Berzsenyi-Markey Site
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year This year we were blessed with the birth of twin grand-daughters, born to Eric and Cindy in June. Phoebe Lillas and Meredith Lee joined their 2 big brothers Jackson and Max in The timing of our trip with Collin coincided with the 2nd Berzsenyi Family Reunion that George organized there with the help of a distant cousin. With over 140 family members attending, Collin really got to meet a lot of Berzsenyis! Kay really had a full year with her own reunion – that of her high school class on the anniversary of their 50th year since graduation in Daniel and his family flew to Please let us hear from you and about you and your family this holiday season. We so enjoy hearing from each and every one of you. Have a blessed Christmas and a wonderful New Year!  George and Kay Berzsenyi Website
The current site is the website for the George and Kay (Markey) Berzsenyi family. Here we will include links to pages with: Family News
With the children and grandchildren now spread out over four (4) states, George and Kay travel a lot! While Adam and his family are nearby, in the Denver, Colorado area, Lydia and her brood live in New York, Eric and his wife and sons live in Florida, and Daniel and his family live in Milwaukee, WI. The photo below shows Kay and George with the granchildren in the summer of 2010, in front of Daniel's house. Josh and Tara, Terry's older children were unable to join the family when this photo was taken in Milwaukee. In the album is a photo of Kay and George with their 4 children, as well as a few other photos. Since this photo was taken, Eric and Cindy have added twin girls to their family.  About Ourselves
Our move to Highlands Ranch, a southern suburb of Denver, has proven a true blessing. Everything is so convenient, we are still amazed at how fast we can get to shopping, doctors' offices, etc., etc. We love our home and are well settled. We continue to 'discard' in an effort to cut down on our 'junk'. Although we got rid of an immense amount prior to our move, we still have too much. Kay and George share an office (a first for them) and Kay even has her own scrapbooking nook in the basement. Kay continues to be cancer-free and has now passed the five (5) year mark since her operation and treatment. George has recovered from his horrible fall in November 2009 (when he cracked 6 ribs) and now both of them are enjoying great health, exercising and walking often. While the paragraphs below indicate that George is working less on his genealogy than he was, that doesn't mean it's been neglected. In an effort to reach 'far-flung' descendents in the Berzsenyi line he worked for months, along with Imre Gyimesi, to find and gain good contact information on family members throughout the world. He and Judit Lőrincz-Véger hosted the Berzsenyi Family Reunion in Sopron, Hungary on July 2, 2011, at the Berzsenyi Gymnasium, . The reunion was even larger than the 135 family members who attended the 2005 reunion. Kay and George attended, along with grandson, Collin, whom they took to Hungary the last week of June. This was their fourth trip with grandchildren. In 2007, they took Christopher to Hungary; in 2009, they took his sister, Morgan, on an Alaskan cruise. In 2010, they took Brianna and Alexandra, Collin's sisters, to Belize. Some photos of those adventures are in the album. George's Mathematical Career
Until this year, George was spending most of his time on genealogy. However, since being contacted by a publishing company in South Korea at the end of May, 2009, he has gone back to working on mathematics. The company wanted permission to publish the problems and solutions to the USA Mathematical Talent Search (USAMTS) in book form for a summer mathematics program. As George still has the rights to at least the first half (10 years) of the material, he worked like mad to provide the necessary digital files. Then, after the book was published in June, 2009, he decided to begin work compiling the English version. While he is sorry to neglect his genealogical studies, the work on this competition, which he began in 1989, has been a labor of love. The first book was published in Australia in 2010. (See http://www.amtt.com.au/Products.php?Operation=SetSessionVariable&Variable[ProductCodeID]=IMTS . He has now submitted the second book and it will be published soon. Since retiring from full time teaching at Rose Hulman Institute of Technology in 1999, George has worked less on Mathematics, and more on genealogy. Thus, in order to feel that he was not 'wasting' his magnificent mathematical library, George negotiated a 'new home' for the large majority of his books. That new home can be found in the Berzsenyi Daniel Gymnasium in Budapest, Hungary, where his gift became a "special collection" housed in beautiful oak bookcases especially constructed for it. At the official opening of it in 2003, our son, Daniel, represented George as seen on the site http://www.berzsenyi.hu/kvt/kepek/matgyujt/index.html. While George continued supplying problems for the United States of America Mathematical Talent Search (USAMTS) for a few years after he retired, he has now completely turned it over to it's new home, The Art of Problem Solving . This group took over the administration of this nation-wide competition that George began (in 1989, while at RHIT) when the National Security Agency (NSA) was unable to continue. Students continue to enjoy solving problems, and now can even submit solutions online. |
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