Jerome
JAREB, graduate student of history, Columbia University. B.S., Columbia University, 1955; M.A., Columbia University, 1958. Master
thesis, The Adriatic Question from the Armistice, 1918, to Orlando's Fall, June
1919. The study Pola stoljeća hrvatske politike (Half a Century of
Croatian Politics), currently appearing in Hrvatska Revija (Buenos
Aires), will be enlarged and published as a book in 1960.
Nada
KESTERCANEK VUJICA is a known Croatian writer. She published one book of poetry
Zov za daljinama (Zagreb, 1940, together with Stanko Gašparović), Suton
na Tiberu, travel impressions from Italy (Zagreb, 1942), an
autobiographical short story, Tri generacije (Zagreb, 1942), and Tragovi
(Buenos Aires, 1959) a book of poetic prose. She contributed to several leading
Croatian literary periodicals (Hrvatska Revija, Savremenik etc.) before and
during World War II, and is represented in seven anthologies of Croatian poetry
in Croatian and in translation. M.A. in South Slavic literatures and languages,
University of Zagreb, 1940; M. A. in library science, Marywood College,
Scranton, Pa., 1952. Regular contributor to Hrvatska Revija (Buenos
Aires), a Croatian exile quarterly. Chief librarian at Wilkes College, since
1952.
Dominic
MANDIĆ, a known Croatian - historian and educator, a member of Franciscan
Order. S.T.D., Fribourg, Switzerland, 1921. Since 1952 in the United States
(Chicago, Illinois). Contributed to several Croatian learned journals (Croatia
Sacra, Bogoslovska Smotra, Hrvatska Revija etc.). Published several historical
works, among them the following: De legislatione antiqua Ordinis Fratrum
Minorum (Mostar, 1924), Acta Franciscana Hercegovinae provinciarumque
finitarum tempore dominationis Othomanae, vol. I, 1463-1699 (Mostar, 1934),
Duvanjska biskupija od XIV do XVII stoljeća (Zagreb, 1936), Postanak
Vlaha (Buenos Aires, 1956), Crvena Hrvatska (Chicago, 1957), Documenta
Martyrii B. Nicolai Tavelić et Sociorum eius Ordinis Minorum (Rome,
1958).
Vladimir
MARKOTIC, graduate student of anthropology specialty in archeology, Harvard
University; M.A. in anthropology, Indiana University, 1955. Thesis,
Glottochronology as the Method and the Slavic Languages.
Matthew M.
MEŠTROVIĆ teaches at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, N. J. and
in the General Education Division of New York University. He is also an
Assistant Editor for Scholastic Magazines. Meštrović received a Ph.D. in
Modern European History from Columbia University, 1957.
Karlo
MIRTH, a graduate engineer of forestry, University of Zagreb, 1942; founder,
publisher and editor-in-chief of the Croatia Press, a monthly review and
news bulletin, published in New York; elected President of the Croatian Academy
of America Inc. for 1959. Having completed a year of study in journalism in
Rome (1946-1947), he also studied Spanish culture in Madrid. His articles
appear in English, Spanish and Croatian.
George J.
PRPIC, instructor of European history at John Carroll University, Cleveland,
Ohio; LL. M., University of Zagreb, 1944; M. A. in history, John Carroll
University, 1956; Ph.D. in history, Georgetown University, Washington, D. C.,
1959. Dissertation, The Croats in America.
Christopher
SPALATIN studied at the Universities of Zagreb and Paris, received Ph.D. from
the University of Zagreb, 1934. He taught at the Universities of Zagreb, Rome,
and Naples. Now he is teaching at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisc. He
published articles on French literature and language, and on culture and
language in general, in the following periodicals: Nastavni Vjesnik,
Hrvatska Revija, Osoba ě Duh (in Croatian), Annals de l'Institut
Français de Zagreb, Le Français Moderne (in French), Cultura nel Mondo,
Dialoghi (in Italian). He translated books from French into Croatian and
published a book in French on Saint Evremond.
George
STAMBUK M.A., in pol. sci., Indiana 1957; contributed to Political Studies
(Oxford) ("Judicial Protection of Civil Liberties in Germany");
currently working on a doctoral dissertation in international law and relations
on American military bases abroad; Resident Lecturer, Indiana University, South
Bend Center.
Zlatko
TANODI, Professor of Paleography and Diplomatics, National University, Córdoba,
Argentina, since 1953. M.A. in history, University of Zagreb, 1937; Ph.D. in
history, University of Zagreb, 1944. Thesis:
Zagrebačka Zlatna bula (Zagreb, 1944). Studied
and made research in Budapest, Graz, Rome, and Buenos Aires. Published: Monumenta historica liberae et regiae
civitatis Varasdini. Tomus I. Codex diplomaticus 1209-1526
(Varaždin, 1942), together with Adolf Wissert: Tomus II, pars I. Libri
civitatis 1454-1464 et 1467-1469 (Varaždin, 1944); Ediciones de documentos
historicos (Córdoba, 1954); Comienzos de la funcion notarial en Córdoba
(Córdoba, 1956). Contributor to Croatian and Argentine learned journals.
D. A.
TOMASIC, formerly Professor of Sociology and Statistics, University of Zagreb,
at present Professor of Sociology and of Eastern European Studies, Indiana
University. Author of National Communism and Soviet Strategy (1957); The
Impact of Russian Culture on Soviet Communism (1953); Some Problem Areas
in Communist Society (1952); Personality and Culture in Eastern European
Politics (1948); Social Development of the Croatian People (1936, in
Croatian); Political Development of the Croatian People (1939, in Croatian)
and other books. Also numerous articles in English, Croatian, and other
languages.
Stanko M.
VUJICA studied philosophy and religion in Sarajevo, Zagreb, Vienna, and
Innsbruck. He received his doctorate from the University of Zagreb and taught
philosophy in Sarajevo. In 1947 he came to the United States and immediately
began to teach philosophy and religion at Wilkes College, where he is now
Professor and Chairman of the Department.