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Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 to: SPJST Home Office, P. 0. Box 100, Temple, Texas 76503 VOLUME 91 NUMBER 15 ISSN-07458800
April 9, 2003
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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 allocation made by the SPJST as authorized 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 details.
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Lodge 88, Houston Easter Party District One Spring Meeting at Lodge 9, Snook Free Appreciation Dance at Lodge 47, Seaton Good Friday • SPJST Home Office Closed SPJST Easter Eggstravaganza at Lions' Park, Temple Lodge 25, Ennis Youth Club Easter Party Lode 84, Dallas Junior Youth Club Easter Party Lodge 183, Arlington hosts Melodion Band from the Czech Republic Lodge 38, Kovar Annual Picnic District Three Spring Meeting at Lodge 25, Ennis District Four Spring Meeting at St. Ambrose Fellowship Hall in Wall hosted by Lodge 160 Lodge 29, Taylor May Fest - Dinner and Dance Lodge 172, Pasadena Social- Dinner and Dance Lodge 24, Cyclone Mother's Day Barbecue State Horseshoe Tournament, Lion's Park, Temple District Seven Spring Meeting hosted by Lodge 133, San Antonio at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church Lodge 80, Holland Annual Picnic —SPJST-
SPJST LAM dedicates reading room in memory of Svatava Jakobson The Svatava P. Jakobson Reading Room, the newest addition to the SPJST Library, Archives and Museum was dedicated at a special ceremony in Temple, Texas on Sunday afternoon, 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, who died in September 2000. The room is fitted with furnishings, art, artifacts, and memorabilia from Professor Jakobson's home in Austin and will serve as a research area for scholars working with the LAM's collection. Among the special guests in attendance at the dedication ceremony were Ms. Jakobson's nephew, Michal Basch and his wife, Marcela, of the Svatava Jakobson Czech Republic. 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 world, but particularly from her beloved Czechoslovakia. The house, with its garden, became the scene of intellectual and social 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, literature, and culture. During her 25 years in Texas, Professor Jakobson was an inspiration to academics interested in Czech subjects as well as to Texas-Czechs with an interest in cultural preservation. Born 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.)
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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 Kolar, a longtime friend of the late Dr. Jakobson, oversaw the installation of the room and served as master of ceremonies for the dedication.