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

Hilandar Project Circle of 100

Only six short months ago, with the blessing and support of His Grace Bishop Maxim, our Circle of 100 Chairperson, Ronald Radakovich and his wife Mickey, began an ambitious diocesan fundraising campaign to raise 300,000 USD for the rebuilding of our Holy Monastery Hilandar on Mount Athos. Their vision motivated and enabled them to inspire 100 individuals/families to become benefactors, donating 1,000 USD a year for three years.

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Today, on Saturday, March 31, 2012, we can pause and reflect on what has been accomplished. A Circle of 100 Benefactors have answered a call to embark on a three year journey together to preserve our sacred heritage and significantly contribute, prayerfully and monetarily, to the reconstruction and restoration of our Holy Monastary Hilandar founded in 1198 by the first Archbishop of Serbia, Saint Sava, and his father, Saint Simeon, on Mount Athos.

We express our gratitude to all of our Benefactors for the generous support they have shown for the Rebuilding of Monastery Hilandar which has suffered damage time and time again as a result of conquering plundering earthquakes and fires.

If you would like to join this special group of people in their efforts to raise funds to help rebuild our Holy Monastery Hilandar, please click here.

BENEFACTORS

As of April 27, 2012 - 102 Benefactors

Malena Adzich
Robert & Kathy Adzich

Father James, Popadija Nina & Dimitri Barfield
Subdeacon Steven Begovich + In Memoriam Michael Begovich
Dragisa, Shari, Nikola, Katarina Blagojevic
Eli & Mary Bogdanovic
Don & Jasmina Boulanger
Gene & Nelda Bowan
Zorka Bozic
Radmilo & Roula Bozinovic
Diana Cucuk-Brkic
Burge Family
Steve & Laura Burge

George & Jeri Chalich
Don & Maxine Chuck
Milo & Dolores Colich
Gavrilo Cucuk
Father Vasilije & Protinica Sretenka Cvijanovic
Family Cvjetkovic - Milena, Pavo, Bosiljka, Zoran, Veliborka, David & Sophia

Steven Davidovich
William & Alicia Davidovich
Vitko, Snjezana, Sandra & Sara Dekic
Zoran Dimitrijevic
Ratko Djekich
Peter Djokovich
Neno & Tamara Djordjevic
Miroslav & Marie Djordjevich
Sveta & Mira Djuric
Milorad & Ljiljana Dragovic
Stevo & Ana Ducic and Vladan & Olga Bataveljic  + In Memoriam Marko & Bozana Duchich
Tom C. Dyke
Slobodan & Margaret Galeb
Father Miladin Garich
Igor & Miriam Gavrilkin
Brian & Marilyn Gerich
Vuk & Nina Glavas
John & Valerie Glover
Mico & Teresa Golubovich
Dragoslav Grbovic & Jelena-Pjesivac Grbovic

John & Jan Ivankovich

Zvezde Jakovleski & Sredoje Jontulovich
Dragan & Angelia Jovanovic
Sasa Jovic
Father Slobodan & Protinica Djurdjina Jovic
Dusko Jovicic

Pauline Komnenich
Don & Bitsy Kosovac
Krakovic Family
Donald & Marlene Kral
Paul & Barbara Kral
Vukasin Krtolica + In Memoriam Radmila Krtolica
Peter Kujachich

Konstantin Lobodovsky + In Memoriam
Predrag Lubura

Rade & Milosava Malkovich + In Memoriam Borka Malkovich
Mercia & Milan Martich
Coco Martinovich
George Martinovich
His Grace Bishop Maxim
Djoko Micanovich
Donna Michael
Ilija & Branka Mitic
Vaso Mitrovic

Perry Narancic & Jasenka Narancic Rakas

Krsto & Jovan Pejovich and Nikola Kordich + In Memoriam John & Nev Kordich & Steven Lloyd
Dejan, Ksenija & Stefan Perkovic

Father Velimir & Protinica Ljubinka Petakovich
Vasko & Vaska Petrovich

Vido & Andja Petrovic & Sanja & Vanja
Marie Pincu
Mita Postich
Savo Price + In Memoriam - Price Family

Dragan & Ljubinka Rabrenovich
George & Elizabeth Radakovich
Mike Radakovich
Ron & Mickey Radakovich
Steve Radakovich
Roy & Buffy Ratkovich
Mac & Mileva Rogish + In Memoriam
Steve & Irene Ruzich + In Memoriam

Zelen Savich & Eliza Dixon
George & Angie Sekulich
Ivanka & Milica Stefanovic
Petar Stojadinovic
Vlada Subotic & Family: Jasna,Luka,Nikola

Misa & Debra Tasich
Zlatko & Kimberly Teodorovic
Jovan Tica
Nikola & Dragica Todorovich
Very Rev. Stavrohphor Janko Trbovich-In Honor
Father Steve & Protinica Betsy Tumbas

Ljubomir & Jeanne Velickovic
Milorad & Vladanka Vladic & Family
Professor Jasmina Vujic
Will & Pat Vujovich
George Vukasin Family
Nenad & Jelena Vukicevic

Father William & Protinica MaryAnn Weir
Bill & Ljubica Welden

First Serbian Benevolent Society
Zora Lodge Serb National Federation + In Memoriam of our departed members

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Andrei Simic

Education:

  • Ph.D. Social Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1970

Academic Employment:

  • Professor of Anthropology, University of Southern California, 1991

Description of Research:
Summary Statement of Research Interests

  • Professor Simic studies the ethnography of Europe, with a focus on the Balkans and Eastern Europe. His research centers on ethnicity, nationalism, and post-Communist society with particular emphasis on former Yugoslavia. His other specialties include the study of American ethnic groups, cross-cultural gerontology, and visual anthropology.

Research Keywords

  • Balkans and Eastern Europe, Ethnicity, Nationalism, Post-Communist Society, Cross-cultural Gerontology, Visual Anthropology
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Notes On Ecumenism

Written in 1972 by St. Abba Justin Popovich, edited by Bishop Athanasius Yevtich, translated from Serbian by Aleksandra Stojanovich, and proofread by Fr Miroljub Ruzich

Abba Justin’s manuscript legacy (on which Bishop Athanasius have been working for a couple of years preparing an edition of The Complete Works ), also includes a parcel of sheets/small sheets of paper (in the 1/4 A4 size) with the notes on Ecumenism (written in pencil and dating from the period when he was working on his book “The Orthodox Church and Ecumenism”; there are also references to the writings of St. Bishop Nikolai [Velimirovich], short excerpts copied from his Sermons, some of which were quoted in the book).

The editor presents the Notes authentically, as he has found them in the manuscripts (his words inserted in the text, as clarification, are put between the slashes /…/; all the footnotes are ours).—In the appendix are present the facsimiles of the majority of Abba’s Notes which were supposed to be included in his book On Ecumenism (written in haste then, but now significantly supplemented with these Notes. The Notes make evident the full extent of Justin’s profundity as a theologian and ecclesiologist of the authentic Orthodoxy).—The real Justin is present in these Notes: by his original language, style, literature, polemics, philosophy, theology, and above all by his confession of the God-man Christ and His Church. He confesses his faith, tradition, experience and his perspective on man, on the world and on Europe—invariably in the Church and from the Church, in the God-man Christ and from Him, just as he did in all of his writings and in his entire life and theologizing.