Education

Most of the information in this article came from the Library of Congress, Washington D.C. 1988, entitled “Masarayk and America-Testimony of a Relationship” by George J Kouton, European Division. Additional citings are from SGC Newsletter, June/July, 2015 Throughout history there have been men and women who have campaigned for a cause or their country. At times these efforts have been for good...

The Mikulas tradition takes place on the evening of December 5th. This day is almost as important as Christmas in the Czech Republic. Mikulas honors Saint Nicholas, a bishop born in Greece during the 3rd century. He was the patron saint of children and the downtrodden. In the Czech tradition Mikulas walks the streets accompanied by an angel and a devil. The children are asked to recite a song or...

Each year the Czech Sokols commemorate October 8th as the reminder of the tragic events in the organization’s history. On the night of October 7, 1941, the “Sokol Action” was launched by a decree of Reinhard Heydrich, acting Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. The decree’s orders were to arrest and subsequently deport Sokol representatives to concentration camps and to paralyze the...

Back in 2014 I presented this lesson to the boys and girls classes comparing our state of Ohio to the Czech Republic. In any type of instruction if you can relate the lesson to something your audience is familiar with that lesson becomes more meaningful. I placed four large maps before the class, one each of Ohio, USA, Czech Republic and Europe. I asked them to share with the class anything they...

Boys/Girls/Juniors/Seniors Arbor Day is much like Earth Day. It is a celebration of Nature (Flora and Fauna), the balance of nature, considering oxygen and carbon dioxide. Flora/plants make their own food with the help of solar. Fauna/animals cannot make their own food. The first Arbor Day was on April 10, 1872 in Nebraska. Sterling Morton was a journalist and politician on the State Board of...