Ivan Zorman

He graduated from Western Reserve University with degrees in language, literature and music.

[1] He went on to teach organ, piano, and voice for Slovene societies while serving as an organist at St. Lawrence Catholic Church.

[2] While Zorman's poetry became successful in the United States, it went largely unnoticed in his homeland of Yugoslavia.

"In 1938, his 5th book of poetry, From the New World, received honorable mention in the Jugoslav University Club at the Hollenden Hotel.

In 1959, Zorman's daughter, Carmen, dedicated a memorial bust to her father in Gardens.