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U k r a i n i a n W e e HP U B L IS H E D B Y T H E U K R A I N I A N N A T I O N A L A S S O C I A T I O N I N C , A F R A TE R N A L N O N - P R O F I T A S S O C I A T I O N V o l . L No. 25 T H E U K R A I N IA N W E E K L Y S U N D A Y , J U N E 2 0 , 1 9 8 2 25 centsL etters reveal S hukhevychlost 99 percent of sight

Yoriy SonkhevychDuring the past month, manyletters were received from Ukraine,from persons close to Ukrainianpolitical prisoner and Helsinki monitor Yurty Shukhevych. Those persons in the West who received suchletters learned that Mr. S hukhevychhas lost 99 percent of his sight. As aresult, when he w as recently alloweda visit by his mother, he did notrecognize her from among the obser

vers present.Having obtained similar information, Sviatoslav and Nina Karavan-sky decided to redouble efforts onShukhevych's behalf in the UnitedStates. Through Rep. CharlesDougherty (R-Pa.), chairman of theAd Hoc C ommittee on the BalticStates and Ukraine, the Karavan-skys appealed to the U.S. Congress,citing two recent House concurrentresolutions in defense of Mr. Shukhevych.Each of the Karavanskys knewMr. Shukhevych: Mr. Karavanskyspent time with him in prison camps,while Mrs. Karavansky establishedcontact with him while he was freefor a very brief period of time.Below is the full text of theirappeal to the U.S. Congress.

by Sviatoslav Karavanskyand Nina StrokataWhen future historians write thebook of Soviet KGB crimes, they willhave to add to the long list of horrificfacts the blinding of dissidents. Yes,those w ho were coo lly killing millionsof peo ple on the grounds of "scientific" theories can boast about this too .

N ews came from beyond the barbed wires and iron bars: Yuriy Sh ukhevych, the eternal prisoner of theSoviet jails who se crime was writingdown two do zen critical words aboutthe Soviet regime, lost 99 percent ofhis sight after an op eration performed in the prison ho spital. That is, hewas in fact blinded.The blinding of Mr. Shukhevych,who became prisoner at the age of 14only fo r the reason that he was a sonof the Ukrainian guerrilla leader,Gen. Roman Shukhevych, is onemore link in the long chain of KG Bcrimes against humanity and againstUkrainian people.Yoriy Shukhevych was arrestedfor thefirst ime in 1948 when he was14; The legal commutations daringthe "thaw period," which were expected t o release all sentenced juvenilepolitical p risoners, didn't touch Mr.Shukhevych. O n the contrary, he wa sonce more sentenced in 1958 for so-called "cell's crime". This time, bis"crime" was his critical views aboutthe Soviet reality expressed in theprison cell. "The liberalization" ofthe Soviet regime which was sotalked ab out in the West, passed byMr. Shukhevych. He had to serveanother. 10 years until 1968.After being released in 1968, Mr.Shukhevych was deported to theCaucasus, to serve five mo re years ofexile, where he married, becomingthe father o f two charming children.But the hand of the Soviet Ukrainian-hating Moloch reached himeven there. In March 1972 he wasarrested and sentenced a third time.He earned the title of the "verydangerous state criminal" and 11years of the most severe penalty confinement for writing down twodozen words.Those who know what the confinement of the "very dangerous statecriminals" in Vladimir prison meanswont wonder that after 11 years ofsuch imprisonment the prisonerbecomes bl ind, or paralyzed, ormentally ill. But, it was just thatpenalty 11 years confinement in

` Vladimir that was chosen for M r.Shukhevych, who had already serveda 20 -year sentence. So viet legislationanticipates that after serving half asentence the prisoner can be transferred from the jail to the prisoncamp (that m eans to the jail with theweaker regime), but even this "humanity" was not applied to Mr. Shukhevych.Being very well-informed, KGB(Cont inued oa page 5)

Ukrainian refugees from Polandlearn about immigration proceduresby Dr. Walter Dushnyck

N E W Y O R K - S o m e 6 0 y o u n gUkrainian men and women who recently arrived from Poland, attended ameeting on Saturday, June 5, at theauditorium of the Ukrainian LiberationFront in downtown Manhattan to hearabout steps and procedures connectedwith acquiring permanent legal statusby aliens in the United States.The meet ing was organized andsponsored by the O rganization for theDefense of Lemkivshchyna, which isstriving to bring assistance and help toUkrainian Lemkos , who had beenexpelled in great numbers by the P olishCommunist government in 1946-47from the Carpathian region of U kraine.M o s t o f s o m e 2 5 0 , 0 0 0 U k r a i n i a n.Lemkos were forcibly deported to theso-cal led "recovered territories" inwestern Poland.Myron Mycio, president of the Organization for the Defense of Lemkivshchyna, who himself was a memberof the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA)and a former political prisoner in Sovietconcentration camps, spoke about theaims and actual work of the organization.Acting as moderator at the meetingwas his wife, Katherine Mycio, whooutl ined brief ly the purpose of themeeting. In connection with politicalevents in Poland in the last few mo nths,several hundred young Ukrainian menand women found themselves in theWest - Western Euro pe, the UnitedStates and Canada. They cannot or willnot return to Poland, but want toremain here.The principal speaker at the meetingwas Lydia Savoyka, staff member of theU.S. Catholic Conference and a member of the Federal Advisory Co mmittee

of the United States Immigration Service.She said that in the United Statesthere are several million illegal aliens,most ly those from Mexico and theCentral American coun tries, as well ashundreds of immigrants from Centraland Eastern Europe, and Asia.

The Ukrainian immigrants of recentdate belong in the latter category, theycame to America as tourists, studentsand political refugees seeking politicalasylum. All three categories of immigrants have considerable difficulties inchanging their status to qualify forpermanent stay in the United States.However, Miss Savoyka added, achange of one's immigration status ispossible and feasible, although it takes sis tent efforts' and a kno wledge o fthe perplexity of American immigra

tion laws. America still needs all kindsof specialists technicians, engineers,artisans, tool-and-die makers, carpenters , bakers and those whopossess such skills are surely to beaccepted fo r permanent residence in thiscountry, she said.A change of a student's status to thestatus of regular immigrant requires"hard-proof" documentary evidencethat such a candidate was accepted by abona fide American college or university, and that be has financial means tosusta in himself at the univer sity.Still another problem for newcomersis to receive the so-called "green card"which attests to the legal status of animmigrant in America, as well as theSocial Security card, both of which arerequired by American employers. Suchdocuments, continued Miss Savoyka,are absolutely essential and must be

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UFA convention opens tomorrowSCRANTON , Pa. -T h e 20 th Convention of the Ukrainian FraternalAssociation, the second largest Ukrainian fraternal so ciety, gets under way atthe association's Verkhovyna resort inGlen Spey, N.Y., o n M onday, June 21.The convention will continue throughFriday, June 25.Besides electing a new ExecutiveCommittee, Auditing Committee andSupreme Assembly, the conven t i ondelegates wil l be asked to vote onwhether they support the idea of amerger between the UFA and theUkrainian National Association.Delegates to the recent UN A convention voted overwhelmingly in favor ofsuch a m ove.The UFA convention program alsoincludes addenda to the reports of

officers, and those of the editors ofNarodna Volya, the official organ of theUFA, and Forum, the UFA-publishedmagazine.Also to be discussed are by- lawschanges , organizing and publishingmatters, and the Verkhovyna resort.A highlight o f the convention will bethe banquet on Wednesday evening,June 23, which will be attended byconvention delegates and invited guests.Founded in 1911, the UFA is based inScranton, Pa . , and has branchesthroughout the United States andCanada. It has assets of S10 million,23,000 members and some S28 millioninsurance in force.The current supreme president o f theUFA is John Oleksyn.


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THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 198 2 J o 2 5Soviet womanto rejoinspouse in West

MO SCOW - Tatyana I. Lozansky,29, one o f a group of So viet citizens on ahunger strike to press for the right tojoin spouses in the West , has beengranted permission to leave the SovietUnion and join her husband in theUnited States, according to the June 12issutbof The New York Times.

.Mrs. Lozansky, whose father, Gen.Ivan Yershov, is a civil defense officer,was in the 32nd day of a hunger strikewhen she was told by her father that hehad interceded with officials in supportof her bid to emigrate.Two others, Yuri Balovlenkov andIosif Kiblitsky, are still fasting, andhave reportedly lost 22 to 30 pounds.Mrs. Lozansky was said to be extremelyweak as a result of taking only waterduring her fast, which began May 10.Mrs. Lozansky has been trying since1976 to rejoin Eduard D. Lozansky inthe West. Mrs. Lozansky, a chemist,said that she divorced her 41-year-oldhusband, a physicist at the University ofRochester, six years ago to enable himto leave the country. She said thatauthorities had promised that she andthe couple's daughter, now II, couldfollow later.Her plan backfired, however, whenauthorities barred her exit on thegrounds that Mr. Lozansky was nolonger her husband. Meanwhile, herhusband remarried her by proxy inWashington in a ceremony which co incided with the beginning of her hungerstrike.Mr. L ozansky, who is Jewish, quali

fied for em igration but not with his wife,who is a Russian. But perhaps Mrs.Lozansky's biggest obstacle until nowwas her father's staunch opposition toher leaving the country. W hen he finallyrelented after m eeting with his daughterin an apartment which she shared withother female hunger-strikers, the waywas clear for her emigration.Several weeks earlier, another member of the group, Andrei Frolov, a 51-year-old journalist, was given permission to leave the Soviet Union to join hiswife, Lois Sydney Becker, in Chicago.They h,ad m et while she was a student inMoscow University, and were marriedin May 1981.Mr. B alovlenkov, a 32-year-old com puter programmer, has been marriedsince December 1978 to Yelena Kus-menko, a nurse at Balt imore CityHospital. They met when she came tothe USSR as a tourist in 1977. Theyhave a daughter, Kateryna, born in thesummer of 1980.Mr. K iblitsky, a 36-year-old artist, ismarried to a West German schoolteacher, Renata Zobel of Dusseldorf.He was denied permission to go toIsrael in 1971, and married Ms. Zobel,a teacher at the West G erman EmbassySchool here, in 1978. They have a son,Mark Leonard, born in 1980.Two other members of the group,Tatyana A zure, 30, and Marija Jurgutis,

who had been on a hunger strike, arenow reported taking food. Mrs. Azure,a physicist from Vladimir, marriedArmand Azure, a Frenchman, in 1979.She said her emigration papers havebeen denied for security reasons on thegrounds that she once lived in Arzamas,a city closed to foreigners. She addedthat she liad not lived there since 1972.Mrs. Jurgutis, a Lithuanian whosehusband defected seven years ago andnow fives in Chicago, joined the hungerstrike in an attempt to rejoin herhusband.

Soviets smash fledgling disarmam ent groupMOSCO W - While thousands ofdemonstrators for disarmament ralliedin New York's Central Paik last weekend, Soviet police cracked down onMoscow's only independent peacemovement, reported the AssociatedPress.According to reports, 10 of 11 members of the group, who se formation was

announced here on June 4 at a pressconference for Western reporters, hadbeen taken t o po l i ce s tat i ons andwarned to stop their activities.The New York Times reported thaton June 13 Soviet police had sealed offthe apartment of Sergei Batovrin, a 25-year-old artist and spokesman for thegroup, where the initial press conference had been held and where he andthe 10 other members w ere scheduled tomeetAn officer explained that the entry-way was closed because of "pol iceactivity." It was not dear what happenedto Mr. B atovrin. It was reported that hehad been detained for five hours onJune 11 and released with a sternwarning.After his release, he told reportersthat he had been threatened with prosecution for violating a 1930s law againstunregistered groups. He also said thathe had been lectured against equatingthe United States and the Soviet U nionas military powers "even while theAmerican government supports Israeliaggression in Lebanon," the Times said.Other members of the group, whichwas created to function free of officialconstraints and includes a doctor, aphilologist, two mathematicians, twoengineers and two physicists, reportedmuch the same treatment

Sergei Rozenoer, a 29-year-o.ld mathematician, was taken to the districtprosecutor's office on June 10 and toldto stop the activities of the group. Twoplainclothesmen and a uniformed milit ia colonel vis i ted Mr. Rozenoer'sapartment o n the afternoon of June 11while he was talking with Westerncorrespondents.According to AP , one of the clothesmen, wearing brass-toed cowbo ybo ots and a kelly green snap-brimmedcap, lectured the correspondents forabout 15 minutes about the character ofthe 11 members of the organization,which cal ls i tsel f "The G rou p forEstablishing Trust Between the USSRand the USA.""These people are not solid, seriouspeople," the policeman said, addingthat the reporters should be concernedwith the reputat ions of their newsorganizations."They are disseminating distortedinformation," the policeman said gesturing to Mr. Rozenoer. "Half of thegroup wants to leave the Soviet Unionto g o to Israel," he added.Mr. Rozenoer later said the prosecutor told him that the group was apublic-nuisance and illegal, and that heshould co nsider his talk with the prosecutor as an o fficial warning to cease thework of the peace movement.The crackdown on the organization,which has. publicly called for the UnitedStates and the Soviet Union to halt allnuclear testing and for Moscow cityauthorities to make the capital a nuclear-free zone, appeared t imed toprevent them from expanding contactwith foreign peace organizations.The Moscow movement had distri

buted telephone numbers of threemembers in the West some two weeksago and was so liciting calls from peaceactivists abroad.Mr. Batovrin said that he had received a call o n the mo rning of June 11from a Boston group that wanted toform the American counterpart of theMoscow organization when his phonewent dead. A few mom ents later, hesaid, he was hustled off to the policestation, the AP reported.During the June 4 news conference,Mr. Batovrin said that he and othermembers of the group were not anti-Soviet dissidents, but he added that theindependent peace movement was necessary to provide an alternate voice toofficially sanctioned groups such as theSoviet Peace Commit tee , whichnever varies from the official Kremlinposition that the United States alone isresponsible for the arms race.

At the time, Mr. Batovrin had saidthat the group's goa l was to harness the"enormous creative potency" of thebroad p ublic in the search for disarmament and peace.The crackdown o n the group was notunexpected, because the Sov iet systemdoes not tolerate independently formedgroups, especially those with politicalovertones.Meanwhile, the official Soviet PeaceCommittee has been vociferous in itssupport for anti-nuclear demonstrations in the West, including the massrally in Central Park. The Soviet newsagency TAS S reported that the committee had sent a message to the demonstrators in New York pledging unity in thestruggle for "the right to peace."

R ed A rm y reported riddled with problemsWASHING TON - Although Westernmilitary analysts often tout the Sovietsoldier as a highly disciplined, tundra-tough, almost superhuman adversary,the average Red Army enlisted man is,quite often, underfed, abused by bisofficers, suicidal and prone to chronicalcoholism.This less-than-flattering assessmentof the Soviet fighting man comes fromRep. Les Aspin (D -W isc), a member ofthe House Armed Services Committee,who bases his information on publishedreports and the accounts of former RedArmy soldiers who have emigrated tothe West.In an op-ed piece titled "The SovietSoldier" which appeared in the June 8issue of The New York Times, Rep.Aspin disagrees with those militaryspecialists who insist that Soviet forcesare in a superior state of readiness andbetter trained than their U.S. counterparts. Often, this perception is based onfirst-hand observation of military unitsbut, Rep. Aspin cautions, U .S. m ilitaryanalysts may be seeing a Soviet Armyversion of a "Potemkim village" com plete with officers dressed as enlistedmen to create a favorable impression ofmilitary superiority.Former Soviet soldiers , however,paint a markedly different picture ofSoviet military life. They say thatalcoholism is rampant in the Sovietarmed forces, dwarfing the drug problem meed by U.S. forces, soldiers arebadly undernourished, with youngrecruits often: eating table scraps, andthat Soviet officers regularly brutalizeyounger soldiers.The composite picture is dramatically summed up by the results of asurvey by Richard A. G abriel, author of"The New'Red Legions," in which 113

Soviet emigres were asked: "Did anyone in your unit ever try to commitsuicide?" Mo re than S3 percent answeredyes.Rep. Aspin also cites a 1 976 letterwritten by Kirill Podrabinek, currentlya Soviet political prisoner, who as aconscript served in an infantry unit inTurkmenistan in the m id-1970s. In theletter, smuggled to Soviet emigres in theWes t , Mr. Podrabinek wrote thatyounger troops were beaten from thefirst day they arrived in the unit, andthat the senior troops "instill terrorright away."He also wrote thatfirst-yearsoldiersare frequently deprived of food, andthat the youngest and weakest soldiersget the worst maltreatment. Aside fromcreating serious morale pro blems, thesepatterns of abuse lead to outright

friction between the older and youngersoldiers. Interviewed on Radio L iberty,Alexander Makushechev, a formersergeant, said that first-year soldierswere often denied cartridges on the riflerange for fear they might shoot theirseniors.Another acute problem is alcoholabuse, which has reached epidemicproport ions in the Soviet mil i tary.Writes R ep. Aspin: "Alcoho lism definesSoviet society as apple pie def inesAmerickd society, so the fact thatdrinking is endemic in the m ilitary is no tsurprising."Yet, the problem goes beyond thephysical and psychological well-beingof the individual soldier, and affects theSoviet ability to maintain its warmachinery. According to Lieut Viktor

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No. 25 T H E U K R A I N IA N W E E K L Y S U N D A Y , J U N E 2 0 . 1 9 8 2 3

Dougherty: bringing Ukrainian issues to the foreWASHING TO N - When Ukrainian Human-Rights Awareness Weekgets under way here on June 21, itwill be largely through the efforts ofthe Ad H oc Co mmittee on the BalticStates and Ukraine whose chairmanis Rep. Charles F. Dougherty, a 45-year-old Republican from Pennsylvania's 4th District.In a recent interview with Smo-loskyp, Rep. Dougherty, who wasfirst elected in 1978 and is now in hissecond term, spoke about the formation and aims of the ad hoc committee he chairs along with Rep. BrianDonnelly (D-Mass.), the U.S. government's attitude toward humanrights in Ukraine and the broaderissue of U.S.-Soviet relations, o pening a U.S. Consulate in Kiev, andUkrainian American`communityinput id foreign policy formulation.Rep. Dougherty credited the formation o f the congressional comm ittee, which was formed in 1981 andnow has 70 members, to a vocalgroup of his constituents who pledged

to support his re-election campaign ifhe addressed the issue of the situationin Ukraine. Many of these constituents were part of the UkrainianHuman-Rights Committee, which isco-sponso ring the Awareness Week."Ill say /quite frankly, the ad hoccommittee exists today because eightor nine Ukrainian women and two orthree peop le fro m' the Lithuaniancommunity came to me and said,'Please help us, please, you know weneed some leadership. The guy youwere running against in 1978 doesnot share concern for this issue,' "Rep. Dougherty told Smoloskyp.He also insisted th at the ultimatesuccess of the com mittee,, depends- largely on a unified Ukrainian community, void of the political infighting he called "turf games."

Rep. Charles Dougherty"The thing that concerns me themost, let me say it, because I'm notUkrainian, and that is that the turfproblems and the in-house politicsthat are going on in the Ukrainiancommunity in this country among'recognized organizations' is absolutely detrimental to any kind ofpos i t ive program of the Uni tedStates to help the peo ple o f Ukraine,"Rep. Dougherty said.He also expressed concern thatthis divisiveness can spill over intothe Ukrainian community's attempts

to influence government representat ives , particularly if the variousUkrainian political groups try to"play the congressmen against eachother" for their o wn purposes.The congressman added that thecommittee does care about Ukrainian issues, but he warned that "ifpeople want to play turf games -fine, there are a lot of other issuesaround."As to U.S. government concernwith the issue of human rights inUkraine, Rep. Dougherty said thathis com mitt ee feels that E asternEurope is "the Achilles' heel of theSoviet Union," and for this reasonthere should be "a greater Americanpresence" in this area.Toward this end, Rep. Doughertytold Smoloskyp, the ad hoc committee fully supports the opening of theU.S. Consu late in Kiev, which was inthe preparatory, stages before it wasclosed by President Jimmy Carter inresponse to the Soviet invasion ofAfghanistan.Calling the opening of "critical"importance, Rep. Dougherty indicated that the committee was in theprocess of drafting a letter to Secretary of State Alexander Haig "indicating our total commitment toseeing an American consulate in Kievopened as soon as possible.""The absence of a (congressional)committee and the absence of aconsulate tends to have kept, in thepast, Ukraine as an issue of lowpriority," Rep. Dougherty said. "Bydoing these things, creating thecommittee, by trying to change thenames on maps that have been printed in the United States, by pushing

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Am nesty International intrigue?T h e s t r a n g e c a s e o f B o h d a n N a h a y l o

by Marta KolomayetsJERSEY CITY, N .J . - Bo hdanNahaylo had been free-lancing articlesfor British magazines for three yearsand working at the Amnesty International Secretariat in London when be

was called into Secretary GeneralThomas Hammarberg's office inFebruary and told that he was damagingthe organization's political impartialityand "jeopardizing the vital work ofAmnesty International," a worldwidemovement independent of any government, political grouping, ideology,economic interest or religious creed that defends individuals' human rights.Mr. Nahaylo visited The Weeklyoffices o n Friday, June 11 , and described the series of events that ted to hisforced resignation from the position ofhead Soviet researcher with AmnestyInternational, a full-time post he heldsince November 1980.Mr . Nah aylo , born in England,received a B.A. honors degree in international history and politics from theUniversity of Leeds in 1974 and anM. A. in East European history from theUniversity of Manitoba in 1975. It waswhile he was still at Leeds that Mr.Nahaylo became acquainted with Amnesty International. He joined an ado ption group (an AI unit that "adopts"prisoners and works toward achievingtheir release) on campus and laterbecame its chairperson. When he left

England to pursue his master's hehelped organize a group in Winnipegand upon returning to further hisstudies toward a Ph.D. at the LondonSchool of Economics and Polit icalScience he started doing some translations for Amnesty International.When the position of head Sovietresearcher was vacated in 1980, Mr.Nahaylo applied and was accepted forthis po sition. From this point the storyunveils.Mr. N ahaylo stated that on the day hesigned his letter of appointment as AI'sUSSR researcher, even before signingit , he asked the secretary generalwhether the appointment "precludedme from writing outside of AI in aprivate capacity." The answer was no,provided that AI's reputation was notdamaged.It is important to bring up at thispoint that during Mr. Nahaylo's employment since November 1980 untilFebruary 1982 he was never oncereprimanded about his writings, whichfrequently appeared in such Britishpublications as The Observer and TheSpectator, and were often about theoppression of the non-Russian nationsin the US SR , including Ukraine,Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.Nor were other members whocontributed articles criticizing thesituation in Northern Ireland, Chile orArgentina reprimanded. However,more importantly, none of them have

been dismissed or forced to resign todate, as has been Mr. N ahaylo.The Spectator in its March 20 issuestated that: "Unlike other members ofAm nesty, including th e secretary general,who have also written for newspapersand magazines in their personal capacities, Mr. Nahaylo has always gone outof his way not to identify Amnesty withhis own views (bis membership inAmnesty was, alas, mentio ned-in TheSpectator against his instructions andhe wrote his superiors apologizing forthis). Nor has he, like some others,engaged in political controversy: Twoyears ago , for example, Miss PatArrowsmith, describing herself as an'editorial assistant with wrote anarticle in The Times under the heading'Why we demand that the army leaveNorthern Ireland.' She was not sackedfor that, nor have any other AI employees been sacked for writing articles,there being no rule in Amnesty againstfree-lance writing."

According to the May 1982 issue ofELTA, an information bulletin sponsored by the Li thuanian N at iona lFoundation in Washington, the Spectator brought up another curious point:"Until a few weeks ago, the bead ofresearch at Amnesty w as a formermember of the Australian CommunistParty, Derek Roebuck, who maintained regular contact with the SovietEmbassy and spent bis summer holi-( oa pap 14)

Human-RightsAwareness Weekbegins tomorrowWA SHING TON - A Ukra in ianHuman-Rights Awareness Week beginshere tomorro w, M onday , June 21 ,thanks to the efforts of the Ad HocCommittee on the Baltic Slates a.ndUkraine and the Philadelphia Ukrainian Human-Rights Committee.The week is designed to call attentionto Soviet oppression in Ukraine and thepersecution of Ukrainian human- andnational-rights activists.Five representatives will address theircolleagues in the House of Representatives on each day, Mon day th roughFriday. Among the topics the representatives will touch upon are: the historyof Ukraine, the artificial famine of the1930s, Russification and the UkrainianHelsinki Monitoring Group. Individualcongressmen will also speak briefly onthe Ukrainian political prisoners theyhave adopted in hopes of working fortheir well-being.Also during the work week, there willbe an exhibit of Ukrainian samvydav -both print and photo materials in therotunda of the Cannon Building. Theexh ib i t i t ems a re bor r ow ed f romSuchasnist, Smoloskyp and The Ukrainian Museum as well as from the privatecollections of Nadia Svitlychna andNina Strokata-Karavansky.The week will be capped by a reception on Thursday at 5:30 p.m. in theGold Room (Room 2068) of the Ray-burn Building. U.S. representatives andUkrainian community activists havebeen invited to attend.For information about UkrainianHuman-Rights Awareness Week contact members of the Philadelphia U-krainian Human-Rights Committee,Christine Shust at (215) 947-2795 orIrene Skulsky at 969-6313.

Mstyslav namedBenefactor of Plastby youth groupNEW YORK - On the occasion ofthe 40th anniversary of his episcopalo r d i n a t i o n a n d h i s 8 4 t h b i r t h d a y ,Metropolitan Mstyslav, the primate ofthe Ukrainian Orthodox Church of theU.S.A., was named a Benefactor ofPlast by the youth org anization.Atv.ie double celebration in SouthBound Brook, N.J., during the weekend of May 15 and 16, MetropolitanMstyslav received the honor from thepresident of the U.S. National PlastCommand, Eustachia Hoydysh. It waspresented to him during the banquetheld Sunday afternoon at the UkrainianHome of Culture.Twenty-two Plast representativesand leaders of various branches werepresent at. the banquet t o witness thepresentation of the honorary certificateand" to take part in the celebrationprogram.Among them was Chief PlastunYuriy Starosolsky and the president ofthe World Plast Command, LubomyrRomankiw.A former recipient of the title B enefactor of Plast was MetropolitanAudrey Sheptytsky.Plast, a Ukrainian youth organization founded in 1911, is celebrating 70years of activity this year on August 14-21 with an International Plast Jamboreein East Chatham, N.Y.


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4 T H E U K R A I N IA N W E EK L Y S U N D A Y . J U N E 2 0 . 1 9 8 2 N o . 2 5Nina Strokata testifies beforecommittee on Baltics, UkraineRoman Pylypec buried in D.C.with full military honors

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t . "- Nr. N ina Strokata-Karavansky (left) testifies before the Ad-Ho c Co mmittee on theBaltic States and Ukraine. Ulana Mazurkevich serves at interpreter.

In her test imony, Dr. Strokata-Karavansky stressed the fact that themajority of all political prisoners areUkrainians and that Ukrainians are themost persecuted people in Europe,

W A S H I N G T O N - T he A d - H o cCommittee on the Baltic States andUkraine, chaired by Rep. CharlesDo ugherty (R -Pa. ) and Rep. BrianDonnel ly (D-Mass .) held hearingsrecently in Washington to focus on thepresent-day situation in Ukraine andthe B altic Sta tes. Rep. C harlesDougherty, who chaired the hearing,began by stating that the purpose ofthese hearings was to bring more awareness to the problems o f the Baltic Statesand Ukraine.Testifying before the committee werewitnesses from Ukraine, Estonia andLithuania. Sergei Soldatov, a prominent member of the Estonian underground who spent six years in Sovietprisons for asking for Estonia's freedomand independence, spoke about theconditions in his homeland.Father Casimir Pugevicius, directorof Lithuanian Catholic Religious Aid,spoke about the persecution of theCatholic Church in Lithuania.Dr. Nina Strokata-Karavansky, afounding member of the UkrainianHelsinki G roup, gave a presentationabout the human-rights situation inUkraine on May 6.

beginning with great famine artiftcallymanufactured in the 1930B by Moscow.She presented the ad-hoc committeewith some key recomm endations amongthem: familiarize the members of theUnited N ations, UN ESCO , members ofEuropean and third world parliamentswith the testimonies of those who arevictims of Moscow's system of repression; demand a continuing dialogue onquestions of national sovereignty foreach republic of the USSR and othernations of the Soviet bloc; adoption ofUkrainian political prisoners by members of the U.S. Congress; demandcourt sentencing of Ukrainian politicalprisoners; condemn the USSR for itspolicy of anti-Semitism.

The hearings were broadcast toUkraine by the Voice of America andRadio Liberty. Dr. Strokata's testimony was made possible through theefforts of the Philadelphia UkrainianHuman-Rights Committee.

Dougherty...( C t a w d l w t s f 3)among our own people, but also withthe So viets."As part of an overall strategy toupgrade the "Am erican presence" in

Eastern Europe, Rep. Doughertysaid that the ad hoc committee andseveral other congressmen want tosee an upgrading of the Voice ofAmerica and Radio Liberty.Rep. Dou gherty blamed the declineof the stations on "old-guard liberalDemocrats" who perceived the stations as merely "vehicles of publicinformation." He said that the Reagan administration, which sees U.S.Soviet relations in the context of"strategic conflict," views the stationsas "a vehicle to get a message acrossthat there are things happening inthe United States that are supportiveof the aspirations of the peoples ofEastern Europe."Rep. Dougherty conceded, however, that there has been some erosion of official concern with humanrights, but added that the Reaganadministration "has a much betterunderstanding of strategic relationships between the free world andthe .Soviet Union."Although admitting that PresidentCarters human-rights policies mayhave helped some individuals in theSov iet Union , particularly in the area

of emigration, Rep. Dougherty toldSmo loskyp he believes, the Reaganapproach will better serve the long-term national aspirations of Ukraineand the Baltic republics.When asked what advice he mightgive to young Ukrainian Americanswho wish to have an impact on U.S.government pol icies vis-a-vis U-kraine, Rep. Dougherty suggestedthat they get involved in politicalcampaigns or s tudy pol i t ics andbecome part of the governmentapparatus."There are positions in the government that young Ukrainians shouldaspire to, positions on congressionalstaffs, po sitions in the State D epartment," he said. "There's nothing likebeing on the inside to get thingsresolved."Meanwhile, the ad hoc committeewill continue to raise the Americanand congressional conscience aboutSoviet human-rights violations in

Ukraine and the B altic republics, andmap ways to make the USSR accountable for its actions."They've got to explain some ofthe things they've been doing," saidRep. Doug herty. "We feel that if weopen the doo r and put some light onit and make the Soviets take a verydefensive position in the international comm unity, they have to startexplaining why they have imprisonedmembers of the Helsinki Gro up."

by Oleh ZwadiukWASHING TON - Roman NestorPylypec was buried Tuesday, June 8,with full military honors at ArlingtonN ational Cemetery in Washington.The son of a prominent Ukrainian

family, Mr. Pylypec would have celebrated his 22nd birthday October 18.He was killed last week in an autoaccident in Katterbach, West G ermany,where he served with the U.S. Army.The accident occurred Tuesdaymorning, June 1, while Mr. Pylypec andtwo of his friends were on their way towork. The car in which the threesoldiers were riding swerved to avoid amajor accident, but the driver apparently lost control and hit a tree.Mr. Pylypec was killed instantly. Histwo friends were taken to a hospital incritical cond ition.N ews o f Mr. Pylypec's death spreadswift ly throughout the WashingtonUkrainian community and among hismany American friends and neighbors.The tragedy produced shock and afeeling of disbelief because he was bornin Washington, knew most of themembers of the Ukrainian communityand enjoyed their lo ve and friendship.Monday evening, June 7, over 500persons filled the main chapel of theRinaldi-Hines Funeral Home in SilverSpring, Md., to pay their respects .Young members of Plast, fighting backtears, stood guard at each side of theflag-draped casket where Mr. Pylypeclay in his military uniform.The people came also to share' theirgrief with the family, Vera and NestorPylypec, his two brothers Adrian andLevko and his "princess", little 12-year-old sister Liaryssa.The Rev. T an s Lonchyna, pastor ofthe Holy Trinity Particular ("Pomisna')Ukrainian Catholic Church in Washington, celebrated the parastas. FatherLonchyna, who himself is not yet 30,tried to reassure the family by speakingof the everlasting life after death."The late Roman Pylypec," he said,"has moved on to a place of rest andeternal peace where he will now enjoyGod's love."Similar themes were expressed byother clergy who concelebrated theservice. They were the Rev. AnatolyBulavka of the Ukrainian Ortho doxChurch in B altimore; the Rev. W illiamStock of St. Peter's Roman CatholicChurch in Olney, Md.; and the Rev.Joseph Denischuk of the Holy Family

UAVets postelects officers

NEW YORK - The Pvt NicholasMinue Post N o. 7 of the UkrainianAmerican Veterans (UAV) and PostN o . 1260 of the Am erican Legion, heldits annual meeting at the UkrainianSports Club in downtown Manhattanon May IS, and Atanas Kobryq ofStaten Island-was elected commanderof the post.Joining him on the board were thefo l l owing: Matthew Pope, P .N .C. ,senior vice commander; Dr. GeorgeWolynetz, P .N .C., junior com mander;Jaroslaw Czernyk, immediate pastcommander adjutant; G eorgeYurkiw, finance officer, Harry Polche,P.N .C., judge advoca te; Dr. WalterSteck, historian; B ohdan B ezkorowajny,P. N .C , chaplain; Walter Hendricks,service officer;and Dr. Water Dushnyck,public relations officer.

Nestor Roman PylypecUkrainian Catholic Church in Washington.The funeral service began precisely at8:45 Tuesday morning at Fort Meyer.The army base adjoins Arlington N ational Cemetery, the resting place ofmany of America's military heroes andcivic leaders, including John F. Kennedy,the assassinated presidentThe chapel at Fo rt Meyer was filled toits capacity as m ilitary pall bearers in aslow, precise march, escorted the flag-draped casket inside. After the service, along caravan o f cars, stretching far outof sight, followed Mr. Pylypec's casketto its final resting place at the foot of ahill overlooking the nation's capitol.The graveside service was a display ofmilitary precision and sorrowful, traditional Ukrainian funeral rights. As themilitary honor detail folded the starsand stripe s -into a perfect triang le,another detail fired a salute that reverberated throughput the cemetery.A sergeant moving ever so slowly,delivered the flag to Roman's mother,Vera. She took it gently into her armsand pressed it tightly to her chest. Therewasn't a dry eye among the mourners asa chorus sang "Chuyesh, brate miy."At a reception later at the Fort Meyerofficers club , many high-ranking military officers and leaders of the Ukrainian communi ty spoke about Mr.Pylypec and his needless death. Allagreed that his passing had left a void inthe community.The most poignant remarks wereut tered by Mr. Pylypec' s youngerbrother, 20-year-old Adrian. Althoughhe was barely able to speak because ofbis grief, he nevertheless managed todescribe his brother as a young man fullof life and spunk.He said Mr. Pylypec had found aplace in the U.S. Army, loved themilitary life, and wanted to make acareer of it. He said he had the supportof bis family who were proud of him.Mr. P ylypec served with the -501stCombat Aviation Battalion at Katterbach in B avaria. He wanted to become ahelicopter pilot and, as Col. NicholasKrawciw pointed out , al l that wasneeded was the paperwork to be completed. But it was too late.As the funeral service at the gravesitewas coming to an end, a lone soldierstanding atop a hill slowly brought abugle.to his l ips and played taps ,bidding farewell to bit comrad e inarms, Specialist Fourth Clan RomanN estor Pylypec.


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M a c e t o s p e a k in I s r a e lCAM BR IDG E, Mass. - Dr. JamesE . Mace of the Harvard UkrainianResearch Institute will deliver a paperon the man-made famine of 1933 at theInternational Conference on G enocide,which will be held at Tel Aviv University on June 20-24. Over 10 0 "scholarsfrom around the world a n d representingvarious scholarly disciplines will takepart in the conference.Dr. Mace will speak on "The Man-Made Famine of 1933 in Soviet U-kraine." According to Dr. Mace, thefamine will be examined within theperspective of g enocide. He adds that aconservative estimate of th e number ofUkrainians who perished during thefamine is 5 to 7 million, with someestimates ranging as high a s IS million.Numerous eyewitness accounts describe whole villages being depopulated,mass burials in pits , outbreaks ofcannibalism, hom eless waifs and simplepeasants wandering the country insearch of anything edible, and bordercheckpoints established to prevent thestarving' from fleeing to Russia where

food was available and to prevent thosegoing to Ukraine from taking foo d withthem.While the immediate cause of thefamine w as the seizure o f grain from thepeasantry by representat ives of theregime, the motive was to destroy theUkrainian nation as an impediment toStalin's plans to create a centralized andRussified Soviet Union. For this reason,the famine cannot be understood without reference to what was happeningsimultaneously to Ukrainian elites andin the ci t ies of Ukraine: the massdestruction of the Ukrainian nationalcul tural inte l l i gent s ia , the fa l l o f

T o establishSlobodian fundThe Slo bo dian family thanks everyone for their expressions of sympathy on the recent death of ourfather , Roman Slobodian . Uponsettlement of his estate, the familyintends to establish a UN A Scho larship Fund in his memory..All or any contributions to thisfund will be welcomed. Kindly sendcontributions to the address: Ukrainian National Association, RomanSlobodian Scho larship Fund, 30Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J.07303.

- Helen, Danieland Harry Slobodian

Skrypnyk, the Postyshev terror, theabandonment of Ukrainization, a n d thebeginning of Russification.Seen in this context the faminebecomes intelligible.as part of Stalin's"f inal solut io n" to the nat ional i tyquestion in the Soviet Union. Thosenations which could be viewed as themo st serious real o r potential threats toStalin's plans Ukrainians, Don andKuban Cossacks, and Volga Germans- were precisely those peoples who seterritories were to suffer mass starvation in 1933.For the Ukrainians, the legacy o f thefamine and po litical po licies carried ou tat the same t ime cons i s t ed in thedestruction of the nation's leadership inboth politics and culture, the re-Russifi-cation of the cities and driving Ukrainian culture back into the coun tryside,and the virtual enserfment o f the Ukrainian peasantry on the co llective farms.Dr. Mace adds that the man-madefamine is little known in th e West despitethe testimony of numerous eyewitnesseslargely because certain Western journa

lists then in the Soviet U nion aided theregime in covering u p what w a s happening in Ukraine. In spite of this, somejournalists did report the famine, butthese reports were largely ignored b y theWest.The genocide conference will alsoinclude studies o n the Jew ish Holocaust,the Armenian m assacres, the expulsionof the Crimean Tatars, the Cambodianfamine, and other acts of genocide.

S h e v c h e n k o F o u n d a t i o no f f e r s g r a n t s

WINNIPEG - T h e Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenkorecently announced that it will award534,700 in grants and scholarships tothose working or studying in the sphereof Ukrainian culture.The founda tion will give top priorityto those organizations and individualswhose cultural projects have beenrecommended by the Ukrainian Canadian Committee or any of its memberorganizations which have helped raisemoney for the foundation.Those interested in applying for agrant or scholarship are asked to submittheir pro posals in w riting along with theestimated cost of the project, othersources of funds, and the approximateamount needed from the foundation.Project outlines should be mailed tothe Shevchenko F oundation, 456 M ainSt., Winnipeg, Man., Canada R3B 1B6.

Letters reveal...(Continued ro mpafe 1)officers knew about his bad health.They knew, but they waited withconcealed, mal i c i ous j oy f or thewinding up of the tragedy - the fullblinding of their victim. And when ithappened, when Mr. Shukbevychbecame blind, they to ld the relativesto write to the West about his fact.Why? Because it is a little joy for themto blind a person, the greater joy forthem is to inform the well-wishers ofboth Gen. Shukhevych and his sonabo ut K G B "achievements'' in itsstruggle with "enemies," to certify theunlimited wild autocracy of theK G B .

It is at the same time, th e answer tothe U. S. Congress of which, in HouseConcurrent Resolution 111, calledon the president to take measures forfreeing Mr. Shukhevych, as wetl-as a

reply to House Concurrent Resolution 205 which called for the defenseof Mr. Shukhevych as a member ofthe Ukrainian Helsinki MonitoringGroup.We do not know what steps weretaken in accordance with these resolut ions . But the bl inding of Mr.Shukhevych requires new measuresin this direct ion. So, we, formerSov iet po litical prisoners, call on theU.S. Congress to increase efforts in 'the fulfillment of their human andstate duty: to take all possible measures that a r e a t t h e disposal of th e U.S.government for attaining the freedom of the blinded Mr. Shukhevychand guaranteeing him and his familythe right to em igrate from the USS Rto the West, where there are considerably more medical possibilitiesfor restoring the sight lost during 30years of imprisonment to this victimof cruelty and inhuman ity. . - 'ti

In appreciationThe Supreme Executive Com mittee of the Ukrainian National A ssociationgratefully acknowledges with thanks and appreciation the wonderful effortand coop eration o f all members of th e various convention com mittees whichhelped to make the 30th Regular Convention of the Ukrainian NationalAssociation held in Rochester, N.Y., during the week of May 24-29 of thisyear, a memorable one.The Supreme Executive Committee is especially grateful to the followingcom mittees and individuals:The Convention Committee of Rochester, with Walter Hawrylak as its

chairman, diligently worked for over six months. The pre-conventionconcert, convention banquet and other events adding to the comfort andsatisfaction of delegates were much appreciated by those attending.The By-Laws Committee, with George Oryshkewycz as its chairman,performed enviably its pre-convention and convention duties. All proposedchanges to the UN A By-Laws were duly accepted by the delegates, whichattests to the professionalism of this committee's work.The Credentials Committee, with its chairman, Bernard Korchinski,needs to be congratulated for its pre-convention preparations aswell as for it s convention work in verifying the qualifications and credentials o fdelegates, registering delegates a n d determining the results of the elections o fconvention chairman and the election and petitions committees.The E lection C om mittee, with Nicho las B obeczko as its chairman, carriedout its assigned task in a most timely and exemplary manner much to thesatisfaction of the delegates.The Petitions Committee, with Taras Maksymowich as its chairman,completed its assigned task of satisfactorily distributing the amount ofdonations for the year.The Financial Comm ittee, headed by I wan Skira, completed an exemplaryjo b of distributing funds, fixing salaries of executives and determiningawards to secretaries.The Committee for Secretarial Affairs , with i ts chairman RomanPrypchan, understood and attended to the needs and problems of branchsecretaries.The Press Committee, chaired by Zenon Snylyk, prepared telegrams toPatriarch Josyf a n d Metropo litan Mstyslav and sent mailgram press releasesabout the UN A convention to the media.And last, but not least:The conv ention presidium with Leonid F i l a s conven tion chairman, WalterBo yd-Boryskewich and N estor O lesnycky as assistant chairman, and MariaSavchak and Melania Milanowycz as convention secretaries , outdidthemselves as a professional presidium which adhered to all rules of order,exhibited the required knowledge o f the UN A B y-Laws, and earned the totalrespect of everyone present at the convention. The fraternal spirit existingthroughout the convention was in large measure due to the abilities of theconvention presidium.To all of the above-named committees, its chairmen, secretaries andmembers, and to all delegates who helped w ith th e conventionproceedings tomake the 30th U N A Convention a memorable one, the Supreme ExecutiveCommittee extends its thanks and appreciation.

Supreme Executive CommitteeUkrainian Notional Association

Ukrainian refugees...(Cbntmned ro m 1)acquired regardless of the length of timeit would take.Miss Savoy k a , who in February o fthis year visited Vienna and Rome,

praised local Ukrainian organizationsand the United Ukrainian AmericanRelief Committee (UUARC) for theirefforts on behalf of the new Ukrainianrefugees from Poland.In turn, Methodius B oretsky, a navalengineer, addressed the group on behalfof the Philadelphia-based UUARC. Hetalked about the past activities of thisUkrainian American relief organization, which helped several thousandUkrainian refugees in their resettlementand social-econo mic integration inAmerica, and about its present activities on behalf of new Ukrainian refugeesfrom Poland, especially in providingassurances of jobs and bousing in theUnited States. He added that in thematter of securing permanent residencestatus, U.S. official and private charitable organizations are well-equippedto deal with these matters.Dr. Walter Dushnyck, who in theyears 1948-57 worked in semi-officialand NGO American emigrat ion organizations (including a stay in SouthAmerica from 1953 to 1956), spokebriefly on various types of U.S. immigration rules and causes for eventualdeportation. -----"_--.---.---_.-- --Af\er the speeches there were perti

nent questions o n the part of a numberof persons, addressed mainly to MissSavoyka. These included the problemof legalization, that is, obtaining permanent status in America, scholarshipsfor students, securing official documents, and the like.Amo ng those present were a few fromthe northwestern province o f Polissia inUkraine. All of them speak Ukrainianwell, even though with some m ixture ofPolish words and a slight Polish accent,which is quite understandable as all hadattended Polish schools.The meeting was a successful beginningin organizing the newly arrived youngpeople into an organizat i on whichcould aid them substantially in plantingdeep roots in America. In this respectmuch has been done by the Mycios inlaying the foundation for a meaningfulassistance to the Ukrainian newcomersfrom Communist Poland.

Wrong ChomkoOur apologies to Msgr. StephenChomko, president of the Providence Associat ion of UkrainianCatholics. In preparing The Weeklystory on the UNA convention ourtypewriter keys slipped - twice -and typed the name Jo hn instead ofStephen. There is a John Chomo,incidentally; he is a UN A ac tivist inPassaic, N .J. , and he served assergeant-at-arms during the conven-H0H.------------------'-"-"-'-"-'- -----


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TH E IU k r a i n i a n W e e H yFathers' Day

As good parenthood involves a mutual awareness of shared resp onsibilitiesfor the well-being of the family, so good offspringhood, to co in a word, entailsthe refutation of a common misconception perhaps best summed up byNapoleon when he wrote: "The future destiny of the child is alwa ys the workof the mother.'' With all due respect to the "Little Corpora l," this is not theentire truth. True, fatherhood often seems somewhat leu inspiring orrewarding in our collective mythology, but no child can argue that father isn4an integral part of the process that got him or her born in the first place.The father plays an important role in the cohesiveness of the family. He isthe focal point, the mooring that binds the family together. Often, he is theprovider, the disciplinarian and, in a narrow sense, the protector of his family.For his son, he must try to overcome any personal limitations and present animage of respect, resourcefulness and stability, for bis daughter, he mustovercome the barriers of gender'and offer patience, tender guidance andunderstanding.In times of crisis, he carries the burden of decision-maker and guardian. Intime of war, he must shoulder arms and defend his country, a fact wellunderstood by U krainians whose parents or grandparents bravely laid dow ntheir lives in defending Ukraine or their adopted homelands.But it is not a thankless job. Like his partner, he shares the joys of raising hischildren, watching them grow and mature with the benefits of his advice andcounsel.So today, the third Sunday in June and the 71st anniversary of Father'sDay in this country, we'd like to raise our glasses to you, the fathers, and to thememory of the fathers no longer with us. We pay heartfelt tribute to the menwho showed us the ropes, shared their experiences and wisdom with us and, inno small way, helped make us what we are today or hope to be tommorrow.

Beating th e heat `Summer is a sneaky season . It toys with our sensibilities, gently lulls us intoa lather of anticipation, then comes down hard with the awesome power of asunburst. For parents and kids alike, whose minds and bodies are punch-drunk from winter's battering, the balmy days of late May and June comenone too soon. They are a tonic. They conjure visions of prom ise, of long andsunny days, delightful v acations, sunb athing on a beach or in the backyard in short, relaxation.Then, without warning, the summer turns on us. The mercury soars to anasphyxiating 98 degrees; the once gentle shoots of the lawn becom e monsters,seemingly growing a foot a day; the beaches are crammed with millions ofmolten strangers, most with two-ton radios hammering out non-stop disco;the bedroom mattress has suddenly turned into a sodden, lukewarm sponge;the air conditioner has exploded from over-work, leaving the air dank andsoggy, like a tropical rain forest; the kids are bored, cranky, with a glazed loo kin their eyes.Frantic, we seek relief, diversions from the merciless assault Outside, themosquitoes are on m anuevers in the garden, bombs under their wings. A dashto the local, air-conditioned movie house reveals that 4 million other people

had the same idea. Ditto at the ballpark. H ighways becom e huge parking lotson weekends, the heat shimmering off the brutal blacktop.Get the picture? So how do we beat the heat, turn the tables on summer,find rewarding enjoyment and learn something in the process? Where do wefind clean air, refreshing water, high night skies teaming with stars, likediamonds on black velvet?Ukrainian summer camps. We Ukrainians enjoy the benefits of youthcamps of every stripe. In addition to the regular Plast, ODUM and SUM -Acamps, there are scores of specialized camps: hiking, boating, biking, sports,canoeing and tennis to rattle off but a few. For the more culture-conscious,there are the summer courses as well as a gamut o f work shops offered b y theUNA at the Soyuzivka estate, and the UFA at the Verkhovyna resortAnd lest one think that these various camps are only for children and teens,we remind parents that our camps, which provide such a valuable service tothe community by offering a Ukrainian environment for learning andrecreation, need adult counselors, medical and nursing personnel,instructors, guest lecturers and kitchen helpers. Our Ukrainian camps needthe help of dedicated and willing adults, and from w here we sit, working in akitchen cook ing for hundreds of Ukrainian youngsters wh o are gettin g ahealthy dose of national awareness with their hot dogs and b onfires, seems abit more worthwhile than sweltering on a crowded city beach or wrestlingwith a messy barbecue grill as mosquitoes make bombing runs overhead.

So we urge all Ukrainian parents to register their children at one of themany diverse summer camps available. And, if possible, we suggest thatparents chip in their own efforts in making these unique camps a success. Ashared experience will make the summer much more fulfilling andmemorable.Take it from a staff of former campers Ukrainian summer cam ps are anenjoyable and useful way to beat the heat.

Zeleni Sviata thoughtsSophia Pelenska Halun's legacy:the story of her life and times

by Marie Halun BtochOur Zeleni Sviata this year fortuitously marked the first anniversary ofthe death of my m other, Sophia Pelenska Halun. I put it that way - as if thatancient holiday existed on purpose tomark this anniversary - because it wasone of her favorite holidays in theUkrainian year, so it seems especiallyfelicitous that we celebrate the holidayand remembering her at the same time.My mother not infrequently told -and we listened how in her youth thepeople of Komarno, our native town,celebrated this lovely, typically Ukrainian holiday. I call it typically Ukrainian because of its resonance with thecharacter and philosophy of the Ukrainian pe ople in tw o aspe cts: it is acelebration of nature, in all her exuberant spring festivity, and it obliterates

the barrier between the quick and thedead.For on that day we bring the greeneryof spring into our houses and weavegarlands. And we visit those of ourpeople that lie in the cemetery, bothrelated and unrelated, and especially theheroes of our nation, to demonstratethat they are still remem bered, that theyare a part of our world, a part of ourhouseholds. It is the same on Easter andthe same at Christmas. The dead do notleave us and we do no t abandon them.My mother's descript ions of ourUkrainian customs were particularlyvaluable as a matter of record because,born well before the turn of the century,when many of the old customs were stillgenerally observed, she goes back a longway.One Sunday in the 1960s when, asusual, my mother was at our house fordinner after church she lived in herown hou se in Denver, about IS minutesaway an d afterwards we sat at the tableover coffee ("only a half cup, ver-ryweak," she invariably reminded me),she began reminiscing about Depression days in America as she hadexperienced them.My mother often reminisced - asdid my father. I remember from myearliest days that whenever my motherwas doing something in the kitchen orsewing or some such task, and we

children were around, she often begantalking about her own childhood, aboutmembers of the family left behind inEurope, thus recreating that wholeworld that we had lost by our emigration.She talked not only about herselfand my father. She also told about

episodes out of Ukrainian history,about Ukrainian historical figures. Sherecited long verses of poetry she hadlearned as a child and i n her girlhood,some of which we in our turn wererequired to learn. Perhaps subconsciously, it now strikes me, she was trying tosupply us with "Ridna Shkola," whichin my childhood in Cleveland did notexist For my mother was a UkrainianpatriotBut that Sunday in Denver she talkedabout her life during the Depression, asa young widow with three children tofinish ra ising, my big brother M arion,my little sister Olga, and me.My father had d ied just at the beginning of the Depression and we were allgrieving, each in his own way. For Ithink that his death did not bring ustogether. My mother, still in her 30s atthe t ime , suddenly had upon hershoulders not only the care of the familybut also all of my father's business affairs.For a t ime al l went wel l enoughfinancially. My father had left property,savings and insurance and a goingbusiness. But then, almost overnight, ashappened to millions of people duringthe Depression, everything s implyvanished. The mortgages were foreclosed and the banks shut swallowingpeople's savings in a gulp. Eventuallymy mother lost the business, too.Yet and this was her special pride during the Depression she neverresorted to relief, though millions ofmiddle-class people did. She was skilledin sewing draperies, slipcovers andclothing, and she put this skill to work,eventually even conducting very popular classes in sewingMy brother Marion by that time wasputting himself through NorthwesternUniversity. When in a few years it camemy turn, somehow my mother managedto have saved enough money for me alsoto register at Northwestern for onesemester. No one will ever believe itnow, but the tuition per course at thattime at a major university was S20. Norwill anyone nowadays ever believe thatscraping together that S20 per coursetook a Herculean effortI have often privately wondered whatwas the source of my mother's courage,her resourcefulness and that mark ofnobility, he " gallant good humor. Notuntil I had to go through her things lastsummer did I discover that source: itwas simply belief in God and belief inprayer. Every morning and evening ofher life my m other sat on her bed, facedthe East and recited all of the prayers

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Ukrainian musicians in Western sourcesIn memory of my father, Roma n Sawycky. and his efforts to popularize Ukrainianmusic.

Ukrainian musicians are treated inmany musical vo lume s issued in WesternEurope and North America such ashistories of m usk, m usic encyclopedias,biographical dictionaries, recordingmanuals and several other types ofreference material.Since I960 I have inspected close to250 such works and had ample time tofmdo ut h ow our m usicians fared. I evenestablished a sort o f rule of thumb: theolder the source the more misinformation it contained. N ewer editions o f thiscentury and especially in the last twodecades fared m uch better in reporting,for example, the nationality of ourmusicians since they had the advantageof mo dern Ukrainian publications and,in several cases, Ukrainian contributors.This article, I hope, will be the firstamong more on the subject

19th o i i l w j s oui t esThe earliest source I encountered wasJohn S. Sainsbury's "A Dictionary ofMusicians from the Earliest Times"(London, 1825), which in the year ofDmytro Bortniansky`s death dedicateda few lines to him.The "B iographie Universel l e DesMusiciens et Bibilographie General dela Musique" by F J . F etis (Brussels,1837) wrote about Maksym Berezovskyand Bortniansky calling them Russiancomposers born in Ukraine. The secondenlarged edition of this work (1873)refers to B erezovsky as bom in Ukrainebut has Bortniansky born in Russia,Thi s s econd edi t i on a l s o ment i onstheoret i c ian Mykola Dyletzky butstates that he was born in Lithuaniawhereas the musician was actually bornin Kiev.The German "Neues Universal-Lexi-kon der To nkunst" (N ew UniversalDictionary of Musk) edited by EduardBernsdorf (Dresden, 1856), again hasBerezovsky and Bortniansky born inUkraine but depicts them as Russian.The dictionary, ho wever, rates Berezovsky's religious work "Our Father" veryhighly and pro poses that it be includedin the repertory of the German SingingAcademy.

Even com parat ively recent worksshow'much confusion by often depicting Ukrainians as Russians, I will citesome examples at random wi thoutusing chronological order.The biggest English language musicencyclopedia, "Grovels Dictionary ofMask and Musicians,'' nine volumes(New York, 1954; fifth edition) listsseveral m usicians as Russians althoughthe dictionary has them "born in U-kraine." In this category are Berezovsky, Bortniansky and Mykola Lysenko.The entry on Lysenko is curious; it isexcellently written, well detailed andproves 'Lysenko t o be a Ukrainianpatriot and champion of his country'smusk. At the same time he is labeled"Russian." In the same national campare Viktor Kosenko , Liatoshynsky,

Fedir Akimenko and M alko. Com poserLev Revutsky and s inger EugeniaZareska (ZaryUka) are depicted asUkrainian.The new 1980 edition in 20 volumesof the above dictionary brought somefresh disappointments but it deliveredsome solid improvements: the workpublished exceptionally good entries o nthree chief composers of the threecenturies - B ortniansky (18th century),Lysenko (19th) and Liatoshynsky (20th).In these three cases (as in others) theUkrainian nationality was finally correctly entered.

The popular "International Cyclop e d i a o f M u s i c a n d M u s i cians" edited by Oscar Tho mpson (NewYork, 1958) again has Bo rtniansky bornin U kraine but billed as Russian. Here,though, Kosenko and Liatosnynsky arecalled Ukrainian although their entiresare far from satisfactory! This cyclopedia has gone through many editionsover the years; as far as the Ukrainianmaterial is concerned, the best editionyet is the 1975 edited by Bruce Bohle.This version presents entries on 30Ukrainian m usicians with much (if notall) of the matter reaching at least thesatisfactory stage.Very well-know n and respected in themusical world is N icholas Slonimsky'seditions of "Baker's Biographical Dictionary of .Musicians" printed by NewYork's G. Schinner. The 1958 editioncal l s Fedir Akimenko , Berezovsky,Liatoshynsky, and Malko Russ ianmusicians but lists Bortniansky, Dan-kevych, M. Lysenko (excellent entry)and Lev Revutsky as Ukrainian. I tshould be noted that the large Supplement to this dictionary which appearedin 1971 and the co mpletely revised sixthedi t i on ( 1978) brought much moreUkrainian musicians under scrutiny o fthe West I hope to return to thesevolumes and to the preceding Thomp

son work in subsequent articles.Spedal cssrtoaMn

"The MacMillan Encyclopedia ofMusk and Musicians" by Albert E.W kr( N ew York, 1938) includes manyUkrainians. Alexander Koshetz, M.Lysenko, Philaret Kolessa, Stetsenko,Stcpovy have their nationality spelledout correct ly . O thers , like R . Aki

menko, M. Berezovsky, Bortniansky,Ko senko , Liatoshynsky and Lev Revutsky remained "Russian." This encyclopedia featured special curiosities: init eminent com poser Vasyl Barvinsky isHungarian, the famous pianist LubkaK o l e s s a i s P o l i s h , a l s o c o m p o s e r -conductor Antin Rudnytsky is designated Polish.Great expectations

In 1949 in New York there appearedthe prestigious "Slavonia Encyclopedia" under the editorship of Joseph S.Rou cek. Many harbored great expectations of this work intended to introduce the Slavonic world to the West. Itwas, naturally, expected that the editorand contributors would be well-orientedin Slavonic nationalities. Also, anotherfact suggested the encyclopedia's success. The wo rk was b eing created, afterall, at a time when America was in theprocess of receiving a wave of not onlyecono mic but also political and culturalimmigrants including a port ion ofUkrainian musicologists. These couldhave easily served as advisers or contributors to the encyclopedia.

It must be admitted that in the"Slavonic Encyclopedia" Ukrainianmusicians fare better than in the otherworks mentioned and errors regardingtheir nationality are fewer. But still evenhere Kosenko, Liatoshynsky and LevRevutsky show up amo ng the Russians.And Peter Tchaikovsky, the greatRussian compo ser of U krainian descentoffers us a surprise here: he is actuallyentered twice. First as Chaikovsky,depicted as a Ukrainian com poser whoemitted great influence upon Russianmus ic , and second as Tchaikovsky,def ined s imply as Russian withoutUkrainian overtones.

There is one item on which on overwhelming majority of works agree. Thatitem is the nationality o f compo ser andethnogra pher Peter Sok alsky. Although be worked for a time in NewYork as member of the staff of theTsarist Russian Embassy, in contemporary Soviet sources he is rightlydesignated as Ukrainian. Unfortunatelyin the vast majority o f W estern sourcesSokalsky is defined as a Russian musician.Searching for

Alexander Koshetz

O ne gropes for reasons behind suchan avalanche o f misinformation. I, forone, am convinced that bias and ill-willrepresent only a minor portion of theerrors encountered. Ukraine is verydistant from the West which may accepttendentious data in absence of anyinformation whatever just to meet adeadline. Ukrainian muskology, to besure, has com e a lo ng way in the last 30yean in producing Ukrainian works;still we miss the basics essential in theWest'an English-language history ofU k r a i n i a n m u s i c , a b i o g r a p h i c a ldict ionary of Ukrainian musicianswritten in a major language of the W estpreferably in Engl ish, among otherthings. UntO such editions are madewidely available we must share some ofthe blame.As I said, I logged som e 250 sourceswri t t en in languages .o f the Wes t .Amo ng them are works which presentUkrainians in the best light As far asthe others are concerned, there aresurely cases of prejudice and malice butI simply refuse to accept there is amassive anti-Ukrainian conspiracy inWestern musk olo gkal sources. As justone proof of this I offer the following:"Everyman's Dict i onary o f Mus ic"(Philadelphia 1946), edited by such anillustrious lexicographer as Eric Blom,lists 10 Ukrainian musicians but all aredefined as Russians. Some would say

this is anti-Ukrainian bias.When one looks closer, however,there are other gap s in this dictionary.Curiously missing are som e giants of themusical world such as Stokowski ,Horowitz, Arthur Rubinstein, Oistrakh,G ilels, Heifetz, Kreisler and Elman. Th enames speak for themselves: these arethe great untouchables against whomone must do not wrong and they areusually listed in every conceivable m uskencyclopedia. Their omission in this1946 work can be attributed only tosheer negligence on the editor's par tUkrainian contributors

Things look up immediately whenUkrainian contributors take part in thewriting of a musk encyclopedia. HugoRkmann`s prestigious 11th edition oftbe"Musik Lexikon" (Berlin, 1929) wasput out with the help of Ukrainianmusicologists Phi laret Kolessa andO syp Zalesky. This work lists about 20Ukrainian entries (some shortened byPolish musicologist Adolf Chybinski, asad fact recollected and passed down tome by Prof. Zalesky). Still, data onUkrainians exceeded other encyclopedias of the time.Dr. Anna Nakonechna contributedto "Kleine Slavische Biographie" (LittleSlavonic Biographies) published inWiesbaden, G ermany in, 1958 and as aresult the work printed entries onBortniansky, Antin Rudnytsky, Liatoshynsky, Lev Revutsky, Vorobkevychand Wasyl Wytwycky."Die Musik in G eschichte and Gegen-wart" (Music in Past and Present),edited by F. Blume, is the biggestGerman music encyclopedia. I ts 14volumes took many years to complete(1949-68) and working closely with thisedition was the Ukrainian musicologistand conductor Myroslaw Antonowycz.Besides some 13 entries on Ukrainianmusicians complete with bibliographies,

the encyclopedia printed a separatearticle on the history of Ukrainianmusic with an extensive bibliographyauthored by Antono wycz.The Ukrainian musicologist andviolinist Aristide Wirsta has contributed to several music encyclopediaspublished in Europe. Among these isthe French "Encyclopedic de la musique" in three volumes (Paris, 1958-61).This encyclopedia printed some 35entries on Ukrainian musicians (identified correctly) and a separate article onUkrainian m usic (all written by Wirsta).In addition, this work included some 20art icles on Ukrainian musicianssupplied by other co ntributors.

General encyclopediasSome traces of Ukrainian musicianscan be found even in general encyclopedias. The eminent "Encyclopedia Am ericana" traditionally listed B ortnianskyand also traditionally defined him asRussian.In the German "Der grosse haus" (Wiesbaden, 1 953-58, 13 vo l u m e s ) , B o r t n i a n s k y i s " b o r n i nUkraine", while M. Lysenko is Ukrainian and "the creator of Ukrainiannational opera." This data was reprinted unchanged in the new edition ofthis German work which came out inthe years 1966-74.In the huge Spanish "EncklopediaUniversal Dustrada" (Madrid, 1908-30,70 volumes), Berezovsky, Bortniansky,M. Lysenko and Akimenko are al lRussians.Correcting this misinformation andfalse data, filling in gaps in manymusical or general sources in the Westis a great challenge, a big job . B ut Ibelieve it is a job possible to accomplish.We study the past to be intelligent abo utthe future.


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8 THE UKR AINIAN WEEKLY

Senior citizens9 cornerby Marion Kushnir Burbella

Part iConference VIII of the Association o f UN A S eniors was an outstanding event interms of people. It was a gathering of the Ukrainian intelligentsia as never before.They arrived on Sunday afternoon, May 30, and departed for home, mostreluctantly, o n Friday afternoon, June 4. Let not the Ukrainian intellectual seniorpower be underestimated - they are the achievers of yesteryear to be rememberedby future generations.Conference VIII re-elected last year's officers, aspresented by O lha Salu k,chairwoman of the nominating committee: Roman Borkowsky, president; Dr.Roman Baranowsky, first vice president; William N agurney, second vice president;Sylvester Martiuk, recording secretary; Helen Chornomaz, treasurer, MarionBurbella, American press.Volodymyr Senezhak was re-elected member-at-large, as was a newco mer to theexecutive staff, Bohdan Deychakiwsky.Arbitration board: Roman Czuczkewych, Dr. Mykola Cenko and IvanKorowytsky. Due to Dr. Halyna No skowska Hirniak's grave illness, herpost on thearbitration board was filled by Dr. Cenko . (Dr. N osko wska Hirniak has sincepassed away. She died on June 8.)Auditing comm ittee: Walter R iznyk, Yaroslaw Saluk, Myron Buczak, StephenKowalchuk and Stephen Mykyta.Resolutions committee: Volodymyr Riznyk, Dr. Mykola Cenko and JosephEre ha.N ominating com mittee: Mrs. Saluk, Maria Martiuk and Bo hdan D eychakiwsky.

RegistrationPaula Riznyk and Mira Po wch were in charge of r egistration. Mrs. Riznyk "s finaltally revealed 139 registered seniors: N ew Yo rk 71 (Kerhonkson 24 ; New YorkCity - 16; Long Island - 16; others - 15); N ew Jersey 23; Pennsylvania 15 ;Connecticut - 12; Florida five; O hio five; Massachusetts four, Illinois three; Canada - one. UN A seniors from the surroun ding area joine d the registeredseniors in cultural and festive affairs.

Welcome dinnerAt the welcome dinner on Sunday evening, Stephen Kuropas, the association's"Bob Hope," entertained with his usual humor, and when laughter subsided heannoun ced a surprise. The surprise came in the person o f producer-director SlavkoNo wytski who invited all present to Veselka where there wo uld be a sho wing of afilm.The seniors were unaware of what they were to behold, but by the time the finalstrains of Ukrainian music faded away and "Helm of Destiny" drew to a close, theassemblage was on its feet giving Mr. N owytski a rousing standing o vation.The film depicts Ukrainian co ntributions to American history fro m the firstUkrainian in the Jamestown colony (Virginia, 1 607), to the present day. "Helm ofDestiny" was funded by the UN A. It required volumino us research and tremendousknow-how.Mr. No wytski has created afilm hat must be shown in every city, large or small,wherever there are Ukrainians. Only when our Ukrainian yo uth co mes face-to-facewith the outstanding achievements of Ukrainians in America will they moreassertively and with knowledgable pride proclaim their Ukrainian heritage.Thank you, B atko Soyuz; thank you, Mr. N ow ytski, for "Helm of Destiny."

Monday, May 31Adhering to tradition, the seniors attended a divine liturgy at 10 a.m. in the HolyTrinity Church in Kerhonkson where the Rev. Dr. Bohdan Volosin celebrated aliturgy for the health of theassociation m embers. This year's "panakhyda" included

three additional names: Roman Slobo dian, honorary m ember of the U N A and 40 -year treasurer of the UN A - he died May 20; Eustachiy Manatsky, pastassociation vice-president and long-term secretary of Branch 1 9 4 - he died March22;Julian H oszow sky, Ukrainian freedom fighter in World War U - he died Jury 13,1981. The church choir, led by Myroslava Kondra, and the seniors sang theresponses for both the liturgy and the "panakhyda."Opening session

Half an hour prior to noon, Mr. Kuropas, past supreme vice-president of theUN A, honorary member of the UN A and chairman of the UN A SeniorsCommittee officially opened Conference VIII and welcomed the guests on behalf ofthe UNA Supreme Assembly. Mr. Borkowsky, president of the association,welcomed the conference participants on behalf of the executive staff.Mr. Kuropas extended a very special welcome to Ivan Bazarko , president of theWorld Co ngress of Free Ukrainians, and his wife, N atalia.The American, Canadian and Ukrainian anthems were sung; Mrs. Burbellaaccompanied at the piano. Mr. N agurney was flag-bearer for the American starsand stripes; Mr. Kuropas held the blue-and-yellow flag of Ukraine.Semen Chornomaz presented the nom inations for the conference presidium they were unanimously approved: Mr. Senezhak, chairman; Dr. Cenko, vice-chairman; Lydia Hanas, Ukrainian-language secretary, Mrs. Burbella, English-language secretary.In taking over the helm as chairman of Conference VIII, Mr. Senezhak officiallyacknowledged the presence of UN A ho norary Supreme Assembly members MariaChuchman, Dr. Jaroslav Padoch and Mr. Kuropas.The conference chairman read the contents of a telegram received from WasylWacyk, coordinator of all 10 seniors clubs in Toronto. Mr. Deychakiwsky broughtgreetings from the Miami-area seniors. Stephen Kowalchuk, founder of theApopka-area Ukrainian community brought along literature highlighting the

SUNDAY, JUNE.20,1982 N O jKcommunity's 10th anniversary. He traced the beginning of the community, itsachievements in acquainting the public with Ukrainian music and culture, itsappearances o n TV. At D isney Wo rld, a little Ukrainian Ko zak recently wo n firstprize. UN A Branch 371 in Apo pka sent a greeting to Conference VIII via Mr.Kowalchuk: "Come to Apopka!"At this point a decision had to be made by the writer on how to continue thisreport To write in full detail every word that was spoken, and by whom , would leadthe reader dear to Hong Kong, and The Ukrainian Weekly would ran out ofpaper.,.for sure. Could we do this to Roma, George and Marta?

Suffice it to say that five days of deliberations revolved around the effort inorganizing UNA senior clubs throughout the country and on deciding upon thelocation of a general headquarters. When mo rtgage interests return to normalcy,the UN A w ill gladly consider the building of a senior comp lex. Sen ior clubs will bediscussed in future Seniors' Corners.

Monday afternoonDr. Roman Osinchuk was the main speaker for the Monday afternoon session.His topic was "Problems o f Seniors in the Current Era." We liked hit o peningsentence, "Old age is the glory o f life." Were you aware that the process of agingbegins at 30? Dr. O sinchuk is informative and at the same time very humoro us. Hetold u s we were like oak trees, beaten by winds and rainstorms and all manner ofdevastations ... yet we survive through everything.Humor, happiness and activities create an interest in life and this interestprolo ngs life for the senior. Ironically, on Mo nday Dr. O sinchuk had no knowledgethat Conference V III would take up the matter of senior clubs on W ednesday. Heencouraged the formation of such clubs where people could meet regularly forhappy communication. Dr. Osinchuk spoke for nearly an hour, and we wished itcould have been two.Encouraged by Dr. Osinchuk's appraisal of creative seniors, Mr. Martiuk

proceeded to read the minutes of C onference VII. The reading too k half an hour. Ifit took Mr. Martiuk that long to read the minutes, how long did it take him tocompile his notes, write the report and then type the minutes?Monday evening

The Veselka auditorium was filled to capacity. Everyone had com e to a weddingin Lviv, to Jo hn and O ksana's "wedding" via a slide presentation. They heard whathad taken place during those memorable July days last year. There has been anencouraging development since Conference VIII. Please keep praying to furtherexpedite matters.When the wedding was over, Michael Pezansky showed slides of variedUkrainian art; woodcuts by Jacques Hnizdovsky; oil paintings by Yuriy Soloviy,caricatures by Edward Kozak; watercolors by N ikifor o f Krynytskia. Mr. Pezanskywas goo d eno ugh to bring his large camera to Co nference VIII; in the absence o f anofficial photographer at Conference VIII, we are hopeful that Mr. Pezansky'spictures will fill the void.Then there was Dr. Bohdan Kondra of Kerhonkson. On entering the Veselkaauditorium it was a surprise to behold a huge display prepared by Dr. Kondra.There were 11 large figurines done up in Ukrainian style andtitled,"Paper MacheSculptures" which had been shown on TV. The exhibition also included 33paintings.

Tuesday, Jane IOn Tuesday morning the officers submitted their reports to the conference.Volodymyr Riznyk reported that he, Yaroslav Saluk and Myron Buczakconducted a perusal of all financial and secretarial reports and they were found in"meticulous order." Upo n Mr. R iznyk's motion, a vote o f confidence was granted,unanimously, to the officers for 1981-82.After lunch, the seniorsfinallymet the lady from West Warw ick, R.L , referred toin the May 9, Senior Citizens' Corner in The Ukrainian Weekly.Mr. Senezhak introduced Anna M. Tucker in the Ukrainian language; Mrs.Burbella presented Mrs. Tucker in the English language.Anna M. Tucker: listed in Who's Who of American Women; Woman of theYear, 1981; inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame ... but tell us,what does "M" stand for?Anna M. Tucker began to speak ...in Ukrainian. "My maiden name wasMoskalyk; my parents were Ksenia (Krawczuk) and Luke Moskalyk; they arrivedin America from Ukraine. B efore the ears of the astonished seniors was unfolded adrama that Anna Moskalyk Tucker has incorporated in her "The Story of TwoO xen or The Quest for O pportunity," written in English but delivered in Ukrainianon June 1 at Conference VIII.N ow to surprise two ! Mr. Kowalchuk sat and listened .. .h e could not believethat he was hearing. Why, he had lived in her hom etown o f Crom pton, R.I.; he hadknow n and visited Ksenia and Luke M oskalyk back in the40s; now he was meetingtheir daughter Anna at Conference VIII. What a reunion!It had been learned that Anna's husband, Robert Spencer Tucker, introducedbefore the main address, speaks fluent Ukrainian: bo rshch, kapusta, khrin, khlib,maslo, kovbasa, moloko, kurka ... For a southerner from Virginia that is fluentUkrainian.Mrs. Tucker, director of the Rh ode Island Department of Elderly Affairs gave anindepth report on the many programs they have for seniors. As a parting gesture,she gave each conference participant a large button on which was inscribed, "Enjoyyour age" and a pamphlet telling seniors about 40 places to get together. RhodeIsland: can you move closer to New York?From Crompton, R.L, the scene changed to Kiev. Walter Rentier presented apaper on the research he has do ne relative to the founding of Kiev. The 25-minutereport revealed the 4,000-year existence of Kiev vs. the 3,000 years currentlybelieved to be correct. Our Ukrainian youth need to know these facts, and it wouldbe desirable to have this report translated into English and published fo r widerreadership.

(Cont inued on page 11)


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NfiJL T H E U K R A I N IA N W E E K L Y S U N D A Y , J U N E 2 0 , 1 9 8 2

P anoram a of U krainian culture in the B ig A ppleby H elen P erozak Smindak

Operation KievIf you have visited Kiev, the capitalcity of Ukraine, do you recall seeing thesplendors o f t h e 1 2 t h century M onasteryof S t Michael of the G olden Dom es,the Collegiate Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of the Monastery ofthe Caves, built in 1078, or the baroquebuildings of St. Cyril's Monastery,founded in the 12th century? Perhapsyou have toured the main church andbelfry of the Bratskyi Monastery of theEpiphany, built in the 1690s, or theChurch of the Nativity, built in 1810.Your answers will be "no" becausethese wo nders no longer exist They areamo ng th e architectural landmarks andhistorical buildings of old Kiev demolished in the pre-war years of the1930s, according to Titus Hewryk, guestcurator of The Ukrainian Museum'slatest exhibition. T he new exhibit, "TheLost Architecture o f Kiev," opened o n

June 12 and will remain on view to theend of the year.Mr. Hewryk says that his researchand studies over many years haveshowed him that Soviet authorities,operatinginahighly centralized mannerfrom Moscow, undertook extensivedemolition of centuries-old architectural landmarks in order to create amodel socialist capital complex in Kiev.To record the character of t h e o l d cityof Kiev, Mr. Hewryk worked withmuseum director Maria Shust and herstaff, preparing maps and drawings,and reproducing photographs securedfrom elderly Ukrainians now living inthis country. The result is an imagina

tive exhibition (many will find it soul-stirring) that reveals splendors nolonger in existence: the baroque stasis in the Cathedral of St. Sophia,the 12th century Church of St Basil, a19th century wooden Uniate churchwhich sto od on Pavlivska Street, baroque buildings of St Cyril's Monastery,and other architectural marvels.Visitors to the exhibit w ill also b e ableto view color slides of existing architectural landmarks in Kiev and black-and-white slides of lost landmarks. A tapedcommentary by Yuriy Denysenko inEnglish and Ukrainian accompanies theslides. Baroque com positions by Ukrainian composers Dmytro Bortniansky,

Maksym Berezovsky and Artem Vedelprovide an appropriate musical background.A glossy 64-page English-languagecatalog o n T h e Lost Architecture ofKiev," designed by Miss Shust, contains100 illustrations of Kiev's architecturalpast and present Available to museummembers for S6.50 a n d to non-membersfor S8.50, the catalog can be obtained atthe museum or by writing to TheUkrainian Museum, 203 Second Ave.,New York, N . Y. 10003 (add 8 5 cents formailing).During a reception-preview for museum members and the press on June1 1 , museum president Dr. BohdanCymbalisty generously praised Mr.Hewryk, whose work was done withoutreimbursement, and the museum staff.He no ted that the exhibition was madepossible in part through public funds ofthe New York State Council on theArts.Slides for the exhibit were preparedby Mr. Hewryk, WfflJam Brumfield,Zenon Fesczak , Oleb Tret iak andVolodymyr Hrycyn, with technicalassistance from Oreat Fedun. AssistingMiss Shust were Darla Bajko, ChristinaPevny, Maria Wasylyk and Lesia

This drawing of S t Michael's Church of the Go lden Do mes (ZolotoverkhyiMykhaOivskyl Monasryr) adorned the Invitation of The Ukrainian Museum inNew York to the preview of Ha new exhibition, "The Lost Architecture of Kiev."Gajdycz. Among others who helpedwith preparations for the exhibitionwere Volodymyr Papuha, VolodymyrYaremchuk and Oleh Danyluk.The museum is open Wednesdaythrough Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. (228-0110) .Plishka on FM

Metropolitan Opera basso cantatePaul Plishka guest-starred in a benefitconcert at the Wilshire Ebell Theater inLos Angeles on May 9. He appearedwith the Kobzar Ukrainian NationalChoir, conducted by Vo lodymyr Bozyk,and pianist Vlrko Baley, founder anddirector of the Las Vegas ChamberPlayers and currently m usic director ofthe Las Vegas Symphony Orchestra.At the time, Mr. Plishka was appearing with the San Diego Opera, following a 10-week engagement at operahouses in Milan, Strasbourg, B erlin andHamburg.Mr. Plishka's selections included the"Ballad about Dovbush," Lepkyj's"Song of th e Cranes, "and two compo sit ions by Mykola Lysenko "TheBoundless Field," set to the words ofIvan Franko, and "Days Pass," whosetext comes from Taras Shevchenko'spoetry.The concert was sponsored by theUkrainian Culture Center of Los Angeles in support of scholarships foryoung people pursuing higher education and for the advancement of Ukrainian song through the Kobzar Choir,which gives concerts and makes guestappearances at civic and cultural eventsand seminars.

Early this month, Mr. Plishka washeard on New York's WQXR-FMRadio, singing the role of Rocco thejailer in Beethoven's "Fidelio" with theLyric Opera of Chicago. The performance, sung in German, wa

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