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For third year already Vytautas Zemkalnis High School held a ceremony presenting school's students and teacher with the special awards. The Kazickas Family Foundation established such awards to honor Alexandra Kalvenas-Kazickas (1920-2011) memory. School Lithuanian language and literatue teacher Rasa Majauskiene shares few highlights of the event:
"Youth Can" program, initiated and sponsored by the kazickas family Foundation, marked the end of the season with a fun day with the coaches in Rumsiskes, Lithuania.
On June 20th at St. Casimir Church in Vilnius, Vilnius University Siauliai Academy professor emeritus dr. habil. Kazimieras Romualdas Zuperka was awarded the Literacy Award in Memory of Petras Butenas and his student Alexandra Kazickas.
Bring Together Lithuania 2021 is officially open! The Lithuanian diaspora youth were welcomed by President Gitanas Nausėda and the First Lady Diana Nausėdienė.
Please join us this Sunday, June 20th at 12 pm (Vilnius time) / 5 am EST at St. Casimir church in Vilnius or virtually for Holy Mass and Sacred Music concert celebrating the memory of Alexandra Kazickas, a generous philanthropist and mother of five children.
We're excited to invite all Lithuanian readers to download the audio version of Dr. Joseph P. Kazickas's autobiography "Odyssey of Hope - the journey never ends."
June 17th, 2021 marks the 101st birthday of Alexandra Kazickas’s (06.17.1920-06.17.1920) birth. She was a generous philanthropist and the mother of five children. Alexandra was married for 70 years to Dr. Joseph P. Kazickas, a dedicated father, patriot and entrepreneur, intellectual and philanthropist, who founded the Kazickas Family Foundation. Together with their family, they cared for Lithuania, its freedom and its people for their entire lives.
This year the Literacy Award in Memory of Petras Butenas and his student Alexandra Kazickas is presented to dr. KAZIMIERAS ROMUALDAS ZUPERKA, well known language stylistics specialist, Vilnius University Siauliai Academy professor emeritus, honorary member of the Lithuanian Language Association, longtime member of the "Baltic Center" association.
Alexandra Kazickas Lithuanian School ended its 15th year last Saturday with a beautiful event celebrating its students' accomplishments and honoring its dedicated teachers.