ACADEMY’S ANNUAL GENERAL ASSEMBLY

After an unexpected hiatus of a few years, The Croatian Academy of America held its Annual General Assembly on Saturday, May 5, 2012 at New York’s Villa Berulia Restaurant located on 34th Street in New York, New York.  Approximately a dozen Members and friends of the Academy gathered to discuss the activities of the Academy during the past several years and plans for the Academy’s future.

The Members specifically discussed the recent appearance of Volumes 44 and 45/46 of the Academy’s Journal of Croatian Studies as well as the on-going work for Volume 47 which appeared later in 2012.  Members also discussed plans to update the web site of the Academy as well as putting into place the mechanism to award a number of academic scholarships and planning a celebration for the 60^th anniversary of the Academy’s founding.

The Members present elected the following officers for the Academy for the coming year: John P. Kraljic – President; Michael Young – Vice-President, Mladen Lolich – Executive Secretary, Emily Erceg – Treasurer, Dr. Maria Tuskan as Recorder and Suzanne Grimm – Committee of Control.

The members further agreed to unanimously re-elect the current members of the Executive Committee for an additional one year term.

The new officers of the Academy expressed much optimism concerning the Academy’s future and look forward to revitalizing the Academy’s work.