Lithuanian American Community, Inc.

FIFTY YEARS YOUNG 1951-2001

• LAC ANNIVERSARY EVENTS IN THE CHICAGO AREA

• CONCERTS BY AZUOLIUKAS IN OTHER CITIES

This year, the Lithuanian American Community, Inc. is celebrating its 50 year anniversary. This uniquely organized body with over 60 chapters throughout the United States - incorporating one and all of Lithuanian heritage - shapes and drives the activities which preserve our traditions and enrich the nation in which we live. The extensive network of Lithuanian heritage schools, folk dance and song festivals, sports events, an array of cultural activities, diversity of publications and numerous organizations have endeavored to keep alive our spirit and traditions that feed it.

The Lithuanian American Community, Inc. has witnessed and experienced the sorrows, hopes and triumphs of an occupied, fighting and, finally, free Lithuania. Throughout this process, the Community has banded us all together to ensure the survival and growth of our unique culture so that it wasn’t lost, but stayed alive. Now, as our homeland faces decades of regrowth, the Lithuanian American Community, Inc. is there to lend a helping hand - to the ailing child, to the orphan, to the lonely aged, to the former political prisoners and partisans, to those arriving on these American shores and looking for more secure life to help support family members left behind. The Community gently prods U.S. political leaders not to overlook, but help in Lithuanian’s efforts to become a full-fledged member of the world community of free, politically and economically secure nations. All this is being done while, at the same time, continuing the nurturing process of preserving the Lithuanian heritage for future generations of Lithuanian-Americans. The process - begun 50 years ago - continues to evolve, to grow, to keep pace with new challenges of changing times.

Ąžuoliukas Boys Choir

Through the end of this year and into the next many of the original chapters will hold jubilee celebrations. From October 9th through 14th, 2001, in Chicago, an array of activities are planned to kick off the main celebration of this auspicious anniversary. We invite you to take note of these activities, plan to participate in the meetings, concerts, exhibits and commemorative religious services. A highlight of the October celebrations is a concert tour by Lithuania’s eminent and world acclaimed Boys’ Choir ĄŽUOLIUKAS under the direction of Vytautas Miškinis.

October 8-11, 2001 Meetings of the Joint Commission of Lithuanian Parliament and LAC Board of Directors, Lithuanian World Center, 14911 127th St., Lemont, IL

October 12-13, 2001 Annual meeting of LAC Board of Directors, Radisson Hotel, Alsip, IL

Saturday, October 13, 2001 LAC 50th Anniversary Observance and Celebration, Lithuanian Youth Center, 5600 South Claremont Ave., Chicago, IL

5:00 PM Opening of Photo Exhibit “Fifty Years of Community Commitment”

6:00 PM Official Jubilee Observance followed by entertainment featuring Lithuanian Heritage School students, Folk Dance Group GRANDIS, Violeta Smieliauskaite-Fabianovich, director and choir DAINAVA, Darius Polikaitis, director.

10:30 AM Mass of Thanksgiving, Nativity BVM Lithuanian R.C. Church, South Washtenaw Ave. at 69th St., Lithuanian Plaza. Main celebrant Rev. Bishop Jonas Kauneckas, Auxiliary Bishop of Telsiai, Lithuania

10:30 AM Service of Thanksgiving, Lithuanian Evangelical Home Church, 6641 South Troy St., Chicago, IL. Rev. Bishop Hansas G. Dumpys, officiating.

Sunday, October 14, 2001 Concert by Boys’ Choir ĄŽUOLIUKAS from Lithuania,

Maria High School Auditorium, Corner 67th and California Streets, Marquette Park, Chicago, IL.
Tickets: $25, 20, $15 on sale at Lithuanian Human Services Office, 2711 West 71st St., Chicago. Tel. (773) 476-2655.

CONCERTS BY ĄŽUOLIUKAS IN OTHER CITIES

Friday, October 5, 2001, 7:00 PM The Church of the Epiphany, 1317 G St., Washington, DC
Tickets: $20, $15, $10 (Children and Students). To order tickets call MasterWorks Chorus (301) 840-0008. 
Information: Ruta Kalvaitis-Skucas, tel.(301) 987-0322, e-mail: RutaKS@aol.com

Saturday, October 6, 2001, 8:00 PM New York Society of Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th St. (off Central Park West)
Tickets: $30, $25 (students), children to 10 years of age FREE.
Information: Laima Sileikis-Hood, tel. (212) 982-1335, e-mail: ljhood@worldnet.att.net

CLEVELAND, OH

Friday, October 12, 2001, 7:00 PM, Our Lady of Perpetual Help Lithuanian Parish Auditorium, 18022 Neff Rd., Cleveland. Tickets: $20, $15, $10 ($5 Students). 
Information: Viktoras Silenas, tel. (216) 531-8207.

Monday, October 15- Sunday, October 21, 2001, various times and venues together with children’s choirs from over 20 countries in “Voices of Friendship” Festival. Check your local newspapers for announcements of international telecasts of the highlights of the Festival during this week and during 2002 Winter Olympic Games.

Revised: August 23, 2006

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