Bio sam novinar Radio Gračanice i direktor Narodnog univerziteta – memoarske bilješke
I was a journalist for Radio Gračanica and the director of the People’s University – memoir notes

Summary/Abstract: In these memoir notes the author describes some interesting details from his work biography, firstly his memories of the beginnings of his career at the Radio Station, which was merged with the People’s University immediately after its foundation. The paper is divided into two larger units. In the first the author describes how he was employed in 1971 and how he ripened as a journalist, how he was the first person that created “crazy” radio shows on the local radio which were very popular and listened to. He had no idea that he would become the director of the People’s University seven years later and surpass his former bosses. During his tenure as the youngest among the directors of the former municipality of Gračanica he resolved several major issues of the institution (this part of the memoirs deals with this question as well – the strengthening of the library, the establishment of a routine in the new House of Culture, the “Delegate newsletter”, a permanent solution for the music school, ect.). Although he worked vastly different jobs later, the author states that he always stayed a journalist “by trade”. He would return to that job during the aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995), when he lost his son in one shelling of Gračanica and suffered minor wounds himself. He was a noted commentator on Radio Gračanica and one of the most valuable members of the local war newspaper “Biljeg vremena”. He couldn’t help but mention it, even though it may have fallen outside of the context of the whole story – which had to be cut at a certain point… He lacked the words to describe the death of his boy, as always, so he had to finish his story at the risk of being misunderstood. Although subjectively intoned as a memory, this rather readable and interesting material is a significant contribution to the study of the cultural past of Gračanica, as his native area, and especially of the People’s University and Radio Gračanica.

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