Events

Class Enemy. (Razredni Sovražnik) film discussion.

Commemorate Women’s History Month with this one-hour showcase of five fascinating and inspiring Slovenian and Slovenian-American women. Register at www.tinyurl.com/WomenSUA2026. Presentations Phyllis Wood (Branch100) honors Ana Klobuchar Clemenc, Labor activist known as the “American Joan of Arc.” Heidi Rixman (Branch 30) honors Irena Gubina, Lipizzaner equestrian. Patti Meglich (Branch 30) honors Alma M. Karlin, writer, collector, polyglot & one of the first European women to circle the globe. Diane Bronstein (Branch 30) honors Ivana Kobilca, Slovenia’s best known female painter. Karen Apolloni (Branch 30) honors Breda Loncar, co-author of the first Slovenian-American language manual.

In the introduction Mary writes “Immigrant Woman is a fictionalized biography of my mother, but every incident in it is true, and derived from first-hand experience as her oldest child.” One aspect of the book “What kind of women come out of a highly-controlled, rigid atmosphere? Answer: passive women; dependent women. This is according to the books, the studies, the conclusions. None of that applied to the children of the Immigrant Woman. Never were daughters more rigidly, tightly controlled; never did any develop into more individualistic, independent women.”