Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1996
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protect the Makó newsagent’s cart. The roof of the building was designed by Dr József Gyenes and executed by Zsindely (Shingles) Ltd of Gyula. The outdoor installations for the Telephonic News Dispenser were designed by Tibor Ortelli, manager of the Art and Ortelli Telephone Co., and József Balogh, network supervisor of the Kecskemét Telecommunications Centre. Mihály Dudás of DBS Telecommunications and Computer Technology Ltd designed and installed the multilingual information system for the exhibition. The prime exhibit in the coach house, the red mail coach, was repaired and repainted green and yellow by the coach-builder János Réti. The László Tari Museum in Csongrád contributed by lending a piano. Visitors to the post house and village hall can hear information in Hungarian, English and German, through reproduction receivers attached to the Telephonic News Dispenser system. There is a fourth channel offering a medley of reconstructed news-dispenser programming. The guides to the display are by Júlia Kisfaludi (post office, coach house), Mrs Gergely Kovács (postmaster’s room, village hall) and Ernő Beszédes (Telephonic News Dispenser studio). The Hungarian text of the audio guide was read onto tape by the museum staff who wrote it. The news-dispenser programme was compiled by Mrs Gergely Kovács, basing it on broadcast programmes and newspaper items of 1896. The raw material was turned into a 16-minute tape with the assistance of Péter Korbuly, István Balogh, Károly Horváth and Miklós Lukács of Hungarian Radio. The exhibition guides and programme materials were recorded on compact disc by László Szender, at the studios of Tranzit Film Ltd. Just as the exhibitions were designed and mounted by Postal Museum staff, so the invitations were designed and printed in the museum’s own workshop. The refurbishment was held up by the prolonged winter weather, which continued until the middle of April. This meant it was not possible to reopen the post house at the usual time at the end of May. By chance, the 1100th anniversary celebrations coincided with the 25th anniversary of the foundation of the memorial park. The new permanent exhibition in the restored post house was opened on June 9, 1996 by Dr Sarolta Etsedy Gyimes, director of the Szeged Directorate of the Hungarian Post. Dr Anna Farkas Toth: Societies of Old A delegates’ conference was held at the Budapest Planetarium on September 17, 1996 to mark five years of the Telecommunications Workers’ Insurance and Mutual Benefit Society. To contribute to the occasion, the Postal Museum compiled four tableaux entitled ‘Societies of Old’. The display covered some interesting episodes in the history of the postal workers’ societies that began to form in the last century. Margit Rákóczi: The Hungarian Post from the Millenary to the 1100th Anniversary of the Hungarian Settlement The exhibition that opened at the Postal Museum on October 8, 1996 traces the history of the Hungarian Post from May 2,1896 onwards. That was the day when the Royal Hungarian Post opened its display at the National Millenary Exhibition in Budapest’s Városliget 310
