Hungarian Heritage Review, 1987 (16. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1987-10-01 / 10. szám
ROME, ITALY — “I’m used to being popular, but I still can’t believe it!” Hungarian-born Italian “porn” star, Ilona Staller had this reaction upon being elected to the Italian Parliament. She takes her seat in the 650 member House of Deputies, the equivalent of the US House of Representatives. Staller, who campaigned briefly on the Radical Party ticket, received over 20,000 ballots from her district located south of Rome. Staller says she will fight to revise Italy’s censorship law. PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA — A group of Austrian- Americans from the area around Pittsburgh want to see the era of the Habsburgs, who ruled Austria and Austria-Hungary from the 13th to the 20th century, added to the Nationality Rooms of the University of Pittsburgh. The Austrians will be joining the Israelis, Africans, Armenians and Ukrainians in establishing nationality rooms in the Cathedral of Learning. Maxine E. Bruhns, director of the Nationality Rooms and the Intercultural Exchange Program at Pitt, says, “We specify that the room must predate 1787. No politics, no living person represented in the room, no donor recognition, except in the archives. This drive is headed by Joseph E. Pandl, Jr., a retired USX labor relations executive, whose father, the late Joseph Pandl, Sr., was maitre d’ of the Duquesne Club for four decades. The room will be a duplicate of the Franz Josef Hayden Room of the Esterhazy castle in Eisenstadt. Pandl, whose family came from Heiligenkreuz, a small town south of Vienna, says he wants to pass his youthful Austrian experience to his six children and seven grandchildren. He wants them to be able to point with pride to the names of such great Austrian composers as Hayden, Franz Liszt, the Strausses, and others. Among the Austrians who have made their mark in this country, says Pandl, are Joseph Pulitzer, publisher, and movie director Billy Wilder. The “HUNGARIAN HERITAGE REVIEW” respectfully suggests that Mr. Pandl had better get his facts straight before jumping to conclusions about who is an Austrian. Neither Ferenc Liszt, Hayden, Billy Wilder, nor Joseph Pulitzer were Austrians. They were Hungarians! ■ Nefog JXuggets* IN COMMEMORATION OF THE BICENTENNIAL OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. AMERICAN CREDO One among so many, I am part of all. Let it be told aloud, America is great, for little things do make her grand. A house built of many bricks, White and Red, Black and Yellow, home of the common man and shop for shaping uncommon virtues. A land of pilgrims and refugees, laid upon the rock of faith to frighten forever tyrants and to pale inquisitors. A race of pioneers, blazing always new trails to the limit of freedom and not beyond respect for each other. I, who am called a citizen, heed the language of justice and try the path of truth. My food is good and plenty, enough to be shared with those who hunger. My gold rings temptation but the whisper of my conscience speaks for me louder. As a master of my own, I am the servant of the whole. As a ruler of none, I am followed if devoted to all. All human beings, good and just, do I love but hate the darkness and the chains. The freedom of my thought fosters the goodness of my deeds and may my deeds spring from sources infinite and Eternal. My credo that all men are created equal may last until all men will be made good. Long is my way, I am always called for searching and I wander. If need be, may I go even beyond the call of my duty. FRANK PETO Houston, Texas OCTOBER 1987 HUNGARIAN HERITAGE REVIEW 7
