In Carnegie West's early efforts to provide reading material to, and to gently and respectfully Americanize, the Hungarian immigrant population in its neighborhood, longtime branch manager Pauline Reich was fortunate to have assistance from Helen Horvath, an immigrant herself who became a teacher in the Cleveland public school system and spent her "extra" time at Carnegie West telling stories to young immigrant children and teaching English to their immigrant parents. (In this 1919 photograph, she is the woman in the center of the second row wearing a dark dress. ) Horvath, who lived on nearby Whitman Avenue, was active at the library until her death in 1943. Her work in the Cleveland Public library system, including at Carnegie West, was continued after her death by her niece, Helen Schroeder Fedas until the latter's death, at the age of 97, in 1999. | Source: Cleveland Memory Project, Cleveland State University.Download Original File
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Cleveland Memory Project, Cleveland State University.
"Helen Horvath's Contribution" appears in: Carnegie West
