Fraternity-Testvériség, 1958 (36. évfolyam, 1-11. szám)
1958-04-01 / 4. szám
14 FRATERNITY Since September 1952, Dr. Faragó has been a senior research chemist in the textile fiber department of Dupont. As one of more than 100 Dupont employees broadcasting for the Voice of America, Dr. Faragó explains the difference between scientific development and research under freedom and under totalitarianism. “In America the man at the bench furnishes ideas. These are sifted and go up to management. In this way many more leads are considered, and many more are investigated. “In Hungary, today, the men at the bench are merely the hands to work out the ideas of one top man. If that man is lazy, or not creative, the number of sound ideas available to the group is negligible.” At Dupont, Dr. Faragó may be seen at his laboratory table, or in the spinning room where a complicated machine tests durability of synthetic fibers he has evolved. At home, he and Mrs. Faragó, Claire, 9, and a son, Peter, 6, live in a modern air-conditioned ranch house in suburban Blue Rock Manor. The family, their 100-pound dog, Pixie, and their coal black cat, are all bi-lingual. Together they enjoy opera on the hi-fi; Hungarian pastry prepared by the household’s senior chemist; and gardening. Dr. Faragó claims a specialty in weeds and three or four tomato plants embellished with lilac and rose bushes. The family has driven south to Florida, north to Boston, and west to Chicago. There are responsibilities as well as pleasures in the private life of the Faragos. Mrs. Faragó is a Brownie hospitality chairman, and is active in the PTA. The family is active in the Sunday School of Concord Presbyterian Church and the Committee for Resettlement of Hungarians of the Council of Churches. In addition to teaching at Hopkins, Dr. Kovasznay served in 1950 as visiting professor at the University of Michigan, and in 1953 as a consultant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was awarded a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1955-56. Dr. Kovasznay has published scores of scholarly and technical articles in publication in Hungary, England and the United States. He has served as consultant to several technical groups, including: the Ballistic Research Laboratories, Aberdeen Proving Ground, the National Bureau of Standards, the Air Research and Development Command of the U. S. Air Force, General Electric Company, Raytheon Manufacturing Company, Ramo Wooldridge, and during 1953 and 1956 he was a consultant to the Aeronautical Research and Development (AGARD) of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Paris. Dr. Kovasznay, who received his American citizenship in 1953, is a member of Sigma Xi and the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences, and is a senior member of the Institute of Radio Engineers. In 1956, Dr. Kovasznay made a lecture tour in Western Europe, giving about 45 lectures in 11 countries and at four Congresses on research subjects in such fields as turbulence, aero-dynamics, instrumentation. He spoke at Cambridge, Braunschweig, Stockholm, Oslo, Madrid, Rome, Sorbonne (Paris), Marseilles and Gottingen.
