REPORTS OF MEETINGS

45th General Assembly Meeting

The 45th Annual Meeting of SVU General Assembly was held in Olomouc, Czech Republic, July 2, 2004, in conjuction with the 2004 SVU World Congress.

As was announced at the last SVU General Assembly meeting, Miloslav Rechcigl was again reelected SVU President for the upcoming 2004-2006 administrative period. The meeting was held ast the conclusion of the SVU World Congress, held at Palacky University, on 2 June 2004.

Other elected Executive Board members are Dr. Jan P. Skalny, Executive Vice President; Prof. Vera Zanda Borkovec, Dr. Zdenek David, Prof. Milan Fryscak, Prof. Joseph J. Kohn, Margaret Hermanek Peaslee, Rev. Michael Rokos, and Dr. Dagmar Hasalova White, Vice Presidents; Frank Safertal, Secretary General; and Frank Mucha, Treasurer. The complete list of the new officers is given below.

The General Assembly meeting was well attended. After a brief introduction, Mila Rechcigl, who chaired the meeting, asked Secretary General Frank Safertal to take the minutes. He then appointed the Resolution Committee, consisting of Zdenek David, Karel Konecny and Stanislav Komenda. Layne Pierce who drafted the minutes of the previous General Assembly meeting in Iowa was asked to summarize the key points of the minutes, following which the last year's minutes were approved. General Assembly was then asked to rise to honor the members of the deceased members.

The next point of the agenda were individual reports of various SVU chapters who were represented at meeting., i.e., Bratislava, Brno, Prague, Plzen, New York, Washington (DC),

Texas, Nebraska, Spillville ((IA), and Cleveland (OH). It was also announced that a new chapter will soon be established in Olomouc.

SVU President then presented his traditional State of the SVU Report covering the 2002-2004 period, the text of which is appears elsewhere. The report was subsequently approved by the Assembly.

This was followed by the Report of SVU Treasurer Frank Mucha. Upon the recommendation of the Auditors of Accounts, whose Report was presented to the Assembly, the General Assembly voted to accept both Reports and discharge the current retiring Executive Board of liability.

By this time the Resolution Committee announced that they are ready with their resolution.

Zdenek David read the draft to the Assembly which unanimously approved it.

Having completed the agenda, SVU President thanked the outgoing Executive Board for their work and cooperation during the two year period and, before stepping down from the podium, he appointed Ivo Feierabend, who served on the Nominations Committee, Chairman pro tempore.

Based on the Report of the Committee of Election Inspectors (consisting of Zdenek Vich, Zdenka Horakova, Eva Vichova and Vaclav Horak), which Ivo Feierabend read to the General Assembly, the slate of candidates proposed by the Nominations Committee was elected in its entirety.

Ivo Feirabend then called upon Mila Rechcigl, the newly elected SVU President, to take over the meeting. Rechcigl thanked the members for their confidence and introduced to the Assembly the other newly elected members present at the meeting. He pledged that the newly elected Board will make every effort to bring SVU to new heights in the spirit of the Society's founders.

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Newly Elected SVU Officers 2004-2006

SVU Executive Board

President
Miloslav Rechcigl, Jr., Rockville, MD

Executive Vice President
Jan P. Skalny, Holmes Beech, FL

Vice Presidents
Vera Z. Borkovec, American University, Washington, DC
Zdenek David, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC
Milan Fryscak, New York University, New York, NY
Joseph J. Kohn, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Margaret Hermanek Peaslee, University of Pittsburgh, Titusville, PA
Karel F. Raska, Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ
Michael Rokos, Baltimore, MD
Dagmar H. White, Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale, VA

Secretary-General
Frank J. Safertal, Bethesda, MD

Treasurer
Frank Mucha, Columbia University, New York, NY

SVU Council
Marie Nemcova Banerjee, Smith College, Northampton, MA
Zdenek P. Bazant, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Petr Bisek, Glen Cove, NY
Ivo Budil, University of West Bohemia, Plzen, CR
Zora Butorova, Institute of Public Affairs, Bratislava, SR
Josef Cermak, Toronto, Ont., Canada
Lubomir Durovic, Lund Universitet, Lund, Sweden
Libor Ebringer, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, SR
Andrew Elias, Fairfax, VA
Ivo K. Feierabend, San Diego University, San Diego, CA
Jaroslav Folta, National Technical Museum, Prague
Thomas G. Gibian, Sandy Spring, MD
Milan Hauner, Madison, WI
Zdenek Hruban, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Josef Jarab, Palacky University, Olomouc, CR
Eva Dubska Kushner, Victoria University, Canada
Josef Machac, Mt. Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY
Ladislav Macho, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava
Victor S. Mamatey, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Josef Mestenhauser, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Zlatica Plasienkova, Comenius University, Bratislava, SR
Miroslav Plavec, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Vlado Simko, State University of New York
Peter Sis, New York, NY
Zdenek Suda, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Jan Svejnar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Alexander Tkac, Slovak Technical University, Bratislava, SR
Piotr Wandycz, Yale University, CA
Rudolf Zahradnik, Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic, Prague, CR
Petr Zuman, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY

Auditors of the Accounts
Eva Marikova Leeds, Bethlehem, PA
Milos Halouzka, Laguna Hills, CA
Ivan Furda, Minneapolis, MN
Carol H. Hochman, Pittsburgh, PA

Conciliation and Arbitration Committee
George Glos, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Radomir Luza, Blue Bell, PA
Vladimir Kabes, Bethesda, MD

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