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Fanderik, Velen
Velen Fanderlik
Velen Fanderlik was born in Prague on 11 February 1907. After graduation from a high school at Brno, he pursued study at Masaryk University (Brno), from which he obtained a doctor’s degree in law in 1929. He practiced law at Brno until the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis in 1939. He then left via Yugoslavia and Near East to join the Czechoslovak armed forces in France. After the defeat of France, he followed with the allied forces to England. He served as an artillery officer but was active for the most part as a legal officer at the Military Court. Toward the end of the war he was attached to the United Nations War Crimes investigation Team and was a prosecutor at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg from 1945 to 1947. He returned to Czechoslovakia in 1947 only to leave a year later after the Communist coup d’état. After a relatively short stay in refugee camps in Germany and two years stay in England he settled permanently at Trail, British Columbia, Canada. There he taught first in the high school and later in a junior college until his retirement. He died on 2 February 1985. Fanderlik was a member of the Scout Movement in Czechoslovakia since 1919 and he progressively advanced in
it. He was in charge of training courses for scouters and became a member of the Executive Committee of the Scout Movement in Czechoslovakia. Since 1939 he was a member of the International Committee until 1956. As the Scout Movement has been disbanded in Czechoslovakia he could no longer hold this position and remained only an honorary member. During his stay in refugee camps, in England and until the last days of his life in Canada, Fanderlik remained active in the Czechoslovak Exile Scout Movement and was without question its leader. He also kept contact with international scout movement leaders and participated in meetings of the International Committee in Norway, Portugal and Austria. His idealism and faith in the universality of the scout movement was a guiding principle in his life. He authored several educational handbooks for the use of the Scout leaders. Among them are Indoor Games, 600 Games, and above all Letters to George (Listy Jurovi). They were published in Czechoslovakia before the World War II and again after the war. When scouting was resurrected in Czechoslovakia, during the spring in Prague in 1968 ―only to be banned again two years later ― many of his publications were reprinted there. In addition to his regular teaching job and his scouting activities, he was also a prolific artist-painter and was commissioned to produce several paintings for the city and county buildings in Trails.
Emil Jan Stembera
E.M. Stembera was born November 6, 1900 in Prague. He joined the scout movement in 1914 shortly before the beginning of World War I and was progressively rising from a patrol leader to the membership of the National Committee. During the National Jamobree in Slovakia (1921) he was a secretary to the Chief Scouter A.B. Svojsik. In 1923 he undertook a journey to several foreign countries as a scout emissary, among them India and Ethiopia, finally settling down in Shanghai, china in 1926. He eventually rose to the rank of Assistant Commissioner in the Boy Scouts Association-Shanghai Branch. He was unable to leave China after the Communist takeover in 1949 and organized during the first few years of the Communist rule an underground scout unit. In 1953 he succeeded leaving mainland China via Hong Kong. After two years stay at Brazil where he continued in his scouting activities he departed in 1955 to the United States where he made his home in Levittown, Pennsylvania. He continued to be active in the Czechoslovak scouts exile movement until his death on December 16, 1987.
Brother Bernard, O.P. (Rev. Dr. B.R. Kadlec)
Born in Czechoslovakia and active there in the scout movement. He graduated with a law degree but practiced law very little. He worked in the University Library (Charles University) in Prague and simultaneously studied history of art and esthetics. In 1944 he joined the Dominican
Order and legally left Czechoslovakia in 1947. He followed his studies in theology at Oxford University and after taking orders he served as a priest in England and later in the Caribbean (Jamaica and Grenada). He was active in the scout movement until about 1967.
Velen Fanderlik was born in Prague on 11 February 1907. After graduation from a high school at Brno, he pursued study at Masaryk University (Brno), from which he obtained a doctor’s degree in law in 1929. He practiced law at Brno until the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis in 1939. He then left via Yugoslavia and Near East to join the Czechoslovak armed forces in France. After the defeat of France, he followed with the allied forces to England. He served as an artillery officer but was active for the most part as a legal officer at the Military Court. Toward the end of the war he was attached to the United Nations War Crimes investigation Team and was a prosecutor at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg from 1945 to 1947. He returned to Czechoslovakia in 1947 only to leave a year later after the Communist coup d’état. After a relatively short stay in refugee camps in Germany and two years stay in England he settled permanently at Trail, British Columbia, Canada. There he taught first in the high school and later in a junior college until his retirement. He died on 2 February 1985. Fanderlik was a member of the Scout Movement in Czechoslovakia since 1919 and he progressively advanced in
it. He was in charge of training courses for scouters and became a member of the Executive Committee of the Scout Movement in Czechoslovakia. Since 1939 he was a member of the International Committee until 1956. As the Scout Movement has been disbanded in Czechoslovakia he could no longer hold this position and remained only an honorary member. During his stay in refugee camps, in England and until the last days of his life in Canada, Fanderlik remained active in the Czechoslovak Exile Scout Movement and was without question its leader. He also kept contact with international scout movement leaders and participated in meetings of the International Committee in Norway, Portugal and Austria. His idealism and faith in the universality of the scout movement was a guiding principle in his life. He authored several educational handbooks for the use of the Scout leaders. Among them are Indoor Games, 600 Games, and above all Letters to George (Listy Jurovi). They were published in Czechoslovakia before the World War II and again after the war. When scouting was resurrected in Czechoslovakia, during the spring in Prague in 1968 ―only to be banned again two years later ― many of his publications were reprinted there. In addition to his regular teaching job and his scouting activities, he was also a prolific artist-painter and was commissioned to produce several paintings for the city and county buildings in Trails.
Emil Jan Stembera
E.M. Stembera was born November 6, 1900 in Prague. He joined the scout movement in 1914 shortly before the beginning of World War I and was progressively rising from a patrol leader to the membership of the National Committee. During the National Jamobree in Slovakia (1921) he was a secretary to the Chief Scouter A.B. Svojsik. In 1923 he undertook a journey to several foreign countries as a scout emissary, among them India and Ethiopia, finally settling down in Shanghai, china in 1926. He eventually rose to the rank of Assistant Commissioner in the Boy Scouts Association-Shanghai Branch. He was unable to leave China after the Communist takeover in 1949 and organized during the first few years of the Communist rule an underground scout unit. In 1953 he succeeded leaving mainland China via Hong Kong. After two years stay at Brazil where he continued in his scouting activities he departed in 1955 to the United States where he made his home in Levittown, Pennsylvania. He continued to be active in the Czechoslovak scouts exile movement until his death on December 16, 1987.
Brother Bernard, O.P. (Rev. Dr. B.R. Kadlec)
Born in Czechoslovakia and active there in the scout movement. He graduated with a law degree but practiced law very little. He worked in the University Library (Charles University) in Prague and simultaneously studied history of art and esthetics. In 1944 he joined the Dominican
Order and legally left Czechoslovakia in 1947. He followed his studies in theology at Oxford University and after taking orders he served as a priest in England and later in the Caribbean (Jamaica and Grenada). He was active in the scout movement until about 1967.
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