A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt

While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
- Woodrow Wilson

Dimitrije Mita Postich

Dimitrije Mita Postich

Dimitrije Mita Postich, a resident of Portola Valley since 1972 and widowed since 2011, died peacefully on the 27th of April, 2013. Dimitrije was born on the 15thof July, 1932 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia where he grew up, later attending the University of Belgrade where he earned his master’s degree in Electrical Engineering in Telecommunications and Electronics in 1957. Dimitrije immigrated to the United States in 1959 at the age of 27 to join his mother, Mirjana, and father, Milivoj Postich.

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In 1969 he met the love of his life, Zlata, they were married in 1971, built a home in Portola Valley and began a family. He was and a loving father and grandfather, an brilliant scientist, avid private pilot since the early 1960s, president of the Saint John’s Serbian Orthodox Church Board, vice president of the Serbian National Defense, member of the First Serbian Benevolent Society, the “Dusan Silni” Historical Society, the Nicola Tesla Society, IEEE, AOPA, and a co-founder of the ETF BAFA - an engineering alumni foundation supporting education at the University of Belgrade.

Dimitrije is survived by his mother-in-law Vera Solovkov, sons Mark and George, daughter-in-law Jenny grandchildren, Natalia and Alexander, and Niece Angelique and Nephew Clarence. His strong personality, charisma, and an ever inquisitive mind will be deeply missed.

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Vladimir Rajčić

Vladimir Rajčić

Born in the city of Pec, Serbia, Ex-Yugoslavia, Vladimir was involved in music and acting in his early young stages. He wanted to be an actor ever since he could remember. He is very outspoken. Knowing how to speak many languages helped him out to be cast by different casting directors.

He majored in journalism, music and acting.

Vladimir plays guitar. He enjoys skydiving and scuba diving, very good at soccer and karate.

Back in Serbia he played in a big rock band.

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Knowing the Purpose of Creation through the Resurrection

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Proceedings of the Symposium on St. Maximus the Confessor

The present volume is a collection of presentations delivered at the St Maximus the Confessor International Symposium held in Belgrade at the University of Belgrade from 18 to 21 October 2012. The Belgrade Symposium brought together the following speakers: Demetrios Bathrellos, Grigory Benevitch, Calinic Berger, Paul Blowers, David Bradshaw, Adam Cooper, Brian Daley, Paul Gavrilyuk, Atanasije Jevtić, Joshua Lollar, Andrew Louth, John Panteleimon Manoussakis, Maximos of Simonopetra, Ignatije Midić, Pascal Mueller-Jourdan, Alexei Nesteruk, Aristotle Papanikolaou, George Parsenios, Philipp Gabriel Renczes, Nino Sakvarelidze, Torstein Tollefsen, George Varvatsoulias, Maxim Vasiljević, Christos Yannaras, and John Zizioulas. The papers and discussions in this volume of the proceedings of the Belgrade Symposium amply attest to the reputation of Saint Maximus the Confessor as the most universal spirit of the seventh century, and perhaps the greatest thinker of the Church.

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