What

Please join us and participate in an evening of Hungarian Dance and Food at the Hungarian Ball of 2012. We invite you to celebrate and support our local 2. Bodnár Gábor Hungarian Scout Troup! We are planning a delicious dinner with dancing, a raffle and silent auction. Hungarian ethnic and dance music of all genres will be performed by Mr. Újvári Miklós and his orchestra, the excellent band who performed for us for the Hungarian Ball of 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2010.

When

Saturday, March 24, 2012 at 7PM

Where

The Ball will be held in the Grand Ballroom at the Sheraton Hotel in Needham, MA.

Address: 100 Cabot Street, Needham, MA 02494

Phone: (781) 444-1110; Fax: (781) 449-3945

For your convenience, driving directions provided by Google are available.

Guest rooms are available for the night of the ball at a $99 rate if reserved by February 29th, 2012. Please contact Nancy Hurley (nancy.hurley@sheraton.com, (781) 292-3845, (781) 455-8617) and refer tho the Hungarian Society event!

Our Balls, Held In 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2010

Below you will find some pictures from our ball, held in 2008 and 2010 to benefit our scouts and our Hungarian school.

Tickets

Tickets will be $100 per person. We will set aside a limited number of student tickets for $75 per student. For ticket requests, please send a check (memo: Scout Ball) to the Hungarian Society of Massachusetts. Ticket requests will be administered by Blanka Labonte [ 316 Washington St apt # 6, Wellesley MA 02481]

If you would like to receive an official invitation, please email us. The deadline for returning the ticket order forms is March 15. You can download the form here.

Online registration and payment via PayPal are also available.

Donations/Auction/Raffle

Donations are also encouraged in the following categories:

• $50-99 Supporter,
• $100-249 Donor,
• $250-499 Patron,
• $500+ Benefactor

For donations and ticket requests, please send a check (memo:Scout Ball) to the Hungarian Society of Massachusetts, Blanka Labonte [316 Washington St apt # 6, Wellesley MA 02481] or please send money via PayPal to boskola@boskola.org with the options "Personal" and "Other".

Please mail your ticket request by March 15, 2012.

Online registration and payment via PayPal are also available.

Should you consider donating a gift or an item for the auction or the raffle, please contact Ágnes Virga [153 Arlington Street, Acton, MA 01720; phone: (978) 635-9288). She can also assist you if you consider your company as a Corporate Sponsor for the event.

Thank you and see you at the ball!

Dress Code

Black Tie/Gala (optional)

Programme

• Cocktails (7PM)
• Dinner (8PM)
• Debutants' Dance
• Scout Program
• Silent Auction
• Dance: Continental Orchestra

Honorary Patrons

• Imre Lendvai-Lintner, President, KMCsSz
• Viktor Fischer, Commissioner of Quality Control, KMCsSz
• Csilla Dömötör, Founding Troopmaster of Troop #2

Your Support

This evening is a Thank You for all those who assisted our troop in its early years and a way to continue the support of this worthwhile cause. The proceeds of the evening will help to defray the costs of our camps and go towards scouts supplies. It will also support the participation of our scouts in annual training programs, the summer leadership camp in Fillmore, the Homecoming trip for our Junior leaders (OV-korut) to Hungary.

About the Bodnár Gábor Scout Troop

Our troop was named after Mr. Gábor Bodnár, one of the founding fathers of Hungarian scouting in exteris. His extensive work is the basis of the scout work we do in our troop today. We remember him on the 15th anniversary of his passing and our troop would like to dedicate this Ball to his memory. Though our troop is fairly young, Hungarian Scouting is not new to Boston. In the 1970s a troop named after Cout István Tisza enjoyed some years of success. A quarter of a century later, a new group of enthusiastic parents and scout leaders worked to restart the scouting program. Thanks to their efforts, the troop was soon officially accepted by the Hungarian Scout Association in Exteris and given the prestigious troop number 2- a number second in value only to that of the executive leaders of the Association. Today, the troop has grown to become a vital presence in the local Hungarian community. More than eighty scouts, organized into 12 patrols, participate in biweekly meetings, led by a core group of mostly locally-trained junior and senior leaders. Our troop, the Kettesek, is a mixed boys-girls troop, with members coming from four different states. We are continually strengthening our ties with the local Hungarian community and with regional centers of scouting activity, hosting and participating in activities with scouts from New York, Garfield, New Brunswick, Washington, and Montreal.

Learn more about Bodnár Gábor Scout Troop at their website, available at http://www.boston-cserkesz.org.

Getting The Word Out

If you would like to help advertise this ball on bulletin boards or similar venues in your area, you can download and print the flyer document or the invitation.

Questions?

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact István Vámos or Mariann Polgár-Turcsányi.