Zmaj

(Place, tavern, firm, Yugoslavia)

My elementary school. Built in, IIRC, 1960 and it wasn't quite finished then; the gym was built in 1964 or so. When mentioning VIII1, VIII2 or VIII3, that's the school where it was.

There was also the fourth division, but I never knew more than four people from it. Though I should, as it was created when there was a chance (extra money in the budget?) to make divisions smaller, so they picked a few kids from each of the first three, and additionally moved a few kids from other schools, to whom this was actually closer. This last part is mostly conjecture, as I didn't get involved with school organization until 1980.

The fifth also existed, maybe the first three years, in hungarian, but then they built a new school near ruža and moved all the hungarian divisions from the area into it.

On the other end of town, close to kinta, there's another school with an identical building. Not the only case of architecture replication.

The right wing with staff room had a high mid-floor, another storey above and a basement. The left wing, built a year or two before, had the ground floor and upstairs. In the middle the corridors from the left and the staircases from the right met in a largish hall. The left wing was somehow more modest - somewhat fewer windows, lower ceilings, and the toilets in the end of the corridor, not at beginning. The toilet in the old wing was, however, larger, something like half a classroom, with six pissoirs and four stalls, while the new had 3+2. But it had čučavac in the stalls, while the new wing had porcelain crappers. The floor was never dry in either.

It used to be a very good school until Go and Nina went there. By then, the old principals (the one I had, and then Ivka) had retired and the SPS installed a meritory drunkard (well, whatever passed for merit there) and it all went downhill. There were teachers whom I wouldn't trust to guard two drawn geese, not a class full of kids. By the time Lena enrolled there, it was a disaster. She spent full two weeks there until we moved her out.


Mentions: 02-IX-1962., february 1963., september 1963., 24-II-1964., december 1967., 19-V-1968., october 1968., 03-IV-1969., 11-V-1969., 18-V-1969., 24-XI-1969., 13-XII-1969., 31-XII-1969., 20-I-1970., 12-IV-1970., 28-IV-1970., 23-V-1970., 31-V-1970., 05-VI-1970., 21-VI-1970., B, S & T, 28-VI-1970., 23-VIII-1970., 31-VIII-1970., 01-IX-1970., and the rest of the week, 13-IX-1970., 01-XII-1970., until 17th, 18-XII-1970., 22-XII-1970., 19-V-1971., 20-VI-1971., 19-XII-1971., 31-XII-1971., 02-I-1972., 01-III-1972., 16-V-1972., 26-VI-1972., Theatre begins, 17-XI-1972., 25-II-1973., 20-V-1973., 26-III-1974., Baptism by booze, 17-VI-1974., Olympics high, 26-VIII-1976., 31-XII-1976., 08-VII-1982., 07-XII-1984., 01-IX-1986., july 1990., 03-IX-1990., 20-V-1995., 03-VI-1997., 01-IX-1998., 12-IX-1998., 20-X-2003., 27-V-2004., 23-VII-2004., 08-VIII-2005., 28-VIII-2013., 27-VII-2018., 15-IX-2018., 03-VI-2022., 19-II-2023., 18-IX-2023., čučavac, ekskurzija, Gorana Sredljević (Go), Gradivoj Sarčević (Sarča), Ivanka Tomašić /Čardić/ (Ivka), Jelena Sredljević (Lena), kinta, Lazar Josin, Nevena Sredljević (Nina), promes, ruža, sekcija, Suzana Injački (Zana), Vasa Šančev, Vera Vraneš, VIII1, VIII2, VIII3, in serbian