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The Hungarian May Ball: May 16, 2009, Washington, D.C.

Table setting at the AHF Hungarian Ball 2006. In honor of the upcoming Memorial Day, each table was named after a Hungarian Military Hero: The Col. Commandant Michael Kovats table is seen here. Kovats is Father of the US Light Cavalry and died fighting the British at Charleston, S.C., in 1779.5/16/2009 - Hungarian May Ball [magyarul]

This May 16th, 2009, the Annual Hungarian May Ball returns to Washington! The American Hungarian Federation and the Hungarian Scouts of Washington cordially invite you to the annual Hungarian May Ball!

The Annual Hungarian May Ball - A very special evening benefitting AHF's 100th Anniversary programs and the Hungarian Scouts of WashingtonThe two organizations will donate part of the proceeds from the Ball to support the work of the Budapest based Juvenile Cancer Foundation to build an OncologyTreatment Center for Children in Hungary.

Saturday, May 16, 2009
EMBASSY SUITES HOTEL
44610 Waxpool Rd, Ashburn, VA 20147

6:00 – Cocktails
7:00 – Opening ceremonies
7:30 – Dinner
8:30 – Dancing
11:00 – Raffle
Music and cocktails until Midnight

Music by the New York Continental Band!

Black Tie * Raffle * Bar

Tickets may be ordered by mail until May 12, 2009. Buy online!

Ticket Cost / Jegy Ár: $120.00
Students / Diákjegy: $75.00

Buy Tickets Online Now!

Buy tickets online

Or mail your check to:

American Hungarian Federation
c/o IREN HOGYE
5976 Jan-Mar Drive
Falls Church, Va. 22041

Tickets are nonrefundable. All tickets will be held at the door.

Overnight hotel accommodations are available at a discounted rate for a limited number of suites. Please tell the hotel you are with the Hungarian Ball. Direct reservation number: 1-800-Embassy and
www.embassysuites.com

Magyarul

WASHINGTONI 4. SZ. BÁTORI JÓZSEF CSERKÉSZCSAPATAz Amerikai Magyar Szövetség
és a Washingtoni 4. Sz. Bátori József Cserkészcsapat Szeretettel meghívja  Önt és kedves családját a 2009 Májusi Magyar Bálra.

A Bál jövedelmének egy részét mindkét szervezet a Budapesten létrehozott Gyermekrák Alapítvány munkájának támogatására kívánja fordítani, amelynek célja egy Gyermekonkológiai Gyógyító Központ felépítése Magyarországon.

2009. május 16. szombat
EMBASSY SUITES HOTEL báltermében
44610 Waxpool Rd, Ashburn, VA 20147

6:00 – Poharazás, zene
7:00 – Ünnepi köszöntő
7:30 – Vacsora
8:30 – Bál
11:00 – Tombola
Éjfélig zene, poharazás

Zene: New York-i Continental Zenekar
Estélyi * Tombola * Bár

A jegyek megrendelhetők 2009. május 12-ig

American Hungarian Federation
c/o IREN HOGYE
5976 Jan-Mar Drive
Falls Church, Va. 22041

A jegyek ára: $120.-
Diákjegy: $75.-

A távolmaradók befizetett jegyeinek árát nem téríthetjük vissza. Jegyek a helyszínen vehetők át.


Below is the 2007 Ball!

2007 raised funds to help cover the costs of the Hungarian Scouts participation in the 21st World Scout Jamboree in England and the Federation's 2007 100th Anniversary programs.

The Annual Hungarian May Ball - A very special evening benefitting AHF's 100th Anniversary programs and the Hungarian Scouts of Washington!A very special evening that included 4 debutantes from the metropolitan Washington area. This year's proceeds from the black-tie affair were WASHINGTONI 4. SZ. BÁTORI JÓZSEF CSERKÉSZCSAPATequally shared to help cover the costs of the Hungarian Scouts participation in the 21st World Scout Jamboree in England and the Federation's 2007 100th Anniversary programs.

Former AHF National Secretary and Ball Committee Chair, Erika Fedor, welcomed guests that included representatives from the Hungarian Embassy, and leaders from the Hungarian Scouting Association, AHF, Best-Selling Author and National Aviation Hall of Famer Walter Boyne, and Hungarian Parliamentarian Dr. Janos HorvathFormer AHF National Secretary and Ball Committee Chair, Erika Fedor, welcomed guests that included representatives from the Hungarian Embassy, and leaders from the Hungarian Scouting Hungarian Parliamentarian Dr. Janos Horvath with AHF President Emeritus, Rev. Imre Bertalan, Sr.Association, AHF (including current and former President Atilla Micheller and Stefan Fedor respectively), Best-Selling Author and National Aviation Hall of Famer Walter Boyne, and Hungarian Parliamentarian Dr. Janos Horvath. Mihaly "Misi" Meszaros, leader of the Hungarian Scouts of Washington, thanked guests for their support and talked about the upcoming jamboree and the need to support Hungarian Scouting.

AHF Executive Chairman, Bryan Dawson-Szilagyi, addressed the audience and called attention to the 100th Anniversary of the founding of AHF and the need for unity and a national identity. Seen here with member Thomas Teglassy.AHF Executive Chairman, Bryan Dawson-Szilagyi, addressed the audience and called attention to the 100th Anniversary of the founding of AHF and the need for unity and a national identity: "In 1906, Hungarian societies, institutions, and churches from every state in the union came together to form a national federation to defend the interests of Americans of Hungarian origin." As seen today - In 1906, led by its first President Kohanyi Tihamer, AHF raised the George Washington Statue in Budapest's City Park (Város Liget) as a symbol of unityHe added that, with the tragedies that befell Hungary over the decades, AHF's mission had broadened to include support of people of Hungarian descent on both sides of the Atlantic. He provided a historic perspective on AHF's 100 years of proud service to the community. From Budapest’s George Washington Statue in 1906 to the Louis Kossuth Statue in the United States Capitol in 1990, to refugee re-settlement efforts after WWII and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, to tractors for Hungarian farmers in Transylvania, to Scholarships for outstanding Hungarian students, to Disaster Relief for Hungarian communities affected by Hurricane Katrina and Transylvanian flooding, to educating the public and preserving our heritage, he said AHF would continue to work to represent our common interests. [download his full remarks]

AHF Assoc. President Frank Koszorus delivered a keynote address focused on the implications of the 1956 Hungarian RevolutionAHF Co-President Frank Koszorus introduced Gabriella Koszorus-Varsa being honored with AHF's highest award, the Col. Commandant Michael Kovats Medal of Freedom for AHF President Attila Micheller honoring Gabriella Koszorus-Varsa  with AHF's highest award, the Col. Commandant Michael Kovats Medal of Freedom for "her lifetime accomplishments and dedication to the preservation of our Hungarian heritage." Heralded as a master of portraits, figure compositions, as well as sculptures."her lifetime accomplishments and dedication to the preservation of our Hungarian heritage." Heralded as a master of portraits, figure compositions, as well as sculptures. Ms. Koszorus-Varsa's depiction of the charge of the cavalry during the battle of Charleston in ``Fidelissimus ad Mortem'' is a magnificent master work and hung in the US Capitol. Ms. Koszorus-Varsa and her husband, Colonel Ferenc AHF 1956 Commemoration, Congressional Reception and Awards Ceremony - Gabriella Koszorus-Varsa Michael Kovats MasterworkKoszorus who was one of the great heroes of the Hungarian Holocaust, immigrated to the United States in 1951 with their son, Frank. She had been commissioned to paint some of the most important moments and persons in American history. A supporter of AHF for many decades and responsible for the design of some AHF stamps during its 1956 relief efforts and beyond, AHF is honored to present her with our highest honor.

Erika Fedor then introduced the 2007 Debutantes: Sári Bárczay, Olívia Fedor, Krisztina Kárpáthy, and Andrea Kölus. All are members of the Hungarian Scouts of Washington.Reverend Zoltan Kovacs said the blessing to commence dinner. After diner, Erika Fedor introduced the 2007 Debutantes: Sári Bárczay, Olívia Fedor, Krisztina Kárpáthy, and Andrea Kölus. All are members of the Hungarian Scouts of Washington. Kalman Kalman Magyar's phenomenal Continental Dance Orchestra (Continental Tánc Zenekar) from New York provided music and featured the amazing vocals of Lisa Apatini.Magyar's phenomenal Continental Dance Orchestra (Continental Tánc Zenekar) from New York provided music and featured the This year's table presenters included Barbara Lanciers whose "Leaves with A Name," a play about her Hungarian grandmother, will soon debut in Maryland.amazing vocals of Lisa Apatini. The evening closed with a raffle that included fine Hungarian Wines from Crafstman Wines and art from József Domján, known as the most important color woodcut artists in the Twentieth Century. This year's table presenters included Barbara Lanciers whose "Leaves with A Name," a play about her Hungarian grandmother, will soon debut in Maryland.

Additional pictures (click for larger images)

Debutante Andrea Kölus Debutante Sári Bárczay Debutante Olivia Fedor Debutante Sári Bárczay, Olívia Fedor, Krisztina Kárpáthy

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The Annual Hungarian May Ball - A very special evening benefitting AHF's 100th Anniversary programs and the Hungarian Scouts of Washington The Annual Hungarian May Ball - A very special evening benefitting AHF's 100th Anniversary programs and the Hungarian Scouts of Washington The Annual Hungarian May Ball - A very special evening benefitting AHF's 100th Anniversary programs and the Hungarian Scouts of Washington

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Debutantes at the Annual Hungarian May Ball - A very special evening benefitting AHF's 100th Anniversary programs and the Hungarian Scouts of Washington The Annual Hungarian May Ball - A very special evening benefitting AHF's 100th Anniversary programs and the Hungarian Scouts of Washington The Annual Hungarian May Ball - A very special evening benefitting AHF's 100th Anniversary programs and the Hungarian Scouts of Washington

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The Annual Hungarian May Ball - A very special evening benefitting AHF's 100th Anniversary programs and the Hungarian Scouts of Washington Bryan Dawson-Szilagyi recognizing Paul Harsanyi for his support as a Ball Patron The Annual Hungarian May Ball - A very special evening benefitting AHF's 100th Anniversary programs and the Hungarian Scouts of Washington

The Annual Hungarian May Ball - A very special evening benefitting AHF's 100th Anniversary programs and the Hungarian Scouts of Washington The Annual Hungarian May Ball - A very special evening benefitting AHF's 100th Anniversary programs and the Hungarian Scouts of Washington The Annual Hungarian May Ball - A very special evening benefitting AHF's 100th Anniversary programs and the Hungarian Scouts of Washington

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The Annual Hungarian May Ball: Atilla and Sarah Kocsis The Annual Hungarian May Ball: Atilla and Sarah Kocsis The Annual Hungarian May Ball: Zoltan and Theda Bagdy The Annual Hungarian May Ball: Barbara Lanciers

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Bryan Dawson Bryan and Xitlalli Dawson with Erika Fedor and Sarah Kocsos The Annual Hungarian May Ball: Frank Koszsorus The Annual Hungarian May Ball: The Purgers

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The Annual Hungarian May Ball: DebutantesThe Annual Hungarian May Ball: M. and Mrs. Denes deTorokThe Annual Hungarian May Ball: The DeToroks

The Annual Hungarian May Ball: Gabriella Koszorus Varsa and Grandson Feri Jr. The Annual Hungarian May Ball: Stefan Fedor with Irene Hogye The Annual Hungarian May Ball: Stefan Fedor with Irene Hogye The Annual Hungarian May Ball

Bryan and Xitlalli Dawson with Attila and Brigitta Micheller Atilla Kocsis with Attila and Brigitta Micheller Janos Horvath

AHF Executive Committee Chairman, Bryan Dawson with the Hon. Janos Horvath. Member of Parliament The Annual Hungarian May Ball: The Melameds The Annual Hungarian May Ball: Mr. and Mrs. Endre Krajcsovics Laci and Irene Hogye

The Annual Hungarian May Ball: Miss Kolus and Miss Karpathy, Debutantes The Annual Hungarian May Ball: Xitllali Dawson with Debutante Miss Karpathy The Annual Hungarian May Ball: Xitllali Dawson with Debutante Miss Karpathy Bryan and Xitlalli Dawson

Frank Koszorus, Rev. Imer Bertalan, Sr., Janos Horvath The Krajcsovics'sThe Annual Hungarian May Ball: Debutantes 2007

Xitlalli Dawson The Krajcsovics Family The Koszorus Family The Annual Hungarian May Ball


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Washington, DC
INVITATION / Meghivó
May 16, 2009

Ticket Cost / Jegy Ár: $120.00
Students / Diákjegy: $75.00

Buy Tickets Online Now!

Or mail your check to:

American Hungarian Federation
c/o IREN HOGYE
5976 Jan-Mar Drive
Falls Church, Va. 22041

2009 BÁLBIZOTTSÁG / BALL COMMITTEE

  • Erika Fedor (Ball Chairperson)
  • Irén Högye
  • Frank Koszorús Jr.
  • Marianne Koszorús
  • Judit Kölus
  • Erszébet Tóth

Tiszteletbeli Védnökök / Honorary Committee

  • The Hon. Nancy G. Brinker, Former U.S. Ambassador to Hungary
  • The Hon. Anikó Gaál Schott
  • Maj. General Robert Ivany (US Army, Ret.), President, St. Thomas University
  • Dr. János Horváth M.P.
  • Rev. Judit Mayer, Hungarian Reformed Church
  • Mr. Steven J. Varga
    Chairman, William Penn Association
  • Mr. & Mrs. Miklós and Sophia Zsuzsanna Wass de Czege, on behalf of the Wass de Czege Foundation

About the Hungarian Scouts [more]

The patch of Hungarian Scouting founded in 1909The Magyar Cserkészszövetség, the primary national Scouting organization of Hungary, was founded in 1912, and became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1990. The coeducational Magyar Cserkészszövetség has 7,198 members as of 2004.

Scouting in Hungary is maintained through Magyar Cserkészet Tanácsa, the Council of Hungarian Scouting. There are two associations in this national federation, Magyar Cserkészszövetség, the Hungarian Scout Association, and Magyar Cserkészcsapatok Szövetsége. Also serving Hungarian Scouts is Magyar Cserkészlány Szövetség, the Association of Hungarian Girl Guides.

Hungarian Scouting was founded in 1909 under Austria-Hungary, and the first Scout group in the dual monarchy, MCA-1912 HAS, was founded in Budapest in 1910. Scouting started in the separate nation of Hungary in 1919, at the end of World War I, when Austria and Hungary were divided. In 1920, the magazine Magyar Cserkész ("Hungarian Scout") was first published.

Hungary was a founding member of the World Scout Bureau in 1922 and later was a founding member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, WAGGGS, which was in fact established in Parád, Hungary, in 1928.

In 1924, at the World Scout Jamboree in Copenhagen, Hungarian Scouts attending their first jamboree came third in the competition of the nations, behind British and American Scouts. They were especially good at water sports.

The first Hungarian National Jamboree in 1926 had 10,000 participants. Hungary hosted the fourth World Jamboree in 1933 at the royal forest of Gödöllo, outside Budapest, in which 26,000 Scouts from 54 nations camped together. The camp chief was Teleki Pál, the member of the International Committee who later became Prime Minister of Hungary. This was the first time there was a Jamboree subcamp for Scouts taking part in aviation. To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the fourth World Jamboree, the Hungarian Scout Association hosted a fourth World Jamboree Memorial Camp at Bélapátfalva, Hungary in 1993.

After World War II, the Külföldi Magyar Cserkészszövetség started operating in the displaced persons camps in Germany and Austria in 1948 as the Teleki Pál Scout Association, renamed in 1948 as the Hungarian Scout Association. Scouting was well organized and popular in Hungary until it was officially abolished by the Communist regime in 1948, but remained nascent underground...
[read more on Wikipedia]


100 ÉVES A NEMZETKÖZI CSERKÉSZMOZGALOM
- MIT JELENT EZ SZÁMUNKRA? –

Száz évvel ezelott egy afrikai szolgálatból hazatéro angol katonatiszt elindította azt a nevelo mozgalmat, amely mára a világ legnagyobb ifjúsági szerveztévé fejlodött. Lord Baden Powell az ifjúság kalandvágyára és romantikus hajlamára alapozta jellemnevelo rendszerét, amellyel talpraesett, testben és
lélekben egészséges, jellemes fiatalokat nevel.
Az új mozgalom futótuzként terjedt szét a világon. Magyarország az elsok között volt, ahol nevelok és vezeto államférfiak – élvonalban olyan kimagasló
személyekkel, mint gr.Teleki Pál és Sík Sándor – felismerték a cserkészet értékét. Felismerték, hogy egy cserkészszellemu fiatalság megalapozhat egy
életképes, szilárd erkölcsi alapokon nyugvó, sikeres társadalmat. Ezáltal a meglátás által vezérelve, kidolgozták a magyar cserkészet rendszerét, kiegészítve a Baden Powell-i alapokat egy jellegzetesen magyar színezettel. Sík Sándor
fogalmazta meg legtömörebben, hogy a magyar cserkészet célja “emberebb emberek, magyarabb magyarok” nevelése. Hála a magyar vezetoség kiváló muködésének, a két világháború között a
magyar cserkészet – a trianoni csonkítás ellenére – világviszonylatban kimagasló és elismert szervezetté vált. Teleki Pált beválasztották a világcserkészet
legfelsobb vezetoségébe, a cserkész világtalálkozókon, versenyeken a magyar kontingens az elsok között végzett, és mindennek koronájaként Magyarországnak
jutott az 1933-as nagysikeru gödöllöi jemboree megrendezése. Szinte látnoki ihlet által vezérelve, az akkori magyar vezetoség olyan foglalkozási és nevelési anyagot, u.n. “próbarendszert,” dolgozott ki, amely
erkölcsi és gyakorlati tartalmán kívül kihangsúlyozta a magyar hagyományokat és kulturális értékeket. Ez, és a magyar cserkészet elsorangú vezetoképzo
rendszere, tették lehetové, hogy amikor a kommunista rendszer betiltotta muködését, a magyar cserkészet zökkenomentesen folytatódhasson külföldön. Az ötvenes évek közepére már magyar cserkészcsapatok muködtek nemcsak Nyugat-Európában, hanem
Észak- és Dél-Amerikában, valamint Ausztráliában is.
A Baden-Powell-i cserkészet és annak jellegzetesen magyar változata olyan szerencsés induló alapot nyújtott, amelynek segítségével a Külföldi Magyar
Cserkészszövetség immár 62 éve tesz eleget jellemnevelo és magyarságorzo küldetésének. De nyújtott olyan alapot is, amelynek segítségével a kommunista rendszer bukását követoen azonnal megalakultak a magyar cserkészszövetségek mind az
anyaországban, mind a környezo országok magyarlakta területein. Ma már a Külföldi
Magyar Cserkészszövetségen kívül a Kárpát-medence minden országában muködnek magyar cserkészszövetségek, összesen hét szövetség, amelyek közös rendezvényekkel, programokkal és egymást támogatva munkálkodnak az összmagyar fiatalság
nevelésén és nemzeti öntudatának megorzésén.
És így, egy angol katonatiszt által száz éve elindított gondolat adta meg azt a keretet, amelyen belül a négy évtizedes kommunista uralom alatt külföldön
ápolhattuk külföldi fiataljaink magyar nyelvtudását és nemzeti érzését, hogy aztán a szovjet birodalom bukása után, országhatárokat áthidalva, összekösse a
Kárpát-medencében és a világ minden táján élo magyar ifjúságot. - Dömötör Gábor


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