Passion for New Beginnings [antikvár]

Foreword The venerable school at Sárospatak has had many loyal graduates since its founding in 1531 but none more loyal than the author of this narrative. Ever since his arrival in America over half a century ago, Imre Bertalan has had his alma mater in his heart and in his prayers. I have known him almost all of that time and I knew about his school before I knew him. I first heard about the Sárospatak Reformed Academy from a graduate student at Princeton Theological Seminary. Árpád Gönczy mentioned it often when I would visit him as he lay in a hospital with terminal tuberculosis. His major professor, Dr. Otto A. Piper, a refugee from Hitler's Germany, and I were in Árpád's room the day he died, and we attended his funeral in Perth Amboy where I heard more about Sárospatak from its pastor, the Rev. Dr. Charles Vincze, also a Sárospatak alumnus. Shortly thereafter, back home in Michigan, I asked Daniel Nagy, whose daughter I was soon to marry, where they got their ministers in his native village, Jablonca, in Abaúj county, Hungary. The answer was what I expected: Sárospatak. My marriage to Margaret did not lessen my interest in the area of her family's origin. A few years later, when the students at Hope College, where I was serving as a chaplain, wanted a project, they asked for my help in selecting