The Tesla Journal - Number 1 - 1981 Page 10

TESLA HONORED AND REFERRED TO, THANKS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: The Executive Board and the Board of Directors of the Tesla Memorial Society wish to extend warm thanks to the following individuals and institutions: Mr. Leland Anderson, Mr. Dushan Gachich, Mr. Peter Bulat and the Editorial Board of the Voice of Canadian Serbs (Windsor, Ontario) for the publication of Mr. Anderson's important and excellent monograph "Priority in the Invention of Radio Tesla vs. Marconi" in the Christmas 1981 and later issues of their weekly newspaper. The Hon. John A. Blatnik, U.S. Congressman (Ret.) for his tireless labor in connection with the forthcoming solemn observance of the 125th Anniversary of the birth of Nikola Tesla at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. (October 20, 1981), and for many other services to the cause of Nikola Tesla. Mrs. Peggy McKinnon Clark, private scholar and well known fighter for justice to Tesla, for her highly informative, excellently documented and inspiringly delivered public lectures on this great Yugoslav American scientist and his inestimable contributions. Mrs. Lucy Curly-Teresi, B. Shaw scholar, Niagara Frontier State Parks and Recreation Commissioner and member of our Board of Directors, for her hard and dedicated work on behalf of Tesla and our Society, especially during the first two. years of its existence. Dr. R. E. Dollinger, Dr. D.P. Malone, Dr. W.J. Sarjeant and their students at the University of Buffalo Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, for their expert, worthwhile and selfless efforts in putting together the current Tesla. Exhibit at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Equally warm thanks go to the Directors and Administrators of that distinguished scientific institution. Dr. Bernard S. Finn, Curator of the National Museum of History and Technology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., for a concise but laudatory reference to Tesla and a photograph of this great man in Lighting a Revolution: The Beginning of Electric Power (September 1979, p. 70). Mr. Herbert C. Force and the Editor of The Buffalo News for Mr. Force's recent letter "Night View of Falls, Tribute to Tesla" (Saturday, August 1, 1981). Dr. Robert Golka and the Assistant Editor of Omni, Mr. Marc Kaplan, for publishing "Project Tesla", a valuable article in the August 1981 issue of that magazine. Mr. Jim. Klobuchar, Columnist for the Minneapolis Star and member of our Board of Directors, for kudos to our Tesla delegates at the Louis Adamic Symposium at the University of Minnesota last Spring. Mr. Stevan Mandarich, Retired Rear Admiral of the United States Navy, our dear and esteemed friend and member of our Board of Directors, for his timely articles in his own personal newsletter entitled Američki Lički Razgovor as well as his recent literary contribution "The Lost Serbian Colony of Antarctica, Year 2000" in Serb World (June/July, 1981). The Editors of Naše Novine of Toronto, Canada, for very positive, helpful and greatly appreciated publicity to Tesla and our Society. The Reporters and Editors of the Niagara Falls Review, Niagara Falls, Ontario, for publishing a photograph of Yugoslav Canadian children around the Memorial Plaque honoring Tesla on the Canadian side of the international border and for the accompanying brief but informative and respectful tribute to this great scientist and electrical engineer (N.F.R., Nov. 20, 1978, p. 3). Dr. Michael B. Petrovich, respected scholar and member of our Board of Directors, for his valiant and commendable. civic efforts in trying to change the unfortunate misspelling of Tesla's name in that of "Telsa Street" in Madison, Wisconsin. Planetary Association for Clean Energy, Ottawa, Ontario, Newsletter, 1 (2): July, 1979, for their kind words about Tesla, their efforts to familiarize their readers with his contributions to humanity, and for publishing installments of Tesla's famous article "The Problem of Increasing Human Energy", which originally appeared in The Century Illustrated Monthly magazine (June, 1900). Miss Ruzica Popovich, Librarian, European Room, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., for her great kindness and. helpfulness to all research scholars engaged in work on the Tesla legacy. The Editors of Popular Electronics for the recent most welcome publicity to Tesla in their magazine (July, 1981). Mrs. Virginia Russell, scientist, private scholar, member of our Board of Directors and Chairwoman of TMS Finance Committee, for her unselfish and indefatigable labor at the last year's showing of the Yugoslav film "The Secret of Nikola Tesla" and for mobilizing her friends to assist us. Needless to say, these friends are included in our warm appreciation. Mr. Neil Shapiro and the Editors of Popular Mechanics, for his recent feature on "Tesla's Birthday" (July, 1981, 156 (1): 58). 10