Slovenian Women's Union of America NYC

On Sunday, June 16th, we met in the Luna Park Restaurant within Union Square Park in Manhattan. Although many seem to have been discouraged from venturing out into the City on a very hot summer day, Vesna, Lynn and Sonja braved the temperature in the 90’s to discuss and plan upcoming events while enjoying a lovely Sunday brunch.

At the end of February we applied for grant money from the Office of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia For Slovenians Abroad for a lecture series to be given at several locations in the United States by Mirjam Milharčič-Hladnik in the fall of 2005. Vesna was happy to report that we had received some funding which will allow us to organize the lecture, albeit only in New York City. A tentative time frame for the event is early November. We discussed preliminary details of organizing the lecture in traditional Slovenian fashion, combined with Slovenian wine and cookies and in conjunction with the Slovenian Consulate. We would also like to invite all SWUA members across the country to join us if possible and discussed ways to advertise the event through Zarja.

We also talked about our initiative relating to RTV Slovenia’s program Slovenian Magazine. Per Lynn’s initiative in late February, Vesna recorded an episode of the program and sent it to SWUA headquarters. Due to a very enthusiastic response, Lynn further suggested taping a few episodes and mailing them to other branches that would be interested in viewing the program. An order form for a tape with three episodes prepared by Lynn was printed in the May/June issue of Zarja and we received a number of orders, which we plan to send out by mid August.

Finally we decided on who should fill the position of a Branch Web Liaison in response to the memo from SWUA headquarters asking us to elect someone who would be willing to supply a SWUA contact persons with our branch news to be posted on the web. Sonja, who is our current webmaster, accepted the responsibilities related to this position.

We are planning to get together for another meeting to finalize details related to organizing Mirjam’s lecture and sending out of Slovenian Magazine tapes. Tentatively this will take place in late July so be on a lookout for another evite soon!


New York City Branch of Slovenian Women's Union of America