A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt

While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
- Woodrow Wilson

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Iva Dostanić

Iva Dostanić
Iva was born on January 23, 1976 in Belgrade, Serbia to Predrag and Dragana Dostanić.

Iva Dostanić has finished the Fifth Belgrade Gymnasium and with her family moved to Vienna and then to Athens where she attended the American International School being the best student. She continued her studies at Manhattanville. Her did her postgraduate studies in biochemistry and molecular biology in Cincinnati where she defended her doctoral theses.

While at Cleveland clinic she received the Award for Medicine and Humanity.

She passed away on Tuesday, December 27, 2011.

The Iva Dostanic Physician Scientist Trainee Award is given annually by the Department of Medicine for the individual whose passion for the science of medicine, intelligence, creativity, work ethic, and accomplishments exemplify the best of medical research and the physician scientist.

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Prayer Book

Prayer Book
The Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Western America is pleased to announce the publication of a beautiful pocket-size, full-color, English-language Prayer Book, which has been compiled and designed by our newly enthroned His Grace, Bishop Maxim, and printed in Serbia. The book contains prayers commonly used by Orthodox Christians, lists of Scriptural Commandments, and brief articles on the precepts of Faith, proper conduct in church, and the meaning and practice of prayer. It is adorned with striking icons and illustrations by Fr. Stamatis Skliris, a parish priest in Athens who is renowned as an iconographer and as a writer and lecturer on Byzantine iconography. Full-color on coated stock throughout, 36 pages, 3¾" × 5½" format, paperback, saddle-stitched.