Hungarian Americans Together Conference IV - Cleveland, OH

Hungarian Americans Together Conference
September 18-19, 2009
Hungarian Heritage Museum in Cleveland , Ohio

The conference schedule will include discussion sessions on Friday and Saturday morning and afternoon, with lunch served at the Museum and a group dinner on Friday night in a nearby restaurant. More details will be sent to participants at a later date.

The purpose of this Conference is to provide a forum for discussion and to coordinate the actions of Hungarian Americans organizations. By holding HATOG IV in Cleveland , we wish to continue and widen (to the Midwestern region) the geographic scope of the conferences on the challenges facing our organizations and on finding ways of best meeting those challenges together!

Summaries of the previous two HATOG conferences can be found in the blue column on the left side of the Hungarian American Coalition's webpage: www.hacusa.org. These include the agenda, minutes and list of participants for each conference. Please take time to familiarize yourself with previous discussions.

The following is our preliminary agenda for HATOG IV. This includes items that follow up on the business of the previous conference, but other items can also be added as participants submit them for consideration. We recommend that new topics be specific proposals closely related to the business of HATOG conferences. We gladly accept suggestions to this list!

CURRENT DRAFT AGENDA:

1. Review of the Conference Report from the New Brunswick HATOG III
2. Reports on the status of deliverables discussed in New Brunswick :

1. Hungarian Heritage Month
2. Pass It ON: The Gulyas Pot
3. Survey of Hungarian Americans
4. Year of Hungarian Culture
5. Organize support and strategy for new initiatives, i.e. Indiana Univ. Hungarian Studies, others
6. Duna TV expansion
7. Hungarian American landscape
8. Coordination of cultural programs in various cities

3. New topics
4. Discussion on HATOG IV deliverables
5. Future plans for HATOG V.

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Please let us know if you will attend the Hungarian Americans Together – Conference IV in Cleveland! RESERVATION DEADLINE is September 1st and should be made by e-mail to Gabriella Nadas at kuni00@ameritech.net. With questions please call Laszlo Bojtos at (216) 526-4587, or (440) 717-0238.

With Hungarian friendship,

Mr. Laszlo Bojtos, Honorary Consul General of Hungary and Chairman of the Board, Hungarian American Coalition(bojtos@sbcglobal.net) Andrea M. Meszaros, Pres., Cleveland Hungarian Heritage Society (meszarosandyneni@hotmail.com)
Gabriella Nadas, Executive Chairman of the Hungarian Association (kuni00@ameritech.net)