8-3O-2008
A MAGYAR LOBBI AKCIÓ LEVELE
A Magyar Lobbiba mindenki CSAK ÖNMAGA iratkozhat fel! A feliratkozás a következö cimen történik. E cimen megismerhetöek lobbinknak a multban elvégzett akciói is:
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Tisztelt Lobbi Társaim,
Ebben a körlevélben nem lesz akcióra való felhivás, ebben csak emlékezni szeretnék.
Emlékezni szeretnék Sarlós Robira, az Amerikai Magyar Diákszövetség egyik alapitójára, aki egy életen át hü maradt a 16 Ponthoz és aki soha nem szavakkal, mindig csak tettekkel szolgálta népünket.
Robinak is köszönhetjük, hogy 1956 telén és 1957 tavaszán 1,6OO menekült magyar diáknak tudtunk ösztöndijat szerezni, s ezzel hozzájárultunk ahhoz, hogy ma, 52 év után, praktikusan nincs Amerikai egyetem, hol ne tanitana (vagy tanitott volna) magyar tanár, ne öregbitették volna népünk jó hirét olyan kitünö szakemberek, mint Oláh György vagy Andy Grove.
Alább mellékelem (1) Robi gyermekeinek búcsú irását Édesapjukról, (2) Robi irását önmagáról és (3) Bognár Kégl Dazsi (a Diákszövetség volt elnökének) irását szeretett barátomtól, barátunktól.
Aki irni kiván Robiról a New York Timesnél a halottakra emlékezö rovat szerkesztönöjének, ö Ray (ccray@nytimes.com)
Tisztelettel, Lipták Béla
PS: Többek kérésére közlöm, hogy találmányom ismertetése a következö cimen található:
"LIPTÁK FUEL CELL:
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(1) Sarlós Tibor és Lilian búcsúja Édesapjuktól
Dear All:
Our dear father, Dr. Robert K. Sarlos, professor Emeritus, died peacefully last Friday morning, leaving a huge void in our hearts. We took the weekend to pause, to think, grieve, and make arrangements.
You will not be surprised that Robi left us some clear thoughts on the end of life. We have included below both his self-penned obituary and some of his philosophical tidbits.
Here is something he wrote down long ago on a scrap of paper, dug out recently and kept by his bed: "Faith in redemption makes life bearable for many — I prefer to see release as life's fulfillment."
And here are two short excerpts in an Intermezzo/Excursus on LIFE, Robi wrote in 1999:
"I expect no "Life after Death" other than the survival of my thoughts, feelings and deeds that continue to affect the lives of those I love and respect, and who love and respect me. We live on, in others — as I first expressed I recall about Joan Oettinger: she survives, I said at the time, in the impact she has had on MANY people, the way a good book does. I've had many occasions since then to apply that truth, or even see (hear) it expressed about others (Gandhi, JFK, MLK, Jig Cook, Gene Chesley, Vámos Laci — clearly not all of them in the same way and degree) — who continue to affect people. It pleases me to think that I'll fit somewhere in that row. It occurs to me, that in a portion of a long poem by Petőfi [Az apostol] (that I used to recite in public in my youth), that thought is expressed beautifully."
"I honestly believe, I have lead a rich and blessedly lucky life: received much more than I bargained for, even though none of it was by any means handed to me on a silver platter — I worked for everything, yet, could as easily have ended up with NOTHING (i.e., with total failure in all aspects of life), at the price of just as much effort and suffering. One source of satisfaction, pride and pleasure lies in my conviction that I have largely fulfilled my parents' expectations of me, the articulated kind as well as the unspoken — and have succeeded in raising my children in the spirit they would approve of. These expectations had to do with uprightness of character, with getting an education and finding a living that allows doing more than earning your keep, contributing to a better life for those around you, valuing spiritual gifts over material ones, openness to a variety of friends, and sensitivity to beauty of all sorts and to cultural worlds (and languages) other than your own. (Perhaps this is the best place to add, that although I do not believe in any specific survival of the entity I am now after the process of my body's death — I do at times have a sense, as if my parents would "be aware" of my accomplishments and of my children. So, you see, we're ALL full of contradictions!)"
Although we were quite taken aback by how fast this last stage went, we feel sure that Robi is at Peace. He had told us a month ago that he felt he was beginning to die and that he was content with his life, proud of us and unafraid of the end. Please join us in our thoughts as we wish Robi into a very peaceful place and celebrate his wonderful, rich life. We are thinking of having a small informal memorial here in Portland, probably on September 14th, and are toying with the possibility of a wake / party (which he would have heartily approved of )in the SF Bay Area, in the spring.
Please forgive us if you have called and we have not yet returned your call. Also, please forward this to anyone you notice who we have not included and cc us, so we can include them in any further updates. Dad had many students, colleagues and friends of whom we have lost track.
Here is a brief obituary, written by Robi himself:
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Robert Károly Sarlós, born into an assimilated Jewish family (a shirt tailor/ haberdasher and a saleslady/housewife) 6.June, 1931 in Budapest, Hungary, attended the city's renowned Lutheran High School (Evangélikus Gimnázium). Admitted 1949
to a select class in stage direction at the Hungarian Academy of Theatre and Film Arts, he was after one semester expelled for "bourgeois" descent AND thinking. He became a lathe-operator, served in the Hungarian ("Peoples'") Army, studied theatre history, had a small part in the 1956 Revolution, and then left his native land.
After three months in Austria, Sarlós was admitted to the U.S. as a refugee, worked as a lathe-operator in Long Beach, CA, then attended Occidental College (L.A.) on a scholarship (B.A., 1959). A Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled him to study Theatre History with A. M. Nagler at Yale (Ph.D., 1965). In 1962 he married Charlotte Harris in April, became a citizen in November. Charlotte and he had two children: Lilian Margit, born in 1962, and Tibor Thomas in 1965; they were divorced in 1986.
Sarlós taught Theatre History at the University of California, DAVIS, from 1963 until retirement in January 1993. He has contributed to 15 books in America and Europe, published over forty articles and reviews in scholarly journals (Theatre Research International, Maske und Kothurn, Theatre Survey, The Drama Review, etc.) dealing with various periods of European and American theatre and drama. His book, JIG COOK AND THE PROVINCETOWN PLAYERS; THEATRE IN FERMENT (Amherst: U. Mass. Press, 1982) was honored with the American Theatre Association's "Barnard Hewitt Award for distinguished achievement in theatre history" in 1983.
At the Department of Dramatic Art in Davis, Professor Sarlós took a leading role in creating the doctoral program, of which he served as Director for over twenty years. He was chiefly responsible for the development of the Shields Library's Performing Arts holdings, and for the assembly of a significant body of source materials in Special Collections. He directed seven productions, including the English language premiere of The Tót Family by Hungarian playwright István Örkény (1968), and a performance reconstruction of the Stuart masque, The Triumph of Peace (1974). Sarlós organized, or contributed to, several exhibitions (one at the S.F. Palace of the Legion of Honor); he was instrumental in saving the Woodland Opera House, and in its eventual restoration. He participated in the creation of the University's Intercampus M.A. in Dance History, and in 1990-1992 served as Director at the Budapest Study Center of the University's Education Abroad Program.
Since retirement, first living in Vienna, Austria; Sarlós devoted himself to a wide range of pleasures (of palate and pallet; of travel; of concerts, theatres, opera, and exhibitions; of books in three languages), while – very occasionally – still publishing. He proudly maintained a childlike curiosity and playfulness to the end, keeping contact in person and in correspondence with kindred spirits on a broad scale of all ages, i.e. from 5 to 95. In November 2002 he moved to Portland, OR.
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All our love, Tibor and Lilian
tibor.sarlos@alumni.insead.edu
lmsarlos@comcast.net
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(2) Sarlós Róbert önmagáról, életútjáról
Subject: RKS self-penned obituary
Robert Károly Sarlós, born into an assimilated Jewish family (a shirt tailor/ haberdasher and a saleslady/housewife) 6.June, 1931 in Budapest, Hungary, attended the city's renowned Lutheran High School (Evangélikus Gimnázium). Admitted 1949
to a select class in stage direction at the Hungarian Academy of Theatre and Film Arts, he was after one semester expelled for "bourgeois" descent AND thinking. He became a lathe-operator, served in the Hungarian ("Peoples'") Army, studied theatre history, had a small part in the 1956 Revolution, and then left his native land.
After three months in Austria, Sarlós was admitted to the U.S. as a refugee, worked as a lathe-operator in Long Beach, CA, then attended Occidental College (L.A.) on a scholarship (B.A., 1959). A Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled him to study Theatre History with A. M. Nagler at Yale (Ph.D., 1965). In 1962 he married Charlotte Harris in April, became a citizen in November. Charlotte and he had two children: Lilian Margit, born in 1962, and Tibor Thomas in 1965; they were divorced in 1986.
Sarlós taught Theatre History at the University of California, DAVIS, from 1963 until retirement in January 1993. He has contributed to15 books in America and Europe, published over forty articles and reviews in scholarly journals (Theatre Research International, Maske und Kothurn, Theatre Survey, The Drama Review, etc.) dealing with various periods of European and American theatre and drama. His book, JIG COOK AND THE PROVINCETOWN PLAYERS; THEATRE IN FERMENT (Amherst: U. Mass. Press, 1982) was honored with the American Theatre Association's "Barnard Hewitt Award for distinguished achievement in theatre history" in 1983.
At the Department of Dramatic Art in Davis, Professor Sarlós took a leading role in creating the doctoral program, of which he served as Director for over twenty years. He was chiefly responsible for the development of the Shields Library's Performing Arts holdings, and for the assembly of a significant body of source materials in Special Collections. He directed seven productions, including the English language premiere of The Tót Family by Hungarian playwright István Örkény (1968), and a performance reconstruction of the Stuart masque, The Triumph of Peace (1974). Sarlós organized, or contributed to, several exhibitions (one at the S.F. Palace of the Legion of Honor); he was instrumental in saving the Woodland Opera House, and in its eventual restoration. He participated in the creation of the University's Intercampus M.A. in Dance History, and in 1990-1992 served as Director at the Budapest Study Center of the University's Education Abroad Program.
Since retirement, first living in Vienna, Austria; Sarlós devoted himself to a wide range of pleasures (of palate and pallet; of travel; of concerts, theatres, opera, and exhibitions; of books in three languages), while – very occasionally – still publishing. He proudly maintained a childlike curiosity and playfulness to the end, keeping contact in person and in correspondence with kindred spirits on a broad scale of all ages, i.e. from 5 to 95. In November 2002 he moved to Portland, OR.
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(3) Bognár Kégl Dezsö emlékezése
Belam,, Sarlos Robi valoban Campus titkar volt, majd a Hirado szerkeszteset atadtam neki.
Mar Bostonban is sokat kaveztunk egyutt miutan vegre! megnyilt a Cafe Florian, ahol az asztal tarsak
voltak: Makkai Adam, Varallyay Gyuszi, Bakucz Joska, Baranszky Job Laci, Baltay Jancsi, Kitka Misi, Fenyvesi Karcsi
es jomagam. Kesobb megjelent Szentendrey Gyuszi is (az arab).
Mivel hasonlo szakmaban volt sokat erintkeztunk es beszelgettunk (Robi szinhaz tortenesz volt,
en pedig mediaban voltam – film & TV, de szinhazat is csinaltam).
Elso afrikai utam utan meglatogattam CT-ban, majd '69-ben Mexicobol visszajovet meglatogattuk Davisben
ahol tanitott es kesobb is allandoan osszekottetesben voltunk.
Vermontban o jott latogatnit jo par evvel ezelott es akkor mar noszogattam, hogy ne jatssza meg az oreg urat,
csoszogva es hajlott hattal jart. Valoszinuleg a betegsege mar akkor hatott.
Nyugdijazasa utan Becsbe ment egy idore, de visszajott prostata mutetre, s azota lassan lassan
beindulhatott a rakosodas. Atteteles rakban halt meg, de sokat bajlodott elotte.
Jo humoru, spirituszos fiu volt, egy lanya es egy fia van es nejetol a 80-as evekben valt el.
Gratulalok, mar hallottam ill olvastam a hydrogen projectedrol, remelem sikeres lesz es jol
halad, de azert 'shato' hogy Indiaban s nem itt van erdeklodes. Hja, itt eros erdekek kontrolalnak mindent.
Viszont senki nem profeta a sajat hazajaban alapon, ha ott beindul, innen is raharapnak.
Mi hat hetet toltottunk Pesten es kornyeken (konyv programmok) es ugyancsak szomoruan tertem vissza,
Pest koszos, lerobbant, tele hajlektalanokkal akik az utcan (belvarosban is) vegzik WC dolgukat, letargia,
semmi optimizmus, de tele az ettermek (nagy dragasag van) sok az auto, kosz, graffiti mindenutt. Viszont
a videki varosok, falvak rendben vannak, tisztak, tele viraggal
Tavaly csinaltam egy gyors beszamolot, talan az iden is ossze irok valamit.
Jol vagytok, Rozi keramiazik? Adamot sokszor latom (neha hallom is) igy kulon gratulalok.
sokszor olel benneteket, Dazsi
