On Saturday, 19 March, the ceremonial hall of the St. Sava Church in Vienna accommodated the Fifth regular electoral assembly of the Board of the Serbian Educational and Cultural Society Prosvjeta in Austria.

The hall was full, all reports and plans were published and approved, work results were summarized, awards were presented, and the Management was reinvigorated. At this assembly, after more than ten years since its founding, Prosvjeta got a new president, Marko Sarić, a doctoral student in history, a longtime member and former vice president of the Society.

The president was elected unanimously, and his predecessor, prof. Srđan Mijalković, symbolically handed over the flag of Prosvjeta to his successor with pleasure and pride and said: ‘After these wonderful and fruitful ten years, it is time for someone younger to take the position of the president. We all believe that Marko is the right man for that, he has my full support. I will continue my service to Prosvjeta in full, as the vice president, and all of us, united as before, by joint work, will continue to fulfil the mission and idea of our Prosvjeta’.

In the inaugural speech, Sarić thanked Mijalković warmly for his past work and added that Prosvjeta would have continuity, that it would maintain all programs and projects as before. He noted particularly Prosvjeta’s School of the Serbian Language, the struggle for the status of the Serbian language, cultural programs, concerts, forums, that he would endeavor to maintain the level of everything that Prosvjeta had achieved, and expected greater cooperation with members and friends of the Society, other partners and institutions in the motherland and diaspora.

Source and photo: Serbian Educational and Cultural Society Prosvjeta Austria