The Eighth Hungarian Tribe, 1982 (9. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1982-11-01 / 11. szám
November, 1982 THE EIGHTH HUNGARIAN TRIBE Page 3 THE EDITOR’S CORNER .. . 1.6 MILLION AMERICANS OF HUNGARIAN ANCESTRY The 1980 Census figures are out and officially acknowledged figure shows that there are people who still proclaim their Hungarian Heritage — 1.6 million of them. The figure is less than the earlier Census, but there is a new figure which increased nationwide — those who call themselves “American”, we must assume that there are many persons of Hungarian ancestry in that figure. If we take the 1.6 million and add to this the Canadian Hungarians — it would show that we are the second largest Hungarian body outside Hungary, after the Hungarians in Transylvania. One would take it for granted that a group of 1.6 million have strong institutions, great accomplishments. That is not the case. Everything that was accomplished, everything what we have — we have because of our parents, grandparents, who came to this new land pennyless and with hardwork and by self-sacrifice they have established over 300 churches and many other institutions, which are now diminishing. We have less than 150 churches (including both catholic an Protestant churches) with low membership. Most of our institutions are gone. The two remaining Fraternal Societies are struggling to exist, hopefully they will find a way to become one and with their combined membership will have a future. We have many Hungarian language publications, but their individual circulation howering around one to three thousand magic figure. This magazine, which is now in its ninth year, also cannot go above that magic figure, although the publication is mostly in English, so everybody can read it. The readers of this magazine learned lot about people of Hungarian ancestry, who earned the respect and admiration of the American people, in all fields. 1.6 million souls, — where are they? Through our friends we receive list of names to send an introductory copy to these people, a month ago, we sent out over three hundred copies. We are still waiting for the first response. What happened to the Hungarians in Ohio? We would like to extend our thanks to the Fellowship Circle of the Grace Hungarian Reformed Church of Gary, Indiana for their membership in the Hungarian Eighth Tribe Foundation. We hope to see more readership from the church members. We invite other church societies to follow in joining the Foundation and the readership of this magazine. DONATION ACKNOWLEDGMENT TO THE HUNGARIAN EIGHTH TRIBE FOUNDATION For the establishment of a Hungarian Cultural Institute for the preservation of our Hungarian Heritage. Total Donations listed till September 30, 1982 ........$4,508.00 Sándor and Ilona Bodó .............................................. 1004)0 Nashville, Tennessee Fellowship Circle of Grace Hungarian Reformed Church ........................................................... 20.00 Gary, Indiana Total Donations listed till October 31, 1982 ........$4,628.00 COL. KOVÁTS MEMORIAL ALBUM The Col. Kováts Historical Society, the Eighth Tribe Foundation and the Bethlen Press with the cooperation of others will publish an over 100 pages Memorial Album about Col. Michael Kováts de Fabriczy; his life; deeds and his heroic death for the liberty of the United States in the Revolutionay War. Col. Kováts after 200 years received the honor by the Congress of the United States calling him “the father of the United States Cavalry”. Included in the book will be the many celebrations in his honor all over the United States. The Foreword of the Abum is written by General Mark Clark of the U. S. Army. Every American-Hungarian Family should have this book — buy it for yourself, for your children, grandchildren, even for your non-Hungarian relatives, friends, donate to the schools or to the libraries. Place your order now! More information can be found on an other page of this magazine. Our congratulations to Bishop Dezső Ábrahám on his reelection as Bishop of the Hungarian Reformed Church in America. The Synod meeting will be on November 26th, here in Ligonier. We will have additional information after the Synod meeting. The end of the year is almost upon us, we ask our headers to pay their obligation for 1982.—'Thank you! We appreciate your support. It is that, that keeps this paper alive. Anyone would like to insert a greeting in the December—Christmas issue — deadline November 30th. Nothing can be accepted after December 3 in order to appear in the December issue.
