Fraternity-Testvériség, 1989 (67. évfolyam, 1-3. szám)

1989-07-01 / 3. szám

FRATERNITY

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level, such as Ferenc Kossuth, Rákóczi, Verhovay and others.

On the second day of the meeting, our Board had a very fruitful and beneficial exchange of ideas with the members of the Field Force Committee, Albert St. Miklósy, Dr. Ottó Hámos, Margaret Saltzer, John Morey, William Aros and Julius Simon. Very valuable plans were launched to renew, strengthen and

DR. ZOLTÁN D. SZÜCS NEW BISHOP OF THE CALVIN SYNOD

The Rt.Rev. Dr. Zoltán ~Daniel Szűcs was born on October 29, 1935, in Ipolypásztó, Bars-Hont megye (presently Czechoslovakia). His father, twice deported, was a Pastor of The Hungarian Reformed Church for 43 years and died with his boots on June 20, 1968. He is the second son of four children. His mother, Irén Varga is a presbyter and organist of The Reformed Church in Szeged, Hungary. The family was kicked out of Czechoslovakia with a 100-lb. allowance in November of 1948. Zoltán was wounded at the enc^ of World War II (in 1945)\by the schrapnel of hand grenade. ______'

His middle school education was in Hódmezővásárhely at the Bethlen Gábor Gimnasium. In 1954 he graduated Summa Cum Laude from The Reformed Coll, and P.S.A. A.G. of Pápa, Hungary. In 1955 he entered The Reformed Theological Seminary of Budapest, Hungary, where his studies were interrupted by the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Because of his participation and wounds, he was forced to leave the country in December of 1956. In 1957 he was working as Counselor of refugee children, for the World Council of Churches at Steinbach, Austria. During the '57/'58 academic year he continued his theological studies at the University of Vienna, Austria.

On August 8, 1958, he immigrated to the United States and worked as construction and assembly line worker of Chrysler Corporation at Newark, Delaware, studying English, American History and American Civilization in the meantime. From September 1959 to June 1962 he continued his studies at Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey, from where he received both his B.D. and his Masters degrees in Theology. During this time he was working as Student Assistant at First and Central Presbyterian Church, Wilmington, Delaware, and as supply pastor of the Free Hungarian Reformed Church on the east coast. After seminary he worked for the Presbytery of Philadelphia, PA, till his election as Pastor of St.

revitalize our membership drives in the future.

This year we were greatly blessed and enriched by the Ligonier meetings. We said farewell to each other in the spirit of the same service, safhe calling and same ministry with the hopeful expectation that we shall be able to realize all that God calls us to do in this historical moment here, and in the old country.

Imre Bertalan

Georges & Delaware City Presbyterian Churches, Delaware. He served as Pastor there until 1973. During this time he worked for a year as Senate Chaplain of the State Senate of Delaware; as Chaplain Counselor for two years at Governor Bacon Health Center, Delaware City, Delaware; and Adjunct Professor of Psychology for three years at Wilmington College, New Castle, Delaware. He also received his M.Ed. Degree in Counseling Psychology from Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, in 1959.

In the summer of 1973 he was elected as Director of Campus Ministry at Texas A. & M. University, College Station, Texas, where he served for five years. While at College Station, he completed his course work and examinations for a Ph.D. degree in Counseling and Social Psychology and the Almighty also granted him two beautiful daughters Ildikó and Anikó. His wife is a teacher of English and Fine Arts, the former Barbara Cecil Kizer of St. George, South Carolina. During this time he also served as interim pastor at The First Presbyterian Church of Sealy, Texas.

In the beginning of 1978 his dream came true when a Hungarian church, The Southside Presbyterian Church in Niles, Ohio, called him to be their pastor. He served there for two years when on November 25,