Věstník (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 18, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 29, 1992 Page: 12 of 16
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12/VESTNÍK—Wednesday, April 29, 1992
3rd—Braclley Kroll; in ages 9 to 12
were: lst--Emily Anderson, 2nd~
Emily Anderson, 3rd--Stacy Sýkora;
and winners in the adult group were:
Ist—James Gerik, 2nd--Karen Kroll,
3rd-Keith Hykel. We had quite a few
in the adult group hunting Easter eggs.
They ali had a lot of fun.
Then, we enjoyed a ťried chicken
supper plus al the good pastries.
On April 13 we took Easter gifts to
West Rest Faven residents. They all
were giad to see us.
We are going to make items for
Motheťs Day, so try to be at the halí
on Friday nights and also work on our
scrapbook.
Birthday celebrants for April are
Keiíh Hykel and Stacy Mynar.
Fraternally,
Willie Mae Schuetz
Youth Leader
—SPJST—
Youth
Letters
Seaton Youth All Set
For May Fete
Dear Members,
SPJST Lodge No. 47, Seaton Youth
Club will hold its annual May Fete on
May 17, 1992 at Seaton Star Halí at
2:30 p.m. There will be a dance open
to the public immediately following
the May Fete, The music will be pro-
vided by the Silver Spurs Band with
regular dance admission being
charged.
We would like to invite everyone to
come out and enjoy the evening with
us.
The dance will start at 4:00 p.m. and
will end at 8:00 p.m.
Fraternally yours,
Angela Pechal
SPJST Lodge 47
1992 May Fete Queen
(4-23-92)
—SPJST—
Lodge 66 Waco Youth
Entertain
Rest Home Residents
Dear Members,
Well did everyone enjoy their Easter
weekend? I think the Moody residents
enjoyed our trip there, with the Easter
Bunny on Saturday, April 18.
Our District 111 spring meeting was
held April 26 at our lodge.
Fraternally,
Justin Engelke (10)
(4-22-92)
—SPJST—
Seaton Lodge Sets
May Fete Dáte
Dear Věstník Readers,
The youth club of Lodge 47, Seaton
will hold its second annual May Fete
ceremony and dance on May 17 at
Seaton Star Halí. The ceremony will
begin at 2:30 p.m. The meal tickets
will be sold and the dance will start
with the grand march at 4:00 p.m.
The 1992 May Fete Queen is Angela
Pechal. Congratulations, Miss Pechal!
The first May Fete practice will be
on May 1 at 6:30 p.m. All participants
are expected to attend.
We hope to make this occasion a
very exciting and memorable one for
all. SPJST members young and old are
invited. Hope to see you there!
Fraternally,
Lori Greger
(4-20-92)
—SPJST—
Features
Quo vadis Yugoslavia!
My reminiscences of the unforgettable trip to
Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia
Part five of the eight parts article
By John J. Karas from Houston
Continuation from the last VČstník
Our next overnight stop was the city such a delightful evening, warm but
of Zadar, where we arrived in the latě without humidity, and the sky over
afternoon. Zadar, 72 miles northwest Zadar and the Ardiatic Sea was full of
of Split, is also located in the Dalma-
tian region of Croatia, on the Adriatic
Sea. This íown is situated at the tip of
peninsula separated by the Zadar
Channei from islands of Ugljan and
Pasman and possesses a good natural
harbor, Zadars chief Industries are
shipbuilding, liqueur manufacture and
food processing, especially the can-
ning of fish. It is also a tourist center.
Zadar has a turbulent history going
back almost 2,000 years. It was origi-
nally the Liburnian town of Yader
when, about 100 B.C., it was occupied
by Romans and renamed Jadera (the
sail). — Now we know why the Adri-
the bright stars—.
Next day, July 4th, we said good-bye
to Zadar and traveled inland towards
Zagreb, stopping for a couple of hours
at Plitvice National Park. Although we
intended to také a boat ride there
through the series of cascading emer-
ald green lakes řoilowed by a tour
ihroughout the park, we more-less had
to cancel it because of the lack of
time. --Since admission was $12.50 a
person and 3 hours at least required to
také the trip through the park, jusí
about everyone opted for the souvenir
shop and the restaurant overlooking
the park grounds. While on the
atic Sea is usually called by the Slavs restaurantů balcony Edith and í sat at
the Jader Sea (Jaderské more) and the the table next to the water fountain
Yugoslav Riviera is called Jadran. -— with 5 feet square reservoir containing
Jadera was spared during the invasions about 18 more than a foot long trouts.
of Dalmatia by the Avars and Slavs in
the 7th century A.D. and soon after-
wards it was occupied and made the
Capital of Dalmatia by the Byzantine
emperors. The Croats took the town in
923 but were forced to give it up to
Venetians before the end of the lOth
century. After reverting to Croatian
rule (circa 1,100), it was sacked by the
Crusaders (1202) and turned over to
Venice. It was subsequently conquered
by the Croat-Hungarian Kingdom but
was sold back to Venice in 1409. After
the dissolution of the Venetian Repub-
lic by France in 1797, Zadar was in-
corporated into the Illyrian Provinces
on Balkan peninsula. In 1813 it was
obtained by Austria along with the rest
of Dalmatia and it remained under
Austro-Hungarian rule until 1918,
when it was captured by the Italians
before the end of WWI. The treaty of
Rapallo (1920) confirmed Italy's title
making Zadar enclave a part of Italy
between WWI and WWII. On Novem-
ber lst 1944, during WWII, the town
was captured by Yugoslav forces and
awarded to Yugoslavia by the peace
treaty with Italy signed in Paris on
February 10, 1944. Zadar contains im-
The water in the reservoir was at the
same level as the top of our table. You
guessed it! During the half an hour or
so we sat there we had at least 6 of
these fish jump out and land on our
table. They were jumping out indis-
criminately; one landed on my plate --
thank you, I ate already --- several oth-
ers missing the table, landed on the
floor!
We were soon on our way again,
passing now through a fertile plain
with cultivated fields and meadows
full of grazing cattle in contrast of
rocky Dalmatia, Bosna Herzedovina or
Monte Negro. We reached Zagreb at
dusk, where Edith and I parted, as pre-
viously agreed, with the "triple K"
group with the understanding to re-join Czech Heritage Society of*Texas will
Capital of autonomous Croatia and the
seat of the Croatian Diet (Sejm). After
WWI, when the new Kingdom of Yu-
gosíavia, íncluding Croatia, was
formed, the city lost its status as a Cap-
ital, but it served since summer 1941
as the Capital of the so-called Indepen-
dent State of Croatia headed by Ante
Pavelic, and remained the Capital of
the Croatian republic in the reconsti-
tuted Yugoslav statě after 1945.
Zagreb is the main center of Roman
Catholicism in Yugoslavia, and pos-
sesses a fine 17th century cathedral
andl8th century archiepiscopal palace.
This city was for centuries the princi-
pál Croatian cultural center.
We took a taxi to the main raiiway
station, bought our rail tickets to
Břeclav (the Czech border town), put
our luggage into storage and explored
a center of the city. We had about four
hours wait; our fast train to Vienna,
Austria, was to depart almost at mid-
night. When on our way we traveled
north to Maribor, the only fast train
stop between Zagreb and the Ausírian
border. Our train engine was changed
bere and off we were Crossing the bor-
der to Austria. Good-bye Yugoslavia,
we had a glorious time in your beauti-
ful country!
It was a shock to rne to hear --- more
than 3 years later — about the unrest
and the bloody civil war in the land of
the Southern Slavs.
How fared all these beautiful historie
places I visited a few years ago? Are
they O.K. or are they badly damaged
or destroyed?
The following write-up assembled
from the newspaper clippings dealing
with Yugoslav civil war answers the
above questions.
(To be continued in the next Věstník)
—SPJST—
Czech Heritage
Society News
The Harris County Chapter of the
it again on Saturday, July 15th in
Prague ready to board the Czech
motorcoach to travel across Germany
to Frankfurt for the retům flight to the
good old USA.
Zagreb is the Capital of Croatia at the
foot of Zagreb mountain Medvedica
ne ar the Sava River, about 230 miles
west — northwest of Beograde. It is
the second largest city of what ušed to
be until recently Yugoslavia. This city
hold its next meeting on Sunday, May
17, 1992 at Lodge No. 17, Rozkvét,
3609 Preston Avenue in Pasadena,
Texas. This meeting will mark the sev-
enth anniversary of the chapter.
A fellowship hour will start at 1:00
p.m. at which time members and
guests will háve an opportunity to look
over the Czech family histories, genea-
logical data and genealogical research
information which will be on display.
“chltec‘urau1 1™numen,s °‘*he is a chief center of ííght industry pro"- The business portion of the meeting
Mtddle Ages and the Renaissance. No- duci c , ieather goods/wood wil1 slart promptly at 2:00 p.m. Offi-
table are the chitrch of St. Donato ducts and ,extiles since ,945 e,ec_ cers for 1992 will be nominated and
(early9th century) whtch ts now a mu- ,rical an(J chemical industries haye elected.
seum, and the Basiltca of St. Anastasia a,s0 been developed on a large scale. The Iheme of the afternoon’s pro-
(13th century). Zadar s populahon was Zagreb is connected with Beograde by ®ram. which wil1 slart at aPProxl‘
" a modem highway and railroad and is mately 3:30 P-m > wiU be genealogy
important point on routes leading from
centrál Europe with the Baikans and
from the Danube River to the Adriatic
.. Sea.
Site of an old Roman settlement,
Zagreb first became prominent when
King Ladislav I of Hungary (1077-
1095) established a bishopric here,
After being ravaged by the Mongols in
1242, it was rebuilt and later became a
royal free city under the Hungarian
crown. (By the way: Mongolian Tar-
tars were stopped by the Czech King
Wenceslav I at the borders of Bohemia
in 1241 while Jaroslav from Šternberk
defeated in the same year another Tar-
tar hordě at the Morav i an city of
Olomouc.) By the second half of the
13th century Zagreb became the chief
25, 140 in 1961.
Our Austrian bus has arrived to this
town in the latě afternoon. It took now
some driving around to find our hotel
called Borik, located in the cluster of
other hotels named Novi park close to
the Adriatic shoreline. — As our travel
arrangement with the "triple K" group
now ended, Edith and I had to pay for
this hotel ourselves, with additional
amount of $20.00 each next morning
for our continued travel with the group
on the Austrian motorcoach to Zagreb.
Hotel Borik is located at the edge of
the bay along with several other well
kept hotels making a semi-circle with
a continuous walkway connecting all
hotels and a park. After shopping and
supper we took a pleasant evening
and genealogical research. The guest
speaker for the program will be Mr.
Leo Bača of Richardson, Texas, Mr.
Bača is a noted Czech genealogist who
has compiled and published several
books of Czech immigation Passenger
Lists.
The afternoon will conclude with an
old-fashioned Czech Sing-a-Long, led
by Jerri Gruber.
Everyone who has an interest in
Czech history, customs, tradition or
Czech family genealogy is cordially
invited. Members and guests are en-
couraged to bring and display their
family histories.
For more information call Lillian
Young at 713-921-5026 or Jerri Gru-
ingl^he'vírious baL^aytog af*e' ber *™;2*™2* ^713-641-2781
hotels and at the close-by halí at the the Austro-Hungarian monarchy was WJ* Bl Malina, Reportér
edge of one of the naval piers. It was reorganized in 1867, this city made the
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