Calvin Synod Herald, 1972 (72. évfolyam, 8-12. szám)
1972-10-01 / 10. szám
8 CALVIN SYNOD HERALD "Son Of Jesse" in Budapest Reverend-Conductor József Pungur successfully conducting Leslie Kondorossy’s oratorio “Son of Jesse” for chorus, soloists, orchestra, at the Budapest, Hungary premiere on March 26, 1972. The event happened at the 40th Anniversary of the Budapest, Baros-tér Calvinist Church Anniversary Concert. Soloists was, Valeria Komaromi, soprano; Aranka Sándor, alto; László Bartfay, tenor; Dr. Karoly Igloi, baritone; Karoly Kovesdy, bass, members of the State Opera. Assistant conductor Piroska Lontay Rajner. What To Do Before You Make A Pledge This is the month before the Christian Enlishment. If your Christian Enlishment is to be more than a perfunctory collection of predecided pledges to “do the same as last year,” your pastor and the stewardship leaders of your congregation will have to be busy now. Presumably, some responsible body—a consistory, board of trustees, or special committee — has already begun to work on a projection of financial needs for the coming year. There won’t be many churches where the total needs for next year will be lower than the current budget. But what should you do before you make a pledge? 1. You’ll want to know exactly why it is that the money is needed. A recent interdenominational study in which the United Church of Christ participated said that the extent of the church’s need is a major factor in how much people pledge. And don’t fail to find out what money is needed by your conference and by the national agencies of your denomination. Some conferences give churches specific goals to help everyone do his share. 2. You’ll want to consider where giving to the church fits into your family’s priorities. That same interdenominational study indicated that how much people give is partly determined by their family life-style. Do you want the church to be a larger part of your life next year? Is the adequacy of the church’s program for youth, for instance, more important to you than buying a second new car in January instead of waiting until June? Of course you’ll consider all your sources of income carefully. Many of us have had raises regularly each year for the past ten years but never once considered whether we should increase our giving to, and through, the church. 3. Finally, count your blessings. It’s interesting that people who have fewer material possessions and abundance often tend to be more appreciative and grateful than those who have more. That same interdenominational study referred to above says that more Christians give to the church out of gratitude—gratitude for health, for happiness, for God’s comforting presence—tnan for any other reason. Editor’s Clipsheet BOOKREVIEW MY FIRST BOOK by László Hunyady. 56 lessons of progressive word-building with phono-kinetic game symbols. Illustrated. Paper 62 pp. $2.00 net. Published by László Hunyady, 50 Washington Avenue, Colonia, New Jersey 07067. This is a text book to be used in the first grade in elementary (public) schools to teach reading and writing. It is well-known that more than three-fourths of the syllables of the English words are written and pronounced phonetically. In our everyday conversations there are thousands and thousands of pure phonetic words. Teaching to read and write should logically begin with such words. In pure phonetic words the sounds can be separated. Progressive word-building with Phono-Kinetic Game Symbols, based on the logic of the English language, derives each sound and its letter from an appropriate story and associates each sound with a reminding gesture (kinetic) and uses them as word-building blocks to form words. Writing is adding letters together, and reading is pronouncing successively the chain of letters which make up the words. While all forms of the spelling method are the opposite of reading and their final results are only mechanical reflexes, progressive wordbuilding with phono-kinetic symbols utilizes the mind of children to follow a logically associated sequence of sounds. There are no puzzles, no frustrations and no boredom in the classroom; the train of thoughts is intelligent thinking; the children know what they are doing, why they are doing it and they know how to do their work. Progressive word-building with phono-kinetic symbols makes teaching and learning meaningful and converts them into a heuristic — pleasant — game children love to play. Due to the richness and hybrid structure of the English language a two-year course of progressive wordbuilding with phono-kinetic symbols is suggested. MY FIRST BOOK covers the intact sounds in 36 lessons, and the selected phonetic words offer a firm foundation for the acquisition to write and read. In the next 20 lessons heterographs, digraphs and diphthongs are derived from the original letter(s) and logical diacritical marks remind children of the new pronunciation: the gesture indicates to write the original letter; placing the gesture calls for the new sound. (Teacher’s Guide for MY FIRST BOOK available.) The 56 lessons cover more than 800 words and a competent teacher can add twice as many to them. (The remaining heterographs, digraphs and diphthongs are covered in MY SECOND BOOK in lessons 57-96 in the second grade; in lessons 97- 112 the diacritical marks are progressively abandoned and at the end of the second year any normal child can read without difficulty.) The phono-kinetic art of teaching uses spoken and written English without alteration; this heuristic method, used by competent teachers, enables children to learn to read and write by using their common sense, which is the key of quality education.
