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Soviet nationalities policyKiev's 1,500th anniversary events:more than meets the eye

by Dr. Roman SolchanykIt has been more than three yearssince the Soviet Ukrainian press firstreported the decision to celebrate the1,500th anniversary of the city of Kievin 1982. The announcement of thedecision was made by Ukrainian PartyFirst Secretary Volodymyr Scherbitskyin his address to the Kiev City partyconference, which was held on January19, 1979.'Soon after, in March, the pressreported the formation of an organizational committee headed by OleksandrLiashko, the chairman of the UkrainianSSR Council of Ministers, to supervisethe preparations for the anniversary,

which-is to be marked this month.2

Throughout this time, and especiallyduring the last six months, the massmedia in Ukraine have spared no effortin publicizing the anniversary. Virtuallyevery imaginable public undertaking inthe republic is being linked in one wayor another to the forthcoming celebrations. New monuments are being constructed and existing historical landmarks are in the process of beingrestored; museums, hotels and evencafes have been built to mark theanniversary; films, plays and bookshave appeared in honor of the city'sjubilee; and a variety of meetings,including scholarly conferences, havebeen organized as part of the extravaganza.A Western correspondent who visitedKiev last year described the undertakingas "a multi-million-ruble project withthe emphasis as much on the Sovietfuture as on the Ukrainian past."3This observation is m uch more significant than is perhaps readily apparent.Most major anniversary celebrations inthe Soviet Union have clearly definedpolitical and ideological motives, andthis year's Kiev commemorations are noexception. Indeed, the 1,500th anniversary of Ukraine's capital may serveas a classic example of manipulation ofthe historical past for the purpose ofpromoting current objectives. In thiscase, the objectives are in the realm ofcontemporary Soviet nationalit iespolicy.

The first question that arises is why1982 was singled out as the year forcommemorating the city's anniversary.Clearly, it is not necessary to be aprofessional historian to understandthat it is all but impossible to date theemergence of ancient cities to within a12-month period.Soviet historiography is by no meansunanimous regarding the time of Kiev'sorigins. Moreover, even those Soviet

historians and archeologists who maintain that Kiev emerged between the endof the fifth and the beginning of thesixth centuriesan interpretation that,for obvious reasons, currently enjoysofficial support have never attempted to fix the date at 482/In short, the year 1982 was chosen forreason s that have little if anything to dowith the historical record. Westerncommentators have suggested that thisyear's celebrations are intended toovershadow the millennium ofUkraine's conversion to C hristianity in988 and the 50th anniversary of theartificial famine of 1932-33, both ofwnich` lre expected'tb'be publicized byUkrainians in the West.5

Although these considerations mayhave played a role in the decision tomark the anniversary in the currentyear, an analysis of the numerousarticles that have appeared in therepublican and central press dedicatedto the forthcom ing celebrations suggeststhat the determining factor was theobservance of the 60th anniversary ofthe formation of .the USSR in 1982,This "co inc id ence" has made i tpossible to incorporate the Kiev anniversary into the broader framework of"successes and achievements'' of Leninist nationalities policy and the Sovietmultinational state.The central thread running throughall of these articles is the ethnic, linguistic, cultural and historical unity ofthe modern Russian, Ukrainian andByelorussian nations, which are said tohave evolved from a "single early Rus'nationality" ("edinaya drevnerusskayanarodnost") with its political center inKiev.Thus, M. F. Kotlyar, a specialist onthe Kievan Ru s'period, has argued thateven after the formation of these threeEast Slavic nations, which he dates ashaving occurred at the end of the ISthcentury, they "nonetheless continued t oview themselves as a single Rus' peoplealso in the 16th and 17th centuries."Moreover, says Mr. Kotlyar, "that is

why reunification was so readily and(Continued on page 3)1. Radianska Ukraina, January 21, 1979.2. "Do ISOO-richchia zasnuvanniaKyieva," Radianska Ukraina, March 4,1979.3. AP, May 22, 1981.4. See Ya. Ye. Borovsky, "PokhodzhenniaKyieva. Is toriohrafichnyi narys ," Kiev,Naukova Dumka, 1981.5. Omeljan Pritsak, "Za kulisamy proho-loshennia 1,500-littia Kyieva," Suchasnist,Vol. 21, No. 9, September 1981, pp. 46-54.

Resolutionof the

UNA Supreme Execut ive Commit teeWhereas, the Ukrainian National Association Supreme ExecutiveCommittee at its meeting on December 29, 1981, issued a statement denyingthat it in any way violated the By-Laws of the Ukrainian NationalAssociation, condemned the statement by the group of 11 members of theUkrainian National Association Supreme Assembly composed of: SupremeAuditors Bohdan Futey and John Teluk, and Supreme Advisors TeklaMoroz, Askold Lozynskyj, Anna Haras, Wasyl Didiuk, Myroslaw Kalba,Mykola Chomanczuk, Roman Kuropas, Michael Sorokaand Evhen Repeta;and demanded that said group recall the statements made and printed in thenewspaper Homin Ukrainy on August 12, 1981, andWhereas, in lieu of recalling the statements so made, said group of 11caused a second statement to be published in the weekly Shliakh Peremohyon March 28,1982, and said 11 members of the Supreme A ssembly caused thesame article to be printed in the newspaper Homin Ukrainy, andWhereas, a c opy of neither the first nor the second statement was servedupon the Supreme Ibtecutrvc Committee, and - - -Whereas, said group of 11 alleged that said response of the Supreme

Executive Committee of December 29, 1981, was full of inaccuracies,insinuations, and made further false accusations against the president, theentire Supreme Executive Committee, and the Supreme Assembly of theUkrainian National Association:Now, therefore, the Supreme Executive Committee, sitting in session onthis 14th day of April, 1982, hereby finds as follows:1. Supreme Auditors Bohdan Futey and John Teluk, and SupremeAdvisors Tekla Moroz, Askold Lozynskyj, Anna Haras, Wasyl Didiuk,Myroslaw Kalba, Mykola Chomanczuk, Roman Kuropas, Michael Sorokaand Evhen Repeta have acted against the best interests and the good name ofthe Ukrainian National Association.2. The above-named group of 11 has vilified the supreme president, theSupreme Executive Committee, and the Supreme Assembly by falseaccusations and distortions of truth against such officials and governingorgans of the UNA.3. The said group of 11 did not avail itself of the procedures provided for bythe By-Laws of the Ukrainian National Association, and did not cause to be(Continued on page 2)

Convent ion countdownPritsak is keynote speakerat UNA convention banquetJERSEY CITY, N.J. - Dr. OmeljanPritsak, director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, will be thekeynote speaker at the UNA convention banquet on Thursday, May 27, theUkrainian National Association's Supreme Executive Committee announced.Dr. Pritsak will speak on "The Tasksof Ukrainiandom at the Turn of theSecond Millennium."The UNA 's 30th Regular Conventiongets under way Monday, May 24, at 9a.m. at the Genesee Plaza/Holiday Inn,in Rochester, N.Y.The convention banquet is slated for7 p.m. on Thursday in the hotel's grandballroom.In addition to Dr. Pritsak, manyprominent Ukrainians and non-Ukrai-

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N o. 20 T H E U K R A I N I A N W E E K L Y S U N D A Y , M A Y 1 6 , 1 9 8 2 3Graham sees no evidenceof Soviet religious persecution

MOSCOW - The Rev. Billy Graham said here on May 12, at the end ofan officially sanctioned peace conference, that he had seen no evidence ofreligious repression and that the churches he had visited were at least as full asthose in his hometown in North Carolina, reported The New York Times.At a news con ference, the 63-year-oldevangelist also seemed to downplay thearrest of a young woman who hadunfurled a protest banner during anofficially sanctioned Baptist! service heattended on May 9. The banner saidthat there were people in the SovietUnion who were being imprisoned forreligious activity.

When asked by an American reporterwhether he was making inquiries aboutthe woman, Mr. Graham said he hadonly the reporter's word about the caseand, according to the Times, added:"Some people can be detained for allkinds of reasons. We detain people inthe U nited S tates if we catch them doingsomething wrong. I have had peoplecoming into my services in the UnitedStates and causing disturbances, andthey have been taken out by the police."Mr. Graham came here to attend aSoviet-sponsored conference of religious leaders on nuclear weapons,despite the objections of several prominent religious leaders and human-rights activists in the United S tates andthe Reagan administration. Mr. Graham had dismissed White House fearsthat his presence could be used by theSoviets for propaganda purposes.

It soon became apparent, however,that many of the Third World andAfrican delegates several broughthere at Soviet, expense meant to usethe meeting as a forum for anti-American views which closely paralleledSoviet propaganda-Most of the 1,000 delegates seemed toconcur, for exa mple, with the representative from Sri Lanka when he applauded a recent Soviet moratorium on thedeployment of intermediate-range SS-20 rockets and demanded reciprocal

Kiev's 1,500th...(Continued rompage 1)joyfully received in Ukraine and inRussia."6Another Soviet Ukrainian historian,

Y u . Yu. Kondufor, director of theInstitute of History of the UkrainianSSR Academy of Sciences, makes asimilar point:"The process of forma tion of the EastSlavic fraternal nat ional i t ies beganduring the period o f feudal dismemberment. It was most intensive in the 14thand ISth centuries. It is at about thistime that the Russian, Ukrainian andByelorussian nationalities emerge asseparate but very close ethniccommunities that were formed on thebasis of the single early Rus' nationality."7The unmistakable suggestion in suchstatements is that national distinctionsbetween Russians , Ukrainians andByelorussians were really not verysignificant in the past, and that thisapplies to the present and future a s well.Another aspect of the Soviet treatment of the Kievan Rus' period is theemphasis that is placed on projectingthe historical continuity of the Kievanstate into the present.At a recent joint session of the all-union and Ukrainian academies ofsciences dedicated to the anniversary,academician P. M. Fedoseev singledout the significance of Kievan Rus'"above all in its having laid the m aterial,social and cultural preco nditions for theformation of a centralized state" i.e.,the Russian empire.1Although today it is not consideredpolitic to - overtly trace a direct line of

measures from the United States, andwith a Syrian delegate's virulent attackof "the henchmen of imperialism andZionism" for recent Israeli bombingattacks on Palestinian camps in Lebanon.Moreover, when two Western religiou s leaders rose on May 11 tocaution against turning the conferenceinto a political forum heavily tiltedagainst the West, their position metwith little enthusiasm and applause.- In a long speech to the conferenceMr. Graham avoided the controversyover the meeting's political bias, although he did say that "n o nation, largeor small, is exem pt from blame for thepresent state of international affairs."There was no applause from thedelegates when Mr. Graham quoted asection of the Helsinki agreement onsecurity and cooperation in Europe,signed by 33 states, including the SovietUnion, in 1975, in which governmentswere enjoined to respect freedom ofreligious and other beliefs.Since his arrival in the So viet capital,Mr. Graham, who was given a welcomeusually afforded political dignitaries,has tried Jo avoid d ispleasing his hostsby raising potentially controversial orembarrassing human-rights issues. Herefused, for exam ple, to publicly discussthe case of the six Soviet Pentecostalsfrom Siberia who have been living in theU.S. Embassy basement s ince 1978awaiting permission to emigrate.

Mr. Graham did visit the four mem bers of the Vashchenko family andMaria C hmykhalov and her son at theembassy, but refused public commentThe Pentecostals told reporters laterthat they appreciated Mr. Graham'svisit, but were disappointed. One of thesix, Pyotr V ashchenko, said th e evangelist had offered " n o hope, only prayers."Mr. Graham 's aides have said that he

does not want to antagonize the Sovietleadership a n d thus upset his chances ofreturning for a full preaching tour,possibly using stadiums.When asked about his treatment andchanges he had noted since his last visitas a tourist in 19S9, Mr. Graham repliedthat people in Moscow were betterclothed and the ci ty had new andimpress ive high-rise suburbs. Then,according to the Times, he talked offood."The meals I have had are among thefinest I have ever eaten," h e said. "I n theUnited States y ou have to be a millionaireto have caviar, but I have had caviarwith almost every m eal."When a Charlotte, N.C., televisionreporter asked Mr. Graham whether heagreed with the Indian Orthodox metropolitan's assessment that the conference helped dispel the myth that thereis no religious freedom in the SovietUnion, he replied:"Not necessarily. I am just telling youI don't know all about it. I have beenonly in Moscow and I have been in allthese meetings and I haven 4 had achance, but Saturday (May 8) night Iwent to three O rthodox Churches thatwere jammed to capacity. You never getthat in Charlotte, N.C." Charlotte isMr. Graham's hometown.Reaction to Mr. Graham's remarkshas been mixe d, with most agreeing thathe is being circumspect, while othersadding that he showed poor judgementin agreeing to attend the conference inthe first place.Dr. Charles Page, pastor of the FirstBaptist Church in Charlotte, askedabout his reaction to Mr. Graham'sremarks about religious freedom in theUSSR said, "I find it hard to believethat they are not experiencing a greatdeal of suffering over there in order toworship."

But criticism of Mr. Graham's comments came from Olga Hruby, aneditor of the magazine Religion inCommunist-Dominated Areas . Shecalled the evangelist's remarks "aninsult to all Soviet believers," th e Timesreported."We know many people who areconstantly being harassed and persecuted," she said. "If a church is full itdoes not signify that religion is .free.That may be the only church allowed toremain open."M r s . Hruby noted that the SiberianPentecostals living in the U.S. Embassyin Moscow had written Mr. Grahamurging him not to attend the peaceparley.Another critic of Mr. Graham'swords was Dr. Edmund Robb, a Methodist minister wh o heads the Instituteon Religion and Democracy."I am more than a little perplexed,"said Dr. Robb. "His statement that hehas not seen any evidence of religiouspersecution is just not believable. W e allknow of th e plight of religious dissenterswho are in prison this very day."The Methodist clergyman was alsodisturbed by comments made by Mr.

Graham during a sermon in Moscowwhen he said Soviet believers shouldobey the laws of their government."1 think it is presumptuous for anAmerican living in a free society t o g o toa totalitarian society and exhort thosepeople to respect their government andobey the laws," Dr. Robb said.In a letter to Mr. Graham before hisdeparture, William Bahrey, executivedirector of the Newark-based Americans for Human Rights in Ukraine,urged the e vangelist to raise the issue ofreligious persecution with PatriarchP i m e n o f t h e R u s s i a n O r t h o d o xChurch.He also asked Mr. Graham to inquireabout the case of the Rev. Vasyl Ro-maniuk, a Ukrainian Catholic priestand member of the Ukrainian HelsinkiGroup, who was sentenced in 1 9 7 2 t o 10years' prison, labor camp and exile.are sealed off from visitors to preventknowledge about their existence fromreaching the outside. I don't know whatthe future holds for my own na tion. It iscertain that the Russians will do everything they can to dissolve it graduallyinto their own civilization." ,J

From this perspective, the question ofthe future of the Ukrainian and Byelorussian nations is at the center of thisyear's anniversary proceedings.

6. Mykola Kotlyar, " 'Shchob esmynaviky vsi yedyno buly,'" Vsesvit, 1 9 7 9 , N o .4 , p . 189.7. Yu. Yu. Kondufor, "Misto drevnie,misto molode," Komunist Ukrainy, 1980,N o . 1 2 , p . 7 9 .8. Radianska Ukraine, April IS, 19819. M. 1. Kulichenko, "Obrazovaniyi razvitiye sovietskogo naroda kak novoiistoricheskoi obshchnosti," Voprosy istoriyi,1 9 7 9 , N o . 4 , p . 1110 . R. Symonenko, "U kryvomu dzerkaliantykomunizmu. Proty sprob burzhuaznykhideolohiv falsyfikuvaty istoriyu Kyieva,"Radianska Ukraine, April 13 ,1981 See alsoIvan Khmil and Oleksandr Maiboroda,"Bazhane za diysne," Vsesvit, 1 9 8 1 , No. 11p p . 213-19, and T. Vorobeikova, "Protyburzhuaznykh burzhuazno-natsionalisty-chnykh perekrucben problemy utvorenniadavnoruskoi derzhavy," Radianske pravo,1 9 8 1 N o . 4 , p p . 18-2111 . Vestnik Akademiyi nauk SS SR, 1978,N o . 6 , p . 30.11 V. Kulakovsky, "Maibutnim istory-k a m , " Radianska osvita, July 28, 1979.13 . Philip Roth, "A Talk with MilanKundera," The New York Times BookReview, November 30, 1980, p. 7, cited byRoman Szporluk, "Defining 'Central Europe': Pow^r, Politics and Culture," CrossCurrents (forthcoming), p . 5.

evolut io n from K ievan Rus' to theUSSR, i t i s not difficult to se e that this isone of the underlying motifs of contemporary Soviet historiography. Certainly in the 1960s some Soviet scholarsdid not hesitate to make a direct linkbetween the prerevolutionary tsariststate and the Soviet Union in theirsearch for the historical roots of the"Soviet people."9All of these themes are repeated, butwith a clear political accent, in Soviet

polemics with Western historians. Thelatter are accused of "ideological sabotage" in their interpretat ion of theKievan Rus' period specifically becausethey do not share the views of Soviethistoriography about the past, presentand future unity of Ukrainians andRussians. "That which is common in thehistory of peoples," claims one SovietUkrainian historian, "has always beenthe subject of especially malicious falsification by the enemies of friendship,fraternity and cooperation betweenthem."10The specifically political capital thatderives from the "correct" interpretation of the Kievan Rus' period wasunderscored by academician B. A.

Rybakov, a leading Soviet historian ofearly Russia, during the general assembly of the USSR Academy ofSciences several years ago. Urging hiscolleagues to support "the need for veryserious and profound .research on thehistory of Kievan Rus`," Mr. Rybakovexplained that Western ideologists were"pursuing the goal of disarming usideologically and depriving us of themeans of patriotic upbringing of thepeople."11And what is the "correct" interpreta- ,'

tion? T h e following excerpt, taken froma review of a recently published schooltextbook on the history of Ukraine,may provide a clue."The formation of a single early Rus'nationality and the unification of theEast Slavs in a single state and politicalentity, and the formation of a singlelanguage and culture all of this,emphasizes the author, gav e rise to theconcept and feeling of unity. Thisfeeling of unity has been maintained bythe people of our country throughoutthe ages."12The crucial question posed by contemporary Soviet nationalities policy is:To what degree does the pursuit of"unity" lead to the Gleichschaltung ofthose national cultures that lie withinthe sphere of Soviet influence? Thecontemporary Czech writer MilanKundera has formulated the problem inthe following terms:"If someone told me as a boy: Oneday you will see your nation vanishfrom the world, I would have considered it nonsen se, something I couldn't.possibly imagine. A man knows he ismortal, but he takes it for granted that

his nation possesses a kind of eternalljfe. But after the Russian invasion of1 9 6 8 , every Czech was confronted w iththe thought that his nation would bequietly erased from Europe, just as overthe past five decades 40 million Ukrainians have been quietly vanishing fromthe world without the world paying anyheed. Or Lithuanians. Do you knowthat in the 17th century Lithuania w a s apowerful European nation? Today theRussians keep Lithuanian s, on theirreservation like a half-extinct tribe; they


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4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 16 , 1 98 2 No. 20

S a y s s c h o o l c u r r i c u l u m m u s t c o v e rn o n - J e w i s h N a z i v i c t i m s , tooObituaryJ o hn H u t z a y lu k , U N A b ra n c h s e c r e ta r y

NEW ARK, N.J. - In a letter to TheStar-Ledger published May 7, Dr.Bohdan Wytwycky praised the creationof a Holocaust curriculum by the state'sDepartment of Education, but addedthat it ignores the non-Jewish victims ofHitler's racial policies.The letter was in response to an April26 article dealing with the establishmentof the Governor's Commission onHolo caust E ducation in the PublicSchools, which will assist the state as itimplements the Holocaust curriculum.The curriculum will be publishednational ly by the Anti-DefamationLeague of B'nai B'rith.Acknowledging that the primaryvictims of Hitler's policies were European Jews, Dr. Wytwycky, who is theauthor of "The Other .Holocaust: ManyCirices of Hell," wrote that New Jerseystudents should also know about the 9-10 million S lavs and Gypsies murderedby the Nazis."What is... completely ignored is thefact that the Jews were not the solevictims of the Nazi Holocaust, that as aresult of racist policies and murderouspractices the Nazis, in addition to the 6million Jews, killed another 9 to 10million Slavs and Gypsies," wrote Dr.

Wytwycky. "Specif ical ly, some 2.5million Christian Poles, 3 millionUkrainians, 1.4 million Byelorussians,2.5 to 3 million Soviet POWs, andbetween 250,000 and 600,000 G ypsies."Dr. Wytwycky noted that a similar

concern was voiced by author CzeslawMilosz during his acceptance speechafter he won the 1980 Nobel Prize forliterature.According to Dr. Wytwycky, Mr.Milosz said: " 4The p oet) feels anxiety,though, when the meaning of the wordHolocaust undergoes gradual modifications, so that the word begins to belong(Continued on paft IS)

ALLENTOWN. Pa. - John Hutzayluk, secretary of UNA Branch 147for the pa st 12 year s, died here inAllentown Osteopathic Hospital onThursday, March 25. He was 68.Mr. H utzayluk, an Allentown native,was active in the area's Ukrainiancommunity life.He served as treasurer of UNABranch 147 for 20 years and laterbecame its secretary. He was a delegateto four UNA conventions (the 26ththrough the 29th) and was to have goneto the upcoming convention in Rochester as a delegate from Branch 147. As abranch officer, he was also a member ofthe Lehigh Valley UNA District Com-

O n t a r i o g r a n t to aid r e f u g e e sTORONTO - The Canadian Ukrainian Immigrant Aid Society has received a grant of SI 1,000 from the

Ontario Ministry of Culture andCitizenship, Yuri Shymko, member ofthe Provincial Parliament for HighPark-Swansea announced.The grant was made through theNewcomer Integration Grants Programof the Newcomer Services Branch of the

ministry, and is intended to contributetowards the development of volunteersupport for settlement of Ukrainianrefugees throughout Ontario.Mr. Shymko said he was pleased tohave been able to help the UkrainianCanadian Immigrant Aid Society makecontact with the ministry to obtain thisgrant.

Brezhnev is preserver of status quo, says Mag ocsiby Ihor Osakiwsky

TOR ONT O - Leonid Brezhnev'shold on power for all these years did notkeep out a successor who might havebeen able to institute chang es within theSoviet Union."I would say no, absolutely not,simply because 1 don't think that there isgoing to be any change in the SovietUnio n, period ," says Dr. Paul R.Magocsi, associate professor of theChair of Ukrainian Studies at theUniversity of Toronto."Anyone who anticipates change onthe basis of a new leader, whether thenew leader is 50 years old or 70 yearsold, I think is naive."According to Prof. Magocsi, SovietCommunist Party chief Brezhnevshould have retired at the same time orsoon after President Richard M.Nixon's res ignation in the UnitedStates.Although Nixon left in disgrace, hestill came out looking good in terms ofthe history of American foreign policy.If Mr. Brezhnev would have done thesame, says Dr. Magocsi, he would alsohave gone down in history lookinggood."But that 's the price of s tayingaround too long," he says.In the last few years Mr. Brezhnev notonly saw his cherished detente policywith the Americans grind to a halt, butsent invading Soviet troops into Afghanistan.His regime also encouraged thesuppression of the Solidarity trade-union movement in Poland and theimposition of martial law there.Events in Afghanistan and Polandbrought heavy world criticism to bearon the Soviet Union as well as on Mr.Brezhnev.Prof. Magocsi says he believes thatMr. Brezhnev left his mark on theSoviet Union simply as

Ihor Osakiwsky is a free lance journalist working out of Toronto. He is aformer reporter for The Calgary Heraldand is now a post-graduate student atthe University of Toronto.

Dr. Paul R. Magocsiserver of the status quo."He did nothing to damage the extentof Soviet influence such as it was whenhe came to power and, if anything, evenslightly expanded it."Asked if there was any noticeablechange in the way the Soviet regimetreated and interacted with the Ukrainian SSR during Mr. Brezhnev's 18years in power, Dr. Magocsi said therewas no change at all.He explained that one can only lookat the question from a long historicalperspective over the last two centuries."I don't really see any change inpolicy toward Ukraine on the part of theRussian leadership whether it's tsaristor Soviet, and whether its Lenin, Stalinor K hrushchev or Brezhnev," says Dr.Magocsi."This area, in the perception of theRussian empire o f the 19th century andthe perception of the Soviet empire ofthe 20th century, is simply a province ofthe Russian or Soviet empire, and as aprovince o f that empire it is to be treatedand dealt w ith as that and nothing else."However, Prof. Magocsi did suggestthat perhaps there has been a kind of"technical" difference in the regime's

policy towards Ukraine. For instance,Mr. B rezhnev as well as his predecessorwere not "as brutal" as Stalin was."But, all in all, that's a technical issue,"says Dr. Magocsi. "Policy toward thisarea on the part of the Russian leadership whether it was tsarist or whether itwas Soviet has really not changed atall."Dr. Magocsi suggests that the 1980Summer Olympic Games in the USSRwere symbol i c of what ChairmanBrezhnev really wanted the world andhistory to remember him as.The games were the symbol of theultimate in detente here all nationswere now cooperating. Although thiscooperation was in the area of sports,the nations were cooperating on Sovietground.The Summer Olympics were to be thesymbolic crowning achievement of Mr.Brezhnev's life, says Dr. Magocsi, andfor the Soviet leader they fell flat.By boycotting the games, what theAmericans succeeded in doing was"putting a gigantic pin in a giganticballoon."One aspect of Mr. Brezhnev's 18years in power to w hich historians in the ^West should devote research, says Dr.Magocsi, is the enormous staying powerof Soviet society.Unfortunately researchers tend tooverloo k, either by default or deliberately,the integral strengths of the SovietUnion, says Dr. Magocsi who is himself a researcher and a historian.Despite all the problems plaguing theSoviet state, the system has not .basi

cally changed over the years."Now, they must be doing somethingrigh t," says Dr. Mag ocsi, "and I thinkprecisely the Brezhnev era is a very goodperiod to analyze what they are doingright."He explains that the Brezhnev erawas a time which saw a quantitativeincrease in the Soviet quality of life.And it was during this era that Mr.Brezhnev was able to contain theproblems w hich resulted from the rise inexpectations in both the economic andnationalities spheres.

mittee executive b oard.Mr. Hutzayluk was active in UNAorganizing activity, and he wasa memberof the UNA Champions Club. He wasawarded several certificates of merit bythe UNA executive committee for hiscontributions to Soyuz.Mr. Hutzayluk was one of the founding members of the St. Mary's Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Allentown,and he served as chairman o f the parishcouncil for 25 years a nd until his deathas honorary chairman of that council.He was also a member of the D iocesanCouncil of the Ukrainian OrthodoxChurch.Mr. Hutzayluk was a member andformer officer of the Ukrainian American Citizens Club in Allentown, as wellas president of the local UCCA. Heserved in the U.S. Army during WorldWar II.Mr. Hutzayluk, an electrician bytrade, retired in 1970.Surviving are his wife Catherine, sonsJohn Jr. and Joseph, daughter IreneAllen, brothers Emil and Eugene, andthree grandchildren.A requiem service was held Friday,March 26, at the Kohut Funeral Home.The Very Rev. Vasyl Chykaluk and theRev. Protopresbyter Ivan Tkachukofficiated.The following day liturgy was celebrated by the Rev. P rotopresbyterHilary Wrublewsky and the Very Rev.Chykaluk. The eulogy was delivered byFather WruWewsky.Burial was at the church cemetery inAllentown. UNA Senior Field Organizer Stepan Hawrysz eulogized the longtime UNA activist on behalf of the UN Amembership.

Chicago Se lf rel ianc eassets approach(40 m ill io nCHICAGO - At the 31st annualmeeting of the membership of Self-reliance Federal Credit Union in Chicago held on March 28, it was reportedthat, although economic conditions inthe nation were not favorable, the creditunion showed its greatest growth in

981, with an increase in assets exceeding S6 million. Total assets now approach S40 million.Thesefiguresare impressive, but it isnecessary to emphasize that the potential assets of Ukrainian Credit Unionsare far greater. According to statisticsquoted at the recent annual meeting inChicago, only 5 percent of Ukrainiansin Chicago are members of Selfrt jance,and the same is true in other citiesthroughout the United States andCanada.If 50 percent of Ukrainians weremembers of Ukrainian cooperat ivecredit unions, as in Australia, thenChicago's Selfreliance Credit Union

would have a total of S400 million inassets to serve the Ukrainian community.The Sel f re l iance Federal Credi tUnion in Chicago, l ike most otherUkrainian credits unions throughoutthe United States, offers its members allthe services of large banks. Unfortunately, many Ukrainians are not awareof this or believe that non-Ukrainianbanks are better or more prestigious,although these banks d o not return anyof their profits to the Ukrainian community.


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N e w Y o r k d i s t r i c t ' sc o n v e n t i o n d e l e g a t e sd i s c u s s c o n c l a v e

N EW YORK - Delegates to the 30thRegular UN A Convention from theN ew York UN A District met here at theUkrainian N ational Ho me on April 30to discuss various aspects of the conclave, which gets under way upstate inRochester on May 24 .The meeting was initiated by theexecutive board of the district committee, which is chaired by Mykola Cho-manczuk.N ot all the convention delegates fromthe district attended the meeting.Firs t to address the meeting wasUN A Supreme President John Flis,who told delegates about the preparations for the convention, and he thanked the Convention Committee headedby Walter Hawrylak for its efforts.Mr. Flis, who made several trips toRochester to oversee operations, also

took the opportunity to thank the 30UN A activists who have been assistingMr. Hawrylak, and the various subco mmi t tees tha t hand led d i f fe ren tphases of the preparatio ns.The supreme p res iden t a l s o c on f irmed the vis i t of Vice PresidentGeorge Bush on May 28. Otherpo liticians on the local, state and federallevels have been invited to speak at theconvention banquet on M ay 27 , saidMr. Flis.He added that on Sunday, May 2 3 ,there will be a concert at the HolidayInn-Qencsscc Plaza,.and a screening ofSlavko N o wytski ' s new film on theU NA .' Ar ran gemen ts have a l ready beenmade concerning voting machines, Mr,Flis said, and added that delegates cantake advantage of free transportationfrom the airport to the hotel, but theymust first make the necessary arrangements with the hotel and airport m anagement. Those traveling by car areassured parking places, he said.Following Mr. Flis's remarks, a briskd i scuss io n t o o k p lace dur ing whichpar t i c ipan t s t a lked abou t a hos t o fUN A-related issues.Among those t ak ing pa r t in thediscussion were Dr. Jaroslaw Padoch,district secretary and ho no rary mem berof the supreme executive committee;Dr. Oleh Wolansky, Roman Krupka

and Walter Kwas, former Soyuzivkamanager, who declared that he wasgoing to run for the post of supremeadvisor at the convention.Also taking part were Askold Lozyn-skyj , supreme adv iso r , and J osephLesawyer, ho no rary UN A member andformer supreme president.Among the topics discussed werereviving the work o f the UN A CulturalCommittee, the rift in the Ukrainiancommunity, the quality of the reportsby gome Supreme Assembly memberswhich were pub l i shed in Svoboda ,proposed senior citizens housing, thepossible merger of the U N A with theUkrainian Fraternal Association, UN Ao rganizing efforts and the dro p in UN Amembership.Dur ing the d i scuss i on , Mr . F l i sanswered any questions the delegateshad co ncerning UN A matters and theupcoming co nvention .At the close of the meeting, Mr. Flisi n t r o d u c e d G e o r g e P r o k o p e c , w h obegan work as the new manager ofSoyuzivka resort on April 26.The meeting was adjourned by Mr.Chomanczuk, and refreshments wereserved.

Pritsak is keynote speaker...

Hie R ochester SUM -A branch's Dunai Ukrainian dance troupe.nians from all spheres of com munity lifeare expected to address the conventiondelegates and guests at the banquet.

The banquet will be opened by Walter Hawrylak, chairman of the Rochester-based Convention Committee.Dr . 'My ro n B. Kuropas will serve asmaster of ceremonies. UN A SupremePresident Jo hn O . Flis will intro ducethe keynote speaker.Archbishop Mark of the UkrainianOrthodox Church in the U.S.A. willdeliver the invocation, while BishopBasil Losten of the Stamford, Conn.,Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy will recitethe benediction.

The evening wil l a lso include ane n t e r t a i n m e n t p r o g r a m f e a tu r i n gmezzo-soprano Christina R. Lypeckyj,pianist Maria Bach and the Luna MaleQuartet directed by J. Matko wsky. -Elena Borysenko will provide pianoaccom paniment for Ms. Lypeckyj, andN adia Tratch will serve as piano acco mpanist for the quartet.

Sunday concertThe Rochester Convention Committee has planned a concert for Sunday,May 23, the day before the openingsession of the conclave.

The concert, scheduled for 6:30 p.m.,will be emceed by Mr. Kulyk.Performances will be given by theSurma Chorus of Rochester, J. Matkowsky, director (accompanist AnnaSorochtey); the Dunai dance troupe ofthe Rochester SUM-A branch, BohdanLyko, director; the Hanna Bt.rvinokGirls' Plast Unit of Rochester, YaraKekish, artistic director (Ms. Sorochtey,accom panist); soprano Laryssa Magun-Huryn (Elena Borysenko, accompanist); the N amysto vocal ensemble ofWashington, Petro Krul, director; andpianist Elena Borysenko.

UNA/UIA co ntempo rary theater workshop slatedJERSEY CITY, N .J . - The Ukrainian N ational Association/ UkrainianIns t i tu te o f Amer ica Con tempora ryPerforming Artist's Group is presenting a series o f wo rkshops focusing o n folkculture and the contempo rary stage.The workshops, under the directionof Taras Shipowick, are free of chargeand will be presented at the institute, 2E. 79th St. The first workshop, scheduled for Mo nday, May 24, at 7:30p.m., is titled "Traditional UkrainianMusic as Contemporary Song." It will

analyze forms and the structure ofUkrainian traditional music, and try toexplo re the po ssibilities of successfullymerging the traditional with the contemporary .The second session "Using the Stageas a Performing Space" will study thea s p e c t s o f s t a g e m o v e m e n t o f e n sembles, choirs and dance gro ups. Itwill be offered o n Mo nday, June 7, at7:30 p.m.Mr. Shipowick, who is presently theassistant manager of the N ew York

Shakespeare Festival, has taught actingat Yo rk University in Toro nto . As adirector, composer and choreographer,he has traveled across Canada co nducting worksh o ps, pro ducing festivals andstaging revue acts. He has trained at theRoyal Co nservato ry o f M usic, YorkUniversity and the Juilliard School ofMusic.For more information on the worksho ps call the UN A Fraternal ActivitiesOffice at (201) 451-2200 or (212) 227-5 2 5 0 .V .


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THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 16 , 198 2 No. 2 0

U k r a in ia n W e e k lyGraham crackers?

He came, he saw and he was had.Sadly, this slightly altered version of an old expression provides apithy summary of the Rev. Billy Graham's ill-conceived and ill-fatedpilgrimmage to Moscow to participate in something called the "WorldConference: Religious Workers for Saving the Sacred Gift of LifeFrom Nuclear Catastrophe."It's bad enough that America's best-known evangelist lent his goodname to some thing tha t all but the politically naive predicted would belittle more than a Soviet propaganda sideshow. It's bad enough that,while in M oscow , Mr. Graham bent over backwards not to offend hishosts, and failed to publicly denounce the well-documented instancesof Soviet religious persecution, something several American religiousleaders were urging him to do.But to come out and say that he had seen no evidence of religiousrepression in the Soviet Union and infer that religious freedom seems

to be a feature of Soviet society is tragic and inexcusable. What aboutthe woman who was arrested at a Baptist service he attended when sheunfurled a banner w hich said that religious persec ution is a fact of lifein the USS R?" he was asked. Unbel ievably, Mr. Graham fudged thequestion and said that he only had the reporter's word abou t the case.When asked about the food in M oscow , Mr. Graham answered thathe was fed a staple of caviar, som ething that "only a millionaire" couldafford in the U nited S tates. The statement bears a chilling similarity toGeorge Bernard Shaw's reference to caviar when he visited the SovietUnion during the great famine in Ukraine in the nearly 1930s. Orperhaps Marie Antoinette's infamous, "Let them eat cake."Either Mr. Graham is a hopeless cynic, which we doubt , or a haplessingenue, which may be closer to the mark. But there's something elseworking here as wel l .

Convention contemplationsInnovative thinking may curewhat ails our Batko Soyuz

by N estor L. O lesnycky

We suppose that it takes a certain measure of hubris to become aninf luential orator/evangel is t , who has the ear of mil l ions , includingpresidents. This may at least partly explain Mr. Graham's ratherobdurate decis ion to venture to Moscow. He may have s incerelybel i eved that he could have whipsawed the delegates wi th theeloque nce of his fire-and-brimstone messag e, stoked the flames ofrel igious fervor and somehow won the day.He couldn't have been more wrong.From the outset the conference did not resemble a forum for seriousdisquisition, but rather an anti-American turkey shoot. Delegate afterdelegate - some f lown to Mosco w at Soviet expen se droned onabout Yankee warmongering, Zionist imperial ism, a U.S . arms bui ldup. The scripts parroted the Soviet line to the letter: America wantsnuclear holocaust, the Soviets want peace.

Finally, two Western religious leaders had enough, and cautionedthat the delegates should steer clear of turning the confer ence in to aanti-Western platform. T he delegate s, mostly from. Asia and Africa,sat on their hands. Unfortunately, so did Mr. Graham, who in hisaddress chose to ignore the anti-Western orgy.

As to Mr. Graham's earlier contention that he thought it unlikelythat the Soviets and their supporters would use his presence forpropaganda purpose, they've already started. The Ukrainian News, apro-Communist news sheet put out in New York, took umbrage at TheWeekly's April 14 editorial suggesting that M r. Graham rethink histrip to Moscow, and hailed his decision as exemplary. They praisedMr. Graham's courage, and called our editorial a shocking attack rifewith assertions dug out of the "entire pile of discredited anti-Sovietpropaganda garbage."We doubt that Mr. Graham would find much comfort in knowingthat he is being championed by these shadowy, Soviet satraps. We

suspect that he sincerely believed that his mission was noble and just,and that he thought he would return from Moscow with a sense oftruly accomplishing something for peace rather than with egg on hisface. Y et, his rather flippant rem arks concern ing religious freedom inthe USSR have done a terrible disservice to the countless Sovietcitizens - Ukrainian Catho lics and Orthod ox, Jew s, Baptists andPentecostals - who have and continu e to suffer for their faith in anofficially atheistic society. M r. Graham played right into Soviet han dsand, in telegrams and letters, we should tell him so when he returnsfrom the fiasco in Moscow.

Muc,h has been written about theUkrainian National Association in thelast several months with all attentionfocused on the imminent 30th UNAConvention to be held in Rochester,N.Y. The emphasis has been on itsproud history, its irrefutable accomplishments and on its problems, bothpast and present.Certain comment has been madeabout the reduction in membership, theburden of the U NA building, the negative financial situation of both Svobodaand Soyuzivka, and the fact that "BatkoSoyuz" has to subsidize both.Comments have also been madeabout the need to train organizers, toraise the level of involvement of ouryouth , to remov e the inter-party bickering, which by now seems endemic tomost of our organizations, with theUkrainian National Association, too,lately being involved.It would seem to the interestedobserver that some innovative andperhaps progressive thinking could atleast begin alleviating some of theproblems the Ukrainian National Association faces.For example and in no particularorder of importance consider thefollowing.

Nestor L. O lesnycky of Maplewood,N.J., is an attorney with the firm Pitio,Olesnycky and Pitio.

of higher education, perhaps it is time toincrease the individual scholarshipamounts and decrease the number ofrecipients. The average scholarship ofseveral hundred do llars will make but asmall impression o n the young student,but a substantial amount or even a socalled "fullride" or one or two studentsper year could reap benefits both ways.What does the Ukrainian NationalAssociation need?Gearly some journalism major ofexceptional ability could be granted afull Ukrainian National Associationscholarship in exchange for a contractual obligation to work at Svoboda orthe Weekly for, let's say, four years.Or, some aspiring ca ndidate for adegree in hotel management could puthis Cornell education to work at Soy uzivka on a similar basis.Finally, and most logically, somenascent MB As co uld special ize infraternal insurance work, teaming upwith some newly minted lawyers whosestudies have been UNA-funded to dosome creative thinking as to insurance,investments, m ortgages, bonds and thelike, all within the framework of theUNA charter and the relevant statelaws.

1 Soyuzivka - In Walter Kwas'soffice there are many pictures of coupleswho met and married at Soyuzivka.One cannot underemphasize the importance of Soyuzivka as a meeting place(Cont inued on page 14)

Proposed UNA-UFA mergeroffers myriad possibilitiesby Stephen M. WIchar Sr.

By definition, a fraternal in the worldof life insurance is a society that isorganized for the pursuit of a commonobject ive by working together in abrotherly union. In this process, thesociety serves benevolent purposes byproviding financial benefits duringaccidents; sicknesses, old age and death.As the f inancial backbone of i ts

ethnic American com munity, the s oc i ety support s churches , s chool s ,publishes newspapers, books and otherperiodicals, finances ed ucational grains,and supplies cultural endeavors on localand national levels. Beyond the foregoing, fraternalism embraces the idealsof equality, political liberty and religious tolerance.Both the Ukrainian National Association and Ukrainian Fraternal Association are proud of the rich heritagethat has been documented in the annalsof Ukrainian fraternal history. Indeed,the early founding fathers were successful in generating many decades ofsustained fraternal activities unmatchedin today's setting. The early immigrants,

despite overwhelming odds in education and socio-econo mic adjustments inAmerica, were able to shape fraternalsocieties as strong as any Americanethnic group.The 1970s have shown a seriousdecline in membership growth amongfraternal groups. The Fraternal

. Stephen M . Wichar Sr. of Ml. Clemens, Mich, isfirstvice president of heUkrainian Fraternal A ssociation.

tor, in a recent study, predicts that atleast one-third of ou r fraternal societieswill not survive the 1980s. This is ashocking and ominous forecast Unlessour Ukrainian fraternals can innovateand reinforce viable programs for itsmembership within the framework ofexist ing operat ions , the succeedinggeneration w ill inherit a crisis that mayultimately force a liquidation;Our fraternals m ust sell fraternalism,with expenditures that will justify itsexistence. The current leaders of theUNA and UFA have studied the problems intensively, have analyzed thescope of feasibility in the Ukrainiancommu nity and have concluded thatserious consideration be given to anamalgamation of both societies.With the consolidation t TUNA-UFAforces, the Ukrainian'community inAmerica and Canada could have themost influential and authoritativeorganization in the history of Ukrainian imm igration. The merger 'wouldimmediately upgrade Uk rainian prestigewith a more effective lobbying voice inWashington and Ottawa.The merger would provide a member

ship of 110,000 with 5S7 m illion inassets. With this kind of base, the newUkrainian National Fraternal Associat ion would become a recognizableinsurance power among ethnic fraternals. With new a dministrative resources,UNFA could re-establish purposes andgoals of fraternalism and developstrategies for their consummation.It is important to note that ourfraternals are currently duplicatingadministrat ive costs amounting to

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1. Scholarships with the rising co stof higher education, perhaps it is time toincrease the individual scholarshipamounts and decrease the number ofrecipients. The average scholarship ofseveral hundred do llars will make but asmall impression o n the young student,but a substantial amount or even a socalled "fullride" or one or two studentsper year could reap benefits both ways.What does the Ukrainian NationalAssociation need?Gearly some journalism major ofexceptional ability could be granted afull Ukrainian National Associationscholarship in exchange for a contractual obligation to work at Svoboda orthe Weekly for, let's say, four years.Or, some aspiring ca ndidate for adegree in hotel management could puthis Cornell education to work at Soy uzivka on a similar basis.Finally, and most logically, somenascent MB As co uld special ize infraternal insurance work, teaming upwith some newly minted lawyers whosestudies have been UNA-funded to dosome creative thinking as to insurance,investments, m ortgages, bonds and thelike, all within the framework of theUNA charter and the relevant statelaws.

1 Soyuzivka - In Walter Kwas'soffice there are many pictures of coupleswho met and married at Soyuzivka.One cannot underemphasize the importance of Soyuzivka as a meeting place(Cont inued on pate 14)


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N o . 2 0 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 16 , 198 2 7

A l e x a n d e r M y s h u h a a n d h i s r e c o r d in g sIn memory of mezzo-soprano Eugenia Zareska (Zarytska).

Part 1 Laurels in PolandWestern Ukraine, referred to asGalicia in the past, became in the lastcentury a sort of a musically "fertilecrescent" for it gave birth to a number offamous musicians. Among them werepianists Moriz Rosenthal and Mieczy-slaw Horszowski, and singers MarcellaSembrich and A dam D idur. In thesecond half of the 19th century this areaalso produced exceptional Ukrainiansingers, but the homeland could do littleto further their careers.Lack of established opera theatersand underdeveloped musical life'ingeneral offered nothing to a professionalmusician and this ultimately resulted inwhat was`aptly called a peculiar type ofcultural exporting. Promising soloists,their basic educa tion com pleted, left forvarious West European centers foroptimum development and appreciation of their talent.

Three starsThree soloists initiating this Westerntrek were never to be surpassed inoverall artistic merit, critical acclaimand in popularity by other Ukrainian

singers who followed their path. Theywere soprano Salomea Krushelnytskaand tenors Modest Menzinsky andAlexander Myshuha, better known inthe Wes t as Alexan der Fi l ippi .Myshuha, it should be noted, was theuncle of Luka Myshuha, one-t imeeditor-in-chief of the Svoboda daily.Although these singers emigrated outof necessity, all three artists retainedbenevolent attitudes toward the land oftheir birth and especially toward thechief city of western Ukraine, Lviv.Bound by foreign contracts theyseldom appeared in Lviv, yet theirpresence was felt in a variety of ways.Krushelnytska taught singing in thatcity, where she settled for her finalyears, while M enzinsky willed his entireestate to the Shevchenko Scient i f icSociety there. Of the three, Myshuha,most famous for his exceptional generosity, likewise left his entire estate to aLviv center, the Lysenko Music Institute.

First yearsThe lyric tenor Alexander Myshuhawas born on June 19, 853, in NovyiVytkiv, western Ukraine, and studiedwith Walerian Wysocki ( teacher ofKrushelnytska, Didur, Josef Mann,Eugenia Strassern) at the Lviv Conservatory, later supplementing his training

in Nice and Milan. . .Like the other Ukrainian singersment ioned he enjoyed a long andimpressive career. Myshuha made hisdebut in Lviv, 1880, when he appearedin Mon iuszko's "Haunted Ma nor." In1883 he appeared successfully at theForli Theatre, Italy in Flotow's"Marta."The press was enthu s ias t i c , andMyshuha continued touring the country appearing at Milan, Turin, N ice andFlorence with both popular and criticalacclaim.

In 1883-84 he was back in Lviv withacontract at the Polish opera house, andin 1884 started his extremely successfulappearances at the Warsaw GrandTheatre as first tenor. His regularWarsaw appearances lasted until 1892and after that year he was to return tothe Grand Theatre many times as guestartist.In 1912, the aging singer was invitedto sing at the 700th performance ofMoniuszko's "Halka" at that theatre,where his performance of the part ofJontek was considered ideal.

Alexander Myshuha as Jontek in theopera "Halka" by Moniuszko.Here in Warsaw Myshuha enjoyednot on ly exceptional audience approvalbut also critical-adulation, and hereboth fans a nd reviewers put him on parwith Caruso and Battistini. Critic JosefReiss claimed Myshuha was unsurpassed in his interp retation s ofMoniuszko operas.

Well-rememberedMyshuha`s Pol ish adulat ion continues into modern times. He is mentioned in the "Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera" by Harold Rosenthaland John Warrack (London: OxfordUniversity Press, 1964). The entry"Poland" (four columns long ) lists maincit ies of importance, productions ,

theatres, directors. This entry lists nosingers whatever except in the followingpassage: "Famous Polish singers included Alexander Myshuha (Filippi)."It is strange that the only singerreferred to in this long entry on Polishopera is not P olish at all but Ukrainian.But this decidedly points to the measureof fame Myshuha enjoyed in Poland.

Famoos in ViennaIn February 1885 Myshuha guested

at the V ienna Imperial Opera in leadingparts of "Favorita," "Rigoletto" and"Lucia di Lammcrmoor." His firstappearance as Fernando in "Favorita"was on February 5. Up to that timeMyshuha had sung in Italian, Polishand Ukrainian, but in Vienna he wasrequired to perform in German.The press had reservations as to hisaccent, but otherwise the reviews wereexcellent. "Neues Wiener Tagblatt" ofFebruary 6 spoke highly of Myshuha`ssupple and resonant voice, while "NeueFreie P resse" of the same date noted thesweetness of its tone, adding that "hissinging showed excellent Italian training by which Myshuha could deliver allthe fine lyric parts with taste andfeeling."

Another paper, "Wiener Abendpost,"suggested renewing the Vienna Operarepertory with Myshuha as first tenor.On February 10 Myshuha sang the partof Edgar in "Lucia"; he became asensation, and all seats were sold out.

Myshuha photographed in Vienna in1885.The influential critic Edward Han-slick wrote in "Neue Freie Presse" onMarch 17, 1885, that "Myshuha captivated his audience with the sweetness ofvoice, filled with wondrous purity ofsound and also with his tasteful delivery... the part of the Duke in 'Rigoletto' is his best and deserving entirelyof the tumultuous applause received."In all, Myshuha sang nine leadingroles in Vienna. His success there maybe demonstrated by the fact that thedirectors of the Imperial Opera per

mitted himto sing in Italian after hisinitial appearances. (German was at thetime, the regular, official language ofthat opera house.) Up to that time onlyAdeline Patti had been granted asimilar gesture.Prague fame

Bound by contract with the WarsawOpera, Myshuha still made guest appearances elsewhere, for he seemed tobe continuously in demand. In the 1880she managed also to get away to Parisand study with the celebrated Italiansinger Giovanni Sbrigl ia. In 1887Myshuha sang at the Prague Opera andhis success there may have surpassed h isreception in Vienna.

"Prager Abendblatt"of July 14 ,1887,described his performance thus: "Myshuha appeared as Faust by Gounodand demonstrated his facility especiallyin the aria in the garden. This wonderfulsinger put everything into the part andshowed such a span of nuance and suchaccomplished use of his wondrousschooling and artistic taste that hisappearance can be considered a realmasterpiece of belcanto."

Myshuha in the title role of Gounod's"Faust."In Prague Myshuha also appeared asManrico in "Trovatore" and as DonJose in "Carmen" with similar success."Narodny Listy"of July 16,1887, noted

that general crit ical opinion putMyshuha on par with the greatestsingers of all time.

Myshuha in the role of Don Jose inBizet's "Carmen."Touring

In the period from 1885 to 1905Myshuha appeared in many operahouses of Europe opposite such stars asBatt is t ini , B oronat , K rushelnytska,Lilli Lehmann and othes. There ismuch material extant on his St. Petersburg, Kiev and Lviv performanceswhere he displayed his not too largeUkrainian repertoire. He is believed tohave toured London; Paris, Rome andBerlin, but the docum entation of thesetours is just not available.Myshuha chose bjs repertoire fromthe lyrico-dramatic genre and was most

successful in the parts of Jontek("Halka"), Lensky, Canio, Faust, Cava-radossi, Romeo, Fernando, Turidduand Werther.Composer Leoncavallo heard Myshuha`s Canio in his own "Pagliacci"asperformed Septembe r 20, 1892, inMilan at season's opening and presented the tenor with the score of theopera complete with an inscriptiondescribing his own "boundless satisfaction with Myshuha`s magical singing."(Continued on page 10)


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THE UKRA INIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 16, 1982 NO. 2 0

Ukrainian pro hockey updateby Ihor N. Stelmach A

Winning Ukrainians wooing 'em in WinnipegWherever you may go in the city ofWinnipeg, people are excited about theJets. Two players who are instrumentalin thisrise o new heights are an 18-year-old sensation. Dale Hawerchuk, and ahulking defenseman, Dave Babych.It's a joy to be around them, savoringthis new-found sip of success, when onlyone year ago they were languishing inthe throes of 30 conse cutive g ameswithout a win. No fewer than 13 playerson this team shared in the suffering of ayear reprieved by only nine wins.One of them is Babych, now a 20-year-old veteran of one of the mostforgettable seasons in National HockeyLeague history. As wonderful as winning is, the fear of losing is foremost inhis mind. ^"How many guys in the league cansay they know what losing is really like?"he challenges. "Going 30 games withouta win is like being tortured for threemonths."There are no visible signs that Babychhas been scarred for life by the events oflast season. His damaged pride ishealing. "We can beat anybody," hevows. "This is a pretty fair hockey clubwe have here."Certainly the`arrival of Hawerchuk ishaving a medicinal effect on the healthof the franchise. But he's more than a

box-office attraction. He's a winnerwhose appetite is insatiable... and quitecontagious. And he was recently votedNHL Rookie of the Year.So young he can vividly rememberthe first goal he ever scored - as a 4-year-old in Oshawa, Ont. - Hawerchuk is already a threat every time he ison the ice, p aying little or no regard forthe stature or status of his opponents.His twisting, writhing rushes, frequented by jumps and changes in speed,have allowed him to penetrate deepinside enemy zones where he is mostlikely to leave a pass for teammatesheading for the holes he has created."In my opinion. Dale has never shotenough," said his father, Ed Hawerchuk, a foreman at the General Motorsplant in Oshawa. "He would sooner setup a nice goal rather than score o ne. It'sbeen that way all his life. I doubt hellever change."Shooting may not be his passion, butit's a facet of his game that can bedangerously overlooked. His shot ishard and accurate and unloaded in ahurry."This opportunity may never happenagain," said general manager JohnFerguson, exercising his first overallchoice in the June draft to chooseHawerchuk. "He's blue chip all the way.

Rookie sensation Dale Hawerchuk

Dave BabychA great kid and a tremendous talent."

One scout, Tom Savage, saw Hawerchuk play over SO games last season.Progress reports were continually sentback to Winnipeg. Although he wasplaying for the Cornwall Royals, leading them to their successive MemorialCup, it seems Hawerchuk has been afigure in the Jets' scheme of things forover a year. Constant comparisons toWayne Gretzky have been disconcerting,but they nonetheless persist."I actually get sick of it," he says."Wayne's so great. H e's proven himselftime in and time out. He's a guy I lookup to. He has given me advice. Butpeople who are comparing us aremaking a mistake. We are two differenttypes of hockey players."Gretzky bobs. Hawerchuk lurches.As all great hockey players, they havethe uncanny sense of knowing where thepuck will be two or three moves inadvance. Already teams are starting tokey on Dale, but what's new? In juniorhockey, he was shadowed by as many astwo players. Yet, he always seemed tomanage to find a way to escape.What's most encouraging is that hehas the ability to make plays in compactsituations. He may appear to be coveredbut suddenly the puck is his, bound for ateammate's stick. Still growing, Hawerchuk weights 177 pounds and stands afraction under six feet. Eventually, hellbe the sam e size as this season's averageNHL'er - six feet and 188 poun ds.However, he looks frail compared to hisopponents today."People have always questioned mysize," he says. "I usually look smallerthan the others because I'm youngerthan the rest." sWhich only makes sense. Of the 492players who appear on NHL rosters,only two are younger - center RobCarpenter of the Maruk-Ied Washington Capitals, born July 1 3, 1963; andcenter Doug Smith of the Los AngelesKings, born May 17, 1963.Hawerchuk entered this world onApril 4,1963 . Two years later, he was onskates and, at 3, a local Oshawahero by the name of Bobby Orr invited

him onto the ice to take some shots athim. -"I cant remember that,"said Hawerchuk, apologetically, "but Dad says it'strue. Bobby was a junior then, and afterpractices ne to stay out on the iceand joke around with the hockey teammy Dad played for."Christian and Babych are essentialfigures in Ferguson's master plan tobuild a team by jealously hoarding hisdraft choices. While other lowly, despe

rate clubs have traded away their primepositions in future drafts, seekingimmediate help, Ferguson has exercisedextreme patience with his kids."It's the only way to go," he claims.Ferguson's attitudes are most influenced by the Montreal Canadiens,his former team, and the New YorkIslanders."People laughed at Bill Torrey whenhe lost so many players to the riva lWorld Hockey Association at the startof 1972," said GM Ferguson. "But itwas probably a blessing in disguise forthe Islanders. By losing them, he wasable to develop his draft choices faster.And it really paid off. That's a feather inhis hat."Ferguson received his most temptingoffer from the Minnesota North Stars,minutes prior to the 1980 re-entry draft.The Jets had the second overall choice.The Canadiens, by way of the ColoradoRockies, had the first. Ferguson dearlywanted a Portland defenseman, DaveyBabych, younger brother of the Ukrai

nian from the St. Louis Blues, WayneBabych. Lou Nanne of Minnesotawanted him, too. The Canadiensselected first and, to the surprise ofeveryone, chose center Doug Wicken-heiser of the Regina Pats. 'Twas aselection Montrealers have regrettedalmost since that very day.Nanne made Ferguson an offer. Fourplayers for the choice. "They wouldhave been starters with us," saidFerguson. "But I wouldn't budge. I tookBabych, and I've never regretted themove."None of the four stayed in Minnesotalong. Two of them, Mike Fidler andPaul Shmyr went to Hartford (Fidlercurrently out of the NHL). GlennSharpley is with the Chicago BlackHawks. Tom Younghans belongs to theNew York Rangers.But it wasn't easy on Babych. Thrustto the fore, he had the burden of tryingto carry his entire team. It was not apretty sight. As the losses mounted andthe season grew longer, Babych becamemore frustrated. Defensively, ht waswoeful; offensively lost."The word was, he was trying to doto o much," said W att, then an assistantcoach with the Vancouver Canucks."He always tried to make the extra play.If you kept checking him, sooner orlater he would cough up the puck."Babych ended his first season in theNHL with a plus/ minus rating of minus61 , worst in the league. Now, he's stillthe tireless worker he always was. Buthe has begun to discover and use thetalent around him. Watt has relaxedhim, restored his confidence and taughthim more about the game."He's helped my defensive game alot," said Babych. "He's even prettyclose to m aking me a plus, player. Ifyou can turn the No. 1 minus into a plus,you must be doing something right."Slow to anger, Babych rarely fights.Mainly because no on e is crazy enoughto test him. The last two who tried -Pat Boutette of the Pittsburgh Penguinsand P at Hughes-of the Edmo nton Oilers

- were so brutally beaten word quicklyspread around the league. He is anincredibly strong man even for his size- 6`2" and 215 pounds.Dr. E dEn os of Concordia Universityonce described Babych as " - - million athlete" after measuring hisheart and lung capacity and variousstrengths."A lot of cardiovascular endurance isgenetically inherited," said Watt. "He(Continued on page 13) -`


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"Collections a nd Recollections": birthday tribu te for Myron Surm achby He! en Smindak

NEW YO RK - How do you give b i r thday pa r ty fo r an 89-year -o ldyoungster who doesn't like celebratingbirthdays and refuses to show up atparties planned by his family?The solution? Throw a surprise party,but make sure the birthday celebrant ispresent by disguising the occasion as afamily event at which he is to unveil hismemoirs.That was the decision reached at apa r ty -p lann ing round- tab le sess ionsome months ago by the children andgrandchildren of the popular founder ofthe .Surma Book Company in NewYork, Myron Surmach. Vigorous andactive, he is following a second career inSaddle River, N J . as a beekeeper,g a r d e n e r , b a n d u r i s t , l e c t u r e r a n dauthor who still finds time to "mind thestore" on Sundays.The conferees included the shop'sp resen t p ropr ie to r , Myron W. Sur mach, his wife Magda, glasspaintingand pysanka expert Yaroslava SurmachMills, and their children, Nikolas Millsand Markian and Darya Surmach.Invitat ions sent out to a host offamily friends and business acquaintances called for a triple-feature eventunder the heading "Collections andRecollections The Surmach FamilyExhibit," scheduled to open on May 8and run thro ugh May 22 at the Ukrainian Institute of America, Fifth Avenueand 79th Street."Collections" included Yaroslava'slatest original reverse glasspaintings aswell as etchings and children's booki l lus t ra t ions , Myron W. Surmach ' s

collection of antique Ukrainian women's shirts, and a newly publishedportfolio of embroid ery designs chartedfrom the shirt patterns, "UkrainianRose Patterns.""Recollections" refers to the elderSurmach's autobiography "Memoirs ofMy Surma Bookstore," a story carriedin weekly installments during the pastyear by the Ukrainian newspaper "Na-rodna Volya" and just published inbook form.Some 750 guests from New York,New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecti-

The Surmach clan poses for a family picture at the Ukrainian institute of America. Pictured from left: Nikolas Mills,Yaroslava Surmach Mills, Markian Surmach, Myron Surmach Sr., Darya Surmach, Myron Surmach Jr., and MagdaSurmach.cut and as for away as New Mexicoattended the opening-day reception,coming and go ing th roughou t theafternoon to admire the exhibits, chatwith family members and reminiscewith the senior Mr. Surmach about theearly days of New York's Ukrainiancommunity.Adding a festive air to the proceedings, which filled the institute's e ntrancehall, stairway and entire second floorwere bouquets of bright spring flowerson stairposts and m antelpieces. Clustersof red poppies and field flowers fromthe shop, tucked behind garlands ofYaroslav a Is colorful folk-scene car ds,decorated the buffet area, where guests

( C on t tn p ed o n p e p )

Ko(omayebMyron Surmach Sr. introduces the editor of Us book, "Memoirs of My SurmaBookstore," John Smolij, a long-time friend and editor of Narodna Volya.

Lavrentia Turkewycz entertained the visitors to the exhibit with her bandura-playing and singing. Pictured in the background is part of the display of U krainianembroidered shirts from the collection of Myron Surmach Jr.


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Pittsburgh Community donates 55,0 0 0 Hartford SU M-A marks anniversary

Anna Komichak presents a S5,000 check to the treasurer o f the Uni tedUk ra in i an A me r ican Re l ie f Com m i t tee on beha lf o f P it t sbu rgh 's U k ra in i ancom mun i ty . S hown f rom l e ft a re : Dr . A lexande r B i l yk . the p res iden t o f theUUARC, Mrs . Komichak , Myron Ba rane tsky , the d i rec to r o f the UUARCoff ice , Dr . Bohdan Hnat iuk, the treasurer o f the commi t tee and MichaelKo m i c h a k . M r . a n d M r s . Ko m i c h a k , l o n g - t i m e c o m m u n i t y a c t i v i s t s i nPi t tsburgh, co l lected the funds among the area 's Ukra in ians. Mr. Komichakis we l l -kno wn for h is rad io prog ram in Pi t tsburgh and has of ten helpedw i t hcon t r ibu t i ons to such needy causes as the UUARC.

LUC to hold three-day sports rallySOUTH RIVER, N.J. - Metropolitan Stephen Sulyk has appointed theRev. Maurice Dzurman the spiritualdirector of the League of UkrainianCatholic's sp orts rally which will beheldthe weekend of July 2, 3 and 4.After the appointment of the Rev.Dzurman, who is the pastor of Immaculate Concept ion Ukrainian Cathol icChurch in Hillside, N.J. , the Garde nState Council of the LUC, which isresponsible for this year's sports rally,proceeded to select the working commit tee for the event and began toformajize its schedule for the three-dayrally.The council selected John Kost andGeorge Helock to co-chair the committee and also appointed 17 other persons

to head various committees includingpubl i c i t y , hospi t a l i t y , r eg i s t r a t i on ,indiv idual spor t s t ournament s andfinances.Plans are under way for the event,which will be held at the Holiday Inn ofSomervi l l e , Route 22 , Br idgewater ,N.J. The first mailing sent to membersand friends of the LUC, included aquestionnaire regarding the events scheduled.The recipients were requested to fillout the form, advising the committee oftheir preferences in the way of eventsplanned, noting their interests.If anyone wishes information regarding this sports rally, inquiries may besent to: 1982 LUC Sports R ally, c/o 36Pulawski Ave. ', Sou th R iver , N .J .08882.

HA RTF ORD , Conn. - The Har t ford branch of the Ukrainian AmericanYouth Associ a t i on (SUM-A) ce l ebrated its 30th anniversary Saturday,. April 24, with a dinner-danc e at theUkrainian National Home.The banauet, attended by more than200 persons, began w ith remarks byMyron Zelez, chairm an of HartfordSUM-A. In his statement, Mr. Zelezsaid that SUM-ivtsi in Hartford shouldbe proud of their accomplishments overthe past 30 years.Afterwards Msgr. Stephen Chomkodelivered the invocation.The main speaker for the evening,Askold Lozynskyj , p r es ident of t henational board of SUM-A, analyzed thegrowth and'contribution of the Hartford SUM-A branch to the Ukrainiancommunity.Following Dr. Lozynskyj's speech,certificates of recognition were awardedto the fol lowing persons for thei rcontinued work for SU M-A: M r. Zelez,Tymish Melnyk, Wasyl Gruntow sky,Petro Szahaj, Anastasia Krawec andIrene Bobriwnyk.T h e R e v . R o m a n B i l e c k ydelivered the benediction.The evening program consisted ofSMM-A dancers and sinj:ers-under the

PALM BE ACH , Fla. - The Ukrainian boo ths were the main attractions atthe first International Festival sponsored by Palm Beach Junior College onMay 1 and 2, and they captured firstprize from the judges of the college.The booths, which were prepared bythe year-old Ukrainian American Clubof the Palm Bea ches, featured t raditional Ukrainian foods, crafts, embroideries, records and books.Ano ther main a ttraction at the festivalwas the Ukrainian folk dance troupe ofMiami which was invited by the club toperform at the two-da y festival. Locald a n c e r s , A m a l i a W e n g e r c h u k a n dMary Butler performed a few dances,and bandurist Yarko Antonevych played several Ukrainian medleys. All threeperformances were met by a standingovation from the audience.

Although the Ukrainian AmericanClub of the Palm Beaches has only beenin existence for a sh ort time, it has ma deits mark in southeastern Florida. Already the hard-working mem bers of thec lub , who ar e very aware of t he i rUkrainian roo ts, have demonstrated thear t of pysanka-making on a l oca l

Alexander Myshuha...(Contjincd from pact 7)

Taught widelyIn later years Myshuha taught voicea t t h e L y s e n k o M u s i c o - D r a m a t i c 'School in Kiev (1904-11), also openedclasses in Warsaw's Chopin AdvancedMusic School (1911-14) and in.Stock-holm.Some of his students claimed Myshuha s voice remained virtually un

changed in later years but this is disputed. T here is evidence that Myshuhasang in concert with some success evenafter World War 1. His'last performancewas in Freiburg, Germany, on November 2, 1921, about four months before- his death there.Myshuha 's s tudent , s i nger MajaKinberg, noted that in this last appearance his voice was youthful andtemp eram enta l . We know th i s as astatement of a very close and devotedfollower, but it is the only one we have.

direct ion of Ms. Krawec, and OlesFurda, a bandurist from New YorkSUM-A.Following the program, guests wereentertained by the Iskra band of NewYork.The fo l lowing organiza t ions andsocieties were represented at the banquet: SUM-A branches of New York,Yonkers, N. Y., Boston an d Willimantic,Conn., the SU M-A Cooperative, Ukrainian Congress Committee of America,St. Voiodymyr's Ukrainian OrthodoxChurch, Ukrainian National Aid Association (national executive board andBranch 37), Organization for the Defense of Four Freedoms for Ukraine,W o m e n ' s A s s o c i a t i o n o f O D F F U ,U k r a i n i a n N a t i o n a l H o m e , P l a s t ,Former UPA Soldiers, 1st Division ofUkrainian National Army, School ofUkrainian Studies ("Ridna Shkola"),Dibrova Choir , Ukrainian Nat ionalAssociation Branch 277, ProvidenceA s s o c i a t i o n B r a n c h 2 0 5 , a n d t h ePatriarchal Society.

In conjunction with the 30th anniversary, a commemorative book was publ i shed . I t i s ava i l ab l e for S7from: Hartford SUM -A, 961 Wethe rs-field Ave., Hartford, Conn. 06114.

television station as well as at a largedepartment store. Both times the publicwas very responsive to the demonstrations, for this was the first taste ofUkrainian culture Palm Beach residentshave ever received.

Bandurists performat Rutgers festivalNEW ARK , N.J. - Echoes of theS t e p p e s , a n e w l y f o r m e d b a n d u r aensemble affiliated with the New YorkSchool of Bandura, played to a capacitycrowd at this year's Ukrainian Folklifein New Jersey Festival held here on thecampus of Rutgers University on April27.The 13-man troupe combined traditional Ukrainian folk songs with modern instrume ntal compositions. Unlikemost such groups, the ensemble performed without a conductor.Most members of the new group arelong-time students of the New YorkSchool of Bandura.

Myshuha in Stockholm, 1921.Myshuha died on March 9, 1922, andwas buried at the place of his birth inwestern Ukraine.

Next week: Myshuha's recordings.

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PREVIEW OF EVENTSSunday, May 16NEW YORK: Jurij Furda, student ofKalyna Cziczka Andrienko, MarthaAyerbe, student of Lew Struhatskyj,and Lydia Wagner, student of TaissaBohdanska, winners in the MusicTeachers League of New York auditions, will perform at the CarnegieRecital Hall at 2 p.m. The muskstudents will perform works selectedby judges which include "Variations"by Omelsky, "Gavotte" by Lysenkoand "Sonata Pathetique" by Beetho-

NEW YORK: The Ukrainian MusicInstitute of America is sponsoring arecital of outstanding students at theUkrainian Institute of America, 2 E.79th St, at 5 p.m. Featured will be 11pianists and five violinists.Saturday, May 22WARREN, Mich.: The UkrainianCongress Committee of America(Metropolitan Detroit Branch), theUkrainian National Women's Leagueof America and the UkrainianGraduates Club are sponsoring alecture by Dr. Bohdan Wytwycky on"The Specter of the Nazi Holocaustand Its Impact on Inter-Group Relations." It will take place at St.Josaphat's social hall at 4ISO Mc-Kinley (off Ryan Road).Dr. Wytwycky, who is the authorof the study "The Other Holocaust:Many Circles of Hell," will talkabout the Nazi victimization of theSlavs , especially the Ukrainians,Poles and Byelorussians, and theeffect this has had on Slavic-Jewishrelations.Dona tions for the lecture will be S3for the general public and S2 forsenior citizens and students. Ticketsare available in advance at the EkoGalkry, 26795 Ryan Road, in theUkrainian Village Plaza or at thedoor. For more information call(313) 755-3535.YARDVILLE, NJ.: ODUM, theOrganization of Democratic Ukrainian Youth is sponsoring a banquetand da nce on the occasion of its fifthtriennial world conference, at St.G e o r g e ' s U k r a i n i a n O r t h o d o xChurch hall. The banquet begins at6:30 p.m.; the dance at 9 p.m. Ticketsand reservations may be made bycalling (201) 725-5322.ABINGTON, Pa.: The UkrainianEducational an d Cultural Center willhold an all day "flea m arket on thegrounds of the center from 9 a.m. to4:30 p.m. New and old "treasures"will be for sale and food will beavailable all day. Tables can bereserved for S10. The cen ter is aroundthe corner from Manor JuniorCollege and St. Basil's Academy, at700 Cedar Roa d. For reservations orfurther information, call the center at(215) 663-1166 or Orysia Hewka,(215)277-0491PAS SAIC , N J. : The Veterans of theUkrainian National Army are sponsoring a spring dance at the Ukrainian Center, 240 Hope Ave., at 9p.m. The Dnipro orchestra willprovide entertainment.GLEN SPEY, N.Y.: The UkrainianWorld Federation of Hutsuls issponsoring a Feast of St. George atthe Verkhovyna resort of the Ukrai

nian Fraternal Association. The two-day' celebration w ill feature a ban quet, a concert and a dance. Forlodging reservations call Verkhovyna(914) 856-1323. For further information about the weekend contact:Dmytro Tkachuk, 7517 Alma S t.Philadelphia, Pa. 19111; (215) 722-8262.NEW YORK: Myron Surmach ofSaddle River, N.J., will be on handduring the closing day of the Surmach Family Exhibit "Collectionsand Recollections" at the UkrainianInstitute of America, 2 E. 79th St.Glasspaintings, etchings and illustrations by Yaroslava SurmachMills and a collection of antiqueUkrainian women's shirt dresses areon display all week, 2 - 6:30 p.m.(closed Monday).Sunday, May 23DETRO IT: The Veselka mandolin youth orchestra under thedirection of Kyrylo Chependa willpresent a concert at 6 p.m. in theLincoln Auditorium, 22500 Federaland Nine Mile Road. The programwill also feature opera soloistsHanna Kplesnyk and Leonid Skirko.MINNEAPOLIS: The "Slovo" Association of Ukrainian Writers issponsoring a literary evening ofMykola Khvylovy's writings to markthe release of the third volume of hisworks. The evening will take place atSt. Michael's Ukrainian OrthodoxChurch hall, 504 Fourth St N.E., at4 p.m.NEW BRUNSWICK, N J.: Branch 4of the Ukrainian National Women'sLeague of America is presenting ashow of Ukrainian embroidery intoday's fashion. The show will feature traditional embroidery fromvarious regions of Ukraine adaptedto modern fashions by Maria Stru-minska of Montreal. The show willbegin at noon at the Nativity of theBlessed Virgin Mary Church hall, 86Livingston Ave. Tickets are S6 andinclude a hot lunch. For reservations, call Nadia Nynka, by May 14at (201) 297-7053 after 5 p.m.

PITTSBURGH: The League of U-krainian Catholics Kalyna Choir ofthe Greater Pittsburgh area, underthe direction of Irene Vhduchick,will lead the responses at the mole-ben to the Mother of God, theMayivka, at 5 p.m. at St. John theBaptist Church on the city's South-side.During this moleben, the installation of newly elected officers of theLeague of Ukrainian Catholics inWestern Pennsylvania will also takeplace. Afterwards the Kalyna Choirwill offer a program of music devotedspecifically to the Blessed Mother.As reported earlier, the 25-year-oldKalyna Choir is preparing for itsultimate goal, a concert commemorating the millennium of Christianityin Ukraine. The choir hopes tofeature programs of Christmas,Lenten and Easter music, and plansto learn the liturgy based entirely onKievan chants, which are the earliestmelodies of our church services.

MILLVILLE, N.J.: The 40th anniversary of the ordination of the Rev.Presbyter Vhaly Kovalenko of Ss.

Peter and Paul Ukrainian OrthodoxChurch will be celebrated with aliturgy, moleben, conceit and banquet.ABINGTON, Pa.: The UkrainianLiterary Arts Club of Philadelphia isorganizing a literary evening devoted,to the works o f dissident Vasyl Stus,'at 5 p.m. in the Cultural Center, 700Cedar Road, Abington Township.ADVANCE NOTICEKERHONKSON, N.Y.: The fifthconference of Stanislavtsi will beheld Saturday and Sunday, June 5 - 6at Soyuz ivka . Reservat ions forrooms should be made as soon aspossible by contacting: Soyuzivka,Ukrainian National AssociationEstate, Kerhonkson, N.Y. 12446;(914) 626-5641.

HOLMDEL, N J.: The eighth annualUkrainian Festival will be held hereat the Garden State Arts Center, onSaturday June 19.Expected to surpass last year'srecord-breaking attendance of 13,000people, this year's festival will onceagain include an afternoon programand athletic events.During the day cultural exhibitswill include pysanky, embroideriesand paintings. There will also besamplings of tasty Ukrainian dishes.In the evening, the stage program willdelight audiences w ith the speed andversatility of Ukrainian song anddance.Sponsored by the Garden StateArts Center, the Ukrainian Festivalis one in a series of events organizedto raise fundsjfor New Jersey veterans, children and disabled. Fortickets, please write to: Walter Yur-cheniuk, 283 Brook Ave., Passaic,N.J. 07055; or call (201) 470-0035between 6 and 9 p.m.

LYND ORA, Pa .: The DiocesanChurch School Commission of theUkrainian Orthodox Church of theU.S.A. has announced its plans forthe annual church school camp, forkids age 9-13.This session will be held June 20 -26 at the All Saints Camp of theUkrainian Orthodox Church in Em-lenton, Pa., only five miles fromRoute 38 and Interstate 80.The program stresses a religiouseducation through participation inliturgical services, formal classwork,and then puts it all into practice insocial events. In addition, stress isalso placed on the study of Ukrainianculture and history.The program was founded andconducted by the Very Rev. WilliamDiakiw; for more information pleasewrite to: Church School Camp, c/o

Rev. W. Diakiw, 21 Evergreen Drive,Lyndora, Pa. 16045.

GLEN SPEY, N.Y.: A sports training camp, organized by Chomomor-ska Sitch will be held at the Verkhov yna reso rt, from July 18 toAugust 14. For further informationand applications write to: UkrainianSitch Sport School, 680 SanfordAve., Newark, N.J. 07106.

EDUCATIONALLOANSA fraternal serviceto UNA members

The loan will boar amodest interest rateof 39 a year only onloans m ade. Interestw i l l a c c u m u l a t eduring the period ofschooling and be paiddur ing rep aym entperiod.As of November 1, chi ldren upto years of age who enrol l for(15,000 of insurance w i l l beguaranteed a 55,000 educational loan. Should they enrollfor ?25,000 of insurance, theywil l be. guaranteed a loan of17,500.Juveni le m embers ages 5 to 10enrol led for (15,000 of NEWinsurance w i l l be guaranteed a(4,000 Educational Loan. Ifenrol led for (25,00 of protec-` t i on, they wi l l be guaranteed aloan of (6,000.The protection herein referredto must be under UNA P-20Certif icate.A formal notice that loan isguaranteed wi l l be sent withCertif icate of Protection when itis issued after November 1,1980.Certif icate must rem ain in goodstanding with al l assessmentsand dues paid until EducationalLoan is granted and throughoutrepayment per iod.Certif icate must be assigned toUNA dur ing the per iod of theloan and i ts repayment Eitherparents or guardian must guarantee repayment of loan i fjuvenile is under age 21 whenloan is granted.Educational Loans will be madeover a four-year period only fortu i t ion to the col lege or insti tut ion of h igher learning.Repayment of loan begins threemonths fol lowing graduation ofappl icant and must be fu l lyr e p a i d o v e r a m a x i m u m o f20 equal quarterly installments.Should period of education forwhich ' loan wa s' secured ber e d u c e d o r t e r m i n a t e d t h erepayment per iod wi l l beginimmediately.


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"Collect ions a n d . . / 7(Continued from page 9)helped themselves to wine or homemade cider and pastries and paskabaked by the ladies of St. Ann's Soda-, lity, Ss. Peter and Paul UkrainianChurch in Spring Valley, N.Y.

A bevy of long white linen shirts withred embroidery panels on the sleevesand neckline created a striking two-story composition in the stairwell. Thedisplay by Cara D. Eduardo, accomplished by fine wires attached to aspecially installed grid at the third-floorlevel, was lighted to beautiful effect byPhilip Hainline.Other shirts from the vintage collection were worn by female members ofthe Surmach family, bandurist Lav-rentia Turkewycz and a group of youngladies.The birthday celebration was a delightful surprise to guests who jammedthe auditorium for the formal debut ofMr. Surmach's book. Most surprised ofall was the octogenarian, whose 89thbirthday occurred last January. Duringthe program, held toward the close of ahectic afternoon, he sat quietly in themidst of his family, listening eagerly toevery word.

Said daughter Yaroslava: "We'vegiven parties for my father several times and he's never shown up. So thiswhole event started as a birthday partyfor my father.""This is a tribute to my father atruly wonderful human being. In effect,it's also a tribute to the entire Surmachfamily, to show what we have been ableto accomplish as a Ukrainian family,

and perhaps to give others the incentiveto do the same," she explained.In a salute to his father, Myron W.Surmach said that the family's accomplishments were "due to a little blustering from this fellow here, my father, andit was his influence that made us achievewhat we did, I in business, my sister inthe art world."Public-relations specialist Ted Shu-meyko, a long-time friend of the Surmach family, opened the program with awelcome to everyone and an invitation

to "observe, study and enjoy all of thework that is on exhibit here."Suggesting an alternate title for theevent - "A Honey of an Affair" - Mr.Shumeyko reported that he had foundMr. Surmach's book to be "a veryenjoyable experience," and sketched aprofile of Mr. Surmach's career (he saidthe details are in the book for everyoneto read): Mr. Surmach was born in thevillage of Zheldets in the KaminkaStromylova province of western U-kraine. He emigrated to the UnitedStates in 1911 and lived in Wilkes-Barre,Pa., until 1918. Resettling in New York,he established the Sichovy Bazaar storeon Avenue A, the shop which was theforerunner of the present Surma bookstore on East Seventh Street.While selling books and periodicals,Mr. Surmach also produced a popularUkrainian radio program and ev

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