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No. 3Presidential election...(Continued from page 1)in June 1996, gives the president suchpowers temporarily; they are to expire inJune of this year if the nation’s chiefexecutive cannot win the approval ofeither the Verkhovna Rada or Ukraine’scitizens to extend them.The president first suggested that hemay call a referendum to retain his constitutionallymandated authority when hespoke at a meeting of Ukraine’s regionalpress in Kyiv in early December and reiteratedit on January 10 in Ternopil.According to President Kuchma, withoutthis extraordinary authority, completingeconomic reforms will be impossiblegiven the paralysis in the VerkhovnaRada and the resistance of a majority ofnational deputies toward movement to afree-market system.Ukraine’s Communist Party jumpedon the referendum bandwagon onJanuary 11, after hearing rumors that apublic vote on changes to theConstitution was in the works.Verkhovna Rada Vice-Chairman AdamMartyniuk, who is a member of theCommunist faction, responded to reportsthat a petition-gathering campaign led byoblast leaders had begun for a popularreferendum on the president’s two proposalsby stating that his party woulddemand that questions on abolishing thepresidency and making Russian a secondstate language also be considered.Mr. Martyniuk said the party’s cadreshad been instructed to attend any localmeetings at which the issue of a referendummight be raised. “The Communistsare prepared to assist the presidentialstructures in calling a nationwide referendum,”said Mr. Martyniuk.Verkhovna Rada ChairmanOleksander Tkachenko on January 12attempted to quash any plans for a referendumorganized by the executivebranch. He said the executive branch,whether at the local or national level,does not hold the constitutional right toinitiate a national referendum. That right,according to Mr. Tkachenko, belongs to“citizens of Ukraine, political parties,public organizations and work collectives.”“Irrespective of specifically whatquestion on constitutional amendments isCanadian PM...(Continued from page 1)“It wasn’t until Monczak received ananonymous phone call from Ukraine thathe learned of Ivan’s whereabouts,” theSun reporter wrote.Ivan Nestor Monczak, who has brownhair and blue eyes, was born in Montrealon November 9, 1992, and appears on theChild Cyber Search Canada (CCSC) website(http://www.childcybersearch.org/),which also carries a photo and informationabout his mother.Upon the advice of Halyna Freelandof the Ukrainian Legal Foundation, Dr.Monczak retained Ukraine-based juristNatalia Petrova, and the matter was formallybrought before a court in Ukrainein November 1998.Soon afterwards an official diplomaticdispatch on the subject from Canada’sMinistry of Foreign Affairs was forwardedto Ukraine.Reached by The Weekly on January12, Sophie Galarneau of the PrimeMinister’s Office (PMO) said Mr.Chrétien has been apprised of the caseand that he does intend to raise the matterwith officials in Ukraine, but addedthat such assurances are “hard to confirm.”She cautioned that “it alwaysdepends on events, the situation and theTHE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 1999 3initiated by the executives of local bodiesof government, such actions are inadmissibleand shall be prevented,” said Mr.Tkachenko.On January 13 President Kuchma’spress secretary, Oleksander Martynenko,denied that President Kuchma or hisadministration had anything to do withgathering petitions. “Neither the presidentnor the presidential administrationhave any connection to any massiveactions for a referendum,” said Mr.Martynenko.The president’s press secretary said hehad information that the Rukh Party andthe National Democratic Party had begunpetition-gathering initiatives. “From whatwe understand, in Lviv more than 90,000signatures have already been gathered,”said Mr. Martynenko.No one from the Rukh press officewas available to comment on the party’srole in organizing a referendum.The NDP, while neither confirmingnor denying that it is responsible forgathering signatures on a possible referendum,said the issue of deputies’ immunityshould be decided by the Parliament.An NDP leader, Volodymyr Filenko,explained that the general issue of immunityshould be considered in parallel withthe specific cases of Messrs. Lazarenkoand Agafonov. “The Verkhovna Radashould decide this question on its own,without waiting for a referendum,” saidMr. Filenko.The Communist faction, meanwhile,had put together a draft bill on amendmentsand addenda to the Constitution providingfor the cancellation of the presidency.On January 12 party leaders presenteda motion that the Constitutional Courtreview the bill to confirm its legality. Themotion was put to the Verkhovna Rada fora vote three times on January 12 and twicemore the following day, each time failingto receive a majority of 226 votes.Even with the fifth failure, ChairmanTkachenko said the Parliament wouldreturn to the motion and the bill onJanuary 14.The same day, President Kuchma’spress secretary, Mr. Martynenko, tookpains to inform reporters that the presidentdoes not support the bill. “I don’tknow if it needs to be said, but the presidentsupports the institution of the officeof the president,” said Mr. Martynenko.circumstances.”Dr. Monczak told The Weekly thatIvan’s mother tried to abduct their son,an only child, once before. He said thatin the summer of 1994 he returned fromwork to find both Ms. Bartchouk andIvan missing. After a frantic search, theyturned up at an abused women’s shelterin Montréal.Ms. Bartchouk filed for divorce at thattime and was granted custody of theirson. However, Dr. Monczak’s petition fora restraining order on his wife, whichbanned her from leaving the municipalityof Montréal, was also granted that year.The divorce was finalized by aQuébec Superior Court decision on May1996. According to Dr. Monczak, in hisdecision Judge Herbert Marks establishedthat accusations of assault on Ms.Bartchouk and Ivan were without foundation(by his wife’s admission). “I spent$45,000 countering perjury,” the cancerresearcher said.Dr. Monczak met his ex-wife in Kyivin July 1990 during a Ukrainian medicalsociety visit to the Ukrainian capital. Thecouple were married in Montreal inOctober 1991. Ms. Bartchouk was grantedlanded immigrant status in January1993.Dr. Monczak said his former spouse isa journalist by training, that she workedUkrainian government denies reportsof mercenaries fighting in Sierra LeoneWASHINGTON – Several majorAmerican newspapers, quoting theauthorities in Sierra Leone, have recentlypublished information about the participationof Ukrainian citizens on the sideof rebels in the civil war that ravages thatcountry. The Embassy of Ukraine hasresponded that neither the Ministry ofForeign Affairs of Ukraine, nor other relevantstate authorities of Ukraine haveany information to support allegationsmentioned in the news reports.According to the InternationalConvention Against Recruitment, Use,Financing and Training of Mercenaries,adopted by the United Nations in 1989,mercenary activity is qualified as acrime. Ukraine signed the convention in1990 and ratified it in 1993.U.S. delegation in Kyiv...(Continued from page 1)He praised Ukraine for stabilizing itscurrency and working out new debtrepayment schedules with its domesticand foreign creditors.Mr. Pascual, President Clinton’s chiefnational security advisor on Ukraine andRussia, said Ukraine must come up witha clear strategy to convince Congressthat the country is moving, not merely tostabilize the country, but towards economicgrowth. “In the end a climatemust be created to move beyond stabilityto growth,” explained Mr. Pascual. “Thatgrowth is the foundation for creatingjobs and giving people stability in theirlives.”He said that little changes are asimportant as major overhauls, and citedas an example the need to allow the ministriesof finance and treasury to obtaincontrol over budget accounts that in thepast have been off the budget. “It is criticalto developing trust among taxpayersthat their taxes are being spent effectively,”said Mr. Pascual.He also suggested that the governmentshould get out of the oil and energy businessand allow “strategic investors” to takeover in those and other major industries.at a museum of literature in Kyiv whenthey met and found employment as along-distance telephone clerk when livingin Montréal.As corroborated by the Toronto Sunstory, in Judge Marks’ May 1996 decision,both parents were forbidden tomake out passports in Ivan Monczak’sname without written permission fromthe other. According to the January 5report, police are treating the case as anabduction because Dr. Monczak’s exwifeviolated a court ruling that forbadeanyone from taking Ivan out ofQuébec.Mr. Dunn wrote that “the same courtgranted full custody to Monczak after theabduction and issued a writ of HabeasCorpus ordering the child be broughtback.”Dr. Monczak said that if the primeminister fails to get his son back he willhave to travel to Ukraine and plead hiscase before a foreign court. The first formalhearing on the issue is scheduled totake place in Kyiv on February 2.Dr. Monczak told Mr. Dunn onJanuary 4 that his son “is the biggesttreasure I have. He has been abducted. Agreat injustice has been [done] to him,and I think my government, my primeminister, should stand up for this littleboy.”Having acceded to this internationaldocument, the Embassy stated, Ukrainepledged to undertake all necessary measuresto counter such activity. Article 63-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine envisagesimprisonment from three to 12 yearsfor “recruiting, financing, maintainingand training mercenaries,” as well as for“participation without sanction of relevantstate authorities in armed conflictsof other states with the goal of receivingmaterial or other personal benefits.”Should the specific facts of mercenaryactivity by the citizens of Ukraine,including that in Sierra Leone, be confirmed,those involved would be subjectto criminal punishment in accordancewith the laws of Ukraine, noted theEmbassy of Ukraine.The group also discussed with Kyivofficials a list of claims by U.S. investorsagainst Ukrainian businessmen. Many ofthe disputes are holdovers from lastyear’s certification criteria, whichrequired only that Ukraine show substantialprogress in resolving the disputes.Seven claims still have not been settled,including ownership of Gala Radio in Kyivand the Roksolana Hotel in Ivano-Frankivsk. Also outstanding are severaldisputes over agricultural equipment, andthe granting of a permit to build a hotel inKyiv. Mr. Taylor explained that he believesall are resolvable. “In all the disputes, solutionsare possible. The two sides must simplywork to resolve them,” said Mr. Taylor.Mr. Truman of the TreasuryDepartment and U.S. Ambassador toUkraine Steven Pifer acknowledged thatsome of the U.S. criteria for disbursementof foreign aid mirror requirementsput forth by the International MonetaryFund’s Extended Fund Facility (EFF)agreement with Ukraine, in which thefinancial organization has agreed to providemore than $2 billion in credits to thecash-strapped country.Mr. Truman said tax reform and theimplementation of a realistic budget withaccurate macroeconomic figures are keysteps in meeting both IMF and U.S.Congress criteria.An IMF mission arrived in Kyiv theday after the departure of the U.S. delegationto begin discussion and analysisof the 1999 Ukrainian budget and Kyiv’scompliance with EFF requirements. TheIMF delayed the last installment of itscredit extension until it could review the1999 budget, which Ukraine’sVerkhovna Rada approved on December31, 1998, after a considerable battleamong left and center-right forces.The U.S. delegation also expressedsatisfaction with the pace of the KharkivInitiative, a promise by the U.S. to stimulatebusiness activity in the KharkivOblast given after the Ukrainian governmentagreed not to sell turbines manufacturedby a Kharkiv factory to Russia,which is building a nuclear reactor forIran in the city of Bushehr.Mr. Taylor said a joint Ukrainian-U.S. business center had opened inKharkiv late in 1998, which would helpto match U.S. investors with Kharkivfirms. Ambassador Pifer added thatKharkiv-area businesses finally had formulatedbusiness plans and prospectuses“for Mr. Taylor’s office and the U.S.Department of Commerce to convey tothe thousands of U.S businesses thathave expressed interest in doing businesshere.”“The U.S. can now act as a broker forbringing these people together,” explainedAmbassador Pifer.

No. 3THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 1999 5THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUMBranch 481 hosts St. Nicholasby Angela HoncharBranch 481 SecretaryCARNEGIE, Pa. – The Ivan FrankoSociety, Branch 481 of the UkrainianNational Association, sponsored a St.Nicholas Party on Sunday, December 6,1998.The children of Holy Trinity UkrainianCatholic Church’s Sunday School programin Carnegie, Pa., attended the party withtheir parents and grandparents.St. Nicholas made a special appearanceand gave each child a gift bag and a UNAwater bottle.After the party, the Sunday School childrenwent to Marian Manor, where theygave the patients small gifts and an icon ofSt. Nicholas.Branch 481 also sponsored a clothing,shoe and medicine shipment to Donetsk,Ukraine. A total of 385 pounds of supplieswas sent to the children in the Artimeskorphanage.UNA DISTRICT ORGANIZERS’ ACHIEVEMENTSDURING NOVEMBER 1998Nick and Yurko Honchar at the St. Nicholas Party sponsored by Branch 481.RECORDING DEPARTMENTMEMBERSHIP REPORT – NOVEMBER 1998Martha Lysko, National SecretaryJUV. ADULTS ADD TOTALSTotal Active Members – October 1998 7,957 17,250 4,368 29,575Total Inactive Members – October 1998 7,420 17,947 0 25,367Total Members – October 1998 15,377 35,197 4,368 54,942ACTIVE MEMBERSHIPGains in November 1998New members 17 38 0 55New members UL 1 15 0 16Canadian NP 0 1 0 1Reinstated 2 0 0 2Transfered in 2 6 2 10Change class in 7 1 0 8Transfered from Juvenile Dept. 0 0 0 0Total Gains: 29 61 2 92Losses in November 1998Suspended 11 9 6 26Transfered out 2 6 2 10Change of class out 7 1 0 8Transfered to adult 0 0 0 0Died 3 47 0 50Cash surrender 19 32 0 51Endowment matured 22 29 0 51Fully paid-up 13 31 0 44Reduced paid-up 0 0 0 0Extended Insurance 0 0 0 0Certificate terminated 0 3 7 10Total Losses 77 158 15 250Total Active Members – November 1998 7,909 17,153 4,355 29,417INACTIVE MEMBERSHIPGaines in November 1998Paid-up 13 31 0 44Extended insurance 10 5 0 15Lapsed 1 4 0 5Total Gains 24 40 0 64Losses in November 1998Died 3 25 0 28Cash surrender 5 18 0 23Reinstated 2 0 0 2Lapsed 1 4 0 5Total Losses 11 47 0 58Total Inactive Members – November 1998 7,433 17,940 0 25,373TOTAL MEMBERSHIP – November 1998 15,342 35,093 4,355 54,790Maria OscislawskiOrganizing DepartmentInsure and be sure. Join the UNA!

6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 1999No. 3THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLYEighty years agoBefore Ukraine’s Parliament adopted the Act of Declaration of the Independenceof Ukraine on August 24, 1991, Ukrainians around the world faithfully celebratedJanuary 22 as Independence Day. Indeed, what started as local observances grewinto national events, with Ukrainian businesses and schools being closed in honor ofthe day and government officials issuing proclamations on the occasion – the netresult being that the dream of Ukrainian independence was kept alive.Then, soon after the 1991 proclamation of independence, which was confirmedby the people of Ukraine in a nationwide referendum later that year, the governmentof Ukraine declared that August 24 would be celebrated as Ukrainian IndependenceDay. The diaspora followed suit.This year, however, is a particularly important anniversary of our originalUkrainian Independence Day, as it marks the 80th anniversary of the January 22,1919, Act of Union that joined all Ukrainians lands into one Ukrainian NationalRepublic. The act came one year to the day after the Ukrainian National Republichad been declared in Kyiv and two months, three weeks after independence wasproclaimed in western Ukraine on November 1, 1918.This historic union occurred at a time of great chaos: the collapse of authority,social turmoil and war (during this period six different armies occupied Ukrainianterritory). It came after the Ukrainian National Rada, the representative assembly ofthe Western Ukrainian National Republic, voted on January 4, 1919, in Stanyslavivto unite with their compatriots in Kyiv. The official Act of Union was proclaimed onJanuary 22 in St. Sophia Square in Kyiv, and was confirmed by the Labor Congress,the de facto Ukrainian Parliament, six days later.To be sure, this Ukrainian independence did not last long, falling victim to variousinternal factors (inexperience of political leaders, and, most significantly, thefact that state-building began while nation-building was in its infancy) and externalelements (the superior military forces of Poland in the west and Bolshevik Russia inthe east, and the inability of the Ukrainians to secure theEntente’s recognition).Two historians, authors of recently published histories of Ukraine, argue that theUkrainian revolution was not a failure, however.Orest Subtelny underlines: “National consciousness, which had been limited to apart of the intelligentsia, spread to all segments of Ukrainian society” and “the riseof Ukrainian governments taught peasants to identify themselves as ‘Ukrainians.’ ...[Thus] the upheaval of 1917-1920 was not only a socioeconomic but also a nationalrevolution.”Paul R. Magocsi argues that “even if these efforts did not bring about the hopedforindependence, the revolutionary experience itself instilled in Ukrainians a firmsense of national purpose, achieved, moreover, not after several generations ofpeacetime cultural work, but in less than half a decade. From such a perspective, theUkrainian revolution was a remarkable success.”So, as the 80th anniversary date of the Act of Union approaches, it is fitting toask: which independence day should be celebrate? Surely, the answer is August 24.However, can we forget the historic events of January 22, 1918, November 1, 1918,and January 22, 1919, and we might add, June 30, 1941, when a short-livedUkrainian state was announced by the faction of the Organization of UkrainianNationalists led by Stepan Bandera? Just as surely, the answer is “no.”All these dates in the history of the homeland to which we trace our roots are significant;all were steps on the way to the independence ultimately achieved onAugust 24, 1991, and confirmed overwhelmingly by the multi-ethnic population ofUkraine in a plebiscite on December 1, 1991. Let us mark this milestone anniversary,then, by reflecting on where Ukraine has been and where it is headed.January171869Turning the pages back...The name of Ivan Trush is synonymous with westernUkrainian painting, his stature equalled only by OleksanderNovakivsky. His impressionistic landscapes seem at once indescribablyfamiliar and uncannily idiosyncratic.Trush was born on January 17, 1869, in Vysotske, a village in Brody county about 60miles east of Lviv. He studied at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts from 1891 to 1897,then moved to Lviv, where he was active in Ukrainian community life and artistic circles.He married Mykola Drahomanov’s daughter, Ariadna, and was a close friend of thewriter and scholar Ivan Franko.His first solo show was held in Lviv in 1899. That year he also participated in the firstexhibition organized by the Society for the Advancement of Ruthenian Art, founded in1898. In 1904, together with the historian Mykhailo Hrushevsky, he founded the Societyof Friends of Ukrainian Scholarship, Literature and Art, and that summer organized aschool for Ukrainians from the Russian Empire. The following year he founded and copublishedthe first Ukrainian art magazine, Artystychnyi Vistnyk, also serving as its editor.Trush contributed articles on art and literature to journals such as Literaturno-Naukovyi Vistnyk, Moloda Ukraina and Ukrainische Rundschau, as well as the newspaperDilo. Trush also travelled widely, visiting Kyiv on several occasions (where he lecturedat Mykola Murashko’s school in 1901), living briefly in Crimea (1901-1904),sojourning in Italy (1902, 1908) and travelling to Egypt and Palestine (1912).Trush painted over 6,000 works, noted, according to Sviatoslav Hordynsky, for hisoriginal use of color. He is known primarily for his landscapes and genre paintings offolk scenes, but also painted portraits for the Shevchenko Scientific Society, producinglikenesses of Volodymyr Antonovych, Mykola Drahomanov, Ivan Franko, BorysHrinchenko, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Mykola Lysenko, Cardinal Sylvester Sembratovych,Vasyl Stefanyk and Lesia Ukrainka.Trush died in Lviv on March 22, 1941.Source: “Trush, Ivan,” Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Vol. 5 (Toronto: University of TorontoPress, 1993).NEWS AND VIEWSOur community and the press:showcasing our strengthsby Alexander B. KuzmaThe recently convened Ukrainian WorldCongress adopted the slogan “A StrongDiaspora – A Strong Nation.” If taken literally,the slogan seems to miss the mark.Neither Ukraine nor the diaspora are nearlyas strong as we would like to see thembecome. Still, the vision of a strong nationand a strong diaspora is something weurgently need to cultivate. Instead oflamenting the degree to which Ukraineand we ourselves have fallen short of ourloftiest dreams and expectations, the congresschallenged us to keep the dreamalive, to defy our nagging fatalism, to seeour glass as half full, but not empty orbereft of promise.At a time when too many of our traditionalleaders seem resigned to aninevitable decline in our community institutions,the Ukrainian World Congress andlast year’s The Year 2020 Conference inNew Jersey encouraged us to take a freshlook at our potential, to recognize ourstrengths, to build on those strengths, andto articulate a vision for the future.A critical element that typically isabsent from our community life is thedevelopment of an effective media strategy.We would love to see the worldacknowledge the beauty of Ukrainian artand culture, to know more about theTerror-Famine, about Chornobyl, about thevalor of our national martyrs and the heroismof our forefathers. We would love tosee the media give proper credit to thecontributions Ukrainians have made in thefields of science, literature and business.But for some infuriating reason, we thinkit’s the media’s job to find us rather thanour job to reach out to the media and makesure that our story gets told. Nothingbetrays the diaspora’s low self-esteem asmuch as its failure to aggressively pursueoutside media coverage of its activities.The seventh conclave of the UkrainianWorld Congress was a glaring case inpoint. According to several organizers withwhom I spoke, there was never anyattempt made to attract the Canadian orinternational newsmedia to the Decembercongress. For the life of me, I can’t understandwhy.The Ukrainian World Congress was agolden opportunity to draw attention to theUkrainian diaspora, to showcase its diversity,its resiliency, its valiant effort to overcomecenturies of oppression by keepingits heritage and culture alive. At its height,there were over 500 delegates from 13countries around the world – some from asfar away as Argentina, Brazil andAustralia.Multiculturalism is a hot topic inCanada these days, and for journalists andfeature writers looking for some new“angle” to cover, here was a treasure troveof fascinating subtexts to explore:1) the changing role of the diaspora insupporting an independent Ukraine;2) the common bonds and the contrastamong persons of Ukrainian origin livingin Canada, Brazil, Poland and Russia;3) exposure of discriminatory policiesand persecution inflicted upon ethnicUkrainians in Russia, Poland and Slovakia(coupled with a sidebar on religious andethnic tolerance, which is prevalent inUkraine today);4) the efforts of Ukrainian women’sorganizations to combat international sexAlexander B. Kuzma is director of developmentfor the Children of ChornobylRelief Fund.slave trafficking and to elevate the statusof women in post-Soviet society (thiswould have tied in perfectly with an articlethat ran in the Toronto Sunday Star on thefinal day of the Congress);5) the impressive variety and potentialimpact of humanitarian aid and technicalassistance programs marshalled byUkrainian organizations around the globe;6) the challenges facing our communityin attracting younger, more professionalcadres to our ranks.The list goes on.There were human interest storiesgalore: Ivan Drach, Yaroslava Stetsko,people at the center of Ukraine’s strugglefor a political and cultural renaissance.Even on the most parochial level, theUkrainian World Congress could haveexploited the “local angle” by appealing tothe pride of Toronto’s business elite and itsmedia who rightly boast that Toronto hasbecome one of North America’s mosturban cities. Here was Toronto provingonce again that its reputation as an internationalmecca is well-deserved, as it hostedan important gathering of Ukrainians fromaround the world to discuss the fate ofEurope’s cornerstone nation.Surely, this was a newsworthy event forsomeone other than The UkrainianWeekly. The Weekly is a precious sourceof information for our community, but itcannot be expected to reach the millions ofCanadians who read the Toronto Globeand Mail. Yet five days went by with nopress conference or press release to alertthe rest of the world that such a congresswas under way. As far as the Canadianpublic and news services were concerned,the congress never happened! It was utterlyand inexcusably invisible.There are those who enjoy blaming thepress for its failure to cover our communityevents when we have only ourselves toblame. With thousands of potential newsstories vying for the attention of assignmenteditors each day, we cannot expectour programs to get automatic coverage.We must take the initiative to go out and“make the story happen.” Even in theabsence of a sophisticated press strategy,there is a simple set of mechanical stepswe can follow to achieve at least modestsuccess:• appoint a press coordinator and makehim/her accountable for systematic andassertive outreach to the mainstream press;• prepare a press release at least fivedays before the event is to take place;• make follow-up phone calls to makesure that the event in question is on theeditors’ radar screen and not simply buriedunder a stack of 50 competing bulletinsand faxes.There is a fourth principle that shouldbe adhered to: Ukrainian organizationsneed to get into the habit of cultivatingrelationships with individual reporters andeven editors in their local communities,testing their receptiveness to various newsstories. As we enter into an ongoing dialogueand gain a better understanding ofeditors’ priorities, we will learn how toexpress our concerns and articulate ourvision from their perspective.Whether our press releases are ignoredor not, we need to constantly remind themedia that Ukraine is one of the mostimportant countries in the world. Some ofthe most respected foreign policy gurus,from Henry Kissinger to ZbigniewBrzezinski have called it “the strategiclynchpin” of the former Soviet Union.(Continued on page 12)

No. 3THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 1999 7LETTERS TO THE EDITORUACC, democracy,Kuropas columnDear Editor:In his column in The Ukrainian Weeklyof December 13, 1998, Myron B. Kuropassuggests that the UACC should “stoptrolling for power and cut bait.”I would like to remind Dr. Kuropas thatthe Ukrainian American CoordinatingCouncil serves as an umbrella organizationrepresenting that section of the Ukrainiandiaspora in the United States that, for example,recognized the writer and politicalleader Ivan Bahrianyj and Gen. PetroGrigorenko, and supported publication ofthe Encyclopedia of Ukraine and funding ofthe Ukrainian Research Institute at HarvardUniversity as very important milestones onthe way to our better future.The other section of this diaspora underthe actual leadership of Banderite faction ofthe Organization of Ukrainian Nationalistswas overly critical, unsupportive or downrighthostile in all these and many otherinstances.The OUN (B) claims that its politicalplatform is superior, integral and uncompromising.Such a platform rationalizes therejection of the need to form a unified representationbased on cooperation and consensuswith other patriotic groups or parties.This attitude was responsible for thedecision by the OUN(B)’s twin, theCongress of Ukrainian Nationalists inUkraine, to go into the parliamentary electionsin March 1998 all alone, instead ofeither forming or joining a patriotic bloc.This party received a mere 2.7 percent ofthe votes cast. In a close election, where theCommunists were the main opponents tothe patriotic camp, that 2.7 percent wasquite significant, but in accordance withelection rules that stipulated a 4 percent barrierfor parties to win seats, all was lost anda major part of power went to theCommunists. What a strange and tragic turnof events.Dr. Kuropas’ suggestions to the UACC,the Ukrainian National Association and theUkrainian Fraternal Association to cut baitor proclaim neutrality are quite odious. Thepillars of a democratic society are not unanimity,unison or neutrality, but a continuousdialogue and competition among differentparties in order to correctly define andproperly solve existing or arising problems.We all have the right to “stand up and becounted.” We all should be able to acceptand learn from constructive criticism. Wemay have “to put a dent in a high hat or ahole in a stuffed shirt,” but that’s whatdemocracy is all about.Roman LazarchukWarren, Mich.An appreciationof pastoral letterDear Editor:Truly, The Weekly is a newspaper ofrecord for Ukrainians everywhere. Thanksmuch for publishing the Christmas pastoralmessage from the U.S. UkrainianCatholic Metropolitanate (“Preparing forthe most precious gift,” December 20,1998). I don’t live in the Archeparchy ofPhiladelphia, and otherwise would nothave had benefit of that inspiration. It isone of the most beautiful tracts on God’sboundless love for His people that I haveever read. It is correctly inclusionary. Andit “sings” almost entirely from Scripture,with very little theological construction.The deification (divinization) leitmotif isthe centerpiece of our Eastern Christiantheology.I was sufficiently moved by the messagefrom Archbishop Stephen and BishopWalter to share it with many Latin-ritepriests and deacons in the Mansfield deaneryof the Toledo Diocese, to their verygrateful reception. We do have so much ofour Church tradition to share with the West,and the Church must breath with both lungsfor optimum health. The Weekly facilitatesthe sharing process.Prayerfully wishing you the continuedpeace and joy of Christmas.Christ is Born! Glorify Him!Oles CherenMansfield, OhioThe writer is founder of the CatholicJustice Fellowship.Congratulationson yearend issueDear Editor:I’d like to congratulate you and yourstaff on the splendid, record-settingyearend issue. Forty-four pages, wow!I’ve kept copies of almost all “Year inReview” supplements since 1982, whenthey were only eight pages. The 1998close-out 32-page insert was not only thelargest ever, but also the most thoroughand the most interesting.It is obvious that every one of TheWeekly editorial personnel put in a lot ofextra hard work on this issue. I hope theywere properly rewarded by St. Nicholas!All best wishes to The Weekly stafffor 1999!Dear Editor:Ingert KuzychSpringfield, Va.Veterans proudof achievementsThank you for an outstanding Year inReview issue. All of us are very proud ofCmdr. Stephen L. Szyska of the U.S. Navywho assumed command of a submarine.We are also very proud of Brig. Gen.Donald W. Hrynyshyn who was awardedthe Legion of Merit medal. We would alsolike to commend all those who participatedas Ukrainian interpreters this past year.The Ukrainian American MilitaryAssociation (UAMA) is a group of activeand reserve personnel in the U.S. ArmedForces who have taken the Ukrainian languagetest and who provide linguistic supportto combat and medical missions toUkraine. The number of missions increasesevery year and in fiscal year 1998, therewere over 75 missions authorized.The UAMA is proud to be officiallyaffiliated with the Ukrainian AmericanVeterans (UAV). The UAV unites veteranswho have served in the U.S. armed forces.We in the UAMA/UAV encourage allactive/reserve and veterans to join us orform a UAV post. If you areactive/reserve, and would like to receivee-mail, let Maj. Yuri Holowinsky know at:ybh1234@aol.com. If you would like toform a post with the UAV, send an e-mailto Golash_Roman@compuserve.com.The 52nd Convention of the UAV will beheld September 24-26 in Chicago. TheUAMA will also hold its meeting thatweekend, on September 25.Roman G. GolashSchaumburg, Ill.The writer is a major in the U.S. ArmyReserves, president of the UAMA andcommander of UAV Post 32, Chicago.PERSPECTIVESBY ANDREW FEDYNSKYHow many ways can you spell slave?Until quite recently, one of the constantsocial factors in Ukrainian life hasbeen slavery. It’s rarely discussed, butthere it is: for most of their thousandyearhistory, large numbers of Ukrainianshave been slaves, starting with KyivanRus’, which had a regular slave marketand a complex legal code to define theinstitution. After Rus’ disappeared in the13th century, generation after generationof Ukrainians was harnessed into serfdom,first under the Poles, later theRussians and Austrians.The people called it “panschyna,”from “pan,” the Polish word for master.Serfdom, of course, was commonthroughout Europe. It’s a form of slaverywhere people are bound – “prykripleni” –to the land hence another word for serfdom:“kripatstvo.” The poet, TarasShevchenko, for example, was a “kripak”– a serf. He belonged to the land. Theland, with everything and every livingcreature on it, belonged to the master.The serfs worked for him. He told themwhat to do. He could punish and reward.He was the master. They were the slaves.In the 16th and 17th centuries, manyUkrainians laboring on the vast estates ofPolish masters fled east to the wide opensteppes, where land was plentiful andpeople could be free. Here, though,another danger lurked. Tatars – descendantsof the Mongols who had destroyedKyiv in 1240 – raided Ukrainian settlementsand took captives to Kaffa to besold at a huge slave market for the laborhungryimperial economy of the OttomanTurks.One famous captive was Roksolana,the daughter of a Galician priest. Shebecame the concubine and later theexclusive wife of the greatest of sultans,Suleiman the Magnificent. She was theexception.Most captives ended up as laborers,gallery slaves or janissaries (“yanychary”)– children taken captive andraised to be soldiers in an elite unit of thesultan’s army. To fight the Tatars,Ukrainians organized themselves into apotent self-defense force: theZaporozhian Kozaks, the freewheeling,bawdy, robust warriors of legend whocontinue to epitomize the Ukrainian selfimagemuch more so than slavery. Someof Shevchenko’s most stirring poems,especially “Hamaliia,” recount theKozaks’ daring, sea-borne raids toIstanbul to free their brethren.Alongside slavery, the other recurringfactor in Ukrainian history is anarchy.Brutal, often deliberately cruel treatment,coupled with callous disdain forUkrainian religious beliefs, stoked theserfs’ resentment, which periodicallyexploded into violent uprisings.The most famous was in 1648 whenBohdan Khmelnytskyi, an aging officerof the officially sanctioned “registeredKozaks,” sustained a grave injustice andraised the Kozaks in rebellion against theruling Poles. Like Wat Tyler’s 14th centurypeasant revolt in England, theFrench Revolution in 1789 or NatTurner’s 1831 Rebellion in Virginia,Ukrainian peasants seized the opportunityof Khmelnytskyi’s rebellion to getimmediate, bloody revenge on their tormentors– in this case the Polish “pany”and their overseers.Everyone, including Khmelnytskyi,was astonished when revenge turned intonational revolution: “Up to now,” hesaid, “I have fought because of thewrongs done to me personally ... but bythe will of God I have become the independentruler of Rus.’”It was not to last and within a centuryimperial Russia smothered the Kozakmovement and Ukrainian autonomyentirely. A deeper, more onerous andcruel version of serfdom was imposed,combined with a ban on Ukrainian culturalexpression. Not surprisingly, thepeasants rose up again and again, grabbingwhatever sharp tools they could tocut down the master, plunder his propertyand burn down the manor. For nearly twocenturies, that was the extent ofUkraine’s political program.Serfdom was abolished in the AustrianEmpire in 1848 and in the RussianEmpire in 1861, but Ukrainian peasantsliving in these imperial territories werenever given adequate land to survive. Inwestern Ukraine people responded withmass emigration. In tsarist-ruled Ukraine,it led to revolution in 1917. There, half adozen armies struggled for the next threeyears, once again spawning bloody anarchy.When the dust settled, Moscow wasback in control.In 1932, Stalin brought back serfdomin the form of collective farms. In theSiberian labor camps, he instituted outrightslavery. In 1941, the Nazis invadedUkraine and forced 2 million Ukrainianmen and women to work in Germany’sfactories and farms. Credit the 20th centurywith crafting three new words forslave: “kolhospnyk,” “katorzhnyk” and“Ostarbeiter.”Today, Ukraine is independent andfree. The vast majority of its citizens aredescended from slaves. Many former collectivefarm workers or labor campinmates had first-hand experience withslavery. What impact does all that haveon Ukraine? The result, I’m afraid, isanarchy yet again, a situation where lawlessnessprevails, where the goal is toplunder whatever you can while you can.Just consider: high government officialssiphon funds into Swiss bankaccounts. Middle-level bureaucrats solicitbribes every time a permit or licenseneeds a rubber stamp. A shadowy“mafia” demands protection money.The Verkhovna Rada resists meaningfulreform, while changing the rules forbusiness any time a majority sees achance for short-term advantage.People, caught up in the turmoil, avoidthe normal political process and keeptheir heads down for fear they’ll be cutoff. No wonder so many seek visasthrough honest channels or corrupt toemigrate to America or Canada.Is all, then, lost? Is Ukraine destinedto repeat the historic pattern of slavery,followed by anarchy, then followed byslavery once again? I think not. To besure, there is anarchy of a sort, but nothingremotely like the catastrophes thathistory records, and there are many positivefactors to which one can point.For the first time in centuries, Ukraineas a nation is ruling itself and, despite itsproblems, continues to follow some fundamentalrules set by the InternationalMonetary Fund, something Ukraine’sneighbor, Russia, is unable to do thus far.In contrast to the collapsed Russian(Continued on page 10)

No. 3by Yaro BihunGLENS FALLS, N.Y. – If only the snowin the Adirondack Mountains was as punctualas the swallows of Capistrano or thebuzzards of Ohio’s Hinckley Lake, theorganizers of the annual Plast ski camp herewould have little need for Grecian Formulaand Zantac.With more than 160 ski campers –“yunaky,” “yunachky” and “bulavni” – registeredand no snow on the ground, andChristmas D-Day less than a week away,George Danyliw, the Burlaky Plast fraternity’spoint man for the effort, was lookingaround for painful alternatives.Luckily, Mother Nature and man cametogether and got things back on track: sheprovided the below-freezing temperatures,and the Gore Mountain groomers crankedup the snow-making equipment in time tolay an adequate base for the camp’s firstruns on December 26, 1998. The few inchesof natural snow that fell three days intothe camp didn’t help the skiing very much,which remained good through the end ofthe camp on December 31, but it did providea “winter wonderland” setting for thephotos.The 1998 camp drew more than 120young Plast skiers from the eastern half ofthe United States. It also played host to fivechildren of Ukrainian diplomats serving inWashington, who skied and participated inthe camp’s activities as guests.This year’s commandant, a veteran ofmany ski camps, Andrey Hankewych ofYonkers, N.Y., led a cadre of more than 30counselors, including “bunchuzhni”Christina Jackiw of Chicago and MarkoNynka of Exton, Pa., and “pysar” RomanDanyliw of Warminster, Pa. Dr. MartaKushnir of Naperville, Ill, was the campphysician.The daily routine, which began withwake-up at 6:15 a.m., included a full day ofskiing and mandatory ski instructions, aswell as various evening activities: contests,an outing to a local professional hockeygame, an evening liturgy and the traditional“Mykolaiko,” an evening of humorous skitsand “gifts” for those “naughty and nice.”The campers selected as their most populargirl and boy – their “snizhynka” (snowflake) and “snihovyi did” (snowman) –Sophia Torielli, 12, of Colonia, N.J., andDarian Fedash, 16, of Oradell, N.J. A groupof 15 campers won the coveted first prize inthe “krasnomovnist” contest, which testedtheir oratorical and Ukrainian-languageskills. Twenty-two campers earned meritbadges in skiing.The Burlaky Plast fraternity began organizingski camps for Plast youths more than50 years ago in Germany. They have alsoorganized hiking and boating camps, andtwo years ago added mountain-biking.THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 1999 9More than 160 skiers participate in annual Plast camp in AdirondacksThe 1998 skip camp emblem.Participants of the annual ski camp organized by the Burlaky Plast fraternity in the Adirondack Mountains.Newsbriefs(Continued from page 2)Desert Fox is unlikely to be in any significantvolumes and will only be symbolic,Cabinet of Ministers officials announcedon January 6. The Verkhovna Rada onDecember 23, 1998, voted by a narrowmajority to recommend that the Cabinetallocate an “affordable amount of foodand medicine” to Iraq. The Parliament’sresolution said aid to Iraq was neededbecause of “numerous casualties and considerabledamage inflicted on Iraq by massiveair and missile strikes, and by thehardships the Iraqi population is enduringas a result of a continuing blockade.” Inreality, the Verkhovna Rada’s decision islikely to be derailed since it has no practicalvalue, the Cabinet official said. Iraqreceives over $4 billion (U.S.) in food andmedicine from the United Nations’ oil-forfoodprogram every six months – around40 percent of Ukraine’s entire annual budget.“The left-dominated VerkhovnaRada’s move was an attempt to expresssolidarity with Russia’s left-dominatedDuma,” the official added, “more than solidaritywith Iraq.” (Eastern Economist)Kuchma praises Orthodox ChurchKYIV – In a Christmas message onJanuary 6, President Leonid Kuchmapraised the Orthodox Church for its role insociety and said Christian ideals shouldguide the Ukrainian people, theAssociated Press reported. “On the eve ofa great date, 2,000 years since the birth ofChrist, the Church’s activities becomeeven more important,” Mr. Kuchma said.In last year’s Christmas address, the presidenthad called for unity among Ukraine’sfeuding Orthodox Churches: theUkrainian Orthodox Church – MoscowPatriarchate, the Ukrainian OrthodoxChurch – Kyiv Patriarchate and theUkrainian Autocephalous OrthodoxChurch. (RFE/RL Newsline)Money-laundering network uncoveredKYIV – Tax police have uncovered anunderground network that allegedly launderedmoney for some 3,000 companies,including state-run enterprises, theAssociated Press reported on January 7,citing official sources. The network,which operated from Kyiv, receivedmoney from interested companiesthrough bank transfers, which it thenchanneled through fictitious firms forconversion into cash, thereby avoidingtaxation. The network’s daily turnoveramounted to 1 million hrv ($292,000U.S.). Tax evasion is a common practiceamong Ukrainian firms, which complainthat the country’s taxes are too high. LastDecember the national tax debt totaled 10billion hrv – nearly half of budget revenues.(RFE/RL Newsline)Still no confirmation on fate of planeKYIV – The location of the UkrainianAN-12 airplane that disappeared in Angolain December 1998 remains unknown.Results of aerial photographs of the possiblecrash site failed to clarify the situation, asthe region is in the center of a war zone andis littered with wreckage and debris fromthe fighting. Experts have so far refused torule out the possibility that the plane wasshot down by surface-to-air missiles.According to Emergency Ministry PressService head Oleh Bykov, a Ukrainian representativetook part in the Angolan’sInvestigation Commission. (EasternEconomist)More presidential coalitions formingKYIV – Republican Christian Partyheads decided on December 23, 1998, tojoin the coalition of the Rukh Party and theReformy i Poriadok Party to back a singlecandidate in the forthcoming presidentialelections. Republican Christian Party headMykola Porovskyi said his party is ready tosupport the incumbent, with other namesproposed being Rukh leader VyacheslavChornovil and former Foreign AffairsMinister Hennadii Udovenko. (EasternEconomist)Moroz calls for a populist candidateKYIV – Socialist Party ChairmanOleksander Moroz said on December 21,1998, that the Socialist Party will be readyto support a non-Socialist candidate in thepresidential elections if that were the onlycandidate capable of uniting a wide coalitionand transcending party boundaries. Mr.Moroz said the Socialists are ready to startnegotiations with the Progressive SocialistParty. However, he voiced fears that suchYaro Bihunnegotiations may not be possible in the currentpolitical climate, adding, “the presidentialadministration will not allow such negotiations.”(Eastern Economist)Kazakstan, Ukraine sign protocolKYIV – Kazak Foreign Affairs MinisterKasymjomart Tokayev and his Ukrainiancounterpart, Boris Tarasyuk, met onDecember 21, 1998, and signed a protocolon cooperation between the two countries’foreign ministries in 1999-2000, ITAR-TASS reported. The two also discussed CISreforms, and Mr. Tarasyuk said “the reformprocess is continuing, but it is too early tospeak of results.” Mr. Tokayev said it is“necessary to improve the effectiveness ofthe Commonwealth,” especially in adheringto accords signed by the heads of memberstates. (RFE/RL Newsline)Ukraine to print money to pay back wagesKYIV – Prime Minister ValeriiPustovoitenko said on December 22, 1998,that Ukraine will print money next year tocover its mounting wage arrears, theAssociated Press reported. He added thatthe Cabinet of Ministers plans a monetaryemission of 1 billion hrv ($290 millionU.S.), but he did not say how he expects themoney emission to affect the 1999 inflationrate, which has been forecast at 19 percent.(RFE/RL Newsline)Belarusian paper wins suit over spellingMIENSK – The Higher Economic Courton December 22, 1998, ruled in favor ofthe Belarusian-language biweekly NashaNiva, which defied warnings by the StatePress Committee by continuing to use thetraditional, non-Russified Belarusianorthography banned by the Soviet regimein 1933, RFE/RL’s Belarusian Servicereported. Nasha Niva Editor SyarheyDubavets sued the committee after it hadwarned the newspaper not to “distort thegenerally accepted norms of the language.”A panel of linguists assembled by the courtfound that no “generally accepted norms ofthe language have ever been determined.”The court accepted that view and fined thecommittee 2.5 million Belarusian rubles.Mr. Dubavets said the verdict “provided avery positive result for the Belarusian languageitself ... and those discriminated inBelarus from time immemorial for usingthis language.” (RFE/RL Newsline)

10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 1999No. 3THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLYPittsburgh holds “Celebrationof Ukrainian Classical Music”C A L L ( 9 7 3 ) 2 9 2 - 9 8 0 0HISTORY MAKING EVENTPope John Paul II celebrates Ukrainian liturgywith the choir from Lviv, consisting of 200 singers.Commemoration of 400 years of “Berest Union”with Rome, in St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome.NEW VIDEO TAPESAPON-7797B — Liturgy in Ukrainian RiteAPON-1998B — 7th Anniversary of the Independence of UkraineAPON 7797B — The Moleben with Pope John Paul IIPrice $30.00 each videowrite to:Apon Record Company, Inc.P.O. Box 3082, Long Island City, NY 11103Tel. 718-721-5599We will convert your videos from European systemto American and vice-versa. Cost $25.00PITTSBURGH – At the UniversityClub on the evening of November 6, 1998,approximately 80 people were entertainedby featured artists Dr. Jaropolk Lassowksy,on violin; Dr. Taras Filenko, piano andharpsichord; Andriy Pidkivka, flute andsopilka; and Lilea Wolanska, soprano, at aconcert titled “A Celebration of UkrainianClassical Music.”The concert featured the recently discoveredSonata in C Major for Violin andPiano by Maksym Berezovsky that wasperformed on the piano and harpsichordfor which it was originally written.Works by composers Lysenko, MykhayloHaivoronsky, Hryhorii Maiboroda, PylypKozytsky, Lesya Dychko, Lev Revutsky,Volodymyr Kaminsky and MykolaFomenko were also performed.“Proshchannya” (Farewell) composed bySerhiy Mamonov, dean of the DonetskInstitute of Music, had its world premiereat the concert.Dr. Lassowsky holds a doctorate fromOhio State University, and degrees fromNew York University and the New YorkCollege of Music. He is associate professorof music at Clarion University where heteaches violin, viola and music history, aswell as conducts the university orchestra.Dr. Filenko is a concert pianist andmusicologist, and is a graduate of theTchaikovsky Conservatory in Kyiv. Herecently defended his doctoral dissertation,“Ethnic Identity, Music and Politics inUkraine,” at the University of Pittsburgh.Mr. Pidkivka graduated from the LvivConservatory of Music with honors in theflute and sopilka. He teaches music theoryand the flute at the University of Illinois.Ms. Wolanska is an accomplished performerand recording artist who hastoured Ukraine, Russia, the U.S.A. andCanada. Her recordings include a dedicationto Lysenko, a celebration of worksby 20th century Ukrainian composers livingoutside Ukraine, a compilation ofGalician composers of the 1920s, andAmerican popular music from the early20th century.Prof. Mamanov dedicated the piece tothe spirit of cooperation that existsbetween the cities of Donetsk andPittsburgh. He is married to one of theparticipants of the United StatesInformation Agency’s Office of CitizenExchanges program, “CommunityConnections,” which is being implementedlocally by the Pittsburgh Council forInternational Visitors (PCIV). To date, 82citizens of Donetsk have visitedPittsburgh through the “CommunityConnections” program, with an additional30 scheduled to come by July 1999. TheUkrainian Technological Society (UTS)planned this concert as a welcome for theseventh “Community Connections” groupfrom Donetsk.Sharing a similar industrial history and adetermination to maintain a strong economy,Pittsburgh and Donetsk are working toforge an official relationship as sister cities.PCIV chose to foster the sister city relationshipwith Donetsk, hoping to create a betterunderstanding of contemporary Ukrainianculture and professional practices in theregion and, in the long term, leading tobusiness opportunities and other exchanges.After the concert, an impromptu singalongconsisting of Ukrainian folk songstook place around the piano. Ukrainiansfrom Ukraine, America and Canada joinedwith the children and grandchildren ofUkrainians who emigrated from Ukraine inan enchanted evening of fellowship andfriendship made possible by Ukrainianmusic.The concert was sponsored by theUkrainian Technological Society (UTS),Multilingual Communications Corp., theUniversity of Pittsburgh UkrainianStudents’ Organization, Slavic Department,and Center for Russian and East EuropeanStudies, and Nickolas C. Kotow.Need a back issue?If you’d like to obtain a back issue ofThe Ukrainian Weekly, send $2 per copy(first-class postage included) to:Administration, The Ukrainian Weekly,2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054.FOR SALE13.60 acres above Soyuzivka,picturesque view,ready to build.Call (302) 378-5353FOR SALE1.75 acres wooded lotwith lake privilegein Glen Spey, N.Y. near Verkhovyna.Call (302) 378-5353FIRST QUALITYUKRAINIAN TRADITIONAL-STYLEMONUMENTSSERVING NY/NJ/CT REGION CEMETERIESOBLASTMEMORIALSP.O. BOX 746Chester, NY 10918914-469-4247BILINGUAL HOME APPOINTMENTSHow many ways...(Continued from page 7)ruble, therefore, the Ukrainian hryvnia isholding its value. Another enormouslyimportant sign is the level of toleranceUkraine’s many ethnic groups showtoward each other. The xenophobia andanti-Semitism again so prominent inRussia are absent in Ukraine. Religion,banned for three generations, is alsoplaying an important role, offering a setof values to offset the spiritual emptinessthat is one of the sorry legacies of theSoviet system.Looking at the wreckage left by theCommunists, it’s easy to get frustrated,but if we remember that we’re dealingwith a society with a long legacy of slavery,perhaps we can better understandwhy people act as they do. Ivan Franko,author of the prophetic “Moisei” (1905)– one of his many works of genius –would have understood. In this epicpoem his hero, Moses, has been leadinghis people through the desert searchingfor the Promised Land. Those who experiencedslavery are despairing and arguefor going back to Egypt. Moses fightstheir defeatism and takes heart from thechildren who play at building walls andcity structures out of dirt and sand.I bet Franko would smile and seetoday’s Ukrainians as latter-dayIsraelites, wandering through the desert.Give it time, he would say. It’s been onlyseven years. Normally, it takes 40. Aslong as there is peace and freedom inUkraine, change will come. The present,he would point out, is better than thepast, and the future will be better still.Happy New Year, everybody.BORROW MONEY TO SAVE MONEY?ARE YOU KIDDING?No. We’re not kidding!Over the years many UNA members did and they laughed all the way to the bank.This year it’s your turn.NEED A NEW MORTGAGE?NEED TO REFINANCE?Just call 1 (800) 253-9862 Ext. 3072UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, INC.

No. 3Yara Arts Group and UIA to present“Poetry: Installations and Performances”NEW YORK – The Yara Arts Groupand the Ukrainian Institute of Americawill present “Poetry: Installations andPerformances” on January 29-31. Theweekend festival of poetry will includethree major events: an art exhibit, performancesof poetry by Yara actors andpoetry readings by poets. All the eventswill take place at the Ukrainian Instituteof America, 2 E. 79th St. at Fifth Avenue.Yara has invited 15 visual artists tocreate installations inspired by Ukrainianpoems throughout the rooms of the institute’snewly restored mansion.Participants artists include JudithCampbell, Yarko Cigash, Anya Farion,Petro Hrytsyk, Luba Kierkosz, AlexKytasty, Larisa Lawrynenko, OlgaMaryschuk (curator of the event),Margaret Morton, Ana Rewakowicz, JoelSchlemowitz, Anna Sidorenko, IlyonaSochynsky, Watoku Ueno, SergeiYakunin and Hilary Zarycky.Most of the artists have chosen towork with poems by contemporaryUkrainian poets, such as Oleh Lysheha,Vasyl Makhno, Attila Mohylny andOksana Zabuzhko. Some have chosenpoems from the 1920s by Pavlo Tychyna,and others will elaborate on ancientUkrainian incantations. The art exhibitwill open on Friday, January 29, at 8 p.m.and the works will remain on exhibitthroughout the weekend.A special gala at 8 p.m. on Saturday,January 30, will feature Yara actors performingportions of their new work, “InVerse.” Yara’s theatrical process isunique. In rehearsals, members bringtogether poems written by Ukrainianauthors and translations of these poemsTHE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 1999 11by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps.The translations are created specificallyfor the project during rehearsals withactors to attain a sensitive and dynamiccommingling of the original and translatedtexts. The artists plait an originalpoem with its translation so that the narrativecan be understood by everyone andthe melody of the original is maintained.It is a process best described as two languagesspeaking to each other. BobHolman, producer of the PBS series“World of Poetry,” recently saw Yara performand was fascinated by what heinsisted is a new genre of performance,created by Yara.“In Verse” weaves together Ukrainianpoetry from ancient folk incantations tothe newest, most exciting writers workingtoday. Yara actors Cecilia Arana, TomLee, Xenia Piaseckyj and Shona Tuckerwill perform the unsurpassed lyricalpoetry of Pavlo Tychyna, delicate poetryin-prosepieces by Vasyl Stefanyk,romantic and futuristic poetry from the1920s and the 1960s, as well as works ofwriters of the 1990s.“In Verse” is structured on the musicalcollaboration of Obie award-winningcomposer Genji Ito and Julian Kytasty,premier artist of both traditional andexperimental bandura. Also included ismusic by composer Roman Hurko.At 3 p.m. on Sunday, January 31,poets, among them Maria Rewakowiczand Kristina Lucenko. will read theirown poetry.Yara’s artistic director, Virlana Tkacz,has said she believes “the magnificence(Continued on page 12)To subscribe: Send $50 ($40 if you are a member of the UNA) to The Ukrainian Weekly,Subscription Department, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054

12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 1999No. 3Air UkraineÄ‚¥aΥ̥fl ì͇ªÌËTHE ONLY NON-STOP SERVICE BETWEENNORTH AMERICA AND UKRAINETUESDAY, FRIDAY AND SUNDAY FLIGHTS TONew York – KyivNew York – Lviv – Kyiv• Flying time is 4 hours faster than any other airline• Highly qualified pilots• Excellent service with traditional Ukrainian hospitalityand great meals on board• Day-time and evening flights from JFK-New York1-800-UKRAINE (1-800-857-2463)or contact your travel agent.For arrival and departure informationcall (718) 656-9896, (718) 632-6909Air Ukraine551 Fifth Ave., Suite 1002, 1005New York, NY 10176Cargo Shipping:Air Ukraine - Cargo2307 Coney Island Ave. (Ave. T), Brooklyn, NY 11223tel.: 718-376-1023, fax: 718-376-1073Our community...(Continued from page 6)Ukraine’s position in world politics makesthe Ukrainian diaspora arguably one ofthe most important ethnic groups in NorthAmerica. We have a strong case to makefor increased press coverage of all thingsUkrainian. Our people’s history, our survivalof genocide, our struggle for freedomis relevant to everyone who caresabout human rights; our music and art aregorgeous, and the Ukrainian community(even in temporary decline) remains awonderful and intriguing phenomenon.Contrary to popular myth, it does nottake a professional “spin-meister” togenerate effective news coverage. A fewyears ago in my home state ofConnecticut, we were frustrated by thelocal news media’s failure to cover amajor event in the Ukrainian community.We could have stewed in our disappointmentfor years (accomplishing nothing),but the mild-mannered director of ourlocal Ukrainian studies school took theinitiative. Myron Melnyk arranged ameeting with one of the editors of theNew Haven Register to raise the issue ofthe 10th anniversary of the Chornobylnuclear accident and other issues of concernto Ukrainian Americans.Since then, the Register has publishedmore than a dozen articles on the activitiesof the local Ukrainian community, includingthree front-page stories, two pagethreeheadliners, an editorial, two featureson Ukrainian music, numerous letters tothe editor, an essay on the heroism ofAndrey Sheptytsky and a music review –all favorable to the Ukrainian cause. Theripple effect did not stop there, as astringer picked up the memo and wrote afull-page story on the Ukrainian communityin the Connecticut section of The NewYork Times.We cannot expect this kind of successin every case, but the pro-active attitudeexemplified by Mr. Melnyk proves that itis worth making the effort, and if we keeprefining our approach, the possibilities areendless.Approaching the media for the firsttime can be intimidating, but we havesome very experienced and talented individualsin the Ukrainian community whohave collectively generated hundreds ofsympathetic news articles in the mainstreamAmerican or Canadian press.The entire editorial board of TheUkrainian Weekly is a wonderful soundingboard and resource that can provide valuableinsights. Besides Roma Hadzewyczand Irene Jarosewich, a number of veteranorganizers and first-rate publicity coordinatorscome to mind: Marta Baziuk (Boston),Laryssa Chopivsky (Washington), TomHawrylko (Clifton, N.J.), Mike Matiash(Hartford, Conn.), Valentyna Makohon(Rochester, N.Y.), Halyna Kurylo(Binghamton), Dr. Taras Mahlay(Cleveland), Bill Loznycky (San Diego),Olenka Bodnarskyj (Buffalo). Many ofthese are individuals who operate quietly,behind the scenes, and they are not countedamong the recognized leaders of the community.But they have made dramaticstrides in getting the media to focus on thevery best our community has to offer. It isalso worth noting that nearly all these pressYEVSHANDistributor of fine Ukrainian products - Cassettes, Compactdiscs - Videos - Language tapes & Dictionaries - Computerfonts for PC & MAC - Imported Icons - Ukrainian Stationery- Cookbooks - Food parcels to UkraineCall for a free catalog1-800-265-9858VISA - MASTERCARD - AMEX ACCEPTEDFAX ORDERS ACCEPTED (514) 630-9960BOX 325, BEACONSFIELD, QUEBECCANADA - H9W 5T8coordinators and organizers are under theage of 50. This is not a coincidence.Effective outreach to the non-Ukrainianpress can become a key catalyst in drawingyounger cadres back into our communityinstitutions. Press work does notrequire fluency in Ukrainian. It cannot beeasily usurped by the old guard that tendsto shy away from the English-languagemedia.Most importantly, as news storiesabout the Ukrainian community begin tosurface with greater frequency in thenon-Ukrainian press, our young peoplewill begin to see that the Ukrainian communitymay not be the hopeless dinosaurthey once abandoned. Painful as it is toacknowledge, our youth has left the communityin droves because in this commercialized,conformist society, theywanted desperately to be part of “themainstream.” They will not come backand join community institutions unlessthose institutions can show that they aredeemed relevant and important (i.e.,newsworthy) in the eyes of theirAmerican peers.This is not to say that our youth isshallow and self-centered, but it is rarelymoved by the same spirit of self-sacrificeand devotion that moved their parents tochampion what seemed for decades likea lost cause. For better or for worse, theyoung generation has adopted the corporate,professional mindset that demandsthe ratification that comes with “relevance,”stature and a sense of accomplishment.What is the stature of the diaspora inthe grand scheme of things? Where is itvisible? If the diaspora truly cares aboutyouth involvement, it has to show that it iscapable of swimming and flourishing inthe mainstream of American life. We cannotprove this as long as we conduct ourbusiness in a state of self-imposed mediablackout.Press coverage is essential. It is objectivevalidation of our existence. It literallyshows that our community is “happening,”thriving, not dying in obscurity.Yara Arts Group...(Continued from page 11)of our literary and oral traditions is overlookednow in our communities becauseit is no longer truly accessible to themajority within these communities. Weneed to restore the power of the word,preserve the content of our poems, songsand incantations, if these are to havedeep meaning for the generations ofUkrainian Americans born here”.Yara’s performances are structured togive Ukrainian poetry a voice in a formthat can be enjoyed by Ukrainian speakers,as well as people who speak little orno Ukrainian. We believe it is importantthat our community events becomeinclusive, welcoming non-Ukrainianfamily members, as well as our neighbors,to the bounty of our culture,” sheadded.Tickets for “Poetry: Installations andPerformances” are available for eachevent or for the entire festival. For furtherinformation call (212) 475-6474 ore-mail yara@prodigy.net.WEST ARKA2282 Bloor St. W., Toronto, Ont., Canada M6S 1N9GiftsUkrainian HandicraftsArt, Ceramics, JewelleryBooks, NewspapersCassettes, CDs, VideosEmbroidery SuppliesPackages and Services to UkraineA. CHORNYTel.: (416) 762-8751 Fax: (416) 767-6839

No. 3THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 1999 13NOTES ON PEOPLEWins Emmy Awardfor technical advancesDarleen RubinYar Mociuk with his Emmy Award.by Semen MarkusBRONXVILLE, N.Y. – Whether it bean old reel of the “Howdy Doody Show,”top secret government battle footage, or anuncut version of the latest blockbuster“Titanic,” film quality is the key to conveyinga visual story. Now imagine thatreel of film being submersed in water for afew years. How can it be restored?You can ask Yar Mociuk, a recentEmmy Award winner honored by theNational Academy of Arts and Sciencesfor Outstanding Achievement in TechnicalAdvancement, Pioneering Development ofFilm Scratch Removal Systems forTelecines.The awards ceremony was heldOctober 12, 1998, at the Marriot MarquisHotel in New York.Born in Mylovania, Ukraine, he is a 43-year veteran of the U.S. film industry. Mr.Mociuk has worked with almost everymotion picture company and televisionnetwork, including Paramount Pictures,Miramax, Disney, MGM, Columbia andWarner Brothers, with recent work on themovies “Titanic,” “Saving Private Ryan,”“Meet Joe Black” and others.In addition to working with new films,his experience encompasses restoringfilms for museums, various institutes andthe Federal Bureau of Investigation thatdates back to World War I. “If we can pullsomething back from the edge of extinction,that’s where we get our gratification,”said Mr. Mociuk, “Because when this stuffis gone, it’s gone.”Mr. Mociuk is president and majoritystock holder of Filmtreat InternationalCorp. in Long Island City, N.Y. He holds aU.S. patent (No. 3,609,034) for “Methodand Apparatus for Treating Motion PictureFilms.”He also holds a Ph.D. in cinema artsand sciences. Dr. Mociuk is listed innumerous U.S. and international “Who’sWho” and achievement biographes. He isa member of many professional and civicorganizations, including the UkrainianNational Association (Branch 287).Filmtreat International Corp. is the oldestmotion picture film rejuvenation establishmentin the world. The company hasbeen in business for over 60 years. Thereason for Filmtreat’s long success is aninnovative rejuvenation process as developedby the company over the years, andprogressive ideas that keep pace withchanging technology in the industry.As the television and cable industryhave grown, so has the opportunity forpeople to view more films and televisionfrom eras gone by.A current project on which Mr. Mociukis working is restoration of three years ofthe “Buick-Berle Show,” staring MiltonBerle, dating back to 1948. “Some filmswere taken during the actual performance,and truly are a national treasure,” said Mr.Mociuk.Restoration and rejuvenation mayinclude films being washed or bathed inspecialized chemicals, often using electronicsound restoration; this process cantake from one week to over a year,depending on the quality of the film.“You can’t go to school for this kind ofthing, it was all self-taught,” said Mr.Mociuk. “We started cleaning film witheverything from polish remover to soapdetergent.” Film restoration is a team projectand that’s the secret to its success.Mr. Mociuk and his wife, Irene, residein Bronxville, N.Y., and they have twodaughters, Daria and Natalia.Earns chemistry Ph.D.,climbs peak in NepalIRVINE, Calif. – Markian MyroslawPeter Stec received a Ph.D. in chemistry atthe University of California at Irvine onAugust 7, 1998.Dr. Stec’s field of expertise is syntheticorganic chemistry. His dissertation on“The Stereoselective Synthesis of theTaxane Ring System Utilizing the Type 2Intramolecular Diels-Alder Reaction andthe Synthesis of 1, 3-Butadienes fromBromocyclopropanesp” will contribute tothe synthesis of anti-cancer drug analogs.Dr. Stec was born and raised inMinnesota, the son of Maria andMyroslaw Stec and brother of Daria,Alexandra and Adrian. He was active inSt. Constantine Ukrainian CatholicChurch, Plast and the Zahrava UkrainianDr. Markian Stec and his wife, Amy.Folk Dance Ensemble. After graduatingfrom Breck School in 1987, where heplayed varsity soccer, he received a B.S. inchemistry from the University ofWisconsin at Madison in 1991.While working on his doctorate inCalifornia, Dr. Stec and his wife, Amy,became avid mountaineers and rockclimbers. During their six years on theWest Coast they summited several glaciatedpeaks in the Pacific Northwest, includingMt. Rainier (14,410 feet) and MountBaker (10,778 feet).In March 1998 they completed amonthlong trek in Nepal, during whichthey climbed to the base camp of MountEverest (17,490 feet) and summited the18,192-foot peak Kala Pattar.Dr. Stec and his wife reside in AnnArbor, Mich., where he is a post-doctoralresearch fellow at the University ofMichigan. Dr. Stec is a member of UNABranch 385.THEY COULD BE YOURSYWe are looking to expand our advertising clientele for our publications,the Ukrainian-language daily Svoboda and English-language The Ukrainian Weekly.If you are a self-motivated, hard-working and bright individual, you can supplement yourincome by referring customers to our advertising department. Your earnings will be basedon the amount of advertising you attract to our pages.For details please write or call: Svoboda Administration, Advertising Department,Maria Szeparowycz, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054 (973) 292-9800

14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 1999No. 3IN MEMORY OFMICHAEL K. MUC, JR.You will be in our hearts foreverLoving wife, JuneChildren: Michael, Clarette, Georgine, Taras and Joanneand dear friend, Mary BethDonations to:Hospice Care Network900 Merchants ConcourseWestbury, NJ 11510The Harriman Institute at Columbia UniversityThe Shevchenko Scientific SocietyThe Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S.The V.K. Lypynsky East European Research Institutecordially invite you to a conference in commemoration ofTHE EIGHTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE UKRAINIANREVOLUTION: THE HETMANATEFriday, January 22, 1999Columbia UniversitySuite 1512, International Affairs Building420 West 118th Street, New York, NY 10027CONFERENCE PROGRAM9:45 — 10:00 a.m.Opening Remarks: Anna Procyk, Kingsborough CC, CUNYWelcoming Remarks: Mark von Hagen, Harriman Institute10:00 a.m. — 12:00 noonIDEOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS: LYPYNSKY RECONSIDEREDChair: Frank Sysyn, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian StudiesJaroslaw Pelenski, V.K. Lypynsky East European Institute“The Transient and the Lasting in V. Lypynsky’s Political Theory”Ihor Hyrych, Institute of East European Studies, NANU, Kyiv“V. Lypynsky in Contemporary Ukraine”Commentator: Alexander J. Motyl, Harriman InstituteCredit union managers meetto discuss current issuesby Roman StelmachVALLEY FORGE, Pa. – Twenty-onemanagers representing 11 Ukrainiancredit unions met recently near the historicValley Forge Park to discuss creditunion issues. The two-day conference,sponsored by the Ukrainian NationalCredit Union Association (UNCUA) andfacilitated by the Ukrainian SelfrelianceFederal Credit Union in Philadelphia,began on Friday morning, October 16,1998, with a welcome from IhorChyzowych, CEO and treasurer of thehosting credit union, Vsevolod Salenko,chairman of the board of the UNCUA,and Ilarij Mazepa, chairman of the boardof the hosting credit union.The three morning speakers, coordinatedthrough the Pennsylvania CreditUnion League (PACUL), were: JohnKilduff, compliance and information specialist,PACUL; Mike Dougal, humanresource specialist, PACUL; and BradStewart, vice-president, investments,Mid-Atlantic Corporate FCU.The speakers addressed issues importantto credit unions, such as: the year2000 problem (Y2K); compliance inadvertising; human resource issues; andasset and liability management.The afternoon speakers consisted ofagents from the Federal Bureau ofInvestigation and the U.S. Secret Service.Special Agent Kevin Bosch, FBI, highlightedthe threat of financial scams, nonadherenceto established procedures andcredit union security. Special AgentRobert O’Donnell, U.S. Secret Service,discussed and displayed the variousmethods of counterfeiting and the measuresthat the government has undertakenwith the printing of new currency.The closing speaker for Friday’s session,was James Nally of Manor JuniorCollege. His presentation dealt withcross-selling credit union products.Saturday was devoted to a roundtablediscussion of common Ukrainian creditunion problems and issues, including:dealing with an aging membership; newUkrainian immigration; expanding membership;and marketing and credit uniontechnology.After four hours of exchanging ideas,a committee was formed to provide aplatform that could be used by all creditunions to share ideas and problems. Oneof the primary functions of the committeeis to provide follow-up to the conferenceand input to the UNCUA.The following credit unions were representedat the conference: RochesterUkrainian FCU; Selfreliance (N.J.) FCU;Selfreliance NY FCU (New York City);Selfreliance Ukrainian American FCU(Newark, N.J.); SUMA (Yonkers, N.Y.)FCU; Ukrainian CU (Minneapolis);Ukrainian Fraternal FCU (Boston);Ukrainian Future Credit Union (Detroit);Ukrainian Orthodox FCU (New YorkCity); Ukrainian Selfreliance HartfordFCU; and the hosting credit union,Ukrainian Selfreliance FCU(Philadelphia).The Ukrainian Selfreliance FCU(Philadelphia) is a 46-year-old federalcredit union with over 5,000 members inthe greater Philadelphia area and over$92 million in assets.The UNCUA is an association of 23Ukrainian credit unions in the UnitedStates that represent over $1.2 billion inassets. The UNCUA promotes interestand cooperation between Ukrainian creditunions in the U.S.; fosters the formationof new credit unions; furthers thedevelopment and progress of Ukrainiancredit unions in the U.S.; and manages allcentral business functions for and onbehalf of member credit unions.12:00 — 1:00 p.m. LUNCH1:00 — 3:00 p.m.DOMESTIC POLICIESChair: Volodymyr Stojko, Manhattan CollegeVladyslav Verstiuk, Institute of East European Studies, NANU, Kyiv“The Ukrainian Hetman State in 1918 in the Context of the National Revolution”Mark von Hagen, Harriman Institute“Ukrainian Armies and Society in 1918”Vasyl Ulianovskyj, Institute of East European Studies, NANU, Kyiv“The Hetmanate and the Ukrainian Church”Commentator: George Hajecky3:15 — 5:00 p.m.FOREIGN RELATIONSChair and Commentator: Jaroslaw Pelenski, V.K. Lypynsky East European InstituteTaras Hunchak, Rutgers University“The Policy of Germany and Austria-Hungary toward the Hetman State”Anna Procyk, Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York“Ideological and Political Conflicts with the White Movement”Volodymyr Stojko, Manhattan College“The Hetman State and the Bolsheviks”5:15 p.m. Closing RemarksLaryssa Onyshkevych, Shevchenko Scientific SocietyOleksa Bilaniuk, Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S.Ilarij Mazepa, chairman of the board of the Ukrainian Selfreliance FederalCredit Union in Philadelphia, opens the conference of Ukrainian credit unionmanagers in Valley Forge, Pa.~ IMPORTANT NOTICE ~to UNA members and Soyuzivka patrons:SOYUZIVKA will be closed from February 1 to April 15, 1999, ONLY.The main building will be open all year.For information and reservations for the 1999 season, please call:Tel: (914) 626-5641 ♠ Fax: (914) 626-4638 ♠ e-mail: SQSS@aol.com ♠ Web: www.soyuzivka.com

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16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 1999No. 3Broadcasting Opportunities AvailableDistributor Sales RepresentativeThis position is responsible for implementing national strategies, tactics and campaignson the regional level for the marketing of the Ukrainian Broadcasting Networkto Ukrainian American consumers. This person is accountable for sales results inconsumer subscriptions as well as customer service and public relations in the distributorship.Fulfill other marketing tasks. Four positions will be based in Chicago,Philadelphia, New York City and California. Successful candidates are required topossess a bachelor’s degree in a related field and to demonstrate three-five years’industry experience.Advertising SalesThis position is responsible for developing and implementing national and localadvertising campaigns for UBN Television and Radio, targeting Ukrainian-orientedand non Ukrainian-oriented businesses. This person is accountable for advertisingsales for the entire network. This position is based in Fort Lee, NJ. Successful candidatesare required to possess a bachelor’s degree in a related field and to demonstratethree-five years’ industry experience.Customer ServiceThis position involves responding to customer calls concerning UBN Radio and TVservice, and inbound as well as outbound telemarketing. Three 8-hour shifts, includingweekend hours, are available. This position is based in Fort Lee, NJ.Qualification requirementsTo perform these tasks successfully, an individual must be able to perform eachessential duty satisfactorily. The additional requirements listed below are representativeof the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations maybe made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.LANGUAGE SKILLSAbility to read, write and understand the English language. Ability to comprehendcomplex instructions, short and long correspondence, and memos. Ability to speak inEnglish effectively. Ability to compose short and long memos, correspondence andreports.Candidate must also have the ability to read, write and understand the Ukrainian language.CIVIC ACTIVITYCandidate must have a proven track record of Ukrainian community activity andmust have a demonstrable knowledge of who are the key leaders and organizationsin the Ukrainian community and the nuances that affect it.Send resume and cover letter to:Ihor Dlaboha, General ManagerUkrainian Broadcasting Network, 2 Executive Drive, Suite 600, Fort Lee, NJ 07024Fax: (201) 242-3003PREVIEW OF EVENTSSaturday, January 16MEDFIELD, Mass.: The UkrainianAmerican Youth Association (SUM) ofBoston and the Ukrainian AmericanEducational Citizens’ Club of GreaterBoston are holding a New Year’s dance featuringmusic by Khvyla of Long Island. Thedance will be held at the American LegionHall, Route 27, at 7:30 p.m. - 12:30 a.m.Admission: adults $25; youth, 13-18, $15;12 and under, free. For tickets and moreinformation call Natalya Kolinchak, (781)575-1955, or Larysa Morris Michajliw,(781) 942-1836.Sunday, January 17CHICAGO: The Ukrainian Institute ofModern Art (UIMA) presents “Nexus,” anexhibition of art work by recently arrivedUkrainian painters and sculptors. The juriedexhibition looks to establish links betweenthe ethnographic roots of the artists withcurrent developments in contemporary artpractices. Artists represented at the exhibitioninclude Mikola Bagan, OleksiyKovalenko, Nina Lapchyk, VolodymyrMelnik, Yuriy Olishkevich, VolodymyrPodlevsky, Yevgen Prokopov, ValentinaSanina, Alex Tkachenko, Youlia Tkatchoukand Yuriy Viktiuk. The exhibit will runthrough February 21. The institute is locatedat 2320 W. Chicago Ave. Hours:Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday andSunday, noon-4 p.m. For more informationcall the UIMA, (312) 227-5522; or visittheir website, http://www.brama.com/uimaSaturday, January 23NEW YORK: “Music at the Institute” presentsa concert of chamber music featuringworks by Dohnányi, Ishchenko and Dvorákwith Gayle Martin Henry, piano; MarkPeskanov, violin; Toby Hoffman, viola; andWanda Glowacka, cello. Concurrently, therewill be an exhibition of floral watercolorsby Adele Rossetti Morosini. The concertwill be held at the Ukrainian Institute ofAmerica, 2 E. 79th St., at 8 p.m.Saturday, January 23PHILADELPHIA: The CheremoshUkrainian Hutsul Society is holding its traditionalmalanka at the Ukrainian Culturaland Educational Center, 700 Cedar Road,Jenkintown, Pa. An entertainment programbegins at 8:30 p.m., followed by dancing tothe music of Tempo. Admission: $20 perperson. To reserve tables call RoxolanaLuciw, (215) 635-5109, or Ulana Prociuk,(215) 235-3709.Monday-Wednesday, February 1-3SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.: Vitaliy Kutsenko,principal conductor of the Kharkiv Operaand Ballet Theater, and concert pianistVolodymyr Vynnytsky of New York, willappear as guest conductor and piano soloist,respectively, with the Scottsdale SymphonyOrchestra in a program of works byTchaikovsky and Beethoven. Performanceswill be held at 8 p.m. on February 1 atDesert Mountain Auditorium, and February2 and 3 at the Scottsdale Center for the Arts.Tickets may be obtained by calling (602)945-8071.Saturday, February 6SOUTH BOUND BROOK, N.J.: TheUkrainian Cultural Center and the CentralNew Jersey branch of the Committee forAid to Ukraine are holding a “CarnivalBall” dinner and dance starting at 6:30 p.m.,featuring the music of Fata Morgana. Profitsfrom ticket sales to benefit Ukraine. Ticketsin advance for both the dinner and dance are$40 per person, $30 for students with identification;tickets after January 30 are $50 perperson; $40 for students. Tickets may beordered from Damian Gecha, (908) 755-8156, or George Mischenko, (732) 671-1914.PACKAGES TO UKRAINEas low as $ .65 per LbNEWARK, NJ698 Sanford AveTel. 973-373-8783DNIPRO COSelfreliance UA Federal Credit Unionë‡ÏÓÔÓÏ¥˜ ì͇ªÌÒ¸ÍÓ-ÄÏÂË͇ÌҸ͇ ä‰ËÚÓ‚‡ ëÔ¥Î͇734 Sandford Avenue, Newark, NJ 07106• Tel. (973) 373-7839 • Fax (973) 373-8812 •PHILADELPHIA1801 Cottman AveTel. 215-728-6040*Pick up service available2200 Route 10 West, Parsippany, NJ 07054• Tel. (973) 451-0200 • Fax (973) 451-0400 •CLIFTON, NJ565 Clifton AveTel. 973-916-1543• http://www.selfreliance.org •BUSINESS HOURS:Tue & Fri - 12:00 noon to 7:00 PM • Wed & Thurs - 9:00 AM to 3:30 PM • Sat - 9:00 to 12:00 noon • Mon. - ClosedDetroit/Windsor...(Continued from page 4)short on January 14, 1998. Mr. Stoikoconcluded, “Presentation of this awardwill allow her deeds and her memory tolive in our hearts forever.”Dr. Sawka next spoke, recounting Dr.Kapustij’s tenure as president of the graduates.Through anecdotes, he recalled thevitality, enthusiasm and verve she broughtto the organization. He conveyed her visionand community awareness which helpedthe Graduates prosper.Mr. Stoiko then presented the award toDr. Kapustij’s family; her husband, Myron,and daughters, Carolyn and Cristina. “Herlife was the epitome of courage, vision, anddeep faith – an example worthy of emulationby all who love their fellowmen,” readMr. Stoiko. “Her service to the UkrainianAmerican communities was outstanding.Her passing leaves a void in our hearts andorganization that will be difficult to fill.”Cristina Kapustij represented the family andaccepted the award on behalf of her mother.Miss Kapustij, overcome with emotion,began her remarks saying, “While we aretouched that our mom is honored, we arenaturally saddened that she is not here toaccept it herself, making this one of life’sbittersweet moments.” She went on to thankthe graduates particularly for the friendshipthey have shown her family.Nineteen-year-old Miss Kapustijexplained that while her mother had manyprofessional and community obligations,she nonetheless always put her family first.A devoted wife and mother, she consideredher daughters her most important accomplishment.She pushed them to excel andcared deeply for them.Miss Kapustij concluded her remarkswith a quote from the poet Bailey whichreflected upon Dr. Kapustij’s life, “We livein deeds, not years; in thoughts, notbreaths... we should count time byhearthrobs.” Much emotion met the close ofthis poignant presentation.Besides feting the honorees, theUkrainian Graduates also awarded scholarshipsto six outstanding undergraduate studentsof Ukrainian descent from theDetroit and Windsor area. SerafinaMarzotto, chairperson of the ScholarshipCommittee, presented scholarships toSteven Brown, Sebastian Dzwonczyk,Antonina Ermolenko, Roman Halitsky,Yulija Koval, and Stacy Swistak.A final highlight of the afternoon wasthe presentation of the DistinguishedService Award to Dr. List. Dr. Yaworskycited Dr. List’s many contributions to theUkrainian community. Among otheraccomplishments Dr. List founded St.Volodomyr’s Bandurist Youth Ensemble,helped establish Ukrainian Studies at theUniversity of Windsor and translated forthe Canadian Consulate. Dr. Yaworskynoted that Dr. List has especially served theUkrainian Graduates; he has been an activemember since 1963. Currently, he is carryingout his fifth term as president and haschaired and participated on various clubcommittees numerous times.Upon receipt of the award, Dr. Listthanked everyone who had served on thescholarship, banquet and Ukrainian of theYear committees with him throughout theyears. He expressed his gratitude, acknowledgingthat he could not have and did notaccomplish success alone. He also took theopportunity to thank the current executiveboard and committees that helped make theafternoon’s banquet a success.The afternoon was brought to a close bythe Very Rev. Richard Hawrish with hisbenediction prayer for peace. Thus, honoringthree extraordinary and uniquely talentedindividuals, the Ukrainian Graduates ofDetroit and Windsor celebrated an emotionaland memorable anniversary.