Balázs Somogyi

US Eastern Shore

He was born in 1938 in Győr, Hungary. He completed his high school education  at the Ferenc Kölcsey  Gimnázium in June of 1956. He attended the Semmelweis Medical University in Budapest  until the outbreak of the Hungarian Revolution. Along with his parents, sister and brother, he left Hungary in December 1956.  After a nearly two-year stay in Vancouver, BC, the family settled in the United States in 1958. He completed his education in New York and became a medical doctor in 1965.He served in the United states Air Force for two years. He became board certified in Orthopedic Surgery in 1974  He is married to CsillaMakay and is the proud father of Zsuzsanna, Ilona and Judit. The family resides in Cheshire, CT , while Judit has settled in Reno, Nevada.

Between 1963 and 1978, he was the director of the New York Hungaria Folkdance Ensemble. He has been director of the Hungarian Cultural Society of Connecticut since the mid 1970-s. He joined MBK in 1975 and served as “gondnok” for two terms .He has participated in the work of the Hungarian-American Coalition (HAC) and served as Chairman of the Board for one year. He is  member of the  of the Diaszpora Council. He serves as executive council member of the Széchenyi István Társaság of New York and is vice-president of the New York based Memorial (Emlékmű) Committee. He is  member of the executive council of the Wallingford  Hungarian  Club, and serves on the Consistory of the Hungarian E.&R  Reformed Church of Wallingford.