Nikola Tesla Books
RECENT OBSERVANCE OF THE 125TH ANNIVERSARY OF TESLA'S BIRTH IN YUGOSLAVIA, CANADA, AND THE UNITED STATES: At the beginning of July 1981, several members of the Tesla Memorial Society (Peggy McKinnon Clark, Brad Dexter and Mary Bogdanovich-Dexter, George Kosanovich, Nicholas and Mary Kosanovich, MiloÅ¡ Mijatov, Dr. Nikola PribiÄ, and William H. Terbo) participated, as delegates and representalives of our Organization, in the recent observance of the 125th anniversary of Tesla's birth in his native Yugoslavia. Mr. Nicholas Kosanovich, the Executive Secretary for the United States, talked about our Society's work in an interview on a nationwide television program broadcast from Belgrade. Dr. Nikola PribiÄ and Mr. William H. Terbo spoke on Tesla at GospiÄ, and both Mr. Brad Dexter and Mr. MiloÅ¡ Mijatov were interviewed on Belgrade radio stations. Our representatives were hosted by Belgrade on July 2 and 3, by Novi Sad on the 4 and 5, and by Zagreb, GospiÄ and Smiljan on the 9 and 10 of the month. As always, their Yugoslav hosts excelled in the warmth and friendliness of their traditional hospitality. A little later, between July 17 and 19, a group of 45 honor students (Vukovci) from 20 schools in Bosnia and Hercegovina were hosted by our Society on both sides of the international border. In ceremonies at the Canadian Plaque in honor of Tesla in Niagara Falls, Ontario, as well as the Tesla Monument on Goat Island, U.S.A., the unusually well-behaved and charming Yugoslav youngsters offered each a flower as a symbolic tribute to this great man of Yugoslav birth and North American creative activity who belongs to the whole world. Yugoslavia was represented by the Hon. DuÅ¡an BogdanoviÄ, its Consul General in New York City, and the Hon. Naum NaÄevski, its Consul General in Toronto. Afterwards, the Society entertained the Yugoslav guests at the Ramada Inn in Niagara Falls, New York, where a group of beautiful young girls from the Neretva River sang a number of lovely folk songs from their native region. 8
