Leon Joseph Lysaght Jr. (Rocky) peacefully departed this earthly life on December 2, 2022, while his family and priest held vigil by his bedside. Leon was born August 25, 1940, to his devoted parents, Helen and Leon Lysaght, Sr. in Butte, Montana. He had an idyllic childhood immersed in Serbian and Butte culture, and he was blessed to have grown up around his beloved grandparents, Soke and Jovo Vucanovich. The profound intellectual and spiritual guidance fostered by his father and grandfather incited Leon’s evolving and passionate thirst for knowledge, truth, and his Eastern Orthodox Christian faith.

Очување српске културе и историје у САД

Ко је била породица Полић чије је задужбинарство славио и амерички председник Роналд Реган, и чија соба на престижном америчком универзитету чува наслеђе српског језика

Хуверов институт, библиотека и архив, засебна су целина у оквиру Универзитета Стенфорд. Хуверов торањ, најпознатија грађевина овог института, који постоји скоро 80 година, са својих 87 метара висине, уздиже се над свим осталим грађевинама, и доминира читавим крајоликом стварајући незаборавну слику овог подручја. Поред торња налазе се зграде новијег датума у чијим се депоима, на два нивоа испод земље, чува обиље материјала који је прикупљан кроз читаву историју архива и библиотеке. Осим подземног магацинског простора, над земљом се налазе сале за састанке и конференције, велики број канцеларија и пратећих просторија. Свака од ових просторија носи интимну исповест о временима која су прошла, о значајним делима и људима који су на овом месту боравили и стварали. Оснивач, Херберт Хувер, био је председник САД у периоду 1929-1933. године.

A GREAT TRIBUTE TO A GREAT TEACHER

A Seminary Student Remembers What He Learned from His English Teacher, Mrs. Lillian Arezina

By Fr. Slobodan Čavka

The job of a teacher is a sacrifice. The job of a teacher is not to think for the students, but to teach the students to think for themselves. The job of a teacher is a selfless, not a selfish act. The job of a teacher concerns altruism, not egotism. It does not a matter what a teacher can do, rather the success of a teacher is reflected in what her students are able to achieve. A true teacher teaches her students not only facts but makes her students into better people.

The list of such principles could go on and on. From my point of view, all the above have something in common. All these principles are beautifully displayed in the life of Lillian Arezina, the English language teacher at St. Sava College of Theology in Libertyville.

Највећи број научника ради у САД, Канади и западној Европи, а студије су завршили у Србији, каже професор др Јован Филиповић, који има базу од 7.000 српских доктора наука у свету

Највећи број српских доктора наука у дијаспори живи у Сједињеним Америчким Државама – 2.400 или око 39 одсто, а затим у Канади (15 одсто), Великој Британији (10 процената) и Немачкој (седам одсто). Има их и у Аустралији, Холандији, Шведској, Аустрији, Француској, Словенији, Италији и Шпанији, а најмање у Кини, Јапану, Пољској и Грчкој.

Open Letter in Support of Jasmina Vujic

Prof. Jasmina Vujić, an international member of AESS since 2012, is a Full Professor at the Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California at Berkeley (USA). She served as the Chair of the NE Department from 2005 to 2009, and was the first female nuclear engineering department chair in the USA. She was the Vice-President and President of NEDHO (Nuclear Engineering Department Heads Organization) in the USA from 2010-2012. She established and directed two university-based research and educational centers: the Berkeley Nuclear Research Center in 2009 and the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium in 2011, with more than 150 collaborating researchers from several leading US universities.

A distinguished scholar of Byzantine architecture, Dr. Svetlana Popović - Mojsilović was a pioneer of archeological research of monastic complexes previously uninvestigated in Serbia. Her study resulted in her major prize-winning publication Krst u Krugu: Arhitektura manastira u srednjovekovnoj Srbiji [Cross in the Circle: Monastery Architecture in Medieval Serbia, 1994].

A remarkable scholar, professor of art history, architectural historian, and conservator of architectural heritage, Svetlana was educated in Belgrade (Serbia, former Yugoslavia) and Birmingham (Great Britain). She authored and co-authored four books and published over fifty articles and scholarly contributions in international and peer-reviewed journals and monographs. Her last article "The Last Hesychast Safe Havens in Late Fourteenth and Fifteenth-century Monasteries in the Northern Balkans" was issued this March in Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta XLVIII (2011). Among many honors she received for her work are multiple fellowships at Dumbarton Oaks, Princeton University, and the National Gallery of Art Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts and several awards for best conservator's practices and protection of historical monuments.

Proposal For St Nikolai of Zica and South Canaan and St Iustin of Chelije

SERBIAN HOUSE OF STUDIES

at Saint Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary

The purpose of this document is to lay out the framework of a proposed Serbian House of Students at SVOTS (SHS).