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his Yugoslav sister, Professor Branka Pribić, who also spoke on a related subject. Dr. Nikola Pribić and his wife, Dr. Elizabeth Pribić, are currently working on a monograph about the famous early 19th-Century German translator of Serbo-Croatian folk poems, Therese Albertine von Jacob, whom Vuk Karadžić referred to as "Gospodja Talvija". That learned, gifted and industrious German lady married an American by the name of Robinson and in the 1830s moved to Boston where she continued her literary and scholarly activity, including references to Serbian literature. Professor Pribić's admiring colleagues in Europe and America are preparing a Festschrift in honor of his distinguished academic career of diligent, conscientious and prolific research. Professor Rose Mary Prošen of Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Ohio, and member of our Board of Directors, recently made another valuable contribution to the American Sloveniana. Her "Looking Back", a well written and sensitively insightful story on the Slovenian individual, family and community experiences in Cleveland, Ohio, is a haunting essay on cultural marginality and the process of assimilation. This scholarly and at the same time artistic work is included, among several others of comparably high value, in Growing Up Slavic in America, edited by Michael Novak, Jednota Printery, Middletown, Pennsylvania 17057, 1979. Mrs. Sofija Škorić, Reference Librarian at the University of Toronto Library, Executive Member of the NASSS, Vice President of the Canadian Association of Slavists, noted and talented scholar and member of the Tesla Memorial Society, recently coordinated the Serbian Heritage Conference (Democracy and Parliamentarism: The 100th Anniversary of the Serbian Radical Party, 18811981) organized by the University's Centre for Russian and East European Studies and sponsored by the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. Held at Victoria College, May 15-17, 1981, this conference brought together many outstanding intellectuals of Serbian and Canadian/ American origin, including Dr. Ignatijeff, Prof. Gleb Žekulin, Mr. Nikola Pašić, Mr. St. Protić, and other scholars such as the following members of the Tesla Memorial Society: Dr. Nicholas Moravčevich, Dr. Michael B. Petrovich, and Dr. Nikola Pribić. In coordinating this very scholarly, emminently successful, and unusually dignified academic gathering, notably free from arbitrary bias and partisan politics, Mrs. Sofija Škorić showed not only great organizing energy and ability but also delicate tact and a balanced sense of measure. If the success of this conference is particularly due to any one human being, that human being is she. In addition to all her other absorbing duties, Mrs. Škorić also read two well researched and thoroughly documented papers on "The Radical Party Programmes" and "Dr. Harriett Cockburn, A Canadian Volunteer to Serbia, 1915". These remarkable essays confirmed the reputation of Mrs. Škorić's erudition, convincingly demonstrated in her publications in the East European Quarterly and other journals. Dr. Biljana Šljivić-Šimšić, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, well known and admired scholar in the field of Slavic Studies, Head of the Serbian Studies Program at the University of IIlinois at Chicago Circle, Secretary-Treasurer of the North American Society for Serbian Studies (NASSS) and member of our Board of Directors, has done a great deal to promote the knowledge and understanding of the Serbo-Croatian language and the colorful and significant literary and cultural traditions which its command makes accessible. Her extensive scholarly work includes vital collaboration with Professor Morton Benson in the compilation of an excellent and up-to-date Serbocroatian-English Dictionary (Srpskohrvatsko-engleski rečnik), published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 1971, and no less essential collaboration with Professors Samuel G. Armistead and Joseph H. Silverman in the preparation of Judeo - Spanish Ballads from Bosnia, published by the same university press in 1972. During the past couple of years, Professor Šljivić- Šimšić has produced, in addition to an incisive and comprehensive essay on "The Woman in Serbian Folk Proverbs" (on the material collected by Vuk St. Karadžić) in Serbian Studies (Spring, 1980), a number of beautiful, felicitously precise and talented translations into English of major Serbian poets, including Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj. These have appeared in several issues of Serb World, along with her expert studies of Serbian Romanticism. She is presently working on a series of essays about prominent Serbian women of the 19th Century, to be published in the same Milwaukee magazine. Dr. Šljivić-Šimšić is also preparing a textbook for classroom use in the teaching of Serbo-Croatian to college and university students. Dr. George V. Tomashevich, Professor of Anthropology, State University of New York College at Buffalo and member of the Executive Board, recently published his translation, with an introductory study and 50 aphorisms, of the great Yugoslav (Serbian) philosopher of history, sociologist and anthropologist Božidar Knežević (18621905): History, The Anatomy of Time - The Final Phase of Sunlight, prefaced by Prof. W. Waren Wagar, New York, Philosophical Library, 1980. 23