A Croatian army veteran of the 1991 war in a wheelchair and aboy attend the funeral of Croatian Army Gen. Janko Bobetko at Zagreb’s Mirogojcemetery Friday May 2, 2003. Wartime army…
Category: In Memoriam
(H,E) UMRO JANKO BOBETKO, Croatian General Died
Croatian General JankoBobetko Sijecanj 1919 -Travanj 2003 UMRO JANKO BOBETKOZAGREB, 29. travnja (Hina) – Umirovljeni stozerni general Janko Bobetko umro je u utorak u 11,55 sati u svojoj kuci u…
(E) ZARKO DOLINAR 1920 2003
ZARKO DOLINAR1920 2003 In Memoriamby Tim Boggan, USATT HistorianDr. Zarko Dolinar who died Mar. 7, at 82, from prostrate cancer was often heard to say, in his definitive way, Everything s…
(E) Franciscan Father Jerko (Jerry) Caleta dead at 59
Franciscan Father Jerko (Jerry)Caleta dead Trogir, Croatia1944 – Victoria, Canada 2003 Week of March 10, 2003Croation priest, patriot dead at 59“I will remember him as a good man who did a…
(H,E) UMRO ZARKO DOLINAR
prof. dr. Zarko Dolinar 3 ozujka 1920 – 9 ozujka2003 Dragi prijatelji i poznanici, Napustio nas je nas Zarko u 82 godini zivota. I te kakvog zivota. Pajdas mogoca iz djetinjstva,…
(E) Franjo Glaser – In Memoriam
Monday, 03 March 2003 Franjo Glaser, widely regarded as one of Croatia’s greatestgoalkeepers, died on Saturday aged 89. Respected manThe Osijek-born custodian was not only respected for his ability on thepitch but also…
(E) Andre Mohorovicic – Croatia’s prominent architect is dead
Andre Mohorovičić 1914-2002 Croatia’s prominent architect is dead Wed Dec 18,10:35 AM ETZAGREB, Croatia – Andre Mohorovicic, Croatia’s prominent architect whose work led to the discovery of the remnants of ancient cities…
(E) First Croatian President DR. FRANJO TUDJMAN
May 14, 1922 – Dec 10, 1999 First Croatian President DR. FRANJO TUDJMAN
(E) Edward ‘Moose’ Cholak, Wrestling Star, Engineer, Dies
Edward ‘Moose’ Cholak, wrestling star, engineer BY BRENDA WARNER ROTZOLL STAFF REPORTER November 1, 2002 Edward “Moose” Cholak became a wrestling star at Chicago Vocational High School and went on…
(E) Sen. Wellstone and Tom and Martin Rukavina
Lawmaker the Wellstones were flying to console feels terrible Op-ed This is our own Steve Rukavina’s family. Ourcondolences Steve to you and your family. NenadBach Editor-in-Chief &a friend By The Associated…
(E) Senator Wellstone Dies Enroute to a Croatian-American Funeral
Sen. Wellstone Dies in Plane Crash By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS EVELETH, Minn. (AP) — Sen. Paul Wellstone, an outspoken liberal Democrat locked in a re-election battle considered key to control of the Senate, was killed in a plane crash Friday in northern Minnesota along with his wife, daughter and five others. The twin-engine private plane went down in freezing rain and light snow near the Eveleth-Virginia Municipal Airport, about 175 miles north of Minneapolis. The cause of the crash was under investigation. Wellstone, a 58-year-old former college professor and one of the foremost liberals on Capitol Hill, was on his way to the funeral of the father of a state lawmaker. “It’s just terrible. Say a prayer,” said Lisa Pattni, an aide who was at the crash site. All eight people aboard the 11-seat King Air A-100 were killed, said Greg Martin, spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration. Campaign officials confirmed the victims also included Wellstone’s wife, Sheila, and daughter, Marcia; three campaign staff members; and two pilots. Wellstone’s death just 11 days before Election Day threw the battle for the Senate into uncharted territory. Before Friday, Democrats held control by a single seat. State officials were researching whether Wellstone’s name would remain on the ballot, or whether independent Gov. Jesse Ventura or state Democrats could appoint a replacement to serve in the upcoming lame-duck session of Congress between Election Day and the arrival of new members. Ventura declined comment on what he would do about the ballot, saying only that he would not appoint himself to serve the rest of Wellstone’s term. State law allows the governor to fill a vacant Senate seat, but also allows a political party to appoint a replacement in the event of a death of a nominee. The name must be offered within seven days of the death and at least four days before an election. Shaken Democratic officials wouldn’t immediately comment on possible replacements, though party spokesman Bill Amberg said he was confident the party would be allowed to offer a replacement. Rebecca Yanisch, the state trade commissioner who ran for Senate in 2000, indicated she might be interested. Two years ago, when Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan was killed in a plane crash three weeks before Election Day while running for the Senate, his name remained on the ballot and beat Republican Sen. John Ashcroft. Carnahan’s widow, Jean, was appointed to serve in his place and is now seeking election. Wellstone was up against Republican Norm Coleman, a former mayor of St. Paul and President Bush’s choice to challenge the two-term incumbent. A Coleman spokesman, Ben Whitney, said Friday: “Our prayers are with the Wellstone family. That’s all I’m going to say.” Wellstone was flying to Virginia, Minn., to attend the funeral of Martin Rukavina, father of Minnesota state Sen. Tom Rukavina. The plane’s pilots called the Eveleth-Virginia Municipal Airport to get clearance for landing when they were about seven miles out, and they reported no problems, said Gary Ulman, who was on duty at the small airport at the time. When the plane didn’t land, Ulman said he took off in another plane to search for it. About two miles southeast of the airport, he saw smoke. “The wreckage was scattered and fully engulfed in flames. Just looking at it, it would take a miracle to survive it,” he said. Ventura said flags at state buildings would be flown at half-staff through Nov. 5. In Texas, Bush called Wellstone “a man of deep convictions.” “He was a plainspoken fellow who did his best for his state and for his country,” the president said. “May the good Lord bless those who grieve.” Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., called Wellstone the “soul of the Senate. He was one of the most noble and courageous men I have ever known.” Before running for office, Wellstone was a professor and community organizer who fused the two passions in a course he taught at Carleton College in Northfield called “Social Movements and Grassroots Organizing.” He stunned the political establishment by knocking off Republican Sen. Rudy Boschwitz with a longshot bid for office in 1990. Afterward, left-leaning Mother Jones magazine called him “the first 1960s radical elected to the U.S. Senate.” Wellstone had pledged to stay for no more than two terms, but last year, he announced he would be running again. In February, he announced he had been diagnosed with a mild form of multiple sclerosis but he said it wouldn’t stop his campaign. “For me, no stress would be stress,” Wellstone said at the time. “The stress of this campaign is what I want to do, to be perfectly honest. And the stress of being a senator is what I want to do.” State Democratic Party chairman Mike Erlandson said Wellstone for years had been “the heartbeat” of the party. “He took pride every day in fighting on behalf of the people of Minnesota,” he said. Liberal to the end, Wellstone cast his vote earlier this month against legislation to authorize the use of force in Iraq — the only Democrat in a competitive race to go against Bush on the issue. The Rev. Jesse Jackson and United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan both called Wellstone a champion of peace. “He was a profoundly decent man, a man of principle, a man of conscience,” Annan said. “Wellstone stood up for the little guy,” added AFL-CIO President John Sweeney. “He was tireless and unapologetic for championing the rights of working men and women — even when he stood alone, and he often did.” Wellstone also had two sons, David and Mark, and six grandchildren. The King Air turboprop was made by Raytheon Corp. with Pratt & Whitney engines, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The owner was listed as Beech Transportation Inc. of Eden Prairie, Minn., and the plane had been leased by Wellstone.
(E) Bruno Planisek, Industrial Designer, Dies
Bruno Planisek, Industrial Designer, Dies ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Bruno Planinsek, one of Croatia’s early industrial designers, has died. He was 72. Planinsek began designing industrial products in early 1950s and was one of Croatia’s most prominent designers at the time. His coffee mixer, “MAKI,” designed in 1956, is among the holdings of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Planinsek received several Croatian awards for his detergent boxes, lamps and interior designs. His designs also were presented across Europe at the time. The state-run news agency, HINA, reported that Planinsek died Sunday and was buried Friday. No cause of death was given.
(E) Mia Slavenska, Croatian-American Ballerina Dies
Mia Slavenska, 86, Celebrated Ballerina, Is Dead By JACK ANDERSON Mia Slavenska, a ballerina celebrated both for her authoritative techniqueand for her red-haired beauty, died on Saturday at a retirement center inLos Angeles where she had lived in recent years. She was 86. A glamorous dancer with a vivid stage presence, Ms. Slavenska was especiallyknown to American audiences as a ballerina with the Ballet Russe de MonteCarlo. She appeared with it at its New York debut in 1938 and danced coastto coast with it at various times in the 1940’s and 50’s. But she tookoccasional leaves from the Ballet Russe to head small touring groups of herown. Her repertory ranged from “Giselle,” “Coppélia” and “Swan Lake” to20th-century ballets by Michel Fokine and Léonide Massine. A great virtuoso,she was praised for her energy, stamina and balance. But she always combinedphysical control with theatrical flair. Writing in The New York Times on May30, 1943, the dance critic John Martin praised Ms. Slavenska’s “command oftechnique and taste” and remarked on her “personal beauty, which is nothingshort of spectacular.” One of her most surprising roles was that of Blanche DuBois in “A StreetcarNamed Desire,” the adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s play that the moderndancer Valerie Bettis choreographed in 1952 for the Slavenska-FranklinBallet, a touring group established by Ms. Slavenska and Frederic Franklin,a colleague from the Ballet Russe. Audiences had long known that Ms.Slavenska was classically versatile. Here she proved authoritative in acontemporary idiom. Reviewing “Streetcar” in The Times on Dec. 9, 1952, Mr.Martin found fault with some of Bettis’s choreography. Nevertheless, he saidthat “Miss Slavenska and Mr. Franklin play its chief roles with tremendous force.” Born Mia Corakin in Brod-na Savi (renamed Slavonski Brod in 1934 by thegovernment of Yugoslavia) in Croatia, the ballerina, who adopted Slavenskaas a stage name, studied ballet with prominent teachers in Zagreb and Paris.In Vienna her teachers included Léopold Dubois who, she later recalled,taught her the meaning of classicism, and Gertrud Kraus, a pioneer ofCentral European modern dance. In New York she was greatly influenced byballet classes with Vincenzo Celli. Ms. Slavenska gave a complete evening of her own choreography in Zagreb in1928 at the age of 12. She was prima ballerina at the Zagreb NationalTheater from 1934 to 1936, and received international attention when sheperformed at the dance festival held in conjunction with the Berlin Olympicsof 1936. In 1937, she was one of the stars of “La Mort du Cygne,” a film byJean Benoît-Lévy, released in America as “Ballerina.” After joining the Ballet Russe in Europe in 1938, Ms. Slavenska traveledwith it to America, becoming a citizen in 1947. The previous year, she hadmarried Kurt Neumann, a political scientist. He died in 1983. Ms. Slavenska organized Ballet Variante, a touring group in 1947 and, withMr. Franklin, the Slavenska-Franklin Ballet, which toured in the early1950’s. She also appeared with companies like American Ballet Theater, theMetropolitan Opera Ballet, the Chicago Opera Ballet and London FestivalBallet, and helped direct and advise several regional ballet troupes, amongthem the Forth Worth Ballet and the Louisville Ballet. She opened a New York studio in 1960 and, after moving to Los Angeles in1969, taught ballet at the University of California at Los Angeles and theCalifornia Institute of the Arts. Ms. Slavenska is survived by a daughter, Maria Ramas, of Culver City, Calif.
(E) Fra Bono Prcula – In Memoriam
Javljamo braci franjevacke provincije Presvetog Otkupitelja, rodbini, prijateljima i znancima da je u subotu, 13. srpnja 2002., u Klinickoj bolnici Firule u Splitu, u 68. godini zivota, 50. redovnistva i 42. svecenistva…
(E) In Memoriam Mary Saban Parsons
Mary Parsons served in U.S. Navy “Her parents had known each other in Croatia. Her mother arrived in Northern California in 1913” http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/1928394p-2066717c.html Sacramento Bee Obituary: Mary Parsons served in U.S. Navy By Ted Bell — Bee…
(D) In memoriam Hans-Georg Gadamer
Anmerkung. Hans-Georg Gadamer hat den kroatishen Philosphen Mathias Flacius Illyricus / Matija Vlacic Ilirik (1520-1575) als einen Klassiker der Hermeneutik anerkannt. Im zweiten Band seines Hauptwerks “Wahrheit und Methode”, behandelt Gadamer Vlacics Hermeneutik sehr umfaenglich….
(H) IN MEMORIAM LJUBICA STEFAN
UMRLA POVJESNICARKA LJUBICA STEFAN ZAGREB 18.ozujka 2002. U zagrebackoj bolnici Sveti Duh jucer poslijepodne umrla je, nakon kratke i teske bolesti, hrvatska povjesnicarka Ljubica Stefan. napisala je desetak knjiga, baveci se uglavnom genezom velikosrpske ideje, prikupljajuci po…
(E,H) Symbol of Resistance to Communism “Rock of Croatia,” Dies
http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=17860 ZENIT – The World Seen From Rome Cardinal Kuharic, “Rock of Croatia,” Dies Symbol of Resistance to Communism, and of Peace in Fratricidal War VATICAN CITY, MARCH 11, 2002 (Zenit.org).- Cardinal Franjo Kuharic, archbishop emeritus…
(H) UMRO KARDINAL FRANJO KUHARIC
UMRO KARDINAL FRANJO KUHARIC Cardinal Franjo Kuharic Died ZAGREB, 11. ožujka (Hina) – U nadbiskupskom dvoru u Zagrebu rano jutros u 83. godini preminuo je uzoriti kardinal i umirovljeni nadbiskup zagrebacki Franjo Kuharic, javila je Informativna…
(H) Hommage Matku Peicu
Hommage Matku Peicu POZEGA, 9. veljace – Tocno 10. veljace 1923. godine u Pozegi je rodjen Matko Peic, veliki zaljubljenik u Pozegu i Vallis aureau, a ciji je stvaralacki opus od gimnazijskih dana u Pozegi do smrti vezan velikim dijelom za rodni grad. Iza akademika Matka Peica jednoga iz plejade hrvatskih velikana duha, slikara, povjesnicara umjetnosti i likovnog kriticara ostali su nezaobilazni putopisi, eseji, feljtoni i poezija, a njegov hedonizam i kontemplacija ponajbolje su se pronasli u poznatim Peicevim >Skitnjama<. Pozega je desetljecima bila puna Matka Peica, no i on je bio pun Pozege, a sve sto je napisao bila je oda zivotu, ali i covjeku. U opusu Matka Peica sveucilisnog profesora i akademika ostalo je 35 knjiga, vise od 1000 putopisa i eseja, te brojne, jos nedovoljno poznate slike. Za Pozegu, grad njegove mladosti i ljubavi njegova zivota Matko Peic je zapisao: >Za mene Pozega predstavlja najdublji inspirativni cinilac u mom radu i to kao slikara i kao knjizevnika. U Pozegi sam stekao svoju metodu osnovanu na karakteristikama pozeskog pejzaza<. I. F. Distributed by www.CroatianWorld.net. This message is intended for Croatian Associations Institutions and their Friends in Croatia and in the World. The opinions/articles expressed on this list do not reflect personal opinions of the moderator. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, please delete or destroy all copies of this communication and please, let us know!