Fraternity-Testvériség, 2001 (79. évfolyam, 1-4. szám)
2001-04-01 / 2. szám
Page 20 TESTVÉRISÉG Student Aid As one of its many fraternal benefits, the HRFA offers a one-time financial assistance of $600 to our young members who are in pursuit of a college education. It is intended that this scholarship be applied towards the cost of tuition, fees, books, or room and board. All students who fulfill the following requirements may apply: 1. Must have been a member of the Federation for at least five years immediately preceding date of application for scholarship. He or she must be a member of good standing, i.e., applicant’s policy reflects no arrears in dues, and policy is not lapsed, matured or surrendered. 2. Should be enrolled as a full-time undergraduate day student in an accredited four-year college or university. The scholarship is not available to first-year college students. It is only granted to those who are in their 2nd, 3rd or 4th year and have earned good grades for the courses completed. 3. The applicant must contact his or her branch manager or the Home Office to receive an application form. Once the student completes the form, he or she should send it to the branch manager or the Home Office together with a grade report. The Home Office will review, approve and process the application and send the check to the applicant. We thank our Branch Managers for recommending these many fine young people for the Student Aid & Loan Fund of the HRFA, and for making them aware of this important benefit of our fraternal society. Zsuzsa K. Katona, Member of Br. 378: “Thank you Margaret H. Saltzer for recommending me to receive the scholarship and for all of your care and generosity! At the end of August I am transferring from a junior college to Silicon Valley Metropolitan University: San Jose State University. It’s an excellent business and computer information systems school right in the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area. Being one of the national most expensive places to live, I will use this scholarship towards housing, books, and tuition. I have a summer job and plan on finding a new job once in San Jose to help with costs of living. I can’t express how excited I am to receive this award. I will work hard this fall on my Graphics Design major because as my dad says, ‘It’s important to push yourself early on!’ I love and respect my parents and older brother and will do my best to make them and myself proud. Then it’s off to Budapest in January for one semester of study abroad. It should be a great experience studying and living in Hungary as a young adult and living closer to my relatives. If the opportunity arises, I would also love to study in Spain or another Latin country. Aside from learning, I enjoy snowboarding, swimming, languages, piano, camping, and computers. I have also been a “cserkész” for almost 14 years, since I was seven years old. Hungarian Scouts is a great place to keep our language alive, our culture active and build a great group of friends, who mean the world to me. Halás köszönet a kedves segítségükért.” Rev. Eva Lukacsi, Member of Br. 2 & 352: “I would like to thank the HRFA for the student aid. I attend Barry University Theology and Philosophy Department, the Doctor of Ministry program. I obtained a Master’s Degree at Princeton Theological Seminary and my future doctoral degree in Theology will be the crown of all my studies of 22 years. My focus is Evangelization in ethnic Hungar- ian local churches in America (in Miami) with new strategies, new approaches to the youth mission, and a new synthesis of faith and culture for the Hungarian churches. The “Way” has never been easy for Christian discipleship and church communities. It is certainly more difficult for Christians and Church bodies living in “exile” and in “diaspora” far from their homeland. We proudly look back to our history, which is more than a hundred years old. The Hungarian Reformed Churches were established together with the HRFA. The beginning was not easy but heroic, followed by successful decades. Today we have to consider that the founders and the hard working first generations passed
