Serbia, hold on to Pupin's values, that is the only way forward
Prof. dr Dragutin Bošković
Prof. Dr. Dragutin Bošković was born in Krupanj on 11 April 1925, in the family ofthe merchant Jovan and mother Marija Bošković.
He graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Belgrade University in 1952, Department for Aerodynamics and Aviation. He got his PhD on the same faculty in 1971 with the paper “Attachment to the Study of the Effects of Modern Processes in Products Development on the Business Strategy of Industrial Company”. He is considered the founder of the Innovation Movement in Serbia and the SFRY. He was fluent in English, French and German, and had a moderate knowledge of Russian and Italian.
Most of his working years he spent on the managerial positions. He started as the Head of Fabrication in “Ikarus” (1952-1955), then moved to become the Head of the Machine Department in “Hemotehna” (1955-1956). He returned to “Ikarus” as the General Director, and in 1960 he becomes the General Director of the “IMT” Factory. Then he went as the Vice President to the Belgrade Chamber of Commerce where he stayed until 1965 when he became the General Director of “Organomatik”. In the period from 1972 until 1983 he was the General Director of the Federal Patent Office
Dragutin Bošković was the member of the Federal Assembly, member of the Council of the Faculty of Economics, member of the Belgrade Council for Urbanism, member of the Executive Board of the Belgrade Socialist Alliance of Working People of Yugoslavia, member of the Commission of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia and President of the Serbian Union of Mechanical and Technical Engineering. For his life work he was awarded the Order of Labour IV Degree, as well as the Charter of the City of Belgrade.
From 1973 until 1981 he was a regular professor at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, where he was also Acting Dean from 1973 until 1974.
He was General Director of the Federal Patent Office from 1972 until 1983. In that period he initiated a large number of projects related to the Innovation Movement, protection from monopoly achieved through intellectual property, and Law on Patents and Intellectual Property. He was a member of World Intellectual Property Organization and Vice President of its Coordination Board.
In 1955 Dragutin married Olga Đorđević, at that time student of world literature. In 1956 their only son Jovan was born.
He died in December 1983 after a short and serious illness. He was buried in the Alley of Deserving Citizens in New Cemetery in Belgrade.
Olga Bošković
Olga Bošković was born on 7 December 1935. Olga married Dragutin young, while she was a freshman studying world literature. After graduating, she worked in several companies before moving to JUGEL in 1970, where she was the editor of printed publications and the magazine "Elektroprivreda" until her retirement.
From a young age, Olga was helping others, first through the Red Cross, and then through the Society of Friends of Children. When she was offered to join the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY) because of that engagement, she politely refused, saying that she could not, because she did not want to give up religion and because she did not want to hide when she went to church. She continued these efforts in full when she joined her son Jovan in the United States in 1994. By then, the first Serb refugees from Croatia and Bosnia had already begun to arrive, and Olga, along with several other activists, worked hard to provide them with basic living conditions until they could stand on their own feet in that new and unfamiliar environment. After arriving in Boston, Olga joined the parish of St. Sava, within which she led several projects to help refugees and monasteries in Serbia. She also helped with the preparation of various ceremonies, for which she received several recognitions from the Church Board.
Dr. Jovan D. Bošković
Dr. Jovan D. Bošković graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Belgrade in 1980 at the Department of Automatic Control, and he received his master's degree at the same department in 1985. From 1981 to 1986 he was a research associate at the Goša Institute in Belgrade, and from 1990 to 1991 a senior research associate and head of the Automation and Robotics Group at the same institute. With funds received from the Republic’s Community of Science for a three-month specialization, in 1986 he went to Yale University in the United States, where he researched and worked on a doctoral dissertation in adaptive management. He remained there until 1989. After returning from the United States, he spent two years at the Goša Institute and defended his doctoral dissertation in January 1992 at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. He was a lecturer and research fellow at Yale University from 1992 to June 1997. From July 1997 to the present, he has been with Scientific Systems Company in Woburn, Massachusetts, USA, where he is Senior Principal Research Engineer and Senior Group Leader of the Intelligent and Autonomous Control Systems Group. He has been principal researcher in over 50 high-tech research projects funded by NASA and other agencies, obtained under a highly competitive federal small business program. He is the author of over 150 papers published in scientific journals and presented at professional conferences and has one protected patent in the United States.
Jovan is also very active in the Serb community in Boston. He was the vice president of the Serbian American Alliance of New England and was very active in collecting humanitarian aid during the wars in the former SFRY and the NATO bombing. He is also connected to the Serbian Orthodox Church and was vice president of the Church Board of St. Sava Cathedral in Boston several times.
Middle group KUD >>Gračanic<< infront of the Sv. Sava church in Boston. Aleksandar is third from the right in the last row, Marija-Maja second from the right in the middle row and Elena second from the left in the first row.
