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Rostyk on road to recovery Babyn Yar dead to be remembered LIVINGSTON, N.J. Little in soon-to-be-opened Denver park Rostyk Cylupa has lhc mischievous grin of any tot; he is as curious as any DENYER A 27-acre park to pointed Star of David, formed by a child in new surroundings, As of commemorate those who died in Babyn series ol paths cut through the grass. September 1. he is on his way to Yar. a ravine outside Kiev where Nazi Three of the points terminate in me– leading the playful life of any normal occupying forces massacred 200.000 morial elements which tell the story of 3-year-old boy. Jews and Ukrainians in 1441. will be the Babyn Yar tragedy in lyrical prose On that day, Rostyk underwent officially opened here on October 2. in addition, the park will have a complicated reconstructive surgery The ceremonies, which will begin at І Grove of Remembrance, featuring 100 on his left hand, which was badly p.m., will mark the formal opening of crabapple trees and a granite stone lrom mangled in a bus accident near his Denver's Babi Yar Park, located in an which a spring will flow. A monument home in Poland. area that bears a haunting topographi– before the grove will bear an English- cal resemblance to the site of the language inscription which reads in However, this type of surgery was killings. unavailable in Poland, and the Cy– part: "in this grove at Babi Yar. 100 The park has been in the planning lupas' neighbors contacted the U– trees stand tall. Each a living memorial stages since 1971, when the Babi Yar krainian National Women's League to men. women and children mostly Foundation was formed to plan a Jews and Ukrainians." of America in New York (see The memorial to the 100.000 Jewish victims. Weekly. July 24). Another major park feature is a in 19X0, the Ukrainian Babyn Yar narrow, three-foot-wide bridge span– ltirough the combined efforts of Committee, which had been pushing for the United States Catholic Confc– ning a ravine. The bridge, made up ol recognition of Ukrainians murdered at wooden slats, was incorporated io rence, the UNWLA and the Ameri– the ravine, joined the foundation in a can Red Cross. Rostyk and his lather. remind visitors ol cattle tars, used by common effort after foundation offi– the Nazis to transport people toconcen– EtniJ Cylupa, arrived in the United cials agreed to commemorate non- States on July 15. lFation camps or forced labor. Al both Jewish victims. ends of the biidge are granite monoliths On August 31. Rostyk was ad– Among the 70.0(H) Ukrainians killed with vertical polished strips which will mitted'to St. Barnabas Medical at Babyn Yar were poet Olena Teljha, reflect the images ol persons who look Center in Livingston, where all her literary colleagues, as well as Olexa into them. medical services were rendered free Bahry. the mayor of Kiev. of charge. Dr. l.ubomyr Kuzmak. The park, which is at the intersection The park was designed bv Satorus who made arrangements lor the of South Havana Street and Parker Nishita ol (he CHNMB landscape (Continued on page 11) Rostyk Cylupa after his operation. Road, will feature a "talking monu– architecture and urban design firm ol ment." activated by a push-button, San Francisco. which will tell visitors the story ol The granite monuments will be cn– Babyn Yar and the history of the park. graved in three languages. English, St. Basil's in Stamford marks 50th The People Place amphitheater, near Hebrew and Ukrainian. One of the by Marta Kolomayets Ford City, Pa. the park's entrance, will provide Denver several inscriptions in English will read: citizens with a tranquil area for cere- "in memoriam to all who died at Babi STAMFORD. Conn. - A pontifi– At 10:30 a.m. the pontifical divine liturgy of thanksgiving was offered in monies, concerts and celebrations. Yar, Kiev. Ukraine. USSR. September cal liturgy of thanksgiving marked the The centerpiece of the park is a six- 29. 1941 November 6. 1943." 50th anniversary of the Ukrainian the outdoor pavilion. Archbishop- Catholic Seminary here on the grounds Metropolitan Stephen Sulyk was the of St. Basil College. The liturgy, cele– principal celebrant of the service. brated by Ukrainian Catholic hierarchs Concelebrants included Bishop Basil Coordinating Council conference scheduled in the United States, highlighted the Losten of Stamford, Bishop innocent day's events which coincided with the Lotocky of Chicago and Auxiliary- NEW YORK The October 1 con– opening; election of presidium; adop– 17th annual Connecticut State Ukrai– Bishop Robert Moskal of Philadelphia. ference of the Ukrainian American tion of agenda; reports of UACC nian Day Festival. Also serving in the liturgy were Bishop Coordinating Council was the main executive committee members; discus– Michael Dudick of the Byzantine Ca– topic of discussion at the latest meeting sion of reports; adoption of organiza– Over 3.500 people attended festivi– tholic Diocese of Passaic. N.J. Among ties, according to the Rev. John of the UACC's executive held Friday. tion's name, articles of incorporation the bishops of the Latin rite celebrating September 9. here. and by-laws; scheduling of national Terlecky. treasurer of the seminary the liturgy were Bishop Walter W. The October і conference will be held convention; adjournment. jubilee committee. Curtis of Bridgeport. Conn., Auxiliary in D.C. area at the Twin Bridges John O. Flis, chairman of the UACC, The golden jubilee celebrations, Bishop John F. Hackett of Hartford. Marriott Hotel. 333 Jefferso.: Davis reported '" that the Secretariat of the which coincided with the annual festival Conn., and Auxiliary Bishop Timothy Highway, Crystal City. Уа.. (telephone: World Congress of Free Ukrainians had sponsored by Ukrainian Catholic Harrington of Worcester. Mass. parishes in Connecticut, commenced at 202 628-4200), not at the St. Sophia forwarded to him copy of a letter, dated 10 a.m. with the blessing of a 1,000- Concelebrating clergy included the Ukrainian Catholic Center as originally August 22. it had received from the pound four-foot-high bronze bell, Rev. Walter Paska. rector of St. Josa– planned. The conference will begin at 1 Ukrainian Congress Committee of America in response to the Ukrainian which will be permanently installed on phat Seminary in Washington; the Rev. p.m., and registration will begin at 11 American Coordinating Council's letter the campus. Leon Mosko. rector of the Ukrainian a.m. The registration fee is S10 per which asked that it - not the UCCA - Catholic Seminary in Stamford; the person. The procurement of the bell was be recognized as the central rcpresen– made possible through the initiative of Rev. Joseph Fedorek. pastor of St. The executive reported that many representatives of organizations and tation of all Ukrainian American or– John Gribik, a college seminary junior, viadimir Church in Elizabeth, N.J.; the ganizations within its ranks. and the generosity and help of his Rev. John Lazar. pastor of Our Lady of UACC branches, as well as individuals, family, relatives and friends, the Perpetual Help Church in Dearborn have already indicated their desire to The UCCA letter, which was signed Pauline Fathers Monastery and the Heights. Mich.; and the Rev. Terlecky. participate in the conference. by lgnatius Billinsky and Evhen parishioners of St. Mary's Church in (Continued on page 16) The conference program includes: (Continued on page 14)

THE GREAT FAM1NE: on October 2 "Let us remember and make others aware. For schedule of Great Famine Memorial Week, see page i;for accommodations, see page 16. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER IS. ШЗ No. 38

Dissident sketch Two former KGB officials named vasyl Fedorenko to internal Affairs Ministry posts MOSCOW Two former officials replaced Mr. Andropov as chairman of BORN: March 30. 1928. of the KGB. the Soviet security agency, the KGB. was named to head the OCCUPATlON: Worker. have been named deputy interior mi– internal Affairs Ministry. LATEST ARREST: September 23. nisters as part of Yuri Andropov's The appointment of career KGB 1974. efforts to give the KGB more power in officers to key MvD posts is seen as an CHARGE: Attempting to escape to the national police force, reported the attempt to shore up a long-time rift the West via Czechoslovakia; writing Associated Press. between the two agencies with many poetry critical of the regime (Articles The internal Affairs Ministry said overlapping security functions requir– 56 and 62 of the Ukrainian Criminal' vasily Lezhepokov, formerly a deputy ing a measure of coordination. Over the Code). chairman of the KGB. and Kiril last 30 years the Kremlin leadership has SENTENCE: Five years in prison. vostrikov, a former KGB official, were kept the two agencies at a careful five years in a labor camp and five named deputy ministers. distance. years in internal exile. The internal Affairs Ministry, known PREviOUS TERMS: imprisoned by its Russian acronym. Mv'D. oversees The separation of the functions was a twice on criminal charges. the maintenance of public order, the protective measure ordered by the CAMP ADDRESS. militia and uniformed police, criminal Kremlin a few months after the execu– 618263 investigations, riot suppression, traffic tion in 1953 of Lavrenti Beria, a loya– Permskaya oblast control and the enforcement ol a wide list of Stalin who used his control of the Chusovskoy raion range ol regulations having to do with secret police and their uniformed pos. Kuchino the right of residence indifferent places, counterparts to lurther the dictator's uchr. vS-389 36-1 internal travel and the issuance of reign of terror. emigration permits. Trie latest appointments appear to The naming of the former KGB signal a further attempt by Mr. Andro– officials to top Mv'D posts is the pov, who headed the KGBfrom 1967to Zbig: uneasy U.S.-USSR relations ahead continuation of a process initiated last 1982, to use his former power base to winter when Yitalv Fedorchuk. who consolidate his power. OTTAWA Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter's national security adviser, said on September 8 that he did not accept recent theories Demand release of 269 dissidents that the Soviet Union is bound to become more pluralistic and peaceful, in compensation for KAL killings reported The New York Times. time student interns on this project for a in a speech here in the Canadian WASHINGTON - The National period of three months. They will meet capital, he criticised those in the West Captive Nations Committee (N'CNC) with representatives of the Helsinki who say they do not believe "the Soviet has been approached by the directors of Commission, ethnic organizations and has staying power." the Committee for the Survival of a human-rights groups to obtain enough "A genuine evolution of the Soviet Free Congress and the Republican Study Committee to assist in a con– information to write a short statement system into more pluralistic forms is not on 269 political prisoners. likely in the foreseeable future,"he said. gressional project which is demanding Katherine Chumachenko. the acting Mr. Brzezinski, a Columbia Univer– the release of 269 Soviet dissidents as chairman of the NCNC, has requested sity professor, called TOT a "sober restitution for those killed when the that all interested students in the realization that for many decades to Korean civilian airplane was destroyed Washington area contact the NCNC come an uneasy historical but not by a Soviet fighter plane. office, in addition, short statements, entirely peaceful coexistence with a Starting on September 13, a member brochures and books about dissidents militarily powerful Soviet Union may of Congress will read two statements, would be helpful. The NCNC office is continue to teeter on the edge of the the first about one of the victims of the located at 810 18th St. N.W„ No. 807. nuclear abyss." downed airplane, and the other about a Washington, D.C: 20006; the telephone The speech, which focused on the prisoner in a Soviet gulag. This will be repeated every day Congress is in number is (202) 638-0549. future of the Soviet Union, wasdelivered Zbigniew Brzezinski at the 25th annual conference of the session, for a period of 269 days. international institute for Strategic last year. President Ronald Reagan said According to Paul Weyrich, the Soviet pianist seeks Studies, a military research group based that the Soviet Union had begun to director of CSFC and the originator of in London. "decay" and that its system of govern– the idea, "The president should demand ment would be left "on the ash heap of that the Soviets release them (dissi– refuge in Spain Mr. Brzezinski's speech seemed in dents) in partial restitution for the MADR1D - Alexander Toradze. part an answer to recent statements by history." massacre for which they are respon– 24, the prize-winning Soviet pianist who the Reagan administration, in a speech Mr. Brzezinski said the Soviet Union's Russian population, which sible." dropped from sight last month during a dominates the national leadership, "No one can bring back Congress- tour, has asked for "refuge" in Spain, would not tolerate a move to pluralism. man Larry McDonald and the other 268 reported the Associated Press. , Religious activist He said such a move would give other people the Soviets killed. However, a A Spanish Foreign Ministry spokes- ethnic groups, like the Ukrainians and worldwide outcry might cause the man said on September 12 that the badly beaten the Byelorussians, more power in the Soviets to release some of these brave move was a possible first step toward central government and threaten the people, who are dead to the world now. asylum. FRAM1NGHAM. Mass. - A U– control of the Russians. The families of the dead passengers Mr. Toradze disappeared August 25 krainian Pentecostal who has been might at least feel that some good came in Gijon, on Spain's northern coast, trying to get official permission to from their tragedy," he said. during a tour by the Soviet broad- emigrate from the Soviet Union was Jewish works banned casting system orchestra. recently attacked and severely beaten in The NCNC plans to place two part- his hometown of Rivne, reported at Moscow book fair Keston News. lvan Luchko, 41. was assaulted by a MOSCOW - Officials at this year's group of men who warned him that he Moscow international Book Fair have would be killed if he did not cease his banned at least 53 books as "anti- efforts to leave the Soviet Union. None Soviet," including former President Ukrainian WeeHY of the assailants were apprehended. Jimmy Carter's memoirs and a history After the attack, Mr. Luchko, who was of ballet, reported the Associated Press. FOUNDED 1933 described by Keston as a large and Especially hard hit by the ban were Ukrainian weekly newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association inc., a fraternal powerful man, was incapacitated for books with Jewish themes, dozens of non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N J. 07302. several weeks. which were barred. Forty-nine books (The Ukrainian Weekly - USPS 570-870) Prior to the incident, Mr. Luchko were barred from the U.S. Association Also published by the UNA: Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. had been the target of official harass– of Jewish Book Publishers display, ment for trying to gain permission to three from the lsraeli exhibit and one The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: leave the USSR on religious grounds, in from the kalian exhibit. (201) 434-0237, 434-0807, 434-3036 (201) 451-2200 August 1982, his home was searched by An exhibitor said the banned books the KGB and he was threatened with included "Keeping Faith," Mr. Carter's Yearly subscription rate: J8, UNA members - 55. persecution. Since then, he has been memoirs; 15 books by a group called summoned to police headquarters on Friends of Jews from Eastern Europe; Postmaster, send address changes to: several occasions and told to cease his "The Many Faces of Anti-Semitism"; THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Editor Roma Hadzewycz activities. "Czar Nicholas and the Jews"; and the P.O. Box 346 Associate editor George Bohdan Zarycky Jersey City, NJ. 07303 Mr. Luchko is married and the father novel "My Name is Asher Lev." by Assistant editor. Marta Kotomayets of 11 chUdren, Keston said. Chaim Potok. No. 38 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER IS, ШЗ з Survey says 215 political prisoners Committee informs Congress about famine WASHINGTON with the recon– gressional Record, create a permanent detained in Soviet mental hospitals sening of Congress, the Congressional historical record of the famine. Subcommittee of the National Commit– The subcommittee spokesmen urged NEW YORK -Out of 1,110 Soviet Ninety-five others are committed in all Ukrainians who plan to come to political prisoners whose names, bio– ordinary psychiatric hospitals, while tee to Commemorate Genocide victims in Ukraine has begun contacting mem– Washington for the manifestation and graphies and places of detention are the exact location of 10 other prisoners demonstration to contact their mem– known. 19 percent - 215 prisoners - is not known. bers of Congress regarding the 50th anniversary of the famine. The program bers of Congress and urge their partici– are currently confined in psychiatric in addition to human-rights activists, being pursued by the subcommittee is pation. Those arriving in Washington institutions, according to a new survey those confined in Soviet mental insti : focused on educating senators'and earlier than October 2 or staying after released by Freedom House. t'utions are persons who tried to escape representatives, and creating a historic that date are urged to make appoint– All have been committed to mental from the USSR, religious believers of record about the famine. ments to visit their senators and repre– institutions for their political, religious various denominations, persons who Packets containing background in– sentative. or moral beliefs, and many have been requested permission to emigrate and formation on the famine are being sent The Congressional Subcommittee is confined for as long as 20 years. national-rights activists. to each member of Congress to be used composed of Nadia Komarnyckyj-Mc– 1 Among these prisoners is viadimir Confinement in a psychiatric hospital for reference. The subcommittee is also Conn-ell (director of congressional Danchev, the 35-year-old Radio Mos– is considered harsher punishment than pointing out to legislators that the relations. Federal Emergency Manage– cow announcer who told listeners last a labor camp sentence because condi– Soviet attack on the Korean jetliner ment Agency), Tania Demchuk (public- spring that Soviet forces are occupying tions are considerably worse in the should not be surprising in light of affairs specialist. National Association Afghanistan against the wishes of the mental institutions. Moreover, where historic Soviet disregard for human life, of independent insurers), Marta Cehel– Afghan, people. He is currently in a labor-camp terms are of a set duration, beginning with the deaths of 7 million sky (professional staff member, office of psychiatric hospital in his hometown of a prisoner may remain in a mental Ukrainians 50 years ago. Sen. Ernest Hollings), Orest Deychakiw– Taskhent. hospital as long as doctors feel that he A resolution commemorating the sky (professional staff member. Corn- Also confined in a special psychiatric needs "treatment." Ukrainian famine will be introduced in mission on Security and Cooperation in hospital is Lithuanian human-rights Often, the "treatment" includes drug the Senate during the week of Septem– Europe), Eugene lwanciw (professional activist Algirdas Statkevicius, 60, him– therapy that, when administered to a ber 19. Efforts to secure as many co- staff member. Senate Select Committee self a practicing psychiatrist. A member healthy person, results in incapacitating sponsors as possible will be undertaken on intelligence), Andrew Fedynsky. of the Lithuanian Helsinki Group. Mr. side effects. Among the drugs favored by the subcommittee. The subcommit– (professional staff member, office of Statkevicius has been inl the hospital by Soviet psychiatrists are insulin, tee has urged all Ukrainians to contact Rep. Mary Rose Oakar), Robert Mc– since 1980, and currently shares a cell sulphazine and halidol. which causes their respective senators and rcpresenta– Connell (assistant attorney general. with four habitual criminals. hallucinations when given to a mentally live requesting co-sponsoring of the Department of Justice), and Carol healthy person. House and Senate resolutions. Ortega (professional staff member. Of the 215 prisoners incarcerated in A hearing on the famine by a Senate Senate Committee on Appropriations), mental institutions, 110 are reportedly Despite censure by the world psy– in addition, Taras Szmagala and My– confined in special psychiatric hospitals chiatric community, the Soviets have committee is also being pursued. Such a hearing, in addition to statements by ron Kuropas are serving in advisory usually reserved for seriously disturbed continued to use psychiatry as a form of capacities. persons and the criminally insane. repression. Earlier this year, the Soviet members of Congress in the Con– Twenty are currently in the notorious Union withdrew from the World Psy– Dnipropetrovske Special Psychiatric chiatric Association rather than face the Hospital in Ukraine. threat of expulsion. Media interested in famine story

WASH1NGTON - Nineteen va– the "Face the Nation." "Today" and Ukrainians in Soviet mental hospitals rious news media have expressed in– "McNeil-Lehrer Report" television JERSEY C1TY. N.J. - Among is reportedly confined in the Keme– terest in covering the story of the news programs. ; Uk.rajjyaoCa,rjjipe of 193i-3A,a^cp,td^jg the 215 political prisoners known to rova Psychiatric Hospital. According to Andrij Bilyk, chairman ."iaUw-fi^eclia.Relations SjejptiQfl.Ji?f.4Jte be confined in Soviet psychiatric Oleksiy Cherep of Krasnodar was of the Media Relations Section, these National Committee to Commemorate institutions are many Ukrainians, arrested in 1978 for trying to get a media responded to follow-up phone- Genocide victims in Ukraine. although the exact number is diffi– visa to emigrate to the United States, calls (after receiving press releases) and cult to determine. Below is a partial and is now confined in the Chernia– They are: the USA Today and Wash– asked for more information on the list of Ukrainians known to be in kovsk SPH. Great Famine. Extensive press kits were Soviet asylums, many for trying to volodymyr Dmytrenko, an in- ington Times newspapers; Time maga– zinc; the Associated Press. Reuters and delivered to them on Friday, Septem– flee to the West. valid whose legs were amputated, United Press international wire scr– ber 16. information about the cases ap– was arrested prior to 1979 for plaster– vices; the Central. Copley and Cox news peared in USSR News Brief, edited ing anti-Soviet posters on public Mr. Bilyk stressed: "it would be a bureaus: the Gannett. Hearst, Knight– by Cronid Lubarsky, a former politi– buildings, and is being held in the shame if, having this media interest. Kazan SPH. Ridder, Newhouse and Ottoway news- Ukrainians did not turn out en masse cal prisoner now in the West. The list papers; the Christian Broadcasting that follows is current to May 1982. Fedor Dvoretsky, a worker, was for the October 2 Great Famine obser– Network; columnist Pat Buchanan; and vances in the nation's capital." Mykola Breslavsky, now 78, has sent to the Alma-Ata SPH in 1972 been in Sychovka Special Psychia– for exposing factory corruption tric Hospital (SPH) since 1956, when where he worked. he was caught trying to flee to ivan Hreshchuk, a historian, was D.C. famine week schedule Turkey. arrested under a political charge in Oleksiy Bondarenko, arrested in 1975 and is confined in a psychiatric SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24: National day of fasting. hospital in the Kiev oblast. 1969 for "anti-Soviet agitation and SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25: Religious commemorative observances in all Oleksander ivanytsky, 38, was propaganda," is currently in the Ukrainian churches throughout the United States. Dnipropetrovske SPH. taken into custody in 1975 for "anti- Oleksiy Borovsky, who tried to Soviet activities" and committed to MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26: Opening of photographic and documentary cross the Rumanian border in 1970, (Continued on page 14) exhibits depicting the famine and the destruction of Ukrainian.churches in Kiev. The famine exhibit will be held in the Cannon House Office Building's Rotunda (independence Avenue and First Street S.E.); the "Lost Architecture of Kiev" exhibit will be on display in the Russell Senate Office Building (First and C streets N.E.). Exhibits are open daily 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28: 2-4 p.m. - American Enterprise institute's apolitical scholar(y seminar on the famine with speakers Dr. Robert Conquest, Dr. James Mace and Dr. Dana Dalrymple, and moderator Michael Novak. 5-6 p.m. - Special orders to commemorate the famine will be read in the U.S. House of Representatives in the Capitol. 6:30-8:30 p.m. - Reception in the Capitol, Room H130. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1:5:30 p.m. - Wreath-laying ceremony at the Taras Shevchenko monument (22nd and P streets N.W.). 7:30 p.m. - Liturgy at Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Church (2615 30th St. N.W.). SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2: 8 a.m. - Liturgy at St. Andrew's Ukrainian Orthodox Church (4842 16th St N.W.) and at Holy Family Ukrainian Catholic Church (4250 Harewood Road N.E.). 9 a.m. - Liturgy at Holy Family Ukrainian Catholic Church. 10 a.m. - Rally at Washington Monument (Constitution Avenue and 15th Street N.W.) at the Sylvan Theater. Noon - March to Soviet Embassy (16th and K streets N.W.). 3 p.m. - Memorial Concert at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall (New Hampshire Avenue and 23rd The Oriol Special Psychiatric Hospital in Soviet Russia. Street N.W.). THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER IS. 1983 No. 38

SUSK Congress held in Ottawa; Fraternally yours Mykhailo Bociurkiw elected president by Marta Korduba by Orysia Hanushevsky York University. Erindale College. UNA fraternal activities coordinator and volodymyr Koskovych Brock University, the University of Western Ontario, the University of OTTAWA The focus of the 24th Waterloo, Mc Master University, the Make meetings worth your while annual SUSK Congress, held August University of Manitoba, the University 25-28 at the University of Ottawa, was of Winnipeg, the University of Alberta As usual, the fall will bring with it a such painstaking measures mav not be the celebration ol the organization's and the University ol British Columbia. host ol meetings and gatherings. Ukrai– neccessarv tor the purposes of local 30th anniversary Other participants included SUSK nian youth organizations, women's UNA branches, the general comfort ol The congress brought together stu– alumni members and representatives of leagues, church brotherhoods and those attending meetings should be dents. alumni, prolessorsand a group ol Ukrainian American students' organi– sisterhoods, and various ad-hoc com– considered. Perhaps a member's living 37 cyclists (participating in the Ukrai– zatioHS SUSTA (Federation of Ukrai– mittees will vie for our time and energy. room or recreation room would provide nian Canadian Committee bike-a-thon) nian Student Organizations of Ame– indeed, fitting "everything" in has a more relaxed, pleasant atmosphere, from Ukrainian students' clubs in rica). TUSM (Ukrainian Student Asso– become something oi an art. When especially il the meetings draw less than British Columbia. Alberta, Manitoba. ciation of Michnowsky) and ODUM time-consuming essentials such as an auditorium-full of people. Consider Ontario and Quebec. (Organization of American Youth of laundry, grocery shopping and book- taking advantage of the available com– During plenary sessions on Sunday Ukrainian Descent). keeping are barely sandwiched in. it is munitv halls which are olten equipped evening. Mykhailo Bociurkiw was re- - Panel discussions commenced Fri– understandable why many meetings with kitchen, audio-visual or athletic elected national president for the 1983- day morning with two sessions running strike out when trying to lure atten– facilities. Undoubtedly, the prospect of 84 term. Also elected to the executive- concurrently. Myron Spolsky. execu– dan'.s. attending a meeting held in a pleasant, board were Chrystyna Chudczak. exe– tive director of the Winnipeg-based in many cases, not only the "young" climate-controlled, up-beat location cutive vice president; Lesia Babiak. Manitoba Parents for Ukrainian Edu– but members ol the older generation as would increase participation. vice president for human rights: and cation inc.. spoke on "implications of well are reluctant to attend meetings Another consideration is the agenda Orysia Hanushevsky. vice president for Official Bilingualism in the Province of which they find personally unlulfilling. itself. Too often, we get stuck in a rut of communications and publications. Manitoba." Mr. Spolsky spoke on how and. at times, even unpleasant. collecting dues, electing (and in many Regional vice presidents include: the proposed amendment to the Unfortunately, not all UNA branches cases re-electing and re– re– re– re- Motria llnyckyj in the Laurcntian Manitoba Act might open doors for or districts are immune to gatherings electing) officers, as well as other region: and John Samoil in the Moun– minority language rights in that pro– which arc "less than stimulating." rudimentary procedures which are tain region. Other regional vice presi– vince. and whether the Ukrainian Sadly, some branch and district uninteresting even to those directly dents and the SUSK national secretary community could benefit from the meetings have been reduced to sporadic involved. will be appointed in the fall. entrenchment of official bilingualism in gatherings, where the minutes are read Branches and districts might offer The vice president for culture is Pat the provincial constitution. yet not listened to. where the median presentations of educational or enter– Tymchatyn: the vice president for "Ukrainian Students' Clubs and age is 65. and where an ominous pessi– tainment value prior to "tending to multiculturalism is Andrew Hlucho– University Politics" was the topic of mism has precluded the conception of business." Consider inviting experts wecky; the treasurer is Pat Yaremchuk; discussion during the second morning new plans, ideas, or even a healthy- (who often offer theirservices free of the vice president for external affairs is panel. Carolyn Gloude, clubs com– debate. charge) to address community con– Markian Swec; the representative to the missioner of the Carleton University How can one improve the status quo cerns. such as crime or fire prevention, presidium of the Ukrainian Canadian Students' Association, and George in such cases? Something we rarely take home safety, consumer protection, etc. Committee is Taras Maluzhynsky. The Samoil. a former SUSK president, into account is the site of the meeting. Films and slide shows can be rented or alumni coordinator is Nestor Mykytyn: discussed how local Ukrainian campus We are all familiar with the characteris– borrowed on a variety of topics ranging and the congress coordinator is Judy student clubs could take advantage of tic, musty halls which threaten guests from real estate investments to Ukrai– Heyworth. services offered by their student asso– with frostbite in the winter, and heat nian Christmas traditions, inviting -'The four-day congress featured an ciatiohs. stroke in the summer. local talents to entertain members prior extensive -agenda–; including' 13 panel Friday afternoon continued with two Professional organizations have to the meeting might be an effective discussions, several plenary sessions, sets of panel presentations. The first made a science out ol selecting appro– means of acquainting young commu– screenings of Ukrainian Canadian films panel featured representatives of priate colors, shapes and forms of nity members with branch affairs. and myriad social events. various national Ukrainian students' rooms which are conducive to the pro Several young professional groups in The panels dealt with issues ranging organizations who discussed the viabi– ductivity of specific functions. While (Continued on page 10) from bilingualism and multiculturalism lity of CeSUS - the now-defunct to the media and group professionaliza– international Ukrainian students' tion. union. Speakers of this session in– Specialist is preparing Svoboda index Participants began arriving for the cluded: Michael Maryn and Mr. Bo– congress on Thursday evening. August ciurkiw, representing SUSK: Ronya ST. PAUL. Minn. - Maria KK . Mrs.. Woroby stated that she will us.e 25, for a– welcoming reception and Stoj ko-l.ozynskyj. representing Woroby was recently appointed the both manual and on-line (computerized) barbecue held at the Bociurkiw resi– SUSTA: and Stefa Hrvckowian of research specialist to prepare an index systems to list the categories. She plans dence. Over 100 students and alumni TUSM. to Svoboda for the period 1893-1920. to work at home, listing the articles by subject matter and using The New York attended. Running concurrently with the This 13-month pilot project: initiated Times index as a model for her work. Registration continued Friday morn– CeSUS panel was a session on "SUSK's by the immigration History Research ing at the University of Ottawa. By Role in the Ukrainian Canadian Com– Center at the University of Minnesota, is UNA Supreme vice President Myron Saturday, over 80 participants had miitee." featuring Dr. Peter Hlibowych, funded by a S30.7OO grant from the Kuropas will be available to assist her in registered for the congress. Among president of the Ontario Council of the Ukrainian National Association her work, if all goes well, the project will Ukrainian students' clubs represented Ukrainian Canadian Committee, and Mrs. Woroby is well-qualified for the be extended to index Svoboda through at the congress were: Concordia Uni– Borys Sirskyj, president of the Ottawa project by training, experience and the 1980s. The Svoboda newspaper versity. McGill University, Carleton Branch of the Ukrainian Canadian interest. She received a B.S. in history came out as a biweekly from its found– University, the University of Toronto, (Continued on page 10) and an M.A. in library science from the ing on September 15. 1893, to March 9, University of Minnesota. She is fluent 1894. From March 1894 to August 8, in Ukrainian and Russian and was 1914, it was a weekly; from 1914 employed as an archivist and librarian through 1920, it was published three in recent years at the University, as well times a week, and in 1921, it became a as at the University of North Carolina. daily newspaper. Her master's thesis is a study of "The Emergence of Ukrainian American Book Publishing in the United States, 1880-1920." When completed, the index of Svo– boda will be a unique reference tool providing scholars with direct access to many aspects of the Ukrainian Ameri– can experience in the United States. The result of the project, a published index, will be available to the public. The index will list articles on Ukrai– nians abroad, community life, litera– ture, social announcements, advertise– ments, UNA-related information, poli– tical and editorial cartoons, sports events, book reviews and such vital statistics as obituaries, births and і Hanushevsky marriages. Photographs will also be SUSK presidents at the congress: (seated, from left) Yurij Dashko, Roman Serbyn, indexed". The index is scheduled to list Roman Osadchuk, Leo Wynnyckyj; (standing, from left) Myron Spolsky, Michael cross reierences as weii. and will transii– Maryn, George Samoil, Mykhailo Bociurkiw. terate Ukrainian names and acronyms. Maria K. Woroby No. 38 тнь UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER IS, ШЗ 5

Svoboda and the making of the Ukrainian American, 1893-1914

by Dr. Myron B. Kuropas contribute. When it was discovered that waken from your sleep both here and in After describing Shevchenko's monu– Dr. volodymyr Simenovych, the She– Carpatho-Rus.' Let's join hands in a mental efforts on behalf of the Ukrai– The article below was originally nahdoah pioneer, was living in Chicago sincere effort for the good of our people ' nian national revival, Svoboda ex- published in the 1983 CM A Almanac. and associating with Polish intellec– and our common struggle for our claimed: tuals. Svoboda commented: national and civil rights, if we do this, "...We will follow in the footsteps of PART H "One must know that in Chicago the no force can beat us - not the Hun– Taras... we have established a news- Svoboda as a vehicle of lkrainianization Poles have great strength... so it is not garians, not the Russians, not the Poles, paper which will serve the national surprising to find in the Polish dailies not anyone."53 politics of all of Austrian Rus' and, in "The revivial of national conscious– the name of Dr. Simenovych. Fate had "Our national question."declared the fact, all of Rus'-Ukraine. We are for decreed that he should find himself UNA gazette in 1906. "will not be solved that and we will support it in memory of ness in the subject peoples." wrote 54 Robert E. Park, "has invariably been among the Polish community and being in Galicia. but in Rus'." First, how– Shevchenko..." an energetic, intelligent and responsive ever, "unity must be achieved here, in Father Hrushka. the editor, con- connected with the struggle to maintain 55 a press in the native language."3" While individual, he did not refuse to aid those America, the land of the free." eluded the article with an original poem: Svoboda cared about the social pro– with whom he lives... it is self-under- in developing the Ukrainian con– "Spiritually. Taras blems of the Rusyn immigrant, it was stood that Dr. Simenovych did not sciousness of the Rusyn immigrant and We are at your grave. equally, if not more concerned with the cease being a sincere Rusyn and is still in having him accept the Ukrainian and for you we pray to God development of a unique sense of ethno– interested in Rusyn matters. He is the nomenclature as part of his ethno- Grateful for that strength national consciousness based on a author of many interesting articles in national identity. Svoboda's approach Which we find in your words. clearly defined platform of ethnic unity, Galician-Rus' publications, especially was. of necessity, one of caution. The The dead will be resurrected in one of its early issues. Svoboda Dilo. concerning the life of Rusyns in terms "Ukraine" and "Ukrainian" were On the ruins of Ukraine outlined its approach: America... We only wish to add this... introduced unobtrusively, almost ca– For liberty we will Fight.'^3 without detracting in any way from his sually. to the Rusyn community. І am Svoboda that wishes to lead The full acceptance of the phonetic wonderful work... it would be heart- Svoboda's first reference to Ukraine alphabet was still another aspect of the Rusyn Americans out of the darkness of winning if Dr. Simenovych would just 56 ignorance and spiritual slavery. occurred as early as 1893 and almost a ethno-national educational process, in send us his valuable talks and we would year later, the reader was informed that an 1897 Svoboda article titled "What (1). You will not read any news- gladly publish them in Svoboda.42 papers printed in Rusyn but devoid of "Shche Ne vmerla Ukraina" ("Ukraine Shall We Keep?" one reads: the Rusyn spirit. Three, weeks later, an article by Dr. Has Not Died"), was sung lor the first "People! Do not be afraid of the (2). Do not call yourself Rusyn if Simenovych titled "Education Con– time on American soil at the UNA phonetics but read any book, no matter cerning Health" appeared in Svo– convention in 1984." The term "Rus'– how it is written...it is good if someone you are indifferent to the Rusyn cause in 43 America. boda. Ukraine" was used repeatedly and with knows Rusyn but if he doesn't, let him in the early years, before the conflict increasing consistency in the years that not be ashamed to write phonetically- (3). Do not forget to become a followed and the concept was fully member of the Ruskiy Narodnyi Soyuz between the Russian Orthodox Church using Rusyn letters because if he writes and the Ukrainian Catholic Church examined in 1902 in a series of articles in Polish letters, he will be Polonized and belong to a reading club and make by Father Mykola Strutynsky titled, 64 sure that you subscribe to Svoboda. developed into an ethnic rather than a and soon forget Rusyn." religious issue, the editor of Svoboda "Understand, Rusyn, Which Road is (4). Honor, respect and support Articles written in phonetic Ukrai– urged tolerance between Catholics and Yours": sincere Rusyns and you will lead a long nian, many of which originated in Orthodox: and happy life in America. "Most people in the old country Europe, became more frequent, in the (5). Do not kill your body and spirit "Dear brothers, don't argue among belong to the so-called Ukrainian-Rus' beginning, they were usually introduced by leading a life of drunkeness and yourselves over who is Uniate and who party. Almost all of the young priests, by an editorial comment to the effect debauchery. is Orthodox. One mother, Rus', gave the majority of the older priests, almost that "people in Rus'-Ukraine are beginning to write this way now.!'65 in (6). Do not engage in friendly rela– birth to both of you, and you were both all lawyers, professors, doctors and 44 reply to viestnik which criticized Svo– tions with the Magyarophile clique, baptized in the same Rusyn Church." students, in short, all the intelligentsia boda for using the phonetic alphabet, hostile to the Rusyn cause. The call for ethno-national unity was and the enlightened masses call them– echoed again in a plea to all "patriotic selves Rus'-Ukrainians... They call Svoboda defended itself on the grounds (7). Do not seek to obtain Svoboda themselves this name because they that while it was still utilizing the Rusyn free of charge. First pay for it, then read Rusyns" to leave Jednota and to join the UNA: realize that even though they are in alphabet, viestnik had adopted "Latin it. Galicia, their ancestors came from letters and the Slovak language.'166 The (8). Do not testify falsely against the "in Slovak newspapers we have discovered that many Rusyns in Penn– Ukraine... Galicia, our country, is the use of the phonetic alphabet for all Ruskiy Narodnyi Soyuz or Svoboda, child of Ukraine. Just as we came to UNA publications was formally sanc– but make sure you know where the truth sylvania belong to the Catholic Jed– nota. We call attention to all patriotic America, the Rusyn-Ukrainians came tioned by delegates attending the 1906 lies. 5 67 Rusyns to Find these lost people and ask to Galicia." " UNA Convention. (9). Do not seek to become a travel– them to join Soyuz."45 ing agent of viestnik or you will suffer Calling attention to the upcoming (Continued on pate 14) for it. A week later, in an article titled "A 1910 census, Svoboda urged its readers (10). Do not seek the purse of the Lack of Patriotism," Svoboda com– to indicate that they spoke the "Ruthe– 38. Robert E. Park. The immigrant Press ' and its Control, New York. Harper A haughty Magyarophiles because it is mented that it was "very sad" to find nian language" so that "we Rusyns will Rusyns in Jednota because "it shows not be counted as Poles, Muscovites or Brothers. 1922. p. 41. empty; the people are wise and do not 59 39. Svoboda (April 20. 1894). Cited in throw away "quarters"; neither seek that such a Rusyn has lost his national Hungarians..." in response to the consciousness."4'' article, a Svoboda correspondent urged Dragan. p. 29. their bigotry nor their fox-like shrewd– 40. Svoboda (July 25. 1895). ness — they belong to them.39 in the eyes of Svoboda, a similar de- his fellow Rusyns to identify themselves nationalizing threat was posed by the as "Ruthenians. not Russians or Little 41. Svoboda (April 10. 1895). 0 42. Svoboda (February 4. 1897). Rusyn leaders who adopted .other GCU, so much so that when a Rusyn Russians."'' "There are no 'Russians' in national cultures or who were not 43. Svoboda (February 25. 1897). left that organization and joined the Subcarpathia or Galicia." proclaimed 44. Svoboda (March 23. 1894). contributing what Svoboda felt they UNA. his name was glorified. "Mr. Svoboda, "only Ruthenians."61 Despite could, were rebuked by the UNA 45. Svoboda (October 3. 1894). Olexa Shlianta. a Rusyn patriot from a decided trend toward the acceptance 46. Svoboda (October 10. 1894). periodical. Lamenting the fact that Mayfield." wrote Svoboda in 1894. "left of the Ukrainian ethnic appellation, ihroughout Rusyn history there were 47. Svoboda (June 13. 1894). Soyedineniye and joined Soyuz. Honor however, at no time prior to 1914 did 48. Svoboda (February 15. 1894). those who "betrayed their people" and and Glory to him."47 Attacking viestnik Svoboda appear to force the use of the 49. Svoboda (December 7. 1899). spent their entire lives working "against for "barking against any and all."411 nomenclature upon its readers. ',Tiose 50. Svoboda (March 1. 1894). the interests of their people." Svoboda Svoboda described the GCU as a "rotten who wished to call themselves Rusyns 51. Svoboda (Januarv 5. 1901). complained: log," an organization of 8.000 members continued to do so while others, more 52. See: Myshuha. pp. 71-72. "Within recent times, our spiritual who, "even though they speak Rusyn and more each year, adopted the more 53. Svoboda (Augusl 6. 1896). leaders seem to be following the same and Slovak, are all good Hungarian nationalistic identity. An example of 54. Svoboda (Julv 26. 1906). path... Among our priests, unfortunate– 4 the Svoboda approach can be ascer– 55. Myshuha. pp.' 52-53. patriots." '' Svoboda mocked the 56. Svoboda (October 15. 1893). - ly, there are Hungarian poets. Hunga– "Greek-Catholic" appellation of the tained from an examination of various rian writers and journalists. Hungarian 57. Svoboda (June 6. 1894). "Shche Ne Uhro-Rusyn society and stated: "We issues where as late as 1912. ads an– vmerla Ukrayina" later became the Ukrai– literature does not need their service don't say only 'Greek Romans' or nouncing planned local events employ– nian national anthemn. because it is rich without it... Our 'Roman Greeks' can belong to Soyuz, ed either "Attention Rusyns" or "Atten– 58. Svoboda (August 28 through October peasants will not develop a command of but all Rusyn people, from both sides of tion Ukrainians" as headlines to catch 9. 1902). our literary language when our lay the Carpathians."50 the eye of the reader.62 59. Svoboda (March 3. 1910). Cited in leaders and even our priests are aban– Emil Revyuk. "Rozviy Politychnoho Svilo– 40 doning it." As for the nature of the Rusyn National symbol buildingwasanother hliadu Ukrayinsokoho lmmigranta" (The The priest in the community had a identity, Svoboda was unequivocal: significant component of Svoboda's Development of the Ukrainian American dual responsibility. "The Rusyn priests." "...We are not Poles, nor Muscovites, Ukrainianization campaign. One such Outlook). Jubilee Book of the Ukrainian declared Svoboda in 1895. "not only has nor Hungarians, but Rusyns. a part of symbols was Taras Shevchenko, U– National Association, p. 308. kraine's poet-laureate who, in 1895, on 60. Svoboda (March 31, 1910). a spiritual role to fulfill, he must also be the 30 million strong Rusyn-Ukrainian 61. Svoboda (April 7, 1910). active in the arena of the national nation."51 the 34th anniversary of his death, was 41 62. Svoboda (August 22, 1912). revival." The same national approach was introduced to the Rusyn-Ukrainian 63. Svoboda (April 3. 1895). But priests were not the only ones reflected in Svoboda appeals to the community as follows: 64. Svoboda (April 29. 1897). who had a national obligation towards Bukovinians52 and to the Carpatho– "it is. true that few of our people here 65. SNoboda (December 20. 1900). their people. Others who were blessed Ukrainians: know about Taras Shevchenko and the 66. Svoboda (March 27. 1902). with an education were also expected to "Hey; fellow Carpatho-Rusyns! 'A– kind of glory he earned for himself..'." 67. Dragan. op cil., p. 54. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18,1983 No. 38

Effective media relations Ukrainiarainian Weekweeici!y A plea for unity and continuity by Andrij Bilyk to each Ukrainian community to use with 109a! media. Under ideal circum– Moscow's mendacity Your response to this column has stances. we could have made a major been gratifying and speaks volumes impact on the media in our cities and Soviet prevarications following the downing ol Korean Airlines Flight007 about your desire to see a long-term and perhaps on the national media as well. and the coincident expulsion ol a U.S. vice consul and his wife on espionage effective Ukrainian media relations The fact is, a statement to the media, charges provide yet another example of Moscow's penchant lor the big lie as a program. The Soviets are always pro– which ties the downing of the Korean tactical weapon. After first remaining silent on the incident (while circling the viding us with opportunities to tell jetliner to our upcoming October 2 wagons to draft a response), the Kremlin has now gone on the offensive by Ukraine's story in light of current march on the Soviet Embassy in Wash– charging that the airliner was on a spy mission masterminded bytheOA. in (vents. ington along with a three-page press fact, William Clark, the national security adviser, recently said that he fully While Samantha Smith was in the release on the September 25-October 2 expects the Soviets to eventually produce "hard evidence" to support their Soviet Union, each Ukrainian commu– Famine Commemorative Week events contention. After all. how difficult would it be lor the KGB to come up with a nity should have found a Ukrainian in the nation's capital was distributed piece of U.S. spy equipment, cover it with barnacles and grime, and say it "Samantha" to open doors to the local to some 400 newspapers, radio and TY came lrom the fallen aircraft'.' press. Meanwhile, the downing of the news directors, magazine editors and Korean jetliner and the exclamations of columnists in Washington and New The Soviet knack lor coming up with convenient "evidence" when the need York City. One hundred of the key arises also distinguishes the expulsion of Lon David Augustenborg, a vice horror at this event still provide us with a unique opportunity to the tell the media persons are receiving follow-up consul at the consulate general in Leningrad. І he lact that the move was phone calls and personal visits during highly publicized in the Soviet Union, and that lzvestia. the government world (through our local press)that this same Soviet system murdered 7 million which a press kit is being delivered. newspapers carried the news ol the expulsion under a reconstruction ol the Next week we are going to reach out to events that led to the downing of Flight 007. clearly suggest that the Soviets Ukrainians during the Great Ukrainian Famine in 1932-33. the media again through a press con– intended to add credibility to their claim that the plane was on a spy mission. ference. But the key element of the Augustenborg affairs is that the Sovietsapparently But let's be honest with ourselves. At had "evidence" of his espionage activ ities. including a cannister for picking up this writing we don't have a PR pre– But this work is being carried on by data, still photographs of Russian-language instructions and materials, sence that would enable us to react an ad hoc committee of volunteers - tablets lor developing coded messages, and the like. quickly to such media events as Sa– and one full-time staff person hired for one month. We comprise what is known Now if, as most experts agree, the Augustenborg case was nothing more mantha's journey or the wanton shoot– ing down of a passenger plane. as the Media Relations Section of the than a retaliatory propaganda ploy, then surely all the "evidence" so National Committee to Commemo– prominently displayed in the Soviet media was completely fabricated. What is quick reaction? in the case of the Korean jetliner incident, it's getting rate Genocide victims in Ukraine. Where else would it have come from if not from the KGB? Meanwhile, a potential great resource The lessons of the airliner incident and the subsequent diplomatic out a powerful statement ol condemna– tion approved at the highest levels of the to all Ukrainian people, the Ukrainian expulsion are painfully obvious. Not only does Soviet mendacity know no National information Service, is not limits, but so also the lengths the Kremlin will go to try and back up those lies Ukrainian American leadership. Such a statement should have been available to involved in this work because of Ukrai– with bogus evidence or documentation, in this context, is it so farfetched, nian "political" squabbles. then, to suggest that the Soviet proclivity lor stealth and deceit, recognized by the press within 24-hours of the inci– Mr. Clark, the State Department and the American people, should render dent. The fact is, as a community, we are suspect all information or evidence or documentation offered by the Kremlin? Under ideal circumstances (and by mismanaging scarce resources, in this We think not. and in light of recent and past examples of Soviet duplicity, "ideal" 1 mean a united Ukrainian situation, only the Soviets win. And we once again call on the Justice Department and its Office of Special community) this statement would have they will continue to beat us at every investigations to quit using Soviet-supplied evidence in denaturalization been produced and distributed by the turn until we stop fighting among pr'tfcdebih'gs againsT Arfterlca-fi' citizen's sliS"p'ectcd df collaborating with the Ukrainian National information Ser– ourselves and unite. At the very least, Germans during World War 11. A better way must be found to bring war vice (UN1S) in Washington or a similar when we approach Congress or the criminals to justice than trying them largely on the basis ol materials supplied Ukrainian PR office speaking for the media, we should approach with one by a government that can kill 269 innocent people in cold blood, lieaboutitand entire community. Copies of the state– Ukrainian voice. then try and back up its lies with more lies. The OS1 should continue its ment would have been made available Next week: readers' comments. efforts to bring war criminals to justice, but Moscow's mendacity (or the potential for it) has cast a dark pall of doubt over the proceedings and Letter to the editor threatens to make a complete mockery of our system of legal safeguards. Serendipity and our community Dear Editor: for this lesson was 269 in– nocent lives. But it is far St. Basil's 50th Serendipity is not something with more important to realize that these which Ukrainians are amply blessed, in latter-day victims of the brutal Soviet fact, it could be said that the history of regime did not die in vain. Their'deaths Fifty years ago this month, the Ukrainian Catholic High School and the Ukrainian people lends credence to incited the long-overdue rage of the Seminary in Stamford opened its doors to its first students. the sad epigram that, "if it were not for entire civilized world– and exposed the in subsequent years, it has educated countless students. 146 of whom bad luck, we just might have no luck at Soviets as the unscrupulous, deceitful went on to become priests. Others went onto become prominent leaders in the all." and barbarous beasts they really are. Ukrainian community in the United States. in this invaluable capacity, the Ukrainian Catholic Metropolitan in 1932-33, for example, the Ukrai– Seminary, which encompasses St. Basil's College Preparatory High School, nian nation was devastated by an Anti-Soviet sentiment has never been St. Basil's College Seminary and St. Josaphat Major Seminary, carries on a artificial famine which decimated as more widespread, intense or universal. tradition that began in 1884. many as one out of every five persons The climate is right; and the time for in that year, the first Ukrainian Catholic priest arrived in the United States. living in Ukraine. And yet, in this the Ukrainians to act is now. We must not Through hard work, perseverance and devout faith in God. priests took upon 50th anniversary year of that tragic allow the costly lesson which the world themselves the organization of community life: they became essential pillars event, the world still knows almost learned in the aftermath of the night of in the community. nothing about the Great Famine — the August 31 to be soon or easily forgotten. When Bishop Constantine Bohachevsky arrived in the United States in Ukrainian Holocaust, instead, We must unite. We must cast off our 1924. he realized that what the Ukrainian community in the United States rather than being treated as aggrieved petty, provincial disputes and also needed was native leaders. Toward this end, he emphasized the need for co-victims of the more notorious Jewish squabblings. We must work in concert. education of young men, for the clergy. Holocaust, in which Hitler's Nazi We must mobilize our substantial Bishop Bohachevsky had the foresight to establish educational institutions regime annihilated not only Jews, but resources and disseminate once again to in the United States which would guide a student from a young man to a also Ukrainians and other East Euro– the world the real, plaintive and solemn leader sensitive to the social and spiritual needs of the people. peans. the Ukrainian people have narrative about the heinous acts of the For half a century, the Ukrainian Catholic seminary has continued this in- been portrayed unjustly as a nation of criminals of the Kremlin. valuable work. The school's dedication to the Ukrainian community is a Nazi collaborators on the basis of service of which it can truly be proud. isolated acts by individual psychopaths or zealots substantiated largely by This calamitous event which history perjured testimony and fabricated so serendipitously provided may well evidence provided by a hostile Soviet prove to be more our litmus test than regime. the Soviets'. For if we cannot unify now and utilize to our advantage the outrage of world opinion created by these tragic Well, on the night of August 31, the circumstances, then perhaps in the 21st THE GREAT FAM1NE: genocidal Soviet regime which perpe– century there will be no history to write, LET US REMEMBER trated the Ukrainian Holocaust once fortunate or unfortunate, about Ukraine again dramatically showed its true face or Ukrainians. And, if that is the case, AND MAKE OTHERS AWARE to the world. But, this time — serendi– then perhaps there shouldn't be. pitously - the world noticed, it is George Stepanenko tragic, of course, that the price exacted ,.,. ,.– . , PaJpAlto, Calif. No. 38 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER i8.1983 7

The New York Times and the Great Famine THE GREAT FAM1NE by Marco ( arynnyk foreign journalists and technical experts, hundreds ol peasants and between 20 and 30 diplomats, all of PAR1 il whom had agreed that starvation was widespread. "But Jthediplomatsjare not allowed to express their Duranty. to be sure, did not act alone in throwing views in the press, and therefore remain silent. down Jones. Eugene Lyons was present when the American correspondents in Moscow conspired with Ju^.nu!liis, uu ;l.– iithwi !.u uic allowed IO write, Konstantin Umanskv. the head of the Press Depart– but the censorship has turned them into masters of euphemism and understatement. Hence, they give ment of the Commissariat for Foreign Affairs, to 'famine' the polite name of 'food shortage,' and denounce the Welshman. After becoming a Commu– 'starving to death' is softened down to read us nist sympathizer and working in New York for TASS. widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutri– This year marks the 50th anniversary of one of the Soviet news agency, Lyons had gone to Moscow in tion.' "-: history s most horrifying cases of genocide - the the expectation of finding Utopia. Disillusioned, Duranty, undaunted, continued to pooh-pooh Soviet-made Great Famine of 1932-33, in which though not immediately, by what he saw, Lyons reports of starvation, visiting Odessa, he asserted that some 7 million Ukrainians perished. returned to New York and charted his disenchantment the food situation was "undoubtedly better" than had Relying on news from Svoboda and, later, in his book "Assignment in Utopia." in a chapter titled been reported: in a town near Kiev peasant women The Ukrainian Weekly (which began publica– "The Press Corps Conceals a Famine," Lyons were offering roast chicken: in Odessa the bread ration tion in October 1933), this column hopes to reproached his fellow correspondents for failing to had been increased, and peasants were marketing eggs remind and inform Americans and Canadians of report the famine, even though they all knew about it, and vegetables. this terrible crime against humanity. and explained how they had allowed themselves to be "it is an old story, which the writer first heard on the By bringing other events worldwide into the manipulated by the censor. volga during the famine in the summer of'1921. picture as well, the column hopes to give a The home offices of the American correspondents Everywhere they said, 'Things here are desperate, and perspective on the stale of the world in the years had all cabled urgent queries after Jones announced unless we get relief we will die before Christmas' of Ukraine's Great Famine. his findings. But preparations were under way for the which was true enough. Then we asked them. 'But art- Metropolitan-vickers trial, and gaining access to the people dying here now?' And they replied. 'No. not courtroom was more important for the Americans here yet, but if you go the village of so-and-so you will November 1-15, 1933 than reporting the famine. As Lyons put it, "the need find hardly any one alive.' We went to said village and to remain on friendly terms with the censors at least for heard exactly the same story. 'Here we are desperate, PART ХХХІ the duration of the trial was for all of us a compelling though not yet dying, but at so-and-so conditions are professional necessity." frightful...' Though conditions are terribly hard, there Meeting the correspondents in one of their hotel in Rohatyn, a Committee to Save the Hungry is no sign of real famine conditions or that people are in Ukraine received a letter written by a girl to rooms, Umansky worked out with them a formula for dying in the streets, as is reported in Moscow.'"' her mother, describing the family's living denying Jones's account. Before the evening was over, in June, when he was forced to defend himself conditions. The letter was forwarded to Svo– vodka and snacks had been ordered. The "celebra– against a charge of receiving concessions from the boda and reprinted on November 2. The text tion" - the word is Lyons's - lasted until early Soviet government, Duranty took the opportunity to follows. morning. By the time the trial had ended (all the deny an account in the London newspapers that the Britons were released) the American correspondents victims of the famine were fleeing to Moscow in search "By the time we received your last package, we had forgotten that they no longer needed to remain on of food and dying in the streets. Seeing in the reports of practically died. For 11 days all we ate were "friendly terms" with the censors and did not bother to famine "a campaign of calumny that has scarcely been cucumbers. Dearest Mother, we didn't even have retract their attack against Jones. "Throwing down equalled since Nero raised Rome against the Chris– any water to drink. Death was so close, yet we Jones," Lyons lamented, "was as unpleasant a chore as tians — or Hitler Germany against the Jews," Duranty could not die. Ah, such is the irony of fate. You fell to any of us in years of juggling facts to please called the talk about corpses in the streets of Moscow send us SlO, and death escapes us; so, endlessly dictatorial regimes. But throw him down we did, "utterly untrue."2,1 And when a newspaper in Riga we continue this suffering, this torment and unanimously and in almost identical formulas of reported in August that the starvation and suffering punishment, it would have been better if your equivocation. Poor Gareth Jones must have been the were comparable to the famine of 1921, Duranty package had come Ю days later. We would have most surprised human being alive when the facts he so denounced the assertion as a "fundamental absur– ended it all. But now it starts all over. Mother, painstakingly garnered from our mouths were snowed dity."2' we have resigned from life, we have no desire to 17 live, death would bring us our freedom." under by our denials." Yet, even as he ridiculed the increasingly frequent in early April Duranty again bruited prosperity and eyewitness accounts of a devastating famine, Duranty On November 6, Svoboda printed news it had abundance, "in the excitement over the spring sowing half-heartedly admitted that the "food shortage" had received from the Ukrainian Bureau in London, campaign and the reports of an increased food taken a toll and, salting his articles with such cautious which stated that between October 17 and 22, the shortage," he announced, "a fact that has been almost euphemisms as deaths due to "lowered resistance"and Manchester Guardian had printed a series of overlooked is that the production of coal, pig iron, "malnutrition," ventured to estimate the losses: articles about conditions in Ukraine and the steel, oil, automobiles, tractors, locomotives and (Continued on page 15) Kuban. The series was written by ihe Man– machine tools has increased by 20to 35 percent during chester Guardian's correspondent in Moscow. recent months. That is the most effective proof that the 17. Lyons, "Assignment in Utopia," p. 575. 18. "Soviet industry Shows Big Gains," The New York Svoboda reported that the correspondent said food shortage as a whole is less grave than was he did indeed see famine, and translated a few of 18 Times, April 6, 1933. believed." the more poignant stories for its readers, in the 19 19. A sophism because, by referring to "the food shortage The issue that carried this sophism also brought a as a whole" and by not specifying a geographic location, following days Svoboda reprinted the series in plea for help from a (Catherine Schutock in Jackson Duran.y concealed the fact that the Ukrainian countryside English. Heights, N.Y„ who pointed out that Duranty's denial was starving. Workers and civil servants in the cities were of starvation was contradicted by letters from undernourished, but in order to maintain production the On November 6, Svoboda printed news about Ukraine, the North Caucasus and the Lower volga regime did give them ration cards entitling them to a bowl of Ukrainian Canadians in Oshawa, Ont., who had region. Schutock wrote: soup and few hundred grams of bread a day. held a meeting to protest against the Soviet "The people who write such pathetic letters, are not 20. Katherine E. Schutock, "Hunger in the Ukraine" government. (letter to the editorJ, The New York Times, April 6, 1933. - looking for help because it cannot reach them. Money On November 7, Svoboda printed press cannot reach them, and if it does they receive only half 21. S. Sosnovyi, "Pravda pro holod v Ukraini 1932-1933 rr.," Ukrainski visti, February 1950; Gil Elliot, "Twentieth reports on Ukraine and Ukrainians from the of what they sign for. Receipt of help from America Century Book of the Dead" (London, 1972), p. 23. following newspapers: The New York Times, only gets them into trouble with the Cheka. Most of 22. "Mr. Jones Replies" tletter to the editorj. The New The Wilmington (Del.) Evening Journal and the the letters 1 have seen end thus: 'if you do not hear York Times, May 13, 1933. Ambridge (Pa.) Daily Citizen. The New York from us again, you can be sure we are not alive. We are 23. "Soviet Peasants Are More Hopeful," The New York Times story, dated November 4, reported that either getting it for this letter, or we are through. The Times, May 14, 1933. the United Ukrainian Organizations of America agony of living and crying of hunger is so painful and so 24. "Foreign Press Free of Soviet Pressure," The New stateo in a resolution that they were unanimously long. What torture it is to live in hunger and know you York Times, June 11, 1933. opposed to the recognition of the Soviet are dying slowly of hunger.' "" The diplomats whom Duranty had cited asa source for his government by the United States until the Throughout the spring and summer of 1933, claim that there were no deaths from starvation confirmed Soviet Union guaranteed the cultural entities of demographers have estimated, Ukrainian peasants the exact opposite. "Even in Moscow itself, which is favored above all places in the union in the matter of food, there are subjugated peoples living within its borders. The were dying at the rate of 25,000 a day, or 1,000 an hour, deaths from starvation," William Strang, the British charge Ukrainian group also specifically noted the or 17 a minute, (in World War 1, by comparison, Soviet government's failure to aid or permit 21 d'affaires, reported on July 17. "An English lady, who is about 6,000 people were killed every day.) Country studying Soviet hospitality and welfare work, has herself outside aid to the starving population in lanes and city streets were littered with corpses - come upon two corpses in the street of persons who had just Ukraine. The resolution designated the month of "stacked in the snow like logs," one eyewitness told me died as a direct result of lack of food." F0.371; 17251 N November as a month of protest by Americans - and special brigades hastily dug mass graves in 5514. of Ukrainian descent against the brutal treat– remote areas where they doused the bodies with petrol 25. "Russian Emigres Push Fight on Reds," The New ment of Ukrainians under Soviet rule,and set and set them on fire. Ukraine that year was one vast York Times, August 12, 1933. aside Sunday, November 19, for memorial hell. The New York Times, however, made absolutely Duranty also managed to slip into this story the standard services for the victims of the famine. no reference to the situation for more than a month, Soviet insinuation that the famine reports were inspired by Nazi Germany: "The accession of. Adolf Hitler to power On November 8, Svoboda reported news from when it published Jones's reply to Duranty's denial of brought new hope' - and in some cases new money - to the famine. Russian emigre circles in Germany, the Baltic States and Bucharest that once again Ukrainians were Standing by his claim that a severe famine was in elsewhere. These emigres — like some other more disinte– attempting to make their way over to Rumania, progress. Jones pointed out that he had spoken with rested observers of Soviet affairs—cannot see the woods for fearing for their lives because of famine. The the trees and are only too ready to confuse cause' and (Continued on page 13) Copyright 1983 by Marco Carynnyk. effects." 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER IS, І983 NO. 38

St. Basil's schools: St. Basil's 50th jubilee celeb historical background With the outbreak of World War 11. American seminarians were no longer able study in Europe. Shortly alter a group ol Ukrainian American seminarians were refused study abroad because of unrest. Bishop Bohachevsky took definitive action to help these young men with their education. On September 23. 1941. St. Josa– phat Major Seminary, a residence of Ukrainian theologians studying at the Catholic University of America, was opened in Washington. і The Ukrainian Catholic Church in the United States now had a secondary school with rcsi– dence facilities St. Basil College Preparatory School; a The prep school's signpost. four-year college granting a bachelor of arts degree with a major in philo– sophy St. Basil College; and a Si AMFORD, Conn. "There is residence for seminarians studying no doubt thai the opening ot the theology at the Catholic University minor seminary and high school in ol America St. Josaphat Seminary. Stamford in 1933 ushered in a new Through the 1940s. 50s and 60s. and brighter era in the history ol the the three institutions expanded, Ukrainian Catholics in the United. remodeled and built new housing as States, it marked the beginning ol necessity dictated. the end of the long history of in 1971. Bishop Basil l.osten met struggles, of doubts and uncertain- with an inter-diocesan committee ties concerning the future ol Die composed of all the Ukrainian Byzantine rite in America. The Ame– Catholic bishops and 20 appointed rican Ukrainian Catholics could now and elected religious, clergy and look boldly to the future." la) persons to review a proposal which So writes Bohdan P. Prockoabout called for a provincial seminary the opening ol St. Basil's High system to embrace all three institu– School and Seminars in Stamford in tions. in 1971 a constitution to this 1933 in his book. "Ukrainian Catho– effect was adopted, forming the Lics in America; A History." Ukrainian Catholic Metropolitan Now. '50 years later, the seminary Seminar). boasts ol educating 146 priests five in October 1981. on the occasion ol whom went on to be consecrated of the observance of the 25th anni– bishops. versary of the Stamford Diocese. 1 his contribution to the well-being Bishop Uostcn announced the lorma– of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in tion oi a lund-raising drive to csta– the United States was made possible blish a Si.5 million endowment fund bv a man with a vision. Bishop for the college. The fund, chaired by Constantine Bohachevsky, who Joseph l.esawyer. stipulates that "the arrived in the United States from money which is invested will provide Ukraine in 1924. Beginning his work adequate income from interest alone right away, he surmised the situation to support the seminary and pro- and realized that if Ukrainian Catho– vide' scholarship aid for young men The Promin Singers of New York entertain festival-goers. lics wanted to survive in their new studying for the priesthood." home, they would need leaders and This year marks the 50th anniver– the) would need priests Ukrainian saty of the work begun by Bishop American priests. Bohachevsky. The growth of St. in April l933.Bishop Bohachevsky Basil Seminary assures Ukrainian purchased a stone mansion on eight Catholics in America that his dream acres of land in Stamford. This continues and inspires the school's would become the site of the Ukrai– motto for its jubilee celebration: nian Catholic High School and "The Seminary; A Living Witness." Seminary. By September of that year, it had been blessed and dedi– cated and opened, its doors to the first 22 students. By July 1935. Bishop Bohachevsky was already expanding the Stamford grounds. He purchased two build– ings on two and a half acres of adjoining land to provide for the expanding role of the seminary as a center of Ukrainian cultural and intellectual life. Today the grounds house a museum and library, in 1939. the diocesan college seminary be– came accredited as a college, it was named St. Basil's College and the secondary school was renamed St. Basil College Preparatory School. .it is evident that Bishop Bohachev– sky concerned himself with the edu– cation of young priests. His long- range plans had included the esta– blishment of a major seminary in the United States which would allow a young man to complete his education in a Ukrainian Catholic seminary system in the United States. The jubilee bell h joyously rung. At the children's corner, the kids clowned around. No. 38 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER IS, 1983

-зшшяшшшітшттшвмятшшщіяітт і ' ^ІУ.^Ж^Ж..^^^ ations in Stamford highlight Connecticut Ukrainian Day Festival шттшшттішшіїжтштш: x u m 11 шмншш

Hierarchs of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, from left: Bishop innocent i.otocky of Chicago Metropolitan Stephen Sulyk of Philadelphia and Bishop Basil Losten of Stamford.

Auxiliary Bishop Robert Moskal of Philadelphia delivers English- ЧЖІІ language homily. Miss Connecticut U.S.A. and her little friends enjoy the festival program.

memory of the 269 people who perished Rights in Ukraine. man of the day this year, presented a St. Basil's... on the downed Korean Airlines jet — in An afternoon show which began at meritorious plaque to Helen Rudy for her keeping with President Ronald Reagan's 2:30 p.m. was emceed by Roman Hezzey, years of dedicated service to the com– (Continued from page 1) proclamation of Sunday as a day of who back in 1964 proposed the forma– mitlee as secretary, assistant treasurer treasurer ol the Ukrainian Catholic national mourning - as well as in tion of a Connecticut State Ukrainian and, now, treasurer. Mr. Hezzey ac– Metropolitan Seminary and dean of memory of the 7 million victims of the Day Committee. The show included cepted the plaque on her behalf, for she students. Many other priests assisted in Great Famine in Ukraine. performances by the Annunciation was busy doing her job counting the the liturgy. The St. George Ukrainian Parish Ukrainian Dancers, from Fresh money. Catholic Church Choir from New York, After the liturgy, the hierarchs. Meadows. N.Y.. directed by Olga Joseph Lesawycr, the head of the directed by ivan Chomyn, sang the clergy, alumni, seminarians and faculty Wojcik; the Eternities Echo Bandura Endowment Committee for St. Basil's responses. posed for a group shot in front of the Ensemble of Hartford, Conn., directed Seminary, also spoke to the attentive Before the homily. Bishop Losten pavilion. "Mnohaya Lita" was sung by Joanna Високо and vira Mamchur; audience about the need to collect welcomed the public on the joyous numerous times and the new bell, the female singing duet of Halya and donations lor the tutu re of St. Basil's. anniversary of the seminary. Metropo– named Basil, rang out. Anira Kuzio; the Zoria Dance En– litan Sulyk delivered a homily in Ukrai– After the program, tours of the The festival began immediately after scmble of New Britain Conn., directed museum,were offered to the interested nian which stressed the need for young by Daria Pishko: and the Promin men to enter the priesthood. Auxiliary the liturgy. Booths of Ukrainian cuisine public. Some of the festival-goers were set up: besides the traditional Singers of New York, directed by headed toward the college auditorium, Bishop Moskal followed with a homily Bohdanna Wolansky. in English, it had a bit of a personal varcnyky. holubtsi and kovbasa. the ail- where a dance to the music of the American hot dogs, hamburgers and Charivrri Ochi Orchestra was being touch, as he recalled his days at the During the two-hour program. Mr. beer were served on the premises. All held, while still others walked across the seminary and Bishop Constantine Bo– Hezzey read telegrams of congratula– foods were donated to the festival street to the St. Basil's Prep auditorium hachevsky's influence. He praised the tions sent by President Ronald Reagan committee, and tens of volunteers put in lor a golden jubilee exhibit, slide show foresight of the bishop who saw the and Connecticut Gov. William O'Neill hours of work. Crowds gathered and book sale. need for an institution such as the to St. Basil's on the occasion ol its 50th around the tables of sweets before Since the inception of the Connecti– Ukrainian Catholic seminary in order anniversary. to produce native Ukrainian American making their way down the path toward cut State Ukrainian Day. the committee clergy. Bishop Moskal also stressed the the arts and crafts booths. One long Mr. Hezzey also introduced Mary has donated over S90.000 to the Stam– importance of family life in raising table included crafts made by members Lynn Seleman, Miss Connecticut ford Ukrainian Catholic Diocese, with "good, wholesome, pious men," who of the Connecticut State Ukrainian U.S.A.. who told the audience that she the monies being turned over to Bishop will serve the Lord, and cited examples Festival Committee. Other tables sold was Ukrainian and expressed best Losten, who serves as honorary chair- from St. Paul's commendations of jewelry. Ukrainian records, goods from wishes to the seminary on its anniver– man of the committee. Timothy's faith in the Bible. Ukraine and raffle tickets with pro– sary. The committee, which consists of a ceeds going toward St. Basil's Prepara– Before holy communion was re– Donald Horbaty, who has served on board of 11 hard-working members, tory School and Seminary. A table was ceived. Metropolitan Sulyk requested the festival committee every year since collaborates with the 10 Ukrainian also set up by Americans for; Human that all prayers otfered at this ume oein its inception, and who acted as ,chair– Catholic parishes in the state. S Ш ю ГНЕ UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18,1983 NO. 38

niak, a public affairs producer for Circle inn takes Softball title SUSK Congress... CHCH-Tv in Hamilton. Ont. (Continued from page 4) Saturday afternoon concluded with by Mark Anderson t oiikcis team vau that lead grow to 6- 1 Committee. Both speakers discussed two concurrent panel dicussions. Prof. before П was able lo close the gap to 6-2 how SUSK could play an integral role Borys Schneider of the University of El.l.(Wit.l.E. NY. Excellent in the fifth. in the local, provincial and Ottawa spoke on Ukrainian and Slavic defense and timely hitting were the keys national chapters of the UCC. studies programs in Canada and U– The seventh was shaky lor Circle, kraine. as the Circle inn As marched to the Saturday afternoon continued with with Krylati scoring a run with only one The second panel, titled "Maibutnist championship of the third annual two sessions, in a panel called "ldenti– out. With the bases loaded and the and Buduchnist." featured three SUSK softball tournament at the SUM-A fying the Hyphenated Ukrainian Cana– Krylati left-handed clean-up hitter at presidents who spoke on the viability of camp here on August 10-21. dian Student." CHCH-Tv producer the plate. Ortner. Circle's shortshop. SUSK. Messrs. Maryn. Bociurkiw and Morris llyniak and University of Ot– The As. sponsored by the Circle inn shaded a few steps toward second and George Samoil presented arguments on tawa lecturer Marta Olynyk discussed lounge of lrvington. posted a 4-І hardly had to move as the slugger lined why they thought Ukrainian students how they view the current trends in the record in the eight-team tournament, a low outside pitch right to Ortner. and the community should continued to Ukrainian student milieu. which included teams trom New York. A Yonkers hit scored another run support SUSK. Much discussion fo– Connecticut and New Jersey including before a lorceout at second ended the Running concurrently was a lecture cussed on the re-establishment of the the defending champion Yonkers suspense, giving Circle inn a hard– on "Group Professionalization and Student newspaper, which ceased Krylati. lought. 6-4 victorv and a clear shot at Leadership," presented by victor Ma– operations last February in Toronto. the title. larek, Quebec regional editor for the On Saturday evening, the congress Dan Chech led the Circle inn assault Globe and Mail newspaper. Mr. Ma– with 1 1 hits and a .6KS batting average. The Lys Mykyta team was ready for banquet paid tribute to 30 years of larek spoke on how SUSK and other SUSK. The evening opened with an six RBls and five runs scored in the the final game, having won handily over Ukrainian community organizations tourney. Mike Ortner led the team in St. Mary's Tridents in the other semi- alumni cocktail reception sponsored by could utilize the media to their advan– the SUSK national executive. RBls with seven, while collecting seven final game. tage. He also discussed how SUSK hits. Jerry Wanio had sixRBlsand led Over 200 SUSK members, alumni Combining tight defense with Pro– could raise its profile - within the and community members attended the the team in runs scored with eight. eiuk's pitching, the Circle inn As eased community and in Canadian society. George Lemsky was voted tournament 30th anniversary banquet and ball held to a quick 2-0 win. Lemsky tracked Mr. Malarek provided participants in the historic East Block on Parlia– Mvp by the team for his solid perfor– down some hard shots to left, and nailed with some pointers on approaching the mance at the plate and for keeping ment Hill. The banquet featured four a Lys runner with a bullet throw lo media and making an event news- keynote speakers who spoke on the Circle in the race with several sparkling Circle third baseman Wanio. Wanio worthy. defensive plays in left field. different eras of SUSK. The speakers, turned in some gems also, snagging two Friday evening featured a whirlwind all former and current SUSK activists Pitching chores were handled by line drives oft his shoe tops, including a bus tour of the national capital region. included Prof. Bociurkiw. Prof. Serbyn, Mark Anderson and Pete Prociuk. liner that started the game-ending Delegates were treated to close-up views Yurij Dashko and Mr. Maryn. SUSK's Anderson compiled a 3-1 record with double play. Wanio throwing to second of Ottawa's tourist attractions before national president. Mr. Bociurkiw one shutout in the first four games by baseman Steve lwanechko to double off being deposited in front of the Soviet wrapped up the speeches with a brief keeping his^;ftat'pitqh around the plate the Lys runner and preserve Prociuk's Embassy for a demonstration to com– commentary on SUSK and its news- with enough consistency to keep op- shutout. memorate the Great Famine in Ukraine. paper, Student. position batters swinging and his own Ortner drove in Prociuk for the Over 100 students and members of Greetings read during the banquet fielders busy. Prociuk. ace arc pitcher game-winning RBl in the first, and the Ottawa Ukrainian community par– were received from a variety of digni– for Circle inn in the lrvington League, Steve Nahorniak drove in Chech with ticipated in the demonstration. Pro– taries and organizations, including: pitched the championship game against the insurance run in the fifth. An testors carried placards and sang Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau; the the Lys Mykyta team from New York honorable mention was given by team- solemn Ukrainian songs. During an Minister of State for Multiculturalism; City. males to Circle right-fielder Dan Koch. outdoor moleben, the Rev. Maxim the Ukrainian Canadian Committee; Circle inn. top seed in its four-team Lysak lit a single candle and passed the the Canadian Ukrainian Youth Asso– division, finished the first round of the flame to the candles of surrounding ciation, SUMK; the Ukrainian Stu– tournament with a 2-І record, setting Make meetings... students. The lit candles symbolically dents Federation of Europe (SUSTE); the-stage Jor-the 'Su-nday afternoon " (Continued from page 4) brought to mind the millions of famine and the Ukrainian Academic Society of semifinal clash between Circle and the victims who died in 1932-33. Edward Stricha. A number of former Yonkers Krylati team which charged the New York and New Jersey areas SUSK's commemoration of the 50th SUSK presidents and activists also sent into the playoffs with a 3-0 record. have made a practice of scheduling anniversary of the Great Famine con– telegrams and greetings to the banquet. either a lecture, film or performance tinued on Saturday morning with a The entire evening was emceed by Lydia The game was a rematch of the two prior to each meeting. A social hour presentation by Prof. Roman Serbyn of Migus of Ottawa. teams that met in the finals in last year's usually precedes or follows meetings, the University of Quebec at Montreal. tournament. Yonkers had come away Following the banquet, a dance was which draw an increasingly larger Saturday moming continued with from that game with a tough 5-3 win number of young members. held with the popular Ukrainian band, two concurrently scheduled sessions. veselka. The evening concluded with and the right to take home the cham– The first step in revitalizing gather– The first was presented by Prof. Bohdan pionship cup. singing and dancing around Parliament ings which have atrophied over the R. Bociurkiw, who spoke on 30 years of Hill's eternal flame monument. 'Yonkers broke on top with a run in years is to re-evaluate the demographic human-rights campaigns and the role of the first but the Circle inn bats awoke in The last day of the congress opened make-up of the branch and district the Ukrainian students in this move– with the Ottawa premiere of the film, the bottom of the first, banging out five members, identify those who regularly ment. straight singles and seven hits in all to "Laughter in my Soul." The film was take part in branch activities. Who are Another panel discussed the growing grab a heady 5-1 lead after one. The introduced by its producer, Ms. Kuch– those no longer taking part? Have trend of studying in Ukraine. Larry mij, who showed both English and efforts been made to involve those who Ewashko of Ottawa and Alexis Kochan Ukrainian versions of the film. have recently moved into your location? Budyk of Winnipeg — two former The latter part of the day consisted of Nostra culpa Consider involving the sons or daughters students who studied for over a year in SUSK plenary sessions. The firstsessio n of the "old regulars" who are no longer in The Weekly's story about the Ukraine - related their experiences featured reports of,local Ukrainian boys and girls, but productive adults. Labor Day weekend tennis tournament, during this stay and summarized the students' clubs and of the SUSK the name of the businessman who is it worth the extra effort? it might pros and cons of studying there. Both national executive. purchased Gatorade for all tennis make more sense than sitting through speakers placed a high value on student During the plenary sessions, several players was inadvertantly misspelled. another "one of those" meetings, or to exchanges to Ukraine. constitutional amendments were pre– The correct spelling is John Hynansky. think of a good reason not to. A group of Ukrainian immigrants sented. A number of amendments from Poland arrived Saturday after- submitted by the Concordia University noon from Toronto to speak about their Ukrainian Students'Club proposed experiences as refugees. The panelists, fundamental changes to the name and MEDICAL ASSOCIATES P.A. who.came to Canada with the help of objectives of SUSK. the Canadian Ukrainian immigrant Aid Department of Surgery Among other changes, the Concordia Society and SUSK, described their new club wanted to change the name of 77 Union St. Dover, N. J. 07801 lives in Canada and how they learned to SUSK from "Ukrainian Canadian Tel. (201) 366-5000 adjust to a new way of life. Students' Union" to the "Ukrainian is pleased to announce the association of Held concurrently with the refugee Students Union of Canada."Concordia panel was a presentation titled, "Cy– club delegates cited difficulties with the GEORGE M. CHlROvSKY M.D. bernetics SUSK." The panel featured a term "Ukrainian Canadian" as reasons to practice in the specialty of general surgery group of five current and former SUSK for the name change. The amendment activists who work professionally in the was dropped by its proponents after a at their offices: media. The panel included presenta– number of delegates raised several legal 77 Union St COnical Offices tions by: Mr. Bociurkiw and Ms. questions dealing with the name change. Dover, N. J. MorrMown Memorial Chudczak of the Multicultural Media 365-5000 Hospital Another constitutional amendment contact Skills Development Project; Dorio had to do with the objectives of SUSK. 366-5000 Lucich, project manager of video Concordia USC delegates proposed SUSK, a SUSK-sponsored summer 413 W. Main St. Route 206 and Main St. that SUSK add the phrase, "to defend Boonton, NJ. Flanders, N. J. video project conducted in the early the Ukrainian cause" to its list of 335-6006 594-0555 1970s; Ukrainian Canadian film-maker objectives. The amendment was defeated Halya Kuchmij, producer of "The e He will be operating in: Dover General Hospital. Honistown Memorial Hospital. St Claire's Hospital. after several delegates protested (he J Denville. N. J. and Riverside Hospital. Boonton. N. J. Strongest Man in The World" and ambiguity and "overly nationalistic ІЬвевевеаеаевевевевеаевевоаеаевеаовевевевевеаевевевеаев "Laughter in My Soul"; and Mr. llly– tone" of the amendment. No. 38 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER IS, 1983 її Gets honorary degree lances - apart from largely impeccable intonation and fine phrasing. ' !e ob– STAMFORD, Conn. - Michael J. viously gives great thought to his ork." Nagurney. the first headmaster of St. During his stay with the Cap Town Symphony. Mr. Kuchar had th ionor Basil's Preparatory School and registar type ot work, in the Commonwealth of of St. Basil's College, was recently The nuns of this order founded Manor of conducting works by Hayd Liszt Massachusetts. He is a licensed real Junior College in 1947. and Dvorak. The write-up on h lebut awarded an honorary degree of Doctor estate broker in Massachusetts and also of Laws. as a conductor described him "one certified by the commonwealth as a real who knows exactly what he is і ig on in granting the degree during this estate appraiser. jubilee 50th anniversary year of St. the podium and at the same ti puts Early this summer he was awarded across the image of a very able Basil's. Bishop Basil Losten. president the real estate appraiser designation, of the college, cited Mr. Nagurney'shalf personality." senior member of the American Society Mr. Kuchar is a member і NA century of contributions to the growth of Appraisers. of St. Basil's. He spoke about Mr. Branch 25 in Jersey City, N.J. Nagurney's promotion of Ukrainian in July, he WES named assistant vice- culture, his 35 years of service as a president of the Boston Federal Savings teacher and administrator in the Stam– Bank. Accepts music post ford Public School System, his long- This tall, he will teach an introduc– time service as a member of the Stam– tory course in "income Property Ap– ford Housing Authority and as chair- praisal ll."atStonehill College in North man of seven different Charter Revision Easton. Mass. Commissions of the City of Stamford, Mr. Pastuszek Jr. is a graduate of his membership on the Commission on Oberlin College. He, as does his entire Aging and his service and leadership as family, belongs to UNA Branch 231. a member and officer in a number of He is married to Ellen Jean nee local and national organisations. Smith. They have a daughter. Danya, and reside in Brighton. Mass. Since retiring from the Stamford Public Schools System, Mr. Nagurney has returned to St. Basil's as a part-time teacher of chemistry and biology, in Takes part in Tv panel 1981, Mr. Nagurney was made a Knight Sister Anthony Ann Laszok of St. Gregory the Great bv Pope John JENK1NTOWN, Pa. - Sister An– Paul 11. thony Ann Laszok OSBM. dean of admissions at Manor Junior College Mr. Nagurney is a long-time member here, took part in a special panel Gymnast wins award of Branch 350 of the Ukrainian Na– discussion on Channel 9, WOR-Tv of tional Association. He and his wife, Ann. New York on July 10 at 9:30 a.m. reside in Stamford. The panel for the program. "Points of view," was composed of representatives Realtor keeping busy of the Byzantine Ukrainian, Melkite and Ruthenian churches of the Eastern violinist Eugene Gratovich BRIGHTON. Mass. - UNA SU– Catholic Church. preme Advisor William J. Pastuszek Sr. Panel members discussed thesimilari– CLEVELAND - violinist Eugene is a member of the Delaware County ties and differences between the Eastern Gratovich and his wife, pianist Sylvia Board of Realtors, a senior member of Catholic Churches and the Latin Rite Golmon, have accepted positions at the the American Society of Appraisers and Roman Catholic Church. Some topics Cleveland institute of Music, beginning senior member of the Association of discussed were the distinct identities of September 1, Delaware County Real Estate Ap– Eastern Churches, icons, married clergy, Dr. Gratovich 'will be the coordrna– praisers. youth and family. tor of graduate violin studies, and Ms. William J. Pastuszek Jr., the son of Sister Anthony Ann represented the Golman will head a program fortalent– William Sr. and Theodozia, followed in Ukrainian Catholic Church as a mem– ed young pianists in the preparatory his father's footsteps, doing the same ber of the Sisters of St. Basil the Great. division.

, ^й”СКЗДСЛ^^ ^j,^::ys.H.-:^'-–: . ...– -.-:";^^ Dr. Gratovich has recorded Ukrai– nian contemporary music on Orion Barnabas Medical Center gave the Records. Recently, he recorded the Rostyk.. sitters employee privileges which "Prc-First sonata" of Charles lves of (Continued from page 1) included free parking and cafeteria Finnadar Records. He is frequently use. heard on radio broadcasts and has Я operation, wheeled the little boy into performed on the Robert Sherman І the operating room. Rostyk was released on September 3 and has been staying with Mrs. Hour in New York. He has co-hosted Korenec. where he is recuperating. the morning "Pro-Musica Show" in The operation was performed by Boston and has appeared on the "Joe Dr. J.J. Keyser, a member of the Peer Franklin Show," also in New York. Й Group for Plastic Surgery. The Dr. Kuzmak explained that the І anesthesiologist was Dr. Roger Trcs– accident Rostyk had as an infant left 1 ticio, and Rostyk's pediatrician the boy with no index finger and only Shust ends engagement І during his stay in America is Dr. 10 percent of his thumb. The Sep– І Olga vysata. tember 1 operation made his left Freshman Oksana Perun (left) made NEW YORK - William Shust, an І hand functional, but further surgery the Fremd High School Gymnastic acclaimed stage actor, whose roles in According to representatives of will be required for Rostyk to have a varsity team. Participating in eight the past have included Count Dracula l the UNWLA. St. Barnabas Hopital "normal" left hand. competitions. Oksana won seven and Sir Thomas More, recently ended a І and its administrator. John Philips. and lost only one during the season. New York City engagement at the І were very accommodating. A Ukrai– While in the hospital, Rostyk She went on to the lllinois State Roundabout Theater. nina-speaking nurse, Stephanie became quite a celebrity. He was Competition in gymnastics and came in second in the beam and Mr. Shust, who is an American actor і Ferenz, assisted Rostyk during his interviewed by both the Daily vault competition. of Ukrainian descent, appeared in two І stay at the hospital, and Mr. Cylupa News and The New York Times. one-act plays, George Bernard Shaw's stayed with his son around the clock. The reporter for the Times spoke "How He Lied to Her Husband" and to the boy in Polish, who. after Brian Friel's "Winners." having the questions translated into Conducts symphony The UNWLA set up a "Rostyk He had been performing at the Ukrainian, replied politely to his І Cylupa Sitting Schedule," that is, theater, located on 26th Street and interviewer's questions, telling him CAPE TOWN. South Africa - - a member of the organization Eighth Avenue, since May; the show his mother was at home, far away. Theodore Kuchar. principal viola of the і was present with the Cylupas at all Cape Town Symphony, recently tried came to a successful close on Sunday, times so they would not feel alone at his hand at conducting, reported The September 11.' І the hospital, and would be able to During The Times interview. Mr. Mr. Shust is best known to Ukrai– Cylupa expressed his deep gratitude Cape Times, the local newspaper here. communicate with the staff. Mr. Kuchar, a resident of Cleveland nian audiences for his numerous ap– , The following ladies, most of them to everyone who was helped Rostyk. pearances at benefits for Ukrainian He added that he was happy to stay and Tanglewood, N.Y., "is possessed of і members of the UNWLA,stayedwith causes throughout the years. Often he with Rostyk .at all times in the considerable expertise, great musicality І Rostyk: Anna Korenec, Nadia and unbounded enthusiasm," the news- entertains his public with bilingual hospital, adding that in Poland he anecdotes and poetry recitations. І Kostyk, Helen Mandzy and Anna was forbidden to visit his son for paper commented on his viola solo : Krawczuk– Also on the sitting roster three months. performance in the seldom performed A versatile actor who has appeared in І were: Olha Zaremba, Olena Melny– "Harold in ltaly" by Louis-Hector over 250 roles, Mr. Shust has also j chuk, Maria Polanskyj. Larissa The Cylupas are scheduled to stay Berlioz. appeared as Clarence Birdseye, the Pencak and Stephanie Brenych, but in the United States for two more The critic acclaimed his performance, frozen food promoter on television j because of Rostyk's speedy recovery, months while the little blue-eyed boy stating: "His considerable chamber- commercials. і their services were not needed. St. undergoes physical therapy. work experience was reflected in preci? Mr. Shust belongs to UNA Branch 'f,t:–" ГрЯЯркаг???ГГ. :'іїГ?.-Лтг."""'" sion, of ens,e,rnhle^gd^ weU-jijdged :ba,–. ЗбД.уі Ne,w,York, ...... ,.,,,.,,,.., Ukrainian Orthodox League holds 36th annual convention by My kola Wozniak Greetings tollowed from the host preparation for the celebration of the male chorus. Surma, under the capable parish's pastor, the Rev. Scharba: the 1.000th anniversary of the Ukrainian direction of Dr. vasyl Truchly. The HAMMOND, lnd. - Gathering convention chairman. F,mil Skocypec; Orthodox Church. Plans are now in choir was accompanied by pianist under the theme "One Family in Christ." the senior host chapter president. motion for the publication and sale of Nadia Sawyn and received a prolonged the general membership of the Ukrai– Barbara Patronik; the junior host posicards with ;t millennium theme. standing ovation from the over 400 nian Orthodox League of the U.S.A. chapter president Marc Skocypec; and people in the audience. On Saturday morning, following a held its 36th annual convention on July Hammond mayor Edward J. Raskosky. moleben. the entire convention body 12-17 in Hammond, lnd. The hosts for The grand banquet and ball were held gathered in the hotel chapel for a the convention were the junior and Plenary sessions continued through- at the convention hotel's grand ball- requiem service, during which prayers senior LOL chapters of St. Michael out the day and on Friday and Satur– room on Saturday evening. During the were offered for the repose of the souls Parish, of which the Rev. John Scharba day. The work of the UOL during the program, the annual awards were and eternal memory of the 8 to 10 is pastor. past year was discussed, and plans were presented as follows: senior chapter of made for the coming year. Among the million victims of the Great Famine. the year - St. Michael of Minneapolis: Delegates, alternates and guests most significant of league activities junior chapter of the year — St. Michael from all areas of the country - from mentioned were; the Metropolitan John Lesia Samp, author of the UOL of Hammond, lnd.; junior Orthodox of California to Connecticut - began Scholarship Fund, which offers finan– publication on the famine, spoke briefly the year - Lorie Simko of Ambridge, arriving at the Holiday inn South in cial assistance to seminarians at St. before the service, reminding the UOL Pa.: and runner-up - John Balasz of membership of the magnitude of this Harvey, ill., on Tuesday and Wednes– Sophia Seminary (over 550.000 since its Carteret. N.J.: senior Orthodox of the inception); fund-raising for the All tragedy. Among the members present year - Mary Siemon of Minneapolis, day. Many participated in an all-day were many whose parents, grand- excursion to Marriott's Great America Saints Ukrainian Orthodox Camp in and runner-up - William Sadowitz of Emlenton, Pa. (over 550,000 in five parents, brothers and sisters had perish– Johnson City. N.Y. on Wednesday. They returned to Ham– ed in this genocide conducted by Soviet mond in time to participate in the final years): the education commission, The Lynn Sawchuk, Sharon Kuzbyt which publishes religious educational Communists under the leadership of meetings of the senior and junior UOL Stalin. Scholarships totalling 53.200. were national executive boards prior to the pamphlets and materials for the use of awarded to John Balasz of Carteret, Archbishop Constantine officiated opening of the convention, in addition, the Church membership: the Ukrainian N.J., and Timothy Patronik of Ham– with the assistance of all clergy present the hosting chapters treated their guests affairs committee, which publishes mond. lnd. Winners of the millennium materials and informs UOL members at the convention. The membership of essay contest were Natalie Suffer of to a welcome pi?za party at St. Michael the UOL as "one family in Christ" sang Parish Center. and the general public about all Ukrai– Philadelphia, and Charissa Sheptak of nian issues, such as. political prisoners the very moving responses. Lyndora, Pa. On Thursday. July 13. the member- and the "Ukrainian holocaust" - the The convention culminated on Sun- ship of the league gathered at the hotel The social activities during the con– Great Famine of 1932-33; the millen– day, July 17. with a divine liturgy at St. chapel - constructed especially for vention were designed to allow dele- nium committee, which is making Michael Church with Archbishop Con– convention use - to begin the conven– gates, alternates and guests to relax preparations for UOL participation in stantine celebrating. Following liturgy, a tion with the celebration of divine alter the long days of discussion and the millennium of Ukrainian Ortho- farewell luncheon was enjoyed by all in liturgy. The main celebrant was Arch- deliberation during plenary sessions. doxy - the Baptism of Ukraine; the the parish center. bishop Constantine of Chicago, who On Thursday evening the membership Lynn Sawchuk;Sharon KuzbytScholar- gathered at St. Michael Ukrainian was assisted by the senior UOL Spiri– ship Fund, which awards scholarships Newly elected officers of the Ukrai– tual Advisors the very Rev. Paul Center for a production of "Hello. nian Orthodox League for 1983-84 are: to former junior UOL members who Dolly" performed by the Main Square Hrynyshyn of Ss. Peterand Paul Parish, have gone on higher education; the Dr. Woloschak of Minneapolis, presi– Wilmington, Del., and the Rev. John Players, who are associated with St. dent; Emil Skocypec of Hammond, lnd., sports and recreation committee, which M ichael Center. A cast of 50 actors and Nakonachny of Holy Ascension Parish, conducts an annual basketball tourna– first vice president; Alice Sivulich of Maplewood, N.J. actresses sang and danced their way into Northampton. Pa., second vice presi– ment for both junior and senior UOL the hearts of the audience to a standing members. dent; Helen Crayosky of Northampton, Also serving was the Rev. Sergei ovation. Pa., recording secretary; Lynn Szafran– Holowko of Ss. Peter and Paul Parish, The Junior Ukrainian Orthodox On Friday evening, the traditional ski of Maplewood, N.J.. corresponding E?alos Park. ill. Leading the singing of League held separate sessions at the Ukrainian Cultural Concert was held at secretary; Ms. Samp of Greensburg, responses were the very Rev. William hotel during which the members made the center. The Rev. Scharba served as lnd., financial secretary; Lynn Diakiw of Ss. Peter and Paul Parish, plans for the coming year's work. The master of ceremonies and first intro– Konchak of Pittsburgh, treasurer; and Lyndora. Pa.; the Rev. John Scharba. juniors sponsor a Special Projects Fund duced the Todaschuk Sisters, Rozalia Svetlana Kot of Detroit, Daniel Gulak St. Michael Parish of Hammond, lnd.; for which the individual chapters and Anna, from Winnipeg. The girls of Maplewood, N.J., and Mykola and the very Rev. Taras Chubenko, St. throughout the contry raise funds entertained the audience with cabaret Dillendorf of Chicago, auditors. Demetrius Parish, Carteret, N.J. These through various "marathons," such as, singing, dancing and a tsymbaly Junior UOL officers are: Natalie clergy also served the moleben on bicycling, pyrohy-eating contests, etc. performance. Sufier of Philadelphia, president; Marc ' Friday and Saturday prior to plenary The juniors make donations from this The second participants in the con- Skocypec of Hammond, lnd., vice sessions. fund to such institutions as St. Sophia cert were four dancers from St. Andrew president; Stephanie Unger, of The first plenary session followed the Seminary Library fund and All Saints Parish in Addison. ill., Andrij and Northampton, Pa., corresponding^ re- liturgy on Thursday, it was a combined Camp. They also conduct an annual Raissa Karesejczuk, and Tamara and cording secretary; Yvonne Szafranski junior senior session and was called to Cultural Contest - all Ukrainian arts Taisa Kolomayets. of Maplewood, N.J.. financial secre– order by the UOL's senior president. and dancing - during the convention: The second half of the Concert was tary; Wendy Todd of Hammond, lnd.. Dr. Gayle Woloschak of Minneapolis. and a millennium essay contest in performed by Chicago's Ukrainian treasurer. WLJ

0П of ч л?ЗДкі^пЦвОД^ЗВДод?ДОі ^be ,UXraiiJBW^.Qltlwdox League. No. 33 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER IS, ШЗ ІЗ

November 1-15, 1933 appeared. This one. also datelined Lviv, was report about the famine in the Kuban territories. headlined: "Ukrainians May Not Protest" and (Continued from page 4) Written by a correspondent for the Manchester explained that Polish officials had banned any story noted that many residents of Moldavian Guardian, the report stated that an extraor– type ot protest meetings and any passing ol villages were being resettled in Siberia. dinary number of deaths had occurred in the resolutions in western Ukraine protesting the News reports from Chernivtsi, published on region during the last year. hunger in Soviet Ukraine. November 8. stated that the district committee On that same day Svoboda reprinted reports On page 2 of Svoboda. a slogan ran across was encouraging towns and villages in the in English from the Manchester Guardian about the page which said: "it is a Ukrainian and Bukovina area to form their own aid committees the situation in Ukraine. Following are excerpts human responsibility to take part in demonstra– to help the famine victims in Ukraine. from the text, which was printed in series lorm tions and marches to protest the starvation of on November 13, 14 and 16. it had appeared in According to a commentary in Svoboda, millions of Ukrainians by the Soviets." the Manchester Guardian on October 17-21: which also appeared on November 8. Cardinal That same day Svoboda also published the "During the present year the resident of Theodore lnnit?er of vienna. along with his text of a speech delivered by Prof. Robert E Moscow has heard what seemed to be contradic– Committee to Save the Hungrv in Ukraine, met lreton at the University of Detroit at the tory reports from the villages: private, unofficial with representatives ot various organisations on Ukrainian protest meeting. stories of hunger unknown since the great October 16 to begin more concrete aid actions. in that same issue, Svoboda published an tamine of 1921-22 in the rural areas of Southern - The cardinal stated that the immediate plan ol article, written bv the representatives ot the and Southeastern Russia, and official claims of action had no political overtones; the group was National Women's Council, which appealed to improved labor discipline and morale on the acting strictly out of humanitarian concerns, hi mothers around the world to help the starving collective farms, and ol an excellent harvest. said. children in Ukraine. "it was with a view to learning the actual tacts Also on November 8. a copy of a speech Svoboda printed news from vienna on of the situation that your correspondent.has just delivered by Fedir Lutsiv of the University of November ll. An Austrian newspaper. Neue undertaken a visit of two weeks to three Dubuque was published in Svoboda. Mr. Lutsiv Freie Presse. stated that its Moscow correspon– substantially separated regions, one in the North gave a brief history of Ukraine and explained the dent reported that bread was now available in Caucasus and two in Ukraina." current situation in both eastern and western Ukraine, although it could only be purchased for According to the correspondent's reports, he Ukraine to his audience. large sums of money. found cases of hunger and quite abnormal On November 9. the front page of Svoboda That same day. news datelined London was mortality rates in both the Northern Caucasus carried news that the Polish government would printed in Svoboda. A correspondent for The and in Ukraine. He wrote: not allow Ukrainians to protest on October 29 Morning Post stated that there would be even "it is only after one leaves the railway line and against the famine in Ukraine. The motive for greater famine in І934. visits this typical Cossack 'stanitsa.'picturesquely this decision was the recent assassination attempt located on a high bluff overlooking the Kuban on an official from the Soviet Consulate in Lviv. Also on November ll. Svoboda printed the River, that one begins to realise the fierceness of the Polish press said. text of the pastoral letter-appeal issued by the bishops of the Ukrainian Catholic Church on the class struggle that has raged around the issue The same day Svoboda printed news lrom October 17, 1933. it was signed by Metropolitan of collectivisation in this region and that gives to Lviv that the Polish press had totally ignored the Sheptytsky and the following bishops: Hryhoriy the naturally rich and fertile Kuban valley today famine situation in Ukraine. This fact was noted Khomyshyn of Stanislav, Yosafat Kociolowsky a somewhat desolate impression. 1 had traveled in two Polish publications. of Peremyshl, Hryhoriy Lakota. auxiliary fairly extensively in the Kuban region in 1924, On November І0. across the top of the front bishop of Peremyshl; lvan Liatyshevsky. auxil– and was immediately struck now by certain page. Svoboda published the following slogan: iary bishop of Stanislav; and lvan Buchko, visual contrasts. Gone were the rich loaves of "We Must Protest Against the Starving of auxiliary bishop of Lviv. wheaten bread and the delicious slices of lamb Ukrainians by the Soviets."The slogan ran in the that were freely offered for sale everywhere in The appeal slated October 29 as a day ot paper every day of that week. that year, immense numbers of the sheep and national mourning, a day to unite in love for the A news item datelined Lviv stated that the other livestock had been slaughtered as a result suffering Ukrainian brothers and sisters. The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Episcopate, headed ot the rage despair of the kulaks (a much larger appeal expressed deep gratitude to Cardinal by Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky. would part of the peasant population in this rich and lnnit?er for his work, it also referred to the hold a national day of mourning and protest on comparatively sparsely'settled territory than in' Youth in Christ participants who had marched October 29. on behalf of the Ukrainians in Soviet most other parts of Russia) when the authorities through the streets of Lviv in May. The appeal Ukraine. went to the policy of 'liquidating' them." asked the youths to pray, for much can be That day. according to the episcopate, would achieved through prayer. Ot his trip to Ukraine, the correspondent wrote: be marked by solemn liturgies. Directly underneath that article, another item On November 13, Svoboda carried a news (Continued on page 15)

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did indeed promulgate 11 national bun Marynchenko, 56. was com– Svoboda... commandements: Ukrainians in Soviet... mitted to a psychiatric hospital in (Continued from page 5) (1). The Ukrainian child should (Continued from page 3) Crimea after attempting sell-unmo– Another important contribution of associate exclusively with Ukrainian lation for political reasons. children and speak only in Ukrainian the Sychovka SPH. Svoboda to the development of a Anna Mykhailenko, a 48-year-old when in their company. Kalush (first name unknown) was distinct Ukrainian identity among teacher, was arrested in 1980 for (2). Parents or older members of the arrested in 1977 for "anti-Soviet Rusyn Americans was its publication of "anti-Soviet activities" and sent to family should teach children to read and agitation and propaganda" and sent yearly "calendars" or almanacs issued in the Kazan SPH. write Ukrainian during the child's pre– to the Dnipropetrovske SPH. cooperation with the Ukrainian Na– Olha Nozhak, a teacher, has been school years. volodymyr Kaliuzhny of Donet– tional Association. A total of 15 such in the Alma-Ata SPH since 1955 for almanacs (1897 and 1901 through 1914) (3). Homes should be beautified with ske tried to escape to Afghanistan in "treason." 1975 and was sent to the Dniprope– were published prior to the war, ave– Ukrainian religious and historical ivan Osadchuk tried to flee to trovske SPH. raging 225 pages in length. Each al– paintings and pictures. Rumania in 1973 and is currently in a volodymyr Khailo, active in the manac contained historical articles on (4). The Ukrainian child should learn regular or special psychiatric hos– Ukraine and the Rusyn American Ukrainian sayings, as well as Ukrai– Baptist emigration movement in pital. Ukraine, was committed to the Dni– community, poems and other literary nian verses, songs and games. vasyl Poliynyk, 52. was placed in proputrovske SPH in 1980. pieces by such well-known Ukrainian (5). Let Ukrainian tradition live in the the Dnipropetrovske SPH in 1977 writers as Taras Shevchenko and ivan Ukrainian family. The father or older ivan Khomiak, a former member for writing poems about Soviet Franko, articles on the development of members of the family should always of the Organization of Ukrainian leader Leonid Brezhnev. the Ukrainian Church and the Ukrai– remember the important national dates Nationalists and the Ukrainian ln– vasyl Kuban, a Kiev poet, was nian language, facts concerning life in from our history. surgent Army, has been in psychia– arrested in 1972 for writing a book America (laws, population statistics, (6). The family should read Ukrai– tric hospitals since 1954 or 1956. titled "A Communist independent educational opportunities), translations nian books in unison during the long Mykhailo Klishch, a member of Ukraine," and was committed to the of foreign and American stories, crea– winter evenings. the outlawed Ukrainian Catholic Dnipropetrovske SPH. tive works by Ukrainian American (7). Every Ukrainian home should Church, was sent to the Sychovka vasyl Siry, 57, wasarrested in 1969 writers, and the usual monthly calen– have Svoboda, the truly Ukrainian SPH in 1974 for his religious activi– for trying to leave the USSR and dars listing holy days, saints'days and national newspaper. committed to the Kazan SPH. other ethno-culturally significant his– ties. 6 (8). The treasure of each family Anatoly Kochbyi has been in Feodor Sydenko, 45, was arrested toric dates. " Of special interest were the should be its library containing the best many exhortative articles urging Rusyns psychiatric institutions since 1972. in 1979 for trying to emigrate, and Ukrainian books. to preserve their heritage in the United when he tried to cross the border into was committed to the Cherniakovsk (9). The Ukrainian family should take SPH. States, in 1911, for example, an article Rumania. advantage of every opportunity to vitaliy Synyhovsky, a 51-year-old titled "Let's Respect Our Native Lan– attend a Ukrainian play, concert or a viktor Kolyshenko of Kolomyia native of Dnipropetrovske, was guage" stated: commemoration of a national holiday. tried to escape from the Soviet Union taken into custody in 1980 for re– "in Galicia, it is enough for any '(10). Every father, mother and older in '1972 and was confined in the ligious activity and sent to the Dni– common bum to speak to our man in a member of the family should belong to Dnipropetrovske SPH. propetrovske SPH. foreign language and already our Rusyn the Ukrainian National Association Pavlo Skochok, a 47-year-old is reversing his course; already he has and they should enroll their children in v.N. Korol, 56, a native of Uzhho– Kiev journalist, wasarrested in 1978 the juvenile division. They should never rod. has been in psychiatric hospitals forgotten his national pride which and committed to a psychiatric demands that he, always and every– refuse to contribute to worthwhile since the 1950s for his nationalist hospital for protesting political public and national causes. activities. where, speak his native language; he has repression in the Soviet Union. forgotten that he is the host in his native (11). Every family should try to bring Anatoliy Lupynis, 45, was sent to ivan Steba, 57, tried to emigrate to land and that all others are guests who back those members who have fallen the Oriol SPH in 1971 for reading Australia and was arrested in 1967 should use his language and not he away from Ukrainian traditions." poetry at the Shevchenko Monu– and sent to the Dnipropetrovske theirs. And here on foreign soil? Barely While the role of Svoboda in the ment in Kaniv. SPH. had the Rusyn grasped 20 words, barely making of the Ukrainian American was v'asyi Lutskiv, a defendant in the– Mykola Yakubenko was placed in had he learned to pronounce them... certainly significant, Rusyns did not famous Jurists Case in 1961, has been a psychiatric hospital in Kerch for and already, when he meets another become Ukrainians in America simply by reading Svoboda. To be maintained, incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital organizing a workers' group. Rusyn, he speaks English, ashamed to ethnic identities need to be constantly in Ternopil since at least 1976 for speak his native language... Anatoliy Yavorsky, 27, wasarrest– reinforced and nurtured through active distributing leaflets. He was released ed in 1979 for attempting to escape to "We should not miss one opportu– communion with individuals of like from a labor camp in 1971 after Czechoslovakia and was committed nity, be it in church, in school, at a convention. To preserve an ethnic serving 10 years. to the Dnipropetrovske SPH. meeting, or in private life, to remind identity in America requires its success– ourselves that it is oui national obliga– ful transmission to the next generation. already written to the World Congress tion to respect and to gain literary These roles were assumed by other Coordinating Council...o f Free Ukrainians to note that the command of our native language and agencies within the Rusyn-Ukrainian (Continued from page 1) Ukrainian Congress Committee of only then to begin to learn another community, most of which worked in language... lwashkiw, stated that the UCCA does America no longer represents them and concert with the UNA and Svoboda. not recognize the council as a legal to stress that the UACC is now their "Don't forget that people all over the entity and that it demands that Mr. Flis representative body, it was noted that world are beginning to talk about the 68. Bohdan Kraciw, "Kalendari і Al– publicly indicate how the UCCA vio– there are organizations that do not Rusyn people — they are beginning tfi manakhy Ukrayinskoho Narodnoho So– lated UCCA by-laws and rules of belong to the UCCA, but do not hold realize that the Rusyn people have not yuzu і Svobody" (Calendars and Almanacs of the Ukrainian National Association and procedure at the 13th congress of the membershp in the UACC. it was de– died, that they have not disappeared as the Poles were saying a little while back Svoboda). Ukrainian Fortress in America: UCCA. cided that these organizations would be and as the tsarist regime is saying now. Jubilee Almanac on the Occasion of the 75th UACC executive members deter– contacted in order to determine if they Let's show that we are truly proud of Anniversary of the Ukrainian National mined at the meeting that many of the consider the UCCA their representa– our glorious past, that we no longer Association (Jersey City, Svoboda Press, UACC's member-organizations had tives in the WCFU and other forums. want to trample on our language by 1969). pp. 120-123. 69. "Shanuymo Ridnu Movu" (Let's using words of another, that we are Respect the Native Language), Calendar of sincerely proud of our glorious name... the Ruskyi Narodnyi Soyuz for 1911, Jersey THE RT. REV. FR. IVAN TKACZUK "Rusyn people! if you want to be free,, City. Svoboda Press. 1911. pp. 147-149. strong, and powerful, if you desire to 70. in describing the unanimous approval TO CELEBRATE 50th ANNivERSARY become masters in your native land, for the change from Ruthenian (Rusyn) to On Saturday, September 24th, 1983 then add to God's Ten Command– Ukrainian at the UNA convention in Buffalo, Svoboda proudly wrote, "after all, the Ukrainian Orthodox Metropolia of America and Canada ments an 1 lth and teach it to your children: Remember your native lan– Ukrainians are now in fashion." Svoboda will celebrate guage and respect it always."6' (January 19. 1915). 71. "Ukrayinski Narodni Zapovidi" the 50th Anniversary of the Priestly Ordination By the end of 1914. after the term Ukrainian National Commandments. Ca– "Ukrainian" became the official ethnic lendar of the Ukrainian National Associa– of the Rt. Rev. Fr. designation of the UNA, Svoboda's tion for 1915. Jersey City, Svoboda Press. 70 ivan Tkaczuk, parent organization, the newspaper 1915. p. 150. Pastor of Alt Saints Ukrainian Orthodox Church, 206 E. 11th St., in Sew York City The celebration will begin at 11 a.m. with a Hierarchical DllT.S'E LlTURGYof mfe TUNE 1N TO THANKSGiviNG with His Eminence. Metropolitan ASDRElanil His Grace. BishopNlCHOLAS. together with Fr. ivAN andPRJESTSof the Metropolia k NATIVE MELODY concelebrating at All Saints Church. r^fr 23 THE BASQUET felicitating FR. ІУАУ will follow at 2 p.m. at St. Nicholas Hall. A UKRAINIAN RADIO PROGRAM 288 E. 10th Street (corner of Ave. A). І ON WPOW - 1330 AM FROM NEW YORK Anyone interested in attending the celebration should contact: The Rt. Rev. Peter - EVERY THURSDAY AT 7:00 P.M. Hotrovich, St. Mary's Orthodox Church. 121 E. 7th Street. New York City Tel.: (212) OR 4-1066. 1 JUBILEE COMMITTEE вЬм No. 38 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNOAY. SEPTEMBER i. 1983 15

been picked up: 1.500 of these were distributed November 10 issue of The Ukrainian Weekly: November 1-15, 1933 among families which were willing to care for "in order to call the civilized world's attention (Continued from page 13) them in the collective farms, while 500 were to the unprecedented reign ol terror in Ukraine "A visit to the Poltava market, where towns- organized in a children's commune. This, of instituted by the Soviet dictatorship and men chaffered with kerchiefed peasant women course, went far to explain the non-appearance furthermore, to the barbaric and unheard of over the prices of eggs and milk and vegetables, of waifs, of whom there were so mans after the destruction of the Ukrainian population by afforded a concrete illustration of two important civil war and the famine of 1921. Six thousand means of Moscow's deliberately planned and features of Soviet agricultural life the Soviet collective farm members .had been sent to the fostered famine, w hich has resulted in millions of control over the supplv 'f-staple П iJstuffs and coal-mines of the Donets Basin where the) could Ukrainians having died a terrible death from the tremendous decline in livestock which is find bread and work: 2.400 persons suffering starvation during the past year, the 'Obiednannia' perhaps the most unfavorable feature of Soviet from acute malnutrition were treated at central at its congress last week, proclaimed the whole agricultural life today. medical points: of these about 10 percent died month of November as a Month of Protest, and " 'What is the truth of rumors about food These establishments did not. as Mr. Mezhuev Sunday. November 19. 1933. as a National Day shortage in the Poltava district last winter and declared, reach every case, and my own observa– of Mourning for the Millions of Ukrainian spring?' 1 inquired (in the Poltava executiv tion in traveling about the district was that relief victims of Bolshevik Ferocity." committee office). was decidedly more accessible to the 12.000 " 'Elements of hunger there were.' replied Mr. peasant families of the district which are now Mezhuev. president of the local Soviet Executive Around the world. organized in collective farms than to the 2.5(H) Committee, weighing his words carefully. 'There The sixth congress of the United Ukrainian families which still maintained individual were deaths from hunger. But the stories in the Organizations ot America was held in New farming." emigre press about wholesale starvation are York. nonsense. The best refutation is our successtul On November 14. Svoboda also earned news New Yorkers elected Fiorello LaGuardia spring planting and our good harvest.' about the Ukrainian communitv in the Boston mayor, toppling the Tammany Hall politicians. "The president of the executive committee area, which marched in protest against the He was a member ol the Fusion part) then outlined interesting details of the relief famine in Ukraine. President Roosevelt met with Maxim l.itvinov work which had been organized in the district. The following appeal was issued bv United to-discuss compromises in the United States' Two thousand homeless peasant children had Ukrainian Organizations of America in the recognition ot the Soviet Union.

North Caucasus, the Ukraine and Lower volga splendid and all talk ol lamine now is ridiciWous." he The New York Times... regions in the past year was three times above normal assured his readers on September 17 ,; (Continued from page 7) - at least as far as the North Caucasus was con– "Summing up the impressions of a 10 days' trip s "The excellent harvest about to be gathered shows cerned.'" Whatever his new estimate was (he again through North Caucasus and Ukraine, where this that any report of a famine in Russia is today an avoided citing absolute figures). Duranty maintained correspondent traveled with greater freedom and exaggeration or malignant propaganda. The food it for only two days. He wrote from Kharkiv: absence of supervision than had been expected, І shortage which has affected almost the whole repeat the opinion that the decisive engagement in the "Early last year, under the pressure of the war struggle lor rural socialization has been won by the population in the last year, and particularly the grain- danger in the Far East, the authorities took too much producing provinces - that is, the Ukraine, North Kremlin," Duranty concluded on September 19. "The grain from the Ukraine. Meanwhile, a large number of cost in some places has been heavy, but a generally Caucasus, the Lower volga Region - has. however, peasants thought they could change the Communist caused heavy loss of life... The death rate rose during excellent crop is already mitigating conditions to a Party's collectivization policy by refusing to coope– 3 the winter and early spring to nearly four times the marked extent."' rate. Those two circumstances together - the flight of Returning to Moscow, Duranty continued to gibe at normal rate, which runs about 20 to 25 per 1,000 some peasants and the passive resistance of others - annually for the Soviet Union. Among peasants and the reports of famine, in mid-December the Soviet produced a very poor harvest last year, and even part government announced that the state grain collections others not receiving bread rations conditions were of that was never reaped. The situation in the winter certainly not better. So with a total population in the had been completed two and half months earlier than was undoubtedly bad. Just as the writer considered ever before. Duranty opined: --. ,.. і i,–. - ^ Ukraine, North Caucasus and Lower volga of upward that his death-rate figures for the North Caucasus were of 40,000,000 the normal death rate would have been exaggerated, so he is inclined to believe that the "This result, fully justifies the optimism expressed to about 1,000,000. Lacking official figures, it is estimate he made for the Ukraine was too low." fThat the writer by local authorities during his September conservative to suppose that this was at least trebled estimate was three times the normal death rate).24 trip through the Ukraine and North Caucasus - last year in those provinces and considerably increased optimism that contrasted so strikingly with the famine for the Soviet Union as a whole."26 Let us give this passage our attention, in the first stories then current in Berlin, Riga, vienna and other sentence Duranty implied - quite correctly - that the places, where elements hostile to the Soviet Union The careful reader (and how many of Duranty's authorities had caused the famine by stripping were making an 1 lth-hourattcmpt to avert American readers cared to untangle these sentences?) will note Ukraine of its grain. But they did so, he said, because recognition by picturing the Soviet Union as a land of that he avoided giving an absolute figure or famine they needed to stockpile food in case war with Japan ruin and despair."34 losses. But since he announced that the normal death broke out. Duranty presented this cause as if it were rate would have been about 1 million and that this was well-known and needed no explanation, in fact, he 26. "Famine Toll Heavy in Southern Russia," The New trebled, we must assume that he was hinting at 2 was sending up a trial balloon. He had only hinted at York Times, August 24, 1933. When Duranty's articles for million famine victims. fear of war with Japan as a cause of the famine in this period were collected in book form, even these timid previous articles, and he mentioned it again only 11 estimates were deleted. See "Duranty Reports Russia"(New in September 1933, when he received the privilege of years later, when he argued that the "man-made York, 1934), pp. 304-326. being the first correspondent to be allowed into the famine" (yes. he used that phrase, although he 27. "Bread Prices High in Southern Russia." The New famine regions after the travel ban was lifted. Duranty enclosed it in inverted commas), if anything like a York Times, September 12, 1933 set out by car for Rostov in the North Caucasus and famine had taken place at all, was entirely due to the 28. "Abundance Found in North Caucasus," The New Kharkiv and Kiev in Ukraine. His public view of the Red Army's need for food reserves.30 York Times. September 14. 1933. 29. "Big Soviet Crop Follows Famine." The New York "famine scare," which he presented in seven articles in in the second sentence of the passage, however, the Times between September 11 and 20, 1933, was not Times, September 16. 1933. Duranty adroitly shifted the blame for the famine onto 30. Walter Duranty, "USSR: The Story of Soviet Russia" changed by what he saw. the peasants, who had produced a very poor harvest by (Philadelphia, 1944), pp. 188-199. "Whatever the situation was here last winter or fleeing or putting up passive resistance. "Peasant 31. The argument came straight from the party arsenal, spring," Duranty cabled on 11 September, "there is no hatred of new ways, peasant conservatism and peasant and fellow travelers spun endless variations on it. A doubt Rostov-on-Don is a busy, flourishing city inertia," as well as outright sabotage - those were the hagiographer of Maxim l.itvinov discusses Stalin's accom– today. Local officials and newspaper men scout the real causes of any food shortages, Duranty insisted plishments in the following terms: "The collectivization of stories of hunger epidemics and a much increased again and again.31 agriculture... has been a major and difficult achievement, made more difficult and consequently more cruel by the death rate earlier this year. They emphasize that half As in his August dispatch, Duranty carefully stubbornness of certain sections of the peasantry. Yet when in the city's population now receives at least one meal v avoided giving an absolute figure of famine losses. the end collectivization succeeded, it brought prosperity to daily in factor and other 'mass restaurants." ' Earlier he had estimated that the normal death rate of the peasants... banished the ever-recurrent menace of famine... and has firmly established one of the essential Two days later Duranty suggested that the North І million in Ukraine, the North Caucasus and the Lower volga, taken together, had trebled, thus economic bases of the Soviet state." Arthur Upham Pope, Caucasus was a land of milk and honey: "Maxim Litvinoff"tNew York, 1943). pp. 266-267. "The use of the word "famine'in connection with the implying that the famine had killed 2 million people. Now he announced that this figure was too high for the І quote this passage because the assumptions in it — that North Caucasus is a sheer absurdity. There a bumper the peasants manifested a lemming-like suicidal instinct and crop is being harvested as fast as tractors, horses, North Caucasus and too low for Ukraine. But since he that collectivization was economically justified - have been oxen, men, women and children can work... There are did not give a population figure for Ukraine or unthinkingly taken up by scholars and statesmen. Even plump babies in the nurseries or gardens of the estimate its losses, we cannot tell what figure he had in Churchill (witness his oft-quoted conversation with Stalin collectives. Older children are watching fat calves or mind. The conclusion presented to the readers of the about the stresses of collectivization: worse than any battle driving cattle ... village markets are flowing with eggs, Times, however, was clear: if there was a famine of World War 11, Stalin said) accepted this thoroughly fruit, poultry, vegetables, milk and butter at prices far (Duranty's evidence on this point was highly ambigu– mendacious argument. lower than in Moscow. A child can see that this is not ous), it killed no more than 2 million people, arty any 32. "Big Ukraine Crop Taxes Harvesters." The New York famine but abundance. such losses were entirely justified by the success of Times, September 18, 1933. The headings are revealing: collectivization. A bit of suffering on the part of a few "Talk of Famine Now is Called Ridiculous After Auto Trip "This makes it all the more inexplicable that the ignorant, anti-social kulaks had assured abundance Through Heart of Region. People Well-Nourished. Obey Moscow authorities have restricted freedom of travel for all. Orders of the Kremlin, Realizing Benefits to Them - for any foreign correspondent, even on the plaintive Children Are Enthusiastic." grounds that 'some correspondents earlier wrote most in the remaining three articles in the series, Duranty 33. "Soviet Chiefs Ban Farm Work Lull," The New York distressing articles...' For the writer's part he believes resumed scoffing at the famine scare. "The writer had Times. September 20. 1933. the distressing facts were exaggerated. He thinks he just completed a 200-mile auto trip through the heart 34. "Free Trade in Food Allowed in Russia." The New himself exaggerated'їп saying the death rate in the of the Ukraine and can say positively thauhe harvest is York Times. December 17, 1933. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER IS, 1983 No. 38

Hotels in D.C. PREVIEW OF EVENTS Following is a list of hotels in Washington compiled by the lnter– Weekend of September 24 and 25 p.m. at the Ukrainian American Famine eyewitnesses are requested national visitors information Ser– Citizen's Club. Featured in the pro- to take part in the program. They І vice. The listing was provided by the KERHONKSON, N.Y.: Branch 72 gram will be the vocal quartet Dzvin should call committee members at Jj National Committee to Commemo– of the Ukrainian National Women's under the direction of T. Lycholaj. (313) 336-8291 or 356-1636. rate Genocide victims in Ukraine, League of America will sponsor a All area Ukrainians are invited to Tickets may be purchased from І and it is published here as a public gala weekend to celebrate its 21st attend this event. committee members, both Ukrainian Ц service of The Ukrainian Weekly. anniversary at Soyuzivka. A charity BRIDGEPORT, conn.: The ukrai– federal credit unions, or at the box Й dinner-dance will be held on Satur– office. Please call Mary v. Beck at J nian National Association and the Allen Lee Hotel day evening, with a cocktail hour at (313) 866-0982 or Stephen M. Wichar І Ukrainian Women's League of 2224 F'St. N.W. 20037 6:30 p.m. followed byadinnerat 7:30 at 286-6490 for additional informa– Щ Bridgeport will sponsor an Autumn 331-1224 p.m. Dance music will be provided tion. Anthony House by the Hirniak Orchestra. Sunday, Eve dance from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the 1823 L St. N.W. 20036 there will be.a breakfast and lun– Holy Trinity Church Hall. 85 York St. PARMA, Ohio: A fund-raising con– щ 223-4320 cheon. The donation for the weekend cert and banquet will be sponsored g BYOB; set-ups and snacks will be Bellevue Hotel is 555 per person, including a room by the Cleveland Committee for the ^ for one night. For information please available. Music will be provided by 15 E St. N.W. 20001 the Enchanted Eyes Orchestra from Creation of a "Ridna Shkola" fund, jj 638-0900 call or write Sophia Kotyk, 61-32 The event will begin at 3:30 p.m. at ;i 80th St.. Middle village, N.Y. 11379. Stamford. Conn. For more informa– the St. Pokrova Church hall. 6810 J Best Western - Midtown or call (212) 672-5816. tion please call (203) 336-1332. Broadview Road, it will also commc– 1201 K St. N.W. 20005 842-1020 Sunday, September 25 morate the century of work by lhe ; GLEN SPEY, N.Y.: The Ukrainian Ridna Shkola Association. Dona– Farragut West Hotel Philatelic and Numismatic Society tions are S25 for adults. S12 for ; 1808 1 St. N.W. 20006 will mark the 65th anniversary of the TOMS RivER, N.J.:The Ukrainian American Club of Ocean County in jouth. All proceeds will go toward Й 393-2400 first international airmail flight from the fund. vienna to Kiev at its meeting here at conjunction with the Ocean County Davis House the Ukrainian Fraternal Associa– Library will hold a Ukrainian Day 1822 R St. N.W. 20009 tion's resort from 2 to 5 p.m. at the library. There ONGOlNG: 232-3196 will be a slide presentation on U– included in the weekend program Columbia Guest House kraine sponsored by the Kobasniuk will be an open exhibit ol one frame ORLANDO, Fla.: The Orlando 2005 Columbia Road. N.W. 20009 Travel Agency in New York.narrated (nine classifications) for all collectors Public library will hold an exhibit of 265-4006 by Roman Mykyta. The program and a special one-page exhibit by Ukrainian books and arts and crafts will include slides from Uzhhorod. Connecticut inn Motel members with the theme "Ukraine throughout the month of September, Lviv, Ternopil. Yalta. Chernivtsiand 4400 Connecticut Ave. N.W. 20008 its many collecting areas." it is organized by Taissa (Decyk) i: Kiev. Free tickets are available at the 244-5600 Meeting participants will receive a Meleshko. a member of the Ukrai– f Ocean County Library. cachet envelope, souvenir card and nian National Women's League of Connecticut Woodley Tourist Home sheet,and special cancel comme– America in Apopka. Fla. The library j– 2647 Woodlev Road. N.W. 20008 morating the airmail issues. An WARREN, Mich.: The Ukrainian is located at 10 N. Rosalind Ave. The J 667-0218 auction and irade-buy-sc!l opportu– Community Committee of Metro– telephone number is (305) 425-4694. ' The Gralyn nitj lor all attendees will be available, polit:in Detroit will hold a com– 1745 -N St. N.W. 20036 l'hree special agenda items include a memorative concert in memory of 785-1515 report on the Ukrainian Philatelic the 7 million Ukrainians who perish– PREviEW OF EvENTS, a listing Hawthorne Hotel ed during the great famine of 1932- І xhibition in vienna. held Scptem– of Ukrainian community events open 2134 G St. N.W. 20037 33. The event will take place at 4 p.m. bei 8-12: a report on a correspon– to the public, is a service provided 338-7810 dencc course on trident mdentifica– at Fitzgerald High School Audito– free of charge by The Weekly to the lion; and a discussion on joining the num on Ryan and Nine Mile roads. Ukrainian community. To have an Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge American Philatelic Society as an Featured performers will be the event listed in this column, please 2601 Yirginia Ave. N.W. 20037 affiliate society, free admission. renowned laras Shevchenko Ukrai– send information (type of event, 965-2700 nian Bandurist Chorus under the date, time, place, admission, spon– international Guest House Saturday, September 24 direction of Hryhory Kytasty; Chris- sor, etc.), along with the phone 1441 Kennedv St. N.W. 20011 tine Lypecky. mezzo-soprano, with number of a person who may be 726-5808 Maria l.ysowska as piano accom– reached during daytime hours for COHOES, N.Y.: lhe Ukrainian international Student House panist; Oleksa veretenchenko in a additional information, to: PRE– famine Committee of the Albany 1825 R St. N.W. 20009 poetry recitation;and Michael Smyk. viEW OF EVENTS, The Ukrainian Capital District is sponsoring a 387-6445 special program commemorating the who will deliver the commemorative Weekly, 30 Montgomery St., Jersey Ukrainian Famine to be held at 7 address. City, N.J. 07302. intrigue Hotel 824 New Hampshire Ave. N.W. 20037 337-6620 institute announces continuing ed program Lombardy Towers Hotel 2019 1 St. N.W. 20006 NEW YORK The Ukrainian insti– "Although the Hunter College courses ing their capabilities in their native 828-2600 tute of America has announced its begin officially September l2,"explain- language, history and culture to call the Adult Continuing Education Program ed Dr. Zirka Derlycia, director of institute and register for these courses. Park Central Hotel of non-credit Ukrainian courses for fall education for the institute, "students Registration for all non-credit and 705 18th St. N.W. 20006 1983. The courses will begin September interested in auditing these courses may audited courses must be made through 393-4700 26 and end December 22 and will be begin on September 26 and will be able the U1A. The registration fee is S60 per Presidential Hotel conducted on the premises of the to obtain the information presented in course. Further information or late 900 19th St. N.W. 20006 institute. the two earlier sessions." registration may be obtained by calling 331-9020 They arc: Dr. Derlycia said she urges all Ukrai– the Ukrainian institute of America at " "Conversational Ukrainian,"Tues– nian Americans interested in broaden– (212)288-8660. Rock Creek Hotel days. 6 - 7:45 p.m.. Dr. Alexandra 1925 Belmont Road N.W. 20009 Tkacz, instructor: 462-6007 " "Ukrainian Ceramics": History Museum offers crafts courses St. Charles Hotel and Practice. Tuesdays 6:30- 8 p.m. and 1731 New Hampshire Ave. N.W. Thursdays 6:30 - 8 p.m.. Slava Gerulak. NEW YORK - The Ukrainian Mu– nian Museum, will again teach the 20009 instructor: seum has scheduled the fall session of course in embroidery (October 1 to 332-2226 " "Ukrainian History During the courses in embroidery and woodcarv– December 3.) Students will be able to 20th Century." Wednesdays 6:30 - 8:55 ing. learn the various stitches used in tradi– State Plaza Hotel p.m.; Dr. Anya Procyk. instructor; A 10-session course in Ukrainian tional-Ukrainian embroidery, as well as 2117 E St. N.W. 20037 ' "Bandura 1: Bandura Playing." decorative woodcarving(September 24- complete samplers involving those 861-8200 Wednesdays 7 - 8:30 p.m.. members of December 3) will be taught by Roman stitches. Classes will be held Saturday Walter Reed Hospitality House "Echo Of The Steppes" bandura en– Kosenko volvich. a former student of afternoons. The fee is S30 for adults. S25 6711 Georgia Ave. N.W. 20012 semble, instructors. Mychaijlo Czereszniowsky. Mr. Cze– for museum members. S20 for senior 722-1600 in addition to the above courses, the reszniowsky, the well-known sculptor citizens and free to those under age 16. institute's continuing education pro- and master carver, was the originator of Both courses are geared for beginners Washington Circle inn gram allows students to audit non- the woodcarving course at the museum. and advanced participants. All materials 2430 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. 20037 credit Ukrainian courses formally Classes will be held on Saturday after- are covered in the registration fee. For 965-6200 accredited bv Hunter College of the noons. The fee is S40 for adults. S35 for advance registration and additional City of New York (CUNY). These museum members. S30 for senior information please call (212) 228-0110. Washington Youth Hostel include "Elementary Ukrainian Lan– citizens, free to those under age 16. The courses are made possible, in part, Franklin Park Hotel guage 1." "intermediate Ukrainian by the New York State Council on the 1332 1 St. N.W. 20005 Lubow Wolynetz. director of the 347-3125 Language l."and "Ukrainian Culture." Educational Department at The Ukrai– Arts.