Bethlen Naptár, 1957 (Ligonier)
Officers and supreme council members of the Hungarian Reformed Federation of America 1957-1961
224 BETHLEN NAPTÁR president, and secretary at various times. However, Paul’s enthusiasm and zest have made him interested in community and political affairs also. He has served on the Fairlawn, N.J. Veterans Housing Administration, and was Republican Committeeman for 5 years. He is now actively participating in Fairlawn’s Civilian Defense, Program, and is a member of the Police Reserves, Precint no. 2. Mrs. St. Miklossy, the former Helen Ture of Trenton, N. J., though raising a family of three fine children (Robert 22, Paul 16, and Evelyn 13), and trying to keep up with a very active husband, has found time to hold a position as Junior Library Assistant at the Fairlawn Public Library. The St. Miklossys spend many pleasant weekends at their summer home in Long Branch, N. J., Where they swim, fish, and indulge in their favorite sport: baseball. REV. SIGMUND BALLA, a native of Zsibó, County of Szilágy, Transylvania, Hungary, received his education in the land of his birth and in Canada. As a minister of the Gospel he served congregations in Canada as well as in the United States: Pocahontas, W. Va.; Indiana Harbor, Ind.; Ashtabula-Conneaut-Erie, Ohio and Pa.; and Joliet, 111. (the latter since 1950.). He has been our Chicago District Manager since 1948. Full of enthusiasm for his work, Rev. Balia believes that our Federation is the best fraternal insurance association in the world and thus devotes a great deal of time to his work, thereby being affectionately known as “Sam the Insurance Man”. He takes time out for his favorite sport, “cat fishing”, and for his hobby: flower gardening. His roses are known not only to his neighbors, who eye them with various degrees of envy, but to his many friends in Ohio and Pennsylvania, to whom he has very generously given unusual species for cultivation. Rev. Balia is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons with a Sir Knight degree. His home is in Hammond, Indiana, with his wife Vilma and son Dennis, 18. Their daughter Eva has been married for a number of years. REV. ARPAD LOUIS BERNATH was born in Kunszentmiklós, Hungary. He was educated in Hungary also, where he became an ordained minister of the Gospel 35 years ago. Most of these years have been spent in this country, where he has been affiliated with the Evangelical and Reformed Church, serving our Hungarian churches in Cleveland First (as assistant pastor); Ashtabula-Conneaut- Erie; Akron, Ohio; Chicago West Side, 111.; and first Church McKeesport, Pa. He now serves the Morgantown- Uniontown Churches while working as District Manager of the Mining District of our Federation. Rev. Bernarth is a member of our American-Hungarian Ministerial Association, and the West Virginia Fraternal Congress. During World War II he was cochairman of the Hungarian group in the Nationality Division of the U.S. Treasury War Bond Drives from 1942 to 1945 and organizer of the Hungarian Chapter of the American Red Cross in Chicago in 1942 through 1944. When he is not busy with his exacting duties as pastor and Federation District Manager, Rev. Bernarth enjoys playing chess and his two favorite musical instruments: the violin and piano. His favorite sport is swimming. Rev. A.L. Bernath Rev. S. Balia
