Forty-Eighth Slovenes of the Year Banquet

Each year the Federation of Slovenian National Homes has honored our Slovenes of the Year. On Saturday, March 21, 2009, our Federation will present the Slovenes of the Year, Class of 2009, at an Awards Banquet.

The Banquet will take place at the Slovenian National Home, 6417 St. Clair Avenue. Dinner will be served at 4:00 p.m., with the program starting at 6:00 p.m.

The following is a list of individuals being honored from each of the Slovenian National Homes and the Slovene Woman and Man of the Year 2009. Click the honoree's name to read their bio.

• Robert A. Hopkins (2009 Man of the Year)
• Geraldine A. Hopkins (2009 Woman of the Year)
• Josepha Strauss (Slovenian National Home - St. Clair)
• Ed Morel (Slovenian Home Society - Holmes)
• Mitzie Mahne (American Slovenian Club - Fairport)
• Olga Dorchak (Slovenian National Home - E. 80th)
• Mark Habat (Slovenian Society Home - Recher)
• Judy Hauser (Slovenian Independent Society Home)

The Federation of Slovenian Homes honoree photos have been provided by

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Primoz Trubar

A biographical film introduce by Luka Zibelnik

7:00 PM – Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Slovenian Society Home (Lower Hall)
20713 Recher Avenue, Euclid, Ohio

The Slovenian-American Heritage Foundation invites all to attend the second talk in our 2009 Lecture Series.  The Foundation is extremely pleased that Mr. Luka Zibelnik will introduce a biographical film about Primož Trubar, the father of Slovenian written language.  The film will be in the Slovenian Language with English translation and commentary.  The program, which is free and open to the public, will take place on Tuesday, March 24th at 7:00 PM in the Lower Hall of the Slovenian Society Home, 20713 Recher Avenue in Euclid.  A coffee and strudel social will follow the lecture. 

Primož Trubar (1508-1586) is considered the individual who consolidated of the Slovene language and is credited as the first Slovenian writer.  He was also a preacher and leading advocate of the Protestant Reformation in Slovenia.  In 1548 Trubar wrote the first Slovenian language books, Catechismus and Abecedarium, and in the next decades published another twenty-five books, including the first translation of the New Testament into the Slovenian language. 

Luka Zibelnik studied and researched the Slovenian language and Sociology of Culture at the University of Ljubljana.  His main field of the research was anti-Semitism in literature, especially the metaphorical way of presenting itself.  The Center for Slovenian as a second or foreign language from the Faculty of Arts at University of Ljubljana sent Mr. Zibelnik to Cleveland to start the new a new program of Slovenian language studies on the college level.  He is now teaching Slovenian Language classes at Cleveland State University and Lakeland Community College.

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