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Subject: Re: [CROATIA] Another Croatian Roman Catholic institution to close!
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:43:06 EST
While it may be difficult and costly to preserve the buildings, I would
suggest to try and collect the papers, and pictures pertaining to the history of
Croatian church in America.. The immigrants' families have many such priceless
documents.
Searching through Google I found that the project exists at the Minnesota
University:
Home >For Educators &Students >Fellowship Opportunities : Louis P. Novak
The Louis P. Novak Fellowship
Croatian American Studies
Croatian American Studies Fund : IHRC : University of Minnesota
dr Tatjana Former
In a message dated 1/22/2007 5:52:26 PM Eastern Standard Time,
writes:
>
> I recieved this notice from one of the posters to a genealogy message board.
>
> This trend is alarming, while we can all understand the reduced church
> attendence and parohicial school enrollment (at least in some areas), I believe
> that some Bishops and Diocese Offices do not respect the contributions made
> by the European ethinic communities to the building of the Roman Catholic
> faith in America. Recently the olderst Roman Catholic Croatian church in
> America, St Nicholas in Pittsburgh PA, closed. What a shame that we did not all
> raise our voices (and maybe also money!) to save such an important
> American-Croatian institution. How many more will close before the community acts in a
> positive manner to help?
>
> *********
>
> St. John The Baptist Grade School in Kansas
> City, Kansas is scheduled to be closed. It will be consolidated with
> two other grade schools, and the students will be moved to the grade
> school which is based at the archdiocese catherdral.
>
> St. John's is important in the history of Croatians in the United States. It
> was the first Croatian grade school, established and opened
> in 1909, under the direction of Msgr. Martin Krmpotic, shortly after the
> church was constructed and dedicated in 1904. The history of the parish
> is outlined in the book The Croatian Immigrants in America by George
> Prpic, a professor at John Carroll University in Cleveland. The parish
> complex was also the sight of the first Croatian orphanage in this
> country, founded and run by the same sisters who staffed the school.
> The orphanage has long closed, and the building is the site of the
> Strawberry Hill Museum.
>
> I have written the archbishop to make him aware of the significance of
> the school and the church, which is also rumored to be on the closure
> list. If any of the other list members who have ties to St. John's
> would want to write him as well, the address is :
>
> His Excellency The Most Reverend Joseph F. Naumann, D.D.
> Archbishop of Kansas City in Kansas
> 12615 Parallel Parkway Kansas City, KS 66109
> Phone (913) 721-1570
> Fax (913) 721-1577
> email: . org <mailto:. org>
> <mailto:. org>
>
>
>
> "Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's
> whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the
> process of setting man free from men." Ayn Rand 1905-1982
>
>
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