Ostalo
Milka Bučić and the Operating of Hvar Kindergarten Until the Beginning of WW2
Zorka Bibić Pilloni
orcid.org/0000-0002-2234-9612
; Gradska knjižnica i čitaonica Hvar
Sažetak
In the town of Hvar, at the beginning of March 1922, a kindergarten or small school began operating in the house owned by Petar Kasandrić and Juraj Dorotka in part of the town called Groda. The first enrollment recorded fifty-four children from Hvar, aged between three and six years. Since educational institutions were located in private homes and thus depended on private owners and the capabilities of the Municipality, the kindergarten changed locations several times until 1939, when the newly built school building in Lucica welcomed its first kindergarten and school-age pupils. From preserved accounting books and minutes of school board meetings, it is possible to some extent to reconstruct the daily life of the kindergarten.
The kindergarten was established on the initiative of Milka Bučić Matavulj (Šibenik, 1889 – Šibenik, 1970), who, at the end of 1921, together with women from Hvar, founded the National Women’s Cooperative. One of its goals, among others, was to assist in the raising, care, and education of children. In addition to establishing the kindergarten, together with her husband Jerko, a theater enthusiast and self-taught musician, she was an active participant in the public and cultural life of Hvar. After moving to Šibenik in 1933 or 1934, and especially after the loss of her only daughter during the Second World War, she continued her humanitarian and cultural work with even greater dedication.
Ključne riječi
Milka Bučić; Šibenik; Hvar; National Women’s Cooperative; kindergarten
Hrčak ID:
337403
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Datum izdavanja:
1.10.2025.
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