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On April 14th in Washington, DC, Neila Baumiliene from the KFF and Arminas Vareika who is managing foundation's "Basketball Power" program, met with the American Councils team Nathan Truitt, Catharine Wilson, Pamela Levy, Margaret Goelz and Adam Zeender.
On April 8th, at the NBPA headquarters in New York, the Kazickas Family Foundation hosted an awareness event to introduce "Basketball Power" program to nearby Lithuanian schools' children and their families.
Today is a day to remember Joseph P. Kazickas (April 16, 1918 - July 9, 2014), Founder of the Kazickas Family Foundation who would have celebrated his 99th Birthday. Let's remember this honorable man with a prayer and his oldest son's Joseph M. Kazickas Tribute to Tėvelis:
Lithuanian Ambassador to US Rolandas Krisciunas met with Neila Baumiliene, KFF NY office director, Arminas Vareika, "Basketball Power" (social responsibility program by KFF) manager in Lithuania and Aiste Furajevaite, "Basketball Power" coordinator in NY.
On April 8th, as a part of the Lithuanian Heritage Weekend, the Kazickas Family Foundation invited children and their families from four Lithuanian Heritage schools to the "Basketball Power" awareness event at the NBPA headquarters in New York City.
NBPA features the highlights of the event:
On Saturday, March 25th, KTU Faculty of Informatics hosted almost 200 pupils who participated in the 20th Dr. Juozas Petras Kazickas Pupil Computer Science Forum. Seventy participants were awarded prizes established by dr. J. P. Kazickas Family Foundation or received generous awards from other benefactors of the event.
The Kazickas Family Foundation joined Dr. Herb Loyd from Cincinnati Hospital and his team of the most incredible people to support international emergency medicine doctors educational project.
On March 30th, Jurate, John and Lucy Kazickas invited current Joseph Peter Kazickas fellows at Yale Jolanta Mickute and Vaidotas Vaicaitis, as well as 2015 JPK fellow Irina Martijosaitiene for lunch to discuss their work at Yale, their prior experience and future plans.
On March 25th, in the Lithuanian Alliance of America in New York, the Second Lithuanian language proficiency test was taken by 11 candidates, who attend Alexandra Kazickas and Maironis Lithuanian Heritage schools.
European Studies Council at Yale MacMillan Center is announcing the 2016-2017 Baltic Studies Program Visiting Fellows and Lecture Series. Two dr. Joseph P. Kazickas Post-Doctoral visiting fellows at Yale are among the speakers.