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

Jelena Vidovic

Jelena Vidovic was born on February 7th, 1997. She came to the United States at the age of 5 with her parents and started playing tennis at the age of 9. With six short months of tennis experience, she entered her first tournament and placed first in both singles and doubles. When she was in high school, she did the Running Start program. Freshman and sophomore year, she took Advanced Placement classes at her high school and her junior and senior year; she took classes at a community college. This allowed her to earn her high school diploma and Associate’s Degree at the same time. She continued playing tennis throughout high school as the number 1 player all four years and she had opportunity to play Division I tennis. Being an excellent student, she decided to play at a private Division III university to focus on her academics. Studying at a private university is extremely rigorous, but she was still able to graduate in 3 years at a 4-year Public Health program​. She lives in Vancouver, Oregon with her parents, Desimir and Duja​.

Academic Achievements:

  • Finished 6th and 7th Grade in one year
  • Earned High School Diploma and Associate’s Degree at age 17
  • Earned Bachelors in Public Health at age 20 in 3 years at 4-year private university.

High School: Tennis

  • Finished 2nd in Doubles Washington State Championships
  • Finished 2nd Singles Both District and Regional Tournament all four years
  • Most Valuable Player four times
  • Four-time Greater St. Helens League Scholar-Athlete

Pacific University: Tennis

  • Northwest Conference Honorable Mention
  • Northwest Conference Athlete of the Week
  • Northwest Conference First Team All-Conference
  • Pacific University #1 Singles and Doubles Player
  • Only Pacific player to go a perfect 3-0 in both singles and doubles on Boxer’s Southern California trip
  • Ranked 13th Division III West Region
  • Ranked 47th NCAA Division III (First Player to become nationally ranked)
  • Finished the Season with a 14-2 Singles Record and 9-7 Doubles Record

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Marko Kratohvil

Marko Kratohvil was born in Belgrade in 1958.He graduated and received a master’s degree in sculpture at the Belgrade Academy of Fine Arts in the class of Professor Nikola Koka Jankovic.

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Publishing

Serbian Americans: History—Culture—Press

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.

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