Around the Rivers
Around the Rivers: Former Teacher Now Promotes, Preserves Serbian Heritage
From her computer in her Moon Township home, Milana "Mim" Bizic connects readers around the world who share her passion for Serbian heritage, traditions and accomplishments.
Milana "Mim" Bizic stepped away from the classroom more than five years ago, but the Moon Township woman said teaching isn't something she'll quit any time soon. In the late 1980s, the former librarian and teacher in the Quaker Valley school district helped to shape its early computer education program. Now she continues to turn to her computer as she dedicates herself to becoming an amateur historian with a decidedly new-media twist. Bizic, whose grandparents emigrated from Serbia to Western Pennsylvania, said preserving and sharing her ancestors' culture has become her life’s passion. Bizic's Serbian roots run deep. She met her late husband Gus more than 50 years ago at a picnic for Pittsburgh's Serbian community. Her son Nick and …
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