Fraternity-Testvériség, 1960 (38. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1960-06-01 / 6. szám
6 FRATERNITY keeping these in mind, I tried to fulfill my office so that I should always be in accord with them and should serve the best interests of the Federation with my work. How successful I was in that has been investigated yearly by our Supreme Council, and they gave me my dispensation. Judging the past four years is among the duties of our present convention. I look forward to it with a clear conscience and I give my report as follows concerning the different branches of my activities. REPRESENTATION As has already been published in my report for the year 1959, in our official paper, it was proper and necessary for me to be present at every place and occasion where and when similar matters of similar types of organizations were being discussed — partly to make new acquaintances, partly to project in the widest possible circle of public consciousness the existence of our Federation and the national as well as charitable aspects of its successful work in the field of fraternalism. I watched the possibilities, by the use of which in either social or church lines I could help our development. I took an active part in the work of the Co-ordinated Hungarian Relief, Inc., which was necessarily organized after the 1956 revolution in Hungary, and in the same way I tried to support the ever widening and increasingly important work of our old institution, the American Hungarian Federation, of which we are supporting members. During the year of my term as Chairman of the Board, we acquired a second home in the capital for our American Hungarians by establishing the “Colonel Kovats Memorial Building”. I tried to help to find a home for the homeless Hungarian education and took an active part in the affairs of the Hungarian Institute that was established in New Brunswick, N. J., at Rutgers University. It is worth mentioning here that the Hungarian exhibition arranged by the Institute was made attractive by our collection of contemporary pictures concerning the American trip of Kossuth. On one occasion I gave a lecture in connection with the reviewing of the poems written in the English language a hundred years ago and translated into Hungarian about one of the Hungarian heroes of the Americal Civil War, Major Karoly Zagonyi. At the invitation of the largest Presbyterian church in Denver, Colo., I gave a reading in English about the religious and political situation in Hungary. Naturally, I used this occasion to serve at the Whitsunday church service and at the following social gathering for the Hungarians who immigrated there in the past few years and established a branch of our Federation. MEETINGS, CONFERENCES As a responsibility of my office I summoned and conducted the periodical meetings of the Supreme Council as well as of the Board of the Bethlen Home. I should not fail to mention the summoning of conferences of the staff of officers according to need, dealing with administrative or investment matters. The minutes serve as proof of that.
