{"id":1050319,"date":"2019-09-28T01:34:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T05:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/?p=1050319"},"modified":"2019-09-29T01:44:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T05:44:33","slug":"in-memoriam-dr-bela-bognar-1931-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/in-memoriam-dr-bela-bognar-1931-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam Dr. B\u00e9la Bogn\u00e1r 1931-2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington, DC \u2013 Members of the Hungarian American Coalition (Coalition) were deeply saddened to learn that Dr. B\u00e9la Bogn\u00e1r, Professor Emeritus of the Departments of Social Work and Medicine in Society at Wright State University and founder of the Coalition\u2019s Bogn\u00e1r Family Hungarian Scholarship Fund passed away on September 24, 2019. He was 88 years old.<\/p>\n

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Dr. B\u00e9la Bogn\u00e1r<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Professor Dr. B\u00e9la Bogn\u00e1r was born on September 20, 1931, in Pakod, Zala County, Hungary. Dr. Bogn\u00e1r attended the Piarist High School in Veszpr\u00e9m for two years. After the communists abolished the Catholic high schools, he transferred to and graduated from R\u00e9vai High School, Gy\u0151r. His dream was to become a Latin and Hungarian Literature teacher, but he was only accepted for Teachers\u2019s College in P\u00e9cs as a mathematics and chemistry major. After a year in P\u00e9cs (1952-53), he transferred to E\u00f6tv\u00f6s L\u00f3r\u00e1nd University in Budapest and joined a group of Catholic students who worked with 2 children (with their parents\u2019 permission) to instill religious principles. Typically, members of the group spent many hours with the children on Saturdays and Sundays.<\/p>\n

In 1954 before the fall semester began, five members of the clandestine group were kicked out of the university, one of whom was Dr. Bogn\u00e1r. They were also kicked out of Budapest. Dr. Bogn\u00e1r found a factory job (at EDASZ) in Gy\u0151r where he worked until the summer of 1956 and played soccer on the factory team. He left Gy\u0151r to rejoin some of his former classmates who also went back to Budapest and together joined the Pet\u0151fi Circle.<\/p>\n

He participated in the fight against the Russians from October 23 to November 9, 1956. He was part of a small group which fought on the streets from \u00dcll\u0151i to Soroks\u00e1ri Roads. On November 10 he went home to Zala to pick up his French dictionary, his prayer book and his ski boots. On November 11, 1956 he crossed the border to Austria and headed for Leuven, Belgium, to start a new life.<\/p>\n

Dr. Bogn\u00e1r began by finishing the Ecole Social de Louvain in 1961 (BS with Magna Cum Laude). In Belgium, Dr. Bogn\u00e1r met and married Andree Vandermotte, with whom he would eventually have two sons.\u00a0 After immigrating to the US, he attended the University of Wisconsin where he obtained MS and PhD degrees in gerontology, health and mental health policies. He continued his post-doctorate studies in mental health and aging at the University of California at Berkeley and at the University of Southern California, receiving certificates in both institutions.<\/p>\n

Beginning in 1974, Dr. Bogn\u00e1r taught a generation of professionals who worked in the fields of social work and aging. He wrote four textbooks and countless articles on health and aging policies. For 15 years he was an advisor to the Ohio Department of Aging in the area of gerontology education. In 1988, he was given the Gerontology Teacher Award by the Ohio Network of Educational Consultants in the Field of Aging (ONECA).<\/p>\n

In 1999 Dr. B\u00e9la and his 2nd wife, April Bogn\u00e1r established the Bogn\u00e1r Family Hungarian Scholarship Fund (BFHSF; originally named the Hungarian Scholarship Fund) to provide assistance to qualified Hungarian university students living and\/or studying in Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, Slovakia, Serbia, and the United States.<\/p>\n

In the spring of 2014 Dr. B\u00e9la and April Bogn\u00e1r requested the Coalition to become the administrator of their scholarship fund as part of the Coalition\u2019s comprehensive leadership training and educational portfolio. Since its inception, the scholarship fund has awarded more than $700,000 to 255 Hungarian students in the US and the Carpathian Basin raised from members of the Hungarian American community; churches; organizations; the\u00a0Sunshine Lady Foundation (SLF)<\/a>, directed by Mrs. Doris Buffett; and recently, by the\u00a0Ambassadors of the Future<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dr. B\u00e9la Bogn\u00e1r was also honored by the Hungarian government with the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit (Magyar \u00c9rdemrend Lovagkeresztje) on August 20, 2015.<\/p>\n

In 2017, one of the major supporters of BFHSF, the Ambassadors of the Future also honored Dr. Bogn\u00e1r for his life-long work in supporting Hungarian students in need. In his\u00a0video message<\/a>\u00a0thanking the organizers, Dr. Bogn\u00e1r recalled that it was his grandmother who inspired him to establish the scholarship fund. When departing from Hungary in 1956, she said a few farewell words, which guided his life from then on: “Remember my little B\u00e9la what I repeated to you throughout these years: what you do for others, gives meaning to your life”.<\/p>\n

Dr. Bogn\u00e1r is survived by his loving wife, April, his two sons, Steven and John Bogn\u00e1r, their respective spouses, Julia and Jenniffer, his step-daughter Melissa, his granddaughters Lola and Lela, and his great-grandchildren Beau and Dory.\u00a0 In lieu of flowers, Dr. Bogn\u00e1r\u2019s family requests donations be made to the Bogn\u00e1r Family Hungarian Scholarship Fund. Details on his memorial service to be held in the Dayton, Ohio vicinity will be released at a later date.<\/p>\n

The Hungarian American community mourns the loss of this true Hungarian patriot, deeply committed to the Hungarian-American community and his homeland, a selfless philanthropist, and a genuinely good man.<\/p>\n

September 27, 2019 | Washington, DC<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: hacusa.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Washington, DC \u2013 Members of the Hungarian American Coalition (Coalition) were deeply saddened to learn that Dr. B\u00e9la Bogn\u00e1r, Professor Emeritus of the Departments of Social Work and Medicine in Society at Wright State University and founder of the Coalition\u2019s Bogn\u00e1r Family Hungarian Scholarship Fund passed away on September 24, 2019. He was 88 years old.<\/p>\n[caption id=\"attachment_1050316\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"150\"]\"\"<\/a> Dr. B\u00e9la Bogn\u00e1r[\/caption]\n

Professor Dr. B\u00e9la Bogn\u00e1r was born on September 20, 1931, in Pakod, Zala County, Hungary. Dr. Bogn\u00e1r attended the Piarist High School in Veszpr\u00e9m for two years. After the communists abolished the Catholic high schools, he transferred to and graduated from R\u00e9vai High School, Gy\u0151r. His dream was to become a Latin and Hungarian Literature teacher, but he was only accepted for Teachers\u2019s College in P\u00e9cs as a mathematics and chemistry major. After a year in P\u00e9cs (1952-53), he transferred to E\u00f6tv\u00f6s L\u00f3r\u00e1nd University in Budapest and joined a group of Catholic students who worked with 2 children (with their parents\u2019 permission) to instill religious principles. Typically, members of the group spent many hours with the children on Saturdays and Sundays.<\/p>\n

In 1954 before the fall semester began, five members of the clandestine group were kicked out of the university, one of whom was Dr. Bogn\u00e1r. They were also kicked out of Budapest. Dr. Bogn\u00e1r found a factory job (at EDASZ) in Gy\u0151r where he worked until the summer of 1956 and played soccer on the factory team. He left Gy\u0151r to rejoin some of his former classmates who also went back to Budapest and together joined the Pet\u0151fi Circle.<\/p>\n

He participated in the fight against the Russians from October 23 to November 9, 1956. He was part of a small group which fought on the streets from \u00dcll\u0151i to Soroks\u00e1ri Roads. On November 10 he went home to Zala to pick up his French dictionary, his prayer book and his ski boots. On November 11, 1956 he crossed the border to Austria and headed for Leuven, Belgium, to start a new life.<\/p>\n

Dr. Bogn\u00e1r began by finishing the Ecole Social de Louvain in 1961 (BS with Magna Cum Laude). In Belgium, Dr. Bogn\u00e1r met and married Andree Vandermotte, with whom he would eventually have two sons.\u00a0 After immigrating to the US, he attended the University of Wisconsin where he obtained MS and PhD degrees in gerontology, health and mental health policies. He continued his post-doctorate studies in mental health and aging at the University of California at Berkeley and at the University of Southern California, receiving certificates in both institutions.<\/p>\n

Beginning in 1974, Dr. Bogn\u00e1r taught a generation of professionals who worked in the fields of social work and aging. He wrote four textbooks and countless articles on health and aging policies. For 15 years he was an advisor to the Ohio Department of Aging in the area of gerontology education. In 1988, he was given the Gerontology Teacher Award by the Ohio Network of Educational Consultants in the Field of Aging (ONECA).<\/p>\n

In 1999 Dr. B\u00e9la and his 2nd wife, April Bogn\u00e1r established the Bogn\u00e1r Family Hungarian Scholarship Fund (BFHSF; originally named the Hungarian Scholarship Fund) to provide assistance to qualified Hungarian university students living and\/or studying in Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, Slovakia, Serbia, and the United States.<\/p>\n

In the spring of 2014 Dr. B\u00e9la and April Bogn\u00e1r requested the Coalition to become the administrator of their scholarship fund as part of the Coalition\u2019s comprehensive leadership training and educational portfolio. Since its inception, the scholarship fund has awarded more than $700,000 to 255 Hungarian students in the US and the Carpathian Basin raised from members of the Hungarian American community; churches; organizations; the\u00a0Sunshine Lady Foundation (SLF)<\/a>, directed by Mrs. Doris Buffett; and recently, by the\u00a0Ambassadors of the Future<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dr. B\u00e9la Bogn\u00e1r was also honored by the Hungarian government with the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit (Magyar \u00c9rdemrend Lovagkeresztje) on August 20, 2015.<\/p>\n

In 2017, one of the major supporters of BFHSF, the Ambassadors of the Future also honored Dr. Bogn\u00e1r for his life-long work in supporting Hungarian students in need. In his\u00a0video message<\/a>\u00a0thanking the organizers, Dr. Bogn\u00e1r recalled that it was his grandmother who inspired him to establish the scholarship fund. When departing from Hungary in 1956, she said a few farewell words, which guided his life from then on: “Remember my little B\u00e9la what I repeated to you throughout these years: what you do for others, gives meaning to your life”.<\/p>\n

Dr. Bogn\u00e1r is survived by his loving wife, April, his two sons, Steven and John Bogn\u00e1r, their respective spouses, Julia and Jenniffer, his step-daughter Melissa, his granddaughters Lola and Lela, and his great-grandchildren Beau and Dory.\u00a0 In lieu of flowers, Dr. Bogn\u00e1r\u2019s family requests donations be made to the Bogn\u00e1r Family Hungarian Scholarship Fund. Details on his memorial service to be held in the Dayton, Ohio vicinity will be released at a later date.<\/p>\n

The Hungarian American community mourns the loss of this true Hungarian patriot, deeply committed to the Hungarian-American community and his homeland, a selfless philanthropist, and a genuinely good man.<\/p>\n

September 27, 2019 | Washington, DC<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: hacusa.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1050366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-events-and-news"],"yoast_head":"\nIn Memoriam Dr. B\u00e9la Bogn\u00e1r 1931-2019 – Bocskai R\u00e1di\u00f3<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/in-memoriam-dr-bela-bognar-1931-2019\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"In Memoriam Dr. B\u00e9la Bogn\u00e1r 1931-2019 – Bocskai R\u00e1di\u00f3\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Washington, DC \u2013 Members of the Hungarian American Coalition (Coalition) were deeply saddened to learn that Dr. B\u00e9la Bogn\u00e1r, Professor Emeritus of the Departments of Social Work and Medicine in Society at Wright State University and founder of the Coalition\u2019s Bogn\u00e1r Family Hungarian Scholarship Fund passed away on September 24, 2019. He was 88 years old. Professor Dr. B\u00e9la Bogn\u00e1r was born on September 20, 1931, in Pakod, Zala County, Hungary. Dr. Bogn\u00e1r attended the Piarist High School in Veszpr\u00e9m for two years. After the communists abolished the Catholic high schools, he transferred to and graduated from R\u00e9vai High School, Gy\u0151r. His dream was to become a Latin and Hungarian Literature teacher, but he was only accepted for Teachers\u2019s College in P\u00e9cs as a mathematics and chemistry major. After a year in P\u00e9cs (1952-53), he transferred to E\u00f6tv\u00f6s L\u00f3r\u00e1nd University in Budapest and joined a group of Catholic students who worked with 2 children (with their parents\u2019 permission) to instill religious principles. Typically, members of the group spent many hours with the children on Saturdays and Sundays. In 1954 before the fall semester began, five members of the clandestine group were kicked out of the university, one of whom was Dr. Bogn\u00e1r. They were also kicked out of Budapest. Dr. Bogn\u00e1r found a factory job (at EDASZ) in Gy\u0151r where he worked until the summer of 1956 and played soccer on the factory team. He left Gy\u0151r to rejoin some of his former classmates who also went back to Budapest and together joined the Pet\u0151fi Circle. He participated in the fight against the Russians from October 23 to November 9, 1956. He was part of a small group which fought on the streets from \u00dcll\u0151i to Soroks\u00e1ri Roads. On November 10 he went home to Zala to pick up his French dictionary, his prayer book and his ski boots. On November 11, 1956 he crossed the border to Austria and headed for Leuven, Belgium, to start a new life. Dr. Bogn\u00e1r began by finishing the Ecole Social de Louvain in 1961 (BS with Magna Cum Laude). In Belgium, Dr. Bogn\u00e1r met and married Andree Vandermotte, with whom he would eventually have two sons.\u00a0 After immigrating to the US, he attended the University of Wisconsin where he obtained MS and PhD degrees in gerontology, health and mental health policies. He continued his post-doctorate studies in mental health and aging at the University of California at Berkeley and at the University of Southern California, receiving certificates in both institutions. Beginning in 1974, Dr. Bogn\u00e1r taught a generation of professionals who worked in the fields of social work and aging. He wrote four textbooks and countless articles on health and aging policies. For 15 years he was an advisor to the Ohio Department of Aging in the area of gerontology education. In 1988, he was given the Gerontology Teacher Award by the Ohio Network of Educational Consultants in the Field of Aging (ONECA). In 1999 Dr. B\u00e9la and his 2nd wife, April Bogn\u00e1r established the Bogn\u00e1r Family Hungarian Scholarship Fund (BFHSF; originally named the Hungarian Scholarship Fund) to provide assistance to qualified Hungarian university students living and\/or studying in Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, Slovakia, Serbia, and the United States. In the spring of 2014 Dr. B\u00e9la and April Bogn\u00e1r requested the Coalition to become the administrator of their scholarship fund as part of the Coalition\u2019s comprehensive leadership training and educational portfolio. Since its inception, the scholarship fund has awarded more than $700,000 to 255 Hungarian students in the US and the Carpathian Basin raised from members of the Hungarian American community; churches; organizations; the\u00a0Sunshine Lady Foundation (SLF), directed by Mrs. Doris Buffett; and recently, by the\u00a0Ambassadors of the Future. Dr. B\u00e9la Bogn\u00e1r was also honored by the Hungarian government with the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit (Magyar \u00c9rdemrend Lovagkeresztje) on August 20, 2015. In 2017, one of the major supporters of BFHSF, the Ambassadors of the Future also honored Dr. Bogn\u00e1r for his life-long work in supporting Hungarian students in need. In his\u00a0video message\u00a0thanking the organizers, Dr. Bogn\u00e1r recalled that it was his grandmother who inspired him to establish the scholarship fund. When departing from Hungary in 1956, she said a few farewell words, which guided his life from then on: "Remember my little B\u00e9la what I repeated to you throughout these years: what you do for others, gives meaning to your life". Dr. Bogn\u00e1r is survived by his loving wife, April, his two sons, Steven and John Bogn\u00e1r, their respective spouses, Julia and Jenniffer, his step-daughter Melissa, his granddaughters Lola and Lela, and his great-grandchildren Beau and Dory.\u00a0 In lieu of flowers, Dr. Bogn\u00e1r\u2019s family requests donations be made to the Bogn\u00e1r Family Hungarian Scholarship Fund. Details on his memorial service to be held in the Dayton, Ohio vicinity will be released at a later date. The Hungarian American community mourns the loss of this true Hungarian patriot, deeply committed to the Hungarian-American community and his homeland, a selfless philanthropist, and a genuinely good man. 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He was 88 years old. Professor Dr. B\u00e9la Bogn\u00e1r was born on September 20, 1931, in Pakod, Zala County, Hungary. Dr. Bogn\u00e1r attended the Piarist High School in Veszpr\u00e9m for two years. After the communists abolished the Catholic high schools, he transferred to and graduated from R\u00e9vai High School, Gy\u0151r. His dream was to become a Latin and Hungarian Literature teacher, but he was only accepted for Teachers\u2019s College in P\u00e9cs as a mathematics and chemistry major. After a year in P\u00e9cs (1952-53), he transferred to E\u00f6tv\u00f6s L\u00f3r\u00e1nd University in Budapest and joined a group of Catholic students who worked with 2 children (with their parents\u2019 permission) to instill religious principles. Typically, members of the group spent many hours with the children on Saturdays and Sundays. In 1954 before the fall semester began, five members of the clandestine group were kicked out of the university, one of whom was Dr. Bogn\u00e1r. They were also kicked out of Budapest. Dr. Bogn\u00e1r found a factory job (at EDASZ) in Gy\u0151r where he worked until the summer of 1956 and played soccer on the factory team. He left Gy\u0151r to rejoin some of his former classmates who also went back to Budapest and together joined the Pet\u0151fi Circle. He participated in the fight against the Russians from October 23 to November 9, 1956. He was part of a small group which fought on the streets from \u00dcll\u0151i to Soroks\u00e1ri Roads. On November 10 he went home to Zala to pick up his French dictionary, his prayer book and his ski boots. On November 11, 1956 he crossed the border to Austria and headed for Leuven, Belgium, to start a new life. Dr. Bogn\u00e1r began by finishing the Ecole Social de Louvain in 1961 (BS with Magna Cum Laude). In Belgium, Dr. Bogn\u00e1r met and married Andree Vandermotte, with whom he would eventually have two sons.\u00a0 After immigrating to the US, he attended the University of Wisconsin where he obtained MS and PhD degrees in gerontology, health and mental health policies. He continued his post-doctorate studies in mental health and aging at the University of California at Berkeley and at the University of Southern California, receiving certificates in both institutions. Beginning in 1974, Dr. Bogn\u00e1r taught a generation of professionals who worked in the fields of social work and aging. He wrote four textbooks and countless articles on health and aging policies. For 15 years he was an advisor to the Ohio Department of Aging in the area of gerontology education. In 1988, he was given the Gerontology Teacher Award by the Ohio Network of Educational Consultants in the Field of Aging (ONECA). In 1999 Dr. B\u00e9la and his 2nd wife, April Bogn\u00e1r established the Bogn\u00e1r Family Hungarian Scholarship Fund (BFHSF; originally named the Hungarian Scholarship Fund) to provide assistance to qualified Hungarian university students living and\/or studying in Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, Slovakia, Serbia, and the United States. In the spring of 2014 Dr. B\u00e9la and April Bogn\u00e1r requested the Coalition to become the administrator of their scholarship fund as part of the Coalition\u2019s comprehensive leadership training and educational portfolio. Since its inception, the scholarship fund has awarded more than $700,000 to 255 Hungarian students in the US and the Carpathian Basin raised from members of the Hungarian American community; churches; organizations; the\u00a0Sunshine Lady Foundation (SLF), directed by Mrs. Doris Buffett; and recently, by the\u00a0Ambassadors of the Future. Dr. B\u00e9la Bogn\u00e1r was also honored by the Hungarian government with the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit (Magyar \u00c9rdemrend Lovagkeresztje) on August 20, 2015. In 2017, one of the major supporters of BFHSF, the Ambassadors of the Future also honored Dr. Bogn\u00e1r for his life-long work in supporting Hungarian students in need. In his\u00a0video message\u00a0thanking the organizers, Dr. Bogn\u00e1r recalled that it was his grandmother who inspired him to establish the scholarship fund. When departing from Hungary in 1956, she said a few farewell words, which guided his life from then on: \"Remember my little B\u00e9la what I repeated to you throughout these years: what you do for others, gives meaning to your life\". Dr. Bogn\u00e1r is survived by his loving wife, April, his two sons, Steven and John Bogn\u00e1r, their respective spouses, Julia and Jenniffer, his step-daughter Melissa, his granddaughters Lola and Lela, and his great-grandchildren Beau and Dory.\u00a0 In lieu of flowers, Dr. Bogn\u00e1r\u2019s family requests donations be made to the Bogn\u00e1r Family Hungarian Scholarship Fund. Details on his memorial service to be held in the Dayton, Ohio vicinity will be released at a later date. The Hungarian American community mourns the loss of this true Hungarian patriot, deeply committed to the Hungarian-American community and his homeland, a selfless philanthropist, and a genuinely good man. 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