Additional SVU Archival Material Moved to IHRC

In the middle of July 2005, Daniel Necas, Assistant Archivist of the University of Minnesota?s Immigration History Research Center (IHRC), came to Rockville, MD to pick up the remaining documents, publications and other SVU archival materials and Miloslav Rechcigl's correspondence, etc., that have been kept in SVU President's house. The material will be added to SVU Archives maintained in IHRC in Minneapolis. MN. The load comprised some 100 packed boxes, weighing over a ton. We wish to express our sincere thanks to Daniel Necas for his great help in the enormous undertaking.. Although most of the SVU material, maintained centrally, has now been deposited in the SVU Archives in Minnesota, the SVU archival collection is not complete by any means. To be truly functional, the SVU Archives need to be as complete as possible. What?s especially lacking are especially archival materials from the time of Prof. Jiri Nehnevajsa?s, Prof. Igor Nabelek?s and Prof. Jan F. Triska?s Presidency. Lacking are also materials maintained by former Secretaries-General, including the documents of Prof. Rudolf Sturm, Prof. Vojtech Andic and Ing. Milos Kucera. Unfortunately, most of the mentioned officers are now deceased. To assure that these materials don?t get damaged or discarded we appeal to their families to send these documents to IHRC as soon as possible.

The older material that has been deposited in SVU Archives is based primarily on the collections maintained by Dr. Jaroslav Nemec, Dr. John G. Lexa, Prof. Rene Wellek, Prof. Leopold Pospisil and Dr. Miloslav Rechcigl. Nevertheless, we would welcome any additional materials you may have from the time of the SVU Presidency of Prof. Vaclav Hlavaty, Dr. Jan Mladek and Prof. Francis Schwarzenberg.

We are equally concerned about the SVU materials maintained by the individual SVU Chapters in the US, Canada and other parts of the world. The current officers of the Chapters are admonished to send their materials to Minnesota without further delay. Of all the Chapters, only Washington DC and Pittsburgh sent their materials to Minnesota.

Apart from the actual documents, the SVU Archives also contain publications issued or sponsored by the Society, as well publications by its members. With reference to the latter, the collection is very incomplete. We are thus appealing to our members to send copies of their monographs to IHRC so that the collection is complete. The relevant archival material and the monographs should be sent to the following address:

Daniel Necas, Assistant Curator, Immigration History Research Center,University of Minnesota. 311 Elmer L. Andersen Library. 222-21st Avenue South. Minneapolis, MN 55455

Thanks for your understanding. If you have question contact me at SVU1@comcast.net

Mila Rechcigl
SVU President

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