Fraternity-Testvériség, 1963 (40. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1963-02-01 / 2. szám
4 FRATERNITY and process the insurance, he never went. My thought is that the three surviving children could certainly have made good use of the $2,500.00 at this time. * * * What a different story if there had been AMPLE life insurance! A DISTINGUISHED AWARD WINNER We are happy to report that one of our members and former agents in our Pittsburgh area, Dr. Joseph S. Nemeth, who taught school in Mifflin, Penna., for several years and is presently associate professor at Edinboro State College, Edinboro, Penna., received the International Reading Association’s 1962 Elva Knight Research Fund Award. Dr. Nemeth received his bachelor degree at Duquesne University, and his master and doctor degrees from the University of Pittsburgh, where he also held an instructor’s position for two years. According to Dr. Theodore Clymer, chairman of the association’s studies and research committee, Dr. Nemeth’s dissertation, “An Evaluation of the Correlated Filmstrip Method of Beginning Reading Instruction”, was selected from a national representation. Dr. Nemeth’s experiment was undertaken to determine if any greater achievement results in silent and oral reading when a set of correlated filmstrips are utilized to teach beginning reading. The International Reading Association grants the Elva Knight Research Fund Award each year to the most outstanding piece of research in the field of reading. A HUNGARIAN DISTRICT JUDGE In recent months, the President of the United States has been busy appointing District Judges all over the country. Among those honored for this great distinction was Stephen J. Roth of Flint, Michigan. Judge Roth, whose parents came to the United States from Sajo Szeged, Hungary, in 1913, has lived in Flint, Michigan, since that time. He has had a brilliant career in law since his graduation from the University of Notre Dame in 1931 and the University of Michigan Law School in 1935, working intermittently as bank teller and factory worker to finance his education. In 1937, while in private practice, Judge Roth was elected as Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, then as Prosecuting Attorney in 1941 and Attorney General of Michigan in 1949-50, serving two and one-half years; meanwhile, as a Member of the Criminal Investigations Division, Provost Marshall’s Office, North Africa and Italy, during World War II. From 1952 until the time of his appointment to the United States District Court, Judge Roth was Circuit Court Judge of the Seventh Circuit in Genesee County, Michigan. Judge Roth is married to the former Evelyn L. Puskas, also of Flint, and they have five children, three daughters and two sons. ★ ★ ★ We congratulate both of our fine Hungarian-American friends, and wish them well in their own fields of endeavor. We know that as they have brought honor to the Hungarian name, they will continue to serve humanity with their God-given talents, among them the people of their own ancestry.
