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The Komensky Club is an organization of students of Bohemian descent who are attending the University. The society gives regular programs in the interest of the study of the language and life of the Slavic people. Social meeting are also held during…

A page from the 1919 Cornhusker with a photo of the group, a list of members and officers for that year.

A page from the 1918 Cornhusker with an image of the Komensky club. Šárka Hrbková is in the middle of the bottom row.

Page 444 from the 1917 Cornhusker with a photograph of the Komensky club with a list of officers. Šárka Hrbková bottom row, third from the right.

The Komensky Club was organized in November, 1903, by eleven Bohemian students. This constituted what became the Federation of Komensky Clubs of America. Today there are thirty chapters with a membership of 1,200. Some of the University Chapters are…

In the year 1903 the first of the Komensky Clubs was organized at the University of Nebraska. The name of Bohemia’ s famous educational reformer, John Amos Komensky, or Comenius, was decided upon as the most appropriate title for the club.…

A photograph of the Komensky club from 1912 in the Cornhusker. Šárka Hrbková is in the front row, fifth person from the right.

Graduate photograph of Šárka Hrbková, chairman of the Slavic Department.
Lists her as a member of Hawkeye, Graduate, Women’s Faculty, Clubs. Faculty Club and B.A. State University of Iowa 1909, Literature.

Prof. Sarka Hrbkova
Head of the Department of Slavonic Languages and Literature.
She is sponsor of the Komensky Klub, by whose efforts the Nebraska Chapter was organized. At present she is on a leave of absence.

A graphic of the interconnectivity of information, organizations and individuals involved in the Czech Language Program from 1903-1919.