%0 Journal Article %T Vasile Goldi , President of ASTRA %A Eugen GAGEA %J Studii de Stiinta si Cultura %D 2011 %I Vasile Goldis Western University, Arad %X As a president of ¡°ASTRA¡±, Goldi worked enthusiastically and skillfully, honoring the names of his predecessors. From his initiative, in 1924, ¡°ASTRA¡± organized a visit to Bucharest, to similar literary societies, with the purpose of strengthening the Romanian cultural movement, through collaboration and the union of efforts and, also, of establishing a direct contact with the folk music, art, and customs of the Romanian people living beyond the Carpathians, with the nature of those regions, thus tightening the Romanians¡¯ spiritual unity. %K president %K ASTRA %K Romanian culture %K spiritual unity. %U http://www.revista-studii-uvvg.ro/images/stories/26/16%20Gagea%20BUN.pdf