Věstník (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 15, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 9, 2003 Page: 1 of 16
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Joining Hands To Tonch Lives ...
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Enriching Lives
BENEVOLENCE
HUMANITY
BROTHERHOOD
VOLUME 91 NUMBER 15
Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 to: SPJST Home Office, P. O. Box 100, Temple, Texas 76503
ISSN—07458800
Apríl 9, 2003
Family Fun and
Importam SPJST Dates
Apríl 12 Lodge 88, Houston Easter Party
Apríl 13 District One Spring Meeting at Lodge 9, Snook
Apríl 13 Free Appreciation Dance at Lodge 47, Seaton
Apríl 18 Good Fríday • SPJST Home Office Closed
Apríl 19 SPJST Easter Eggstravaganza at Lions’ Park, Temple
Apríl 19 Lodge 25, Ennjs Youth Club Easter Party
Apríl 19 Lodě 84, Dallas Junior Youth Club Easter Party
Apríl 25 Lodge 183, Arlington hosts Melodion Band
from the Czech Republic
Apríl 27 Lodge 38, Kovar Annual Picnic
Apríl 27 District Three Spring Meeting at Lodge 25, Ennis
Apríl 27 District Four Spring Meeting at St. Ambrose
Fellowship Halí in Wall hosted by Lodge 160
May 4 Lodge 29, Taylor May Fest - Dinner and Dance
May 4 Lodge 172, Pasadena Sociál - Dinner and Dance
May 11 Lodge 24, Cyclone Mother’s Day Barbecue
May 17 State Horseshoe Tournament, Liorťs Park, Temple
May 18 District Seven Spring Meeting hosted by Lodge 133,
San Antonio at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
May 18 Lodge 80, Holland Annual Picnic
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SPJST Supports Library, Archives and Museum
District One Director Donnie Victorick, on behalf of the SPJST Supreme
Lodge, presents SPJST Library, Archives and Museum (LAM) Treasurer
Margaret Haisler with a check for $5,000. The donation is an annual aílo-
cafion made by the SPJST as aufhorized by the 2000 SPJST Convention.
The presentation was made in the SPJST LAM’s new Svatava P. Jakobson
Reading Room. Please see related story for deíails.
SPJST LAM dedicates
reading room in memory
of Svatava Jakobson
he Svatava P. Jakobson
Reading Room, the newest addi-
tion to the SPJST Library,
Archives and Museum was dedi-
cated at a speciál ceremony in
Temple, Texas on Sunday after-
noon, March 9. The SPJST LAM
is located at the SPJST Home Office
at 520 North Main Street.
The reading room honors Svatava
P. Jakobson, distinguished educator
and musicologist, v/ho died in
Sepíember 2000. The room is fítted
with furnishings, arť, artifacts, and
memorabilia from Professor Jakob-
son’s home in Austin and will serve as
a research area for scholars working
with the LAM’s
c o 1 1 e c t i o n .
Among the spe-
ciál guests in
attendance at the
dedication cere-
mony were Ms.
Jakobson’s neph-
ew, Michal Basch
and his wife,
Marcela, of the
Czech Republic.
Svatava Jakobson
A Home With Character
From 1968 to 1992, Ms. Jakobson
made her home in a limestone cottage
on River Hills Road outside Austin in
the Texas Hill Country. The house,
completely renovated by Jakobson,
had a personality that was distinctly
hers. It was filled with furnishings,
folk art, and artifacts from around the
woríd, but particularly from her
beíoved Czechoslovakia. The house,
with its garden, became the scene of
intellectual and sociál gatherings for
Dr. Jakobson’s colleagues, students,
new Texas acquaintances, and Czech
friends from abroad.
An Active Life
Ms. Jakobson was professor of
Czech studies at the University of
Texas at Austin for 11 years from
1968 to 1979. After her retirement as
professor emeritus, she continued to
mentor students of Czech language,
literatuře, and culture. During her 25
years in Texas, Professor Jakobson
was an inspiration to academics inter-
ested in Czech subjects as well as to
Texas-Czechs with an interest in cul-
tural preservation.
Bom in Vienna, Austria, March 19,
1908, Svatava was an avid lifelong
collector of books, art, and music of
particular interest were folk art and
folk music. Early on, these interests
led to her graduate work at Charles
University in Prague that culminated
in a dissertation on Moravian folk
(Continued on page 3.)
Make Yourself at Home!
Fitted with furnishings, art, artifacts, and memorabilia from Professor
Jakobson’s Austin home, the Svatava Jakobson Reading Room will serve
as an inviting research venue for scholars utilizing the SPJST Library,
Archives and Museum collection. Austin architect Roger Kolár, a long-
time friénd of the latě Dr. Jakobson, oversaw the installation of the room
and served as master of ceremonies for the dedication.
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Vanicek, Brian. Věstník (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 15, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 9, 2003, newspaper, April 9, 2003; Temple, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth632788/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Slovanska Podporujici Jednota Statu Texas.