A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt
While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
- Woodrow Wilson
1896 - 1926
ОВЂЕ ПОЧИВА ЈУ КОСТИ ПОК.
ЉУБИЦЕ Н. МИХАЉЕВИЋ СА
ЋЕРКОМ ЗОРКОМ ПОК ЉУБИЦА
ЈЕ РОЂЕНА У НИКШИЋУ ЦАНА
ГОРА 15 АПРИЛА 1896. ГОД.
ПРЕДСТАВЉЕНА У ВЈЕЧНОСТ 23. ОКТ.
1926. ГОД. У ЂАКСОН КАЛИФ ПОК
ЉУБИЦА БИЛА ЈЕ ЧЛАНИЦА СРПСКОГ
ДОБРОТВОРНОГ ДРУШТВА ОСТРОГ
БРОЈ 15 С.С.С.С. ОВАЈ СПОМЕНИК
ПОДИЖЕ ЊЕН СУПРУГ ДРУШТВО
И ЊЕН НИКО МИХАЉЕВИЋ
СУПРУГ
Miloš Milorad Velimirović (December 10, 1922 – April 18, 2008) was an American musicologist. Twice a recipient of a Fulbright fellowship, he was considered an international expert in the areas of Byzantine music, the history of Slavonic music, and the history of Italian opera in the 18th century.
Velimirović was born in Belgrade, Serbia, to Milorad and Desanka (Jovanović) Velimirović, a physician and a piano teacher respectively. In his boyhood in Serbia, he learned to play the violin and piano. He was gifted with the ability to learn multiple languages, in addition to a lifelong passion for music. During his adolescent years he studied music history and music theory. Velimirović began a program of studies in music history at the University of Belgrade, also studying violin and piano at the conservatory. In 1941, with the invasion of the Axis powers, the university was closed, and Velimirović's studies there were suspended until after the war.
by Krinka Vidaković-Petrov, translated from Serbian by Milina Jovanović
Learned, lucid, and deeply perceptive, SERBIAN AMERICANS is an immensely rewarding and readable book, which will give historians invaluable new insights, and general readers exciting new ways to approach the history of Serbian printed media. Serbian immigration to the U.S. started dates from the first few decades of 19th c. The first papers were published in San Francisco starting in 1893. During the years of the most intense politicization of the Serbian American community, the Serbian printed media developed quickly with a growing number of daily, weekly, monthly and yearly publications. Newspapers were published in Serbian print shops, while the development of printing presses was a precondition for the growth of publishing in general. Among them were various kinds of books: classical Serbian literature, folksong collections, political pamphlets, works of the earliest Serbian American writers in America (poetry, prose and plays), first translations from English to Serbian, books about Serb immigrants, dictionaries, textbooks, primers, etc.
