{"id":75530,"date":"2019-10-09T10:04:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T14:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=75530"},"modified":"2019-10-10T08:33:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T12:33:18","slug":"bela-john-bognar-professor-emeritus-of-social-work-passes-away-at-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/10\/09\/bela-john-bognar-professor-emeritus-of-social-work-passes-away-at-88\/","title":{"rendered":"B\u00e9la John Bogn\u00e1r, professor emeritus of social work, passes away at 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_75546\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/10\/09\/bela-john-bognar-professor-emeritus-of-social-work-passes-away-at-88\/bela-bognar-16283_336-2-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-75546\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75546\" class=\"size-large wp-image-75546\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2019\/10\/bela-bognar-16283_336-2-508x370.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-75546\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">B\u00e9la John Bogn\u00e1r founded a scholarship fund that has provided support for 255 Hungarian students.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>B\u00e9la John Bogn\u00e1r, professor emeritus of social work at Wright State University and founder of the Bogn\u00e1r Family Hungarian Scholarship Fund, died of natural causes on Sept. 24. He was 88.<\/p>\n<p>Bogn\u00e1r lived in Hungary through the Soviet occupation of the 1940s and \u201950s, when the Soviets confiscated his family\u2019s 10-acre farm. He was an active participant in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, a spontaneous nationwide revolt against Soviet-imposed policies.<\/p>\n<p>Bogn\u00e1r was with a group of university students who confiscated arms from an army weapons warehouse and took part in 10 days of bloody, block-to-block street fighting. After the revolution, he left Hungary for Belgium and later immigrated to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Bogn\u00e1r attended the University of Wisconsin, where he earned master\u2019s and doctorate degrees in social work, gerontology, health and mental health policies. He taught a generation of professionals who worked in the field of aging and wrote four textbooks and countless articles on health and aging policies.<\/p>\n<p>Bogn\u00e1r taught <a href=\"https:\/\/liberal-arts.wright.edu\/social-work\">social work at Wright State<\/a> for nearly 30 years before retiring in 2002. During his career, he raised money for Hungarian students, churches, boarding schools and agencies that help abuse victims. Since its inception, the Bogn\u00e1r Family Hungarian Scholarship Fund has awarded more than $700,000 to 255 Hungarian students.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, <a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2015\/10\/01\/hungarian-hurricane\/\">Bogn\u00e1r received the Knight\u2019s Cross of the Order of Merit<\/a>, one of Hungary\u2019s highest state honors. The award is bestowed upon academics, writers, poets and scientists who contribute the most to advance Hungarian causes.<\/p>\n<p>A celebration of Bogn\u00e1r\u2019s life will be held Friday, Oct. 11, at 5:30 p.m. in the Berry Room of the Wright State Nutter Center. The family will welcome guests and friends starting at 4:30 p.m. in the Berry Room.<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of flowers, donations are asked to be made to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hacusa.org\">Bogn\u00e1r Family Hungarian Scholarship Fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B\u00e9la John Bogn\u00e1r founded a scholarship fund that has provided support for 255 Hungarian students. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/10\/09\/bela-john-bognar-professor-emeritus-of-social-work-passes-away-at-88\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":75546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,2023,725,747,715,2089],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-faculty","category-home-news-sidebar","category-liberal-arts","category-news","category-social-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75530"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75554,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75530\/revisions\/75554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}