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After day's work, John studies English with Imre.
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I he terror of communist Hungary was behind the Janos
Keiekgyarto family when they arrived in Waterloo, la., early
this year, but anxious moments still lay ahead. They faced a
strange land with little more than hope and a pouchful of earth
the first soil Janos grabbed after crawling through a mine
infested no-man's-land to free Austria.
With his wife Elizabeth and daughter Erika, Janos settled in
the Waterloo home of his brother-in-law, Imre Takac, and de
termined to win a place in his new land. He soon found that he
was not alone in his struggle.
Within a week, neighborhood women brought Elizabeth gifts
of welcome, and groups in Waterloo and nearby Cedar Falls
sponsored "showers" to provide the Kerekgyartos with house
hold items. A downstairs neighbor, Mrs. Beverly McGuire, gave
a surprise birthday party for Elizabeth that dispelled any home
sickness she might have felt.
Another neighbor, Chuck Harris, arranged an interview for
John as Janos prefers to be called in America that led to a
job as draftsman with a tractor works. Co-workers taught the
refugee English technical terms and one, Leonard Sandvik,
tutored him at home in everyday language.
A close relationship developed with fellow draftsman Bill
Diehl and his family, and John points out, "This family friend
ship is very important because it teaches us the traditions of
this country. That is as important as language."
The "traditions," incidentally, include such items as ready
made mixes and cosmetics, which Elizabeth views as symbols
of the richness and variety of American life. Everyday wonders
awe John, too. His supervisor, for example, gave him a lunch
pail which to John is part of our efficiency and convenience. But
obviously the pail means something more important when he
adds, "Everybody carries a lunch pail even the boss."
Material things, big or small, are not the gauge by which the
Kerekgyartos measure America, however. To them its greatness
lies in nights without fear and days filled with hope. And it
means a people who offer not just tangible gifts but the more
needed favors of friendship and nuighborliness.
"We knew of America's freedom," John confides, "but not of
its warmth. You have taken strangers like ourselves and made
them prt of your family and your way of life."
Family Weekly. June IC. 1957
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