SACC Slovak Scholars

2020

Andrew Stefanick

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Andrew's grandparents immigrated to the United States from the Tatra Mountain region of Slovakia. 

A 2016 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and a minor in Economics, Andrew is currently an Aviation student in the Professional Pilot Course at the Community College of Beaver County. In addition, he is cross-enrolled at the Univ. of Pittsburgh where he studies Slovak language and culture.

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Outside of the classroom, Andrew is an active member of the Western PA Slovak Cultural Association, volunteers as Docent Manager with the Society to Preserve the Millvale Murals of Maxo Vanka, and is manager-player on two local amateur soccer teams.

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Andrew is grateful to SACC for supporting his Slovak studies. He hopes to connect with friends and extended family in Slovakia and to instruct Slovak students in flight training.

Professor Joel Fetzer

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Joel S. Fetzer is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. A scholar of international politics, he has published seven books and many journal articles looking at public opinion, voting behavior, and political history. He wishes to improve his Slovak-language skills at the University of Pittsburgh this summer in order to improve his teaching of European Politics and to prepare for research projects on elite political discourse in Slovakia and religion and politics in Eastern Europe.

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Isaac Mirti

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Isaac Mirti is a fifth-year Honors student at the University of Florida majoring in Statistics and Economics and minoring in African Studies. Isaac grew up on an organic farm in Gainesville, Florida. Through farming, he developed a passion for the outdoors and anything related to food, from production to consumption. When not busy with school, Isaac enjoys running, developing new recipes, and planning his next trip abroad.

After graduation, Isaac hopes to pursue postgraduate studies in finance and development economics in the United Kingdom. In the future, he would like to work in public policy and agricultural development to address food insecurity in developing countries and regions throughout the world.

Isaac regularly visits friends in the Banska Bystrica region of Slovakia and has fallen in love with the country's culture and beauty. He hopes his future work will include trips to Slovakia.

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Joseph Stasko Scholarship Fund

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For 24 years, until 2017, S-ACC granted scholarships to students at City University Seattle, Vysoka Skola Manazmentu in Bratislava/Trencin. 

The Slovak American Cultural Center is grateful to the generosity of our members who contributed to the support of the Joseph Stasko Scholarship Fund to enable our S-ACC program of granting worthy students financial assistance.  

In 2017, S-ACC awarded two student scholarships. We are proud to present the words of gratitude from the scholarship recipients.