What

Please join us and participate in an evening of Hungarian Dance and Food at the Hungarian Ball of 2023. 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.

When

Saturday, April 29, 2023 at 6:00PM

Where

The Ball will be held at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center in Lowell, MA.

Address: 50 Warren St, Lowell, MA 01852

Phone: (978) 934-6920

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

Guest rooms are available for the night of the ball at a discounted rate ($139) until April 5, 2023. Please contact Laura Kirsch (Kirsch-Laura@aramark.com, (978) 934-6942, (978) 934-6921) and refer tho the Hungarian Society event!

Our Balls, Held In 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014, 2016, 2018

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 $125 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 Mariann Polgár-Turcsányi [14 School Street, Newton MA 02458]

If you would like to receive an official invitation, please email us. The deadline for returning the ticket order forms is April 15, 2023. You can download the form here.

Online registration and payment via PayPal are also available. In order to avoid extra fees, please use the "send money to friends and family" option when sending money.

Donations/Auction/Raffle

Tax-deductible donations are also encouraged in the following categories:

• Purchasing a ticket and attending the Ball, or purchasing a gift ticket for one of our volunteers
• Determining if your employer has a charity fund and sending in an application for the local Hungarians Scout Troop functioning under the umbrella of the non-profit Hungarian Society of Massachusetts
• Determining if your employer has a donation/gift matching fund and asking them to match your donation to our Hungarian Scout Troop under the umbrella of the non-profit Hungarian Society of Massachusetts . (Taxpayer Identification Number: 23-7323821)
• Donating for an opportunity to advertise your company/services to those attending the Ball.
• Donating your services or goods to be put up for sale in the silent auction.
• Offering to request goods or services from various companies for the silent auction.
• Promoting the option to donate for advertising opportunities to various companies and individuals.
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• Tax-deductible donations of


• $50-99 Supporter,
• $100-499 Donor,
• $500-999 Patron,
• $1000+ Benefactor

For donations and ticket requests, please send a check (memo: Scout - Ball) to the Hungarian Society of Massachusetts, Mariann Polgár-Turcsányi [14 School Street, Newton MA 02458] or please send money via PayPal to cserkeszcsapat.boston@gmail.com. In order to avoid extra fees, please use the "send money to friends and family" option when sending money.

Should you consider donating a gift or an item for the auction or the raffle, please contact Varga Emese [telefon: (508) 517-5564]. If you consider your company as a Corporate Sponsor for the event, please contact Gyurcsán Ferenc (NOT Gyurcsány).

Thank you and see you at the ball!

Dress Code

Black Tie/Gala (optional)

Programme

• Cocktails (6:00PM)
• Dinner (7:00PM)
• Debutants' Dance
• Scout Program
• Silent Auction
• Dance

Honorary Patrons

• Lendvai-Lintner Imre, President, Hungarian Scout Association in Exteris
• Ifj. Vajtay István, Vice-President, Hungarian Scout Association in Exteris
• Marshall Tamás, Regional Commissioner, Hungarian Scout Association in Exteris

Your Support

This evening is a Thank You to all those who assisted our troop in its early years and a way to continue support of this worthwhile cause. This evening’s proceeds will go towards scouting supplies and help defray the cost of our camps. It will also support the participation of our scouts in annual training programs, such as the summer leadership camp in Fillmore, NY.


About the Bodnár Gábor Scout Troop

Our troop is named after Gábor Bodnár, one of the founding fathers of Hungarian scouting abroad, when scouts moved into exile post WWII. By naming our troop in his honor, we show our appreciation for the robust work he initiated in the US and worldwide. Hungarian Scouting is not new to Boston. In the 1970s a troop named after Count István Tisza was active successfully here for some years. A generation later, around the year 2000, a new group of enthusiastic parents and scout leaders decided to restart the Hungarian scouting program. Thanks to their efforts, the troop was officially certified by the Hungarian Scout Association in Exteris, and given the prestigious troop number of #2, in 2003. Over the next twenty years we enrolled over 200 members, ran more than 40 camps in rain, snow, and sun, traveled across the US to participate in regional and national events, initiated a music program (on recorder and zither), conducted annual poetry competitions, offered hundreds of hours of community service, and proudly celebrated our Hungarian holidays.

Today, the troop continues to enjoy a strong presence in the local Hungarian community. Currently around 40 scouts participate in seven patrols, led bi-weekly by a core of junior and senior leaders, most locally trained over the last 20 years. Our troop, “the Kettesek”, is a mixed troop of boys and girls. We are building stronger ties with our local Hungarian school, Boskola, as well as with other members of our community and other scout troops in the region.  We regularly participate in activities with our scout friends from Wallingford, CT, New York City, Garfield and New Brunswick, NJ, Washington, DC and Montreal. Indeed, there is a bright future for scouting in Boston!

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 Mariann Polgár-Turcsányi.