lawrence Laude (Pittsburgh) who gave permission to use the photos taken by him of the Hungarian room and to the Budapest Historical Museum Museum Kiscell for the permission to publish the drawing of Dénes Györgyi. NOTES 1 Gall, Anthony: Kós Károly műhelye - tanulmány és adattár [The workshop of Károly Kós: a study and documentation], Budapest, 2002. 2 Levetus, A. S.: 'Hungarian Architecture and Decoration.' In: "The Studio" Yearbook of Decorative Art , London, 1913, 227-248; Levetus, A. S.: 'Hungarian Architecture and Decoration.' In: "The Studio" Yearbook of Decorative Art , London, 1914,217-244. 3 Winkler, Barnabás - Dómján, Kornélia [eds.]: Posztumusz Ybl Miklós-díj 2010 [Posthumous Ybl Miklós Prize 2010], Budapest, HAP Galéria, 2010, 62-75. 4 Zimányi (Györgyi), Magdolna: 'A Pittsburgh-i Egyetem Györgyi Dénes által tervezett magyar termének története' [History of the Hungarian Room designed by Dénes Györgyi for the University of Pittsburgh]. In: Basics, Beatrix - Györgyi, Erzsébet - Lindner, Magdolna - Zimányi (Györgyi), Magdolna [eds.]: Művészgenerációk. A GyörgyiGiergl család három évszázada [Artist Generations Three Centuries of the Györgyi-Giergl Family]. Budapesti Történeti Múzeum, Budapest, 2007, 148-153. 5 The bequest of Ödön Vasváry is preserved at the Somogyi Library in Szeged. http://www.sk-szeged. hu/statikus_html/vasvary/frame 1 .html 6 Klára Fetter worked later as an associate of the Hoover Institution on War and Peace in California. Her partly unpublished documentation of Hungarian history, particularly the Hungarian Republic of Councils in 1919, is preserved at the Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford, California, 94305-6010. 7 Erzsébet Baranyai (1894-1976) was a teacher, psychologist, one of the first representatives of pedagogical psychology in Hungary. She was on scholarship in the institute of pedagogy at the University of Pittsburgh in 1927-28, studying psychological and pedagogical methods. 8 Letter of Lajos Alexy to the foreign ministry, 29 October 1929. Hung. National Archives, documents of the Ministry of Religion and Public Education, Section K636, box 453,1931-12-4866. 9 Letter of Lajos Alexy to the foreign ministry, 27 December 1929. Hung. National Archives, documents of the Ministry of Religion and Public Education, Section K 636. 10 János Pelényi (1885-1974) diplomat, official in charge of Washington in 1930. Ambassador to Washington in 1933-1940, resigned on 28 November 1940, sought and was granted political asylum in the United States. 11 János Pelényi's letter to foreign minister Lajos Walkó, 6 January 1930. Hung. National Archives, documents of the Ministry of Religion and Public Education, fond K636, box 453, 1931-12^1866. 12 Károly Bodon (1880-1945) designer, interior decorator, furniture designer, father of architect Alexander Bodon. 13 Baron Zsigmond Perényi (1870-1946) politician, MP, president of the National Public Education Council. 35
