Dr. JOSEPH HASEK AWARD
The Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU) is announcing a competition for the 2011 Dr. Joseph Hasek student awards. The names of the winners will be announced in the Society’s newsletters.
The main purpose of the Society’s awards is to generate and encourage scholarly interest in Czech and Slovak affairs among university students living outside the Czech and Slovak republics. There will be one prize for the best undergraduate and one for the best graduate study dealing with some aspect of Czech and/or Slovak history, politics, or culture. The winners will receive …read more
This program of an organized annual competition among undergraduate students and graduate students who have submitted the best essay dealing with some aspect of Czech and/or Slovak culture was initiated in 1987 by Professor Vera Borkovec, who was at that time SVU Vice President for Student Affairs (this action was reported by President Jiri Nehnevajsa in the January-February 1988 issue of Zpravy). The idea was to promote interest in things Czech and Slovak among college students and thereby attract the younger generation to join our ranks. …read more
A Personal Memoir of Miloslav Rechcigl, Jr.
We are pleased to bring to the attention of SVU members a new book of reminiscences of Mila Rechcigl, one of the founders and Past President of many years of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences.
These reminiscences are an intimate account of Mila Rechcigl’s saga, his fascinating life, his varied and successful professional career, and his highly visible public life, encompassing some fifty years, since the earliest childhood in a small hamlet in northeastern rural Bohemia …read more
SVU STUDENT AWARDS FOR THE YEAR 2011