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ALA skolotāju konference Gaŗezerā No 15. līdz 17. martam Gaŗezerā notika Amerikas latviešu apvienības (ALA) organizētā Amerikas latviešu nedēļas nogales skolu skolotāju konference. Konferences laikā skolotāji iepazinās ar mācību materiāliem, kas domāti bilingvālai valodu apguvei, ar konkrētu stundu plānu izveidi, ar internetā pieejamajiem mācību materiāliem, mācību programmām, uzdevumiem un tiešsaistes materiāliem, kā arī ar viegliem, aizraujošiem un izglītojošiem komercproduktiem, kas izstrādāti tieši latviešu valodas apguvei. Seminārā piedalījās 50 skolotāji no 15 latviešu sestdienas un svētdienas skolām. Skolotāji apmainījās ar mācīšanas pieredzi, dalījās ar viedokļiem un tika iepazīstināti ar Latviešu valodas aģentūras veidotajiem mācību materiāliem un paveikto diasporas mācību un metodisko materiālu izveidē. Dāvanā skolas saņēma latviešu valodas mācīšanas darba lapas Labdien! 2. daļu. Pasaules Brīvo latviešu apvienības Izglītības padomes (PBLA IP) priekšsēde Daina Grosa un priekšsēdes vietniece sadarbībai ar Latviju Dace Mažeika stāstīja par PBLA IP pēdējos gados paveikto un par sadarbību ar Latvijas institūcijām, kas nodrošina Latvijas valsts īstenoto politiku sadarbībai ar diasporu. PBLA dāvināja katrai skolai PBLA izdotu darba burtnīcu gramatikas mācīšanai pamatskolā. Tika kalti plāni nedēļas nogaļu skolu turpmākajai attīstībai un labākai savstarpējās informācijas apmaiņai, tostarp ar Latvijas valsts institūcijām. ALA jau 62 gadus pārstāv un vieno ap 100 000 latviešu visā Amerikā. Pie ALAs pieder vairāk nekā 160 dažādas latviešu organizācijas – biedrības, baznīcas un kultūras organizācijas – un gandrīz 6000 biedru no visām pavalstīm. Konferenci rīkoja ALA Izglītības nozare, kas gādā par skolu programmām, mācību grāmatām un skolotāju semināriem, lai veicinātu latviešu valodas, vēstures un kultūras apguvi. Amerikā nedēļas nogales skolas, kas atrodas tālu no Latvijas, jau 60 gadus spējušas izaudzināt vairākas jaunas, latviski runājošas un domājošas paaudzes. Tuvāku informāciju sniedz Daina Grosa (PBLA Izglītības padomes priekšsēde) daina.gross@latviansonline.com un Andra Zommere (ALA Izglītības nozares vadītāja) azommers@sbcglobal.net. 12
In July the film Sapņu komanda 1935 (“Dream Team 1935”) will be shown at Garezers. Directed by Aigars Grauba, the film chronicles Latvia’s national basketball team, which improbably won the first European championship in May, 1935. This first-time event was sponsored by the just-formed International Basketball Federation, more commonly known as FIBA, from the French Fédération Internationale de Basket-ball and was held in Geneva, Switzerland. Dream Team 1935 is heading toward being the most watched Latvian language film ever. It has become a phenomenon and has been universally celebrated. It will be screened for the European Parliament and at the Cannes Film Festival. The film centers on the team, the championship and Head Coach Valdemārs Baumanis. Baumanis will be returning to Garezers twenty-one years after his death in 1992. We need to wait to find out more about the team and the championship; however, we already know quite a bit about the head coach. His friends and colleagues in organized Latvian sports compiled a collection of essays about him after his death: Karavīrs un sportists Valdemārs Baumanis 1905 – 1992 (Soldier and Athlete …). I gained the most insight from Ilmārs Dumpis’ contribution. Baumanis arrived in Chicago in 1956 after having spent the immediate post-war years in France. He was almost immediately selected to lead the Midwest region of the Latvian Sports Council and continued in that position for the next thirty-five years. He simply had a burning passion for Latvian athletics and not just basketball. Scrolling through old editions of the Latvian Newspaper Laiks, it is obvious that he looked at Garezers as fertile ground. In 1969 he toured the Latvian Center with Jānis Lindmanis from Australia. Lindmanis, also known as "Kapteinis Džeks" (Captain Jack) was a star of Latvia’s 1935 basketball championship team. There was talk that May Madness, 1935 the administration of Garezers was committed to developing a sports infrastructure, including a basketball court, and Baumanis had plans. He is associated with all the early tournaments in volleyball, basketball, tennis, soccer and track and field. Dream Team 1935 is a very Latvian story, which means it’s complicated and has an overabundance of drama. For Baumanis this meant that getting to Geneva was a larger hurdle than winning in Geneva. He had to navigate all sorts of obstacles, mostly due to friction between the Army Sports Club and the University of Latvia. Unbelievably, he was removed as head coach after Geneva. I guess the sports establishment wanted to go in a different direction, which they succeeded in doing. Baumanis made it to the 1936 Olympics, but as a referee. The team from Latvia was eliminated early with a record of 1-2. He returned to lead the national team in 1938, but by that time Lindmanis had given up basketball and devoted himself exclusively to soccer. Baumanis’ personal story is a very Latvian story, which means that Soviet occupation and World War II brutally changed everything. He was back on top in 1938 and a year later attended basketball seminars at Long Island University in New York. He wanted to better understand the American style of play. He was an active duty army officer when the Soviets invaded. Fortunately, he was able to avoid arrest. Baumanis served in the Germanformed Latvian Legion. He led a supply unit and rose to the rank of Major. At the end of the war he successfully ensured that his men avoided capture by the Red Army and gladly surrendered to U.S. forces. Baumanis joined the Daugavas vanagi veteran’s organization in 1947. At the first opportunity he organized basketball and soccer tournaments in displaced person camps in Germany. He formed a Latvian team that toured post-war France. The French were impressed and this led to his accepting an offer to coach basketball in Lorient. Ilmārs Dumpis notes that the shadow of occupied 13
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