Calvin Synod Herald, 2016 (117. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
2016-11-01 / 11-12. szám
8 CALVIN SYNOD HERALD the prestigious Csokonai Award in a special ceremonial session. In 2008 the American Hungarian Coalition in Washington DC, honored him for his service to the Hungarian community. In 2011, the board of the American Hungarian Foundation honored his work with the prestigious George Washington Award. Predeceased by his wife of 43 years, Priscilla B. Arvay and his sister, Helen Leeders. He is survived by his son and daughter-in-law, John and Karen Molnár of South Brunswick, NJ; his daughter and son-in-law, Katherine and Fabio Sapienza, of Littleton, CO; his sister, Irene Molnar-McKee of Tulsa, OK; and his four grandchildren: Jessica, Christopher and Shannon Molnár and Alessandro Lauro, and many nephews and nieces. Professor August J. Molnár has had an enormously successful and influential career, devoted to the study of Hungarian culture and heritage in the United States. The Foundation is respected worldwide for bringing the unique and dynamic presentation of the Hungarian cultural and historical heritage to its constituencies and for its portrayal of the contributions of Hungarians to American life since 1776. A memorial service took take place in his honor at 11am on Saturday, October 1. 2016, at Kirkpatrick Chapel on the Old Queens Campus of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (81 Somerset St. New Brunswick, NJ). Memorial contributions can be made in Professor Molnar’s honor to the American Hungarian Foundation, PO Box 1084, New Brunswick, NJ 08903. For more information please contact Managing Director Melissa Kakto Pepin at director@ahfoundation.org rflJ 'S, (What ©7 live for CS7 live for those who love me, (Whose hearts are kind and true, £5 for the heaven that smiles above me, And awaits mp spirit too. <ggfor all human ties that bind me, (3 for the task bp ffod assigned me, ^gfor the bright hopes left behind me, And the good that ©7 can do. cfecrge éíinnaeus O&anks ______________________________________________P I’M THANKFUL FOR... Text: Psalm 100 Thanksgiving is coming up. One of my friends posted the following: I am thankful for... ♦the mess to clean up after a party because it means I have been surrounded by friends. ♦the taxes I pay because it means that I'm employed, ♦the clothes that fit a little too snug because it means I have enough to eat. ♦my shadow who watches me work because it means I am out in the sunshine. ♦a lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning and gutters that need fixing because it means that I have a home. ♦the spot I find at the far end of the parking lot because it means that 1 am capable of walking. "•all the complaining I hear about our government because it means we have freedom of speech. ♦my huge heating bill because it means I am warm, ♦the lady behind me at church who sings off key because it means that I can hear, *the piles of laundry and ironing because it means my loved ones are nearby. ♦weariness and aching muscles at the end of the day because it means that I have been productive. ♦the alarm that goes off in the early morning hours because it means that I am alive. Perhaps as an opening to our celebration we should remember the historical event we commemorate, that first Thanksgiving celebrated by the pilgrims. Those folks had had an exceedingly difficult time. For starters, they had begun their journey full of hope for a new life of religious freedom in a warm and welcoming land - Virginia. Oops. Instead they landed at Plymouth Rock on December 21, 1620, not the best time of year in Massachusetts. Until such time as they could build houses and establish themselves on the land, they made their home on board the Mayflower, the vessel in which they had sailed.(2) The men went ashore every morning to work, returning to the little ship at night. They built a "common house" to which the sick and dying were transferred, placed their four little cannon in a fort, which they built on a hill close by, built two rows of houses with a wide street between and finally landed their stores and provisions. Then the whole company came ashore toward the last of March, and in April the Mayflower sailed away. The winter was hard and bitter. At one time all but
