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Professor Tomashevich's collaborator on this project was Dr. Sherwood A. Wakeman, member of our Board of Directors. As noted by Dr. Biljana Šljivić-Šimšić in the Newsletter of the NASSS (April, 1981), the book has been favorably received by critics in both Yugoslavia and North America (Canada as well as the United States). Reviewed, inter alia, in Belgrade's Politika (by Prof. Božidar Kovačević and Prof. Vladislav Tomović, separately); Književne novine (by Prof. D. Kandić); St. Louis' The American Rationalist (by Dr. H. James Birx); Milwaukee's Serb World (by Mr. Dennis Quick); Toronto' Naše Novine (by Prof. Vladislav Tomović); and London's Naša Reč (by Mr. Nenad Petrović) and reprinted by several other papers including The Voice of Canadian Serbs, the book is continuing to draw expressions of approval and commendation (e.g., by Dr. Zora Devrnja-ZimmerIman in the current issue of Serbian Studies, and by Dr. H. James Birx in the current issue of Philosophy and Phenomenological Research of Brown University). The volume is also being listed and referred to in a growing number of international scholarly journals in America, Australia, Canada, Scottland and other countries. In the current issue of Serbian Studies, Dr. Tomashevich has an article on Božidar Knežević containing his hitherto unpublished translations of 85 of the philosopher's aphorisms. At the annual meeting of the Canadian Association of Slavists in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in May 1981, Prof. Tomashevich read a paper on "The Jews Among The Southern Slavs and Their Balkan Neighbors". Later, in the Summer 1981 issue of Free Inquiry, he published his "Reflections on Science and Religion", containing, among others, some references to M.I. Pupin. In the course of the last two years, Dr. Tomashevich has been publishing a series of articles on "The History of Serbian Culture as a Civilization" in the Serb World magazine of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Besides, he has been writing lyrical, philosophical, patriotic, satirical and humorous poems in Serbo-Croatian as well as English. These poems, including some translations of M. Krleža, D. Maksimović and V. Ilić Mladji, have been appearing in journals and anthologies in America, Britain, Canada and Yugoslavia. Dr. Vladislav A. Tomović, Chairman of the Department of Sociology at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, and Executive Secretary of the Tesla Memorial Society for Canada, has been very active and creative for quite a number of years. One of the first scholarly books by Dr. Tomović was Post World War II Sociology in Yugoslavia, published by the University of Windsor in 1966. Somewhat later, he edited an important volume entitled Selected readings on Youth Culture and Forms of Social Deviance (New York, Simon and Schuster, 1971) as well as another 24 significant book, But Thinking Makes It So: Conformity and Deviance in Social Problems (Wheeling, Illinois, Whitehall Co., 1977). More recently, he co-authored an eminently useful methodological guide entitled How to Give an Effective Seminar (Toronto, General Publishing, 1978) and edited a volume of Definitions in Sociology: Convergence, Conflict and Alternative Vocabularies (St. Catharines, Diliton Publications, Inc., 1979). Besides, at an international symposium in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia (1979), Dr. Tomović presented a scholarly paper on some hitherto unknown aspects of the life and work of Michael Pupin based on original archival materials. Most recently, he contributed to Internationales Soziologenlexikon, Band I, Herausgengeben von Wilhelm Bernsdorf und Horst Knospe, Stuttgart: Ferdinand Enke Verlag, 1980, p. 143. In September of this year, he is scheduled to read a critical essay on Louis Adamic, the noted Slovenian/American writer, at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, Yugoslavia. Finally, Dr. Tomović is completing the manuscript of his book to be titled We Only Know In Part - A History of the Serbs in Canada and published in Toronto by McClelland and Stewart in 1982. A similar work, For A Better Life - A History of the Croats in Canada, is being written by Dr. Anton Rasporich of the Department of History, University of Calgary in Alberta. Both volumes will appear as parts of a series called GENERATIONS: THE HISTORY OF THE PEOPLES OF CANADA. Dr. Zora Devrnja Zimmerman, Associate Professor of English at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, noted folklorist, gifted translator and literary critic, and a member of our Board of Directors, has been very industrious and productive particularly during the last few years. She has published: a beautiful and faithful translation of "Death of the Mother Jugovich" (Smrt Majke Jugovića) in the August/September 1979 issue of the Serb World; "Moral Vision in Serbian Folk Epic: The Foundation Sacrifice of Skadar" in the Slavic and East European Journal (Vol. 23, No. 3, 1979); and "The Changing Role of the Vila in Serbian Tradition" in the Journal of the Folklore Institute (Vol. 16, No. 3, 1979). She has co-edited a book of poetry and is soon scheduled to publish a book on Serbian Folk Poetry: The Oldest Epics through the Kosovo Publishing Company of Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Z. D. Zimmerman is regularly reviewing Yugoslav folk and literary materials in the journals: World Literature Today, Poet and Critic and Explorations in Ethnic Studies. In the current issue of Serbian Studies, one can find her critical review of Božidar Knežević's History, The Anatomy of Time - The Final Phase of Sunlight (New York, Philosophical Library, 1980). As for her work in preparation, Professor Z. D. Zimmerman is