Area January 23, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • Page 5 Madeleine Albright, Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001, whose career in public service includes positions on the National Security Council, as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and on Capitol Hill, will appear at a special event at Don Bosco Prep on Tuesday, Feb. 19, at 7 p.m. to discuss her newest book, “Prague Winter, A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948.” Albright’s appearance at Don Bosco will be a combination of an interview and question and answer period conducted by Albert H. Wunsch III, Esq., author, trial lawyer, television/radio personality, historian and President of the Don Bosco Alumni Association and William “Pat” Schuber, Esq., associate professor of the School of Administrative Science at Fairleigh Dickinson University and former New Jersey Assemblyman, Bergen County Executive, Madeleine Albright to appear at Don Bosco and Mayor of Bogota. “Prague Winter” is the personal story of Albright’s birth in 1937 and earliest years in Czechoslovakia woven within the context of her parents’ lives, the historical period of 1937-1948, and the challenges in making world decisions and policy because of varied national perspectives. Albright is the daughter of Anna and Josef Korbel, a young diplomat working for the Czechoslovakian government who moved the family in 1939 to the government-in-exile in London, while the country was occupied by the Nazis. The Korbel family was granted political asylum in the United States in 1949, and daughter Madeleine became a U.S. citizen in 1957. Josef Korbel became the dean of the University of Denver’s School of International Studies, where one of his star pupils was future secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice. Madeleine Albright Raised as a Roman Catholic, Albright became an Episcopalian when she was married. In her late fifties, when she was being vetted for her appointment as secretary of state, Albright learned she was of Jewish ancestry and that many of her relatives had died in the Holocaust. In “Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948,” she explores and honors her Jewish heritage in a blend of memoir and historical fact revealing a heartbreaking story of both loss and discovery. “I had no idea that my family heritage was Jewish or that more than 20 of my relatives had died in the Holocaust,” she wrote. “I had been brought up to believe in a history of my Czechoslovak homeland that was less tangled and more straightforward than the reality.” This special event is sponsored by Bookends/Ridgewood for the benefit of the Don Bosco Prep Alumni Association. Tickets are $25 for adults and $20 for students. The ticket price includes one paperback copy of “Prague Winter.” Seating at Don Bosco Prep’s De Sales Hall Auditorium at 492 North Franklin Turnpike Ramsey is general admission. The doors will open at 5 p.m. with the program to begin at 7 p.m. For tickets, contact the Don Bosco Prep Advancement Office at alumni@donboscoprep.org or (201) 327-2049.