Fraternity-Testvériség, 2000 (78. évfolyam, 1-4. szám)
2000-10-01 / 4. szám
Page 18 TESTVÉRISÉG Kecskeméthy László (1912-2000) Ez év május 19-én Kecskeméthy László lelkipásztor St. Helena, Kaliforniában elhunyt. Temetésén a helyi presbitériánus egyház lelkésze, Rev. Norm Pott és Katona Jenő lelkipásztor szolgált. Kecskeméthy László 1912. március 12-én Pakson született. Elemi iskoláit ott, majd a gimnáziumot Szekszárdon végezte. A budapesti teológián diplomát, Nagykőrösön pedig a tanítói oklevelet megszerezve Bicskén volt segédlelkész 1936 decemberéig. 1937—ben jött Amerikába, ahol a San Franciscoi Teológián Master of Sacred Theology fokozatot nyerte el. Duquesne-ben, Morgantownban és Vintondale-en lett lelkipásztor, majd Wallingfordra hívták. A Yale Egyetemen tovább tanult. Woodbridge-i szolgálata után San Bernardinoban, majd Van Nuysban egyházalapitással foglalkozott. 1971-ben Helena, Kaliforniába költözve Hungarian Hospitality House székhellyel Magyar Református Egyházat, Magyar Irodalmi és Rádió Missziót és “Jobb egészség-Hosszabb élet” címmel szemináriumokat vezetett. Számtalan teológiai, irodalmi és magyar történelmi Írása, valamint műfordítása látott napvilágot. Gyászolja felesége, Zsilinszki Irén és két gyermeke, Mihály és Ilona. Legyen áldott emléke! Paul Takács (1932-2000) Paul Takács of Silver Spring, Maryland was bom in Hungary in 1932. Following his graduation from high school, he first studied at private studios of well- known painters and sculptors; then, for four years, he attended the Academy of Applied Arts in Budapest. He came to the United States in 1957. Mr. Takács began his artistic career as an expressionist painter. His paintings reflected his emotional response to a world that revealed itself to him. He later became attracted to abstracts in painting and monumental sculpture. This influence occupied a period in his sculptures and murals. All his works reflect a uniquely personal approach in which the powers of sophisticated line drawing and sculpting techniques blend with surrealistic and folk elements. His colorful palette was further enriched in the late 1960s as he developed his new “surradiant impressionism.” Radiant colors and vibrantly simple abstract geometric patterns are interwoven with unusual ideas to form a new language of artistic communication. His synthesis includes rich surrealistic elements, many of them based on centuries old folk art, rendered in a new interpretation. His first one-man show was in 1964 at the National Housing Center, Washington, D.C. Other one-man shows of the artist included exhibits at the “Bodley Gallery”, New York, Madison Ave., at the “Sketch Gallery”, in Philadelphia, at the “Washington Gallery” in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., and at Rockville Civic Center, in Rockville, Maryland. The artist’s works are featured: Etchings: Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria, and the National Air & Space Museum (Smithsonian Institution, Permanent Collection), Washington, D.C. Paintings, Murals, Sculptures: Peabody Museum, Nashville, Tennessee; Evansville Museum of Art and Sciences, Evansville, Indiana; Laura Musser Art Gallery & Museum, Musktoin, Iowa; Sheldon Swope Gallery Art Gallery, Terre Haute, Indiana; Washington County Museum, Hagerstown, Maryland, and in private collections as well as in public and business buildings in New York City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, St. Petersburg, Florida, Alexandria, Virginia, El Paso, Texas, Budapest, Hungary, and Vienna, Austria.A 10- ton welded steel structure is in front of the new Macy’s Department Store in New Rochelle, New York; a 4’x8’x9’ welded steel composition in front of the Southeast Middle School in Baltimore, Maryland. In Washington, D.C. murals by the artist can be seen in the office of the Charles E. Smith Construction Company at the Headquarters of the American Road Builders Association; at the American Savings and Loan Association; at the American Security and Trust Company in Georgetown; and in The Cambridge House. His sculptures are in the Crystal Plaza Lobby in Arlington, Virginia; and an Earth Globe sculpture in the International Club of Washington. In September of 1990, Mr. Takács submitted the winning designs in the American Numismatist Association’s Centennial Medal Design Competition. In December of the same year, he had a one-man show at the National Museum of Budapest, Hungary, where he showed about 130 of his paintings. In 1993, the Hungarian Embassy in Washington, D.C. exhibited his works. In October 1992, the Charles Zágony commemorative medal, designed by Mr. Takács, was on exhibit in the British Museum, London, as part of the American exhibit, at the International Numismatic Convention.
