 Endorsement
It is a truism within the mass communication field that a community conscious newspaper, published in whatever format and circulated with whatever frequency, represents a major uniting force within the community it serves. This is especially true if such a periodical serves a minority population within a larger nation state. Members of the Romanian community in the United States are better served, therefore, by having Gandacul de Colorado regularly at their disposal to be connected to their native land and be kept up-to-date about what’s happening in their ethnic community here in the United States.
The individual responsible for creating this professional Romanian-language publication is Lucian Oprea who, from the newspaper’s inception, has devoted an enormous amount of effort and time, and expended his own funds, to not only sustain the publication but also to continually improve its format and content, and to increase its circulation. It has been my privilege over the years to witness this improvement process and the publication’s rapid growth. And my wife and I have enjoyed seeing our respective articles published in Gandacul de Colorado. Now, once again, Lucian has enhanced the newspaper and improved its format to better serve his fellow Romanians residing in this country.
I wish him well in this noble endeavor and trust that he will continue to improve and expand the publication for the benefit of the Romanian people residing throughout the United States and Canada. He rightly deserves to be recognized for his persistent efforts and congratulated for his entrepreneurial spirit in founding and publishing Gandacul de Colorado.
Frank L.Kaplan
PhD.
Professor Emeritus University of Colorado -- Boulder
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