jaOOBSXJSJOOSXJeXXJCJaSS ^Remember Ukraine^ The Ukrainian Weekly Edition СВОБОДА SVOBODA УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ ЩОДЕННИК UKRAINIAN D A I LV VOL.LXXXIII No. 221 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1976 25 CENTS In New York Gala Benefit Concert UCCA Opens Campaign Launches Music Foundation For Ukrainian National Fund Chornodolska, Dobriansky, Mazurkevich, NEW YORK, N.Y.(UCCA Specials- There is no doubt that the Ukrainian Beginning Monday, November 15, the community in the United States is affluent Hrynkiv Shine In First Venture Executive Board of the UCCA opens its enough to maintain its national representa­ NEW YORK, N.Y.—If the Ukrainian Sonata in the first part and Skoryk's Suite in annual fund raising drive for the Ukrainian tion in a reasonably sound financial condi­ Music Foundation — a body formed last the second. They could not deny the highly National Fund. tion so that it can operate and realize its year for the purpose of popularizing Ukrain­ appreciative audience an equally masterful various programs and objectives. ian music within and beyond the confines of encore. Although collections for the UNFund the Ukrainian community—has in store Mr. Dobriansky, who is well known for have been going on during the year, it is only In the last few weeks there have been some more concerts of the type it staged Saturday, his dexterity in performing various operatic in the last few weeks before the year's end startling pronouncements on Ukraine by November 6, at the Town Hall here, then it roles and rendering widely differing compo­ that the drive is being intensified. important American statesmen, such as will have lived up to its wholly salutary sitions, found the three "dumas", by Stetsen­ "there is no Soviet domination of Eastern goals. ko, Verykivsky and Sonevytsky, tailor made The UCCA is entering its 37th year of Europe" (President Ford), or "the United In launching its activity with this inaugur­ for his resonant yet mellow bass-baritone. existence. The Xllth Congress of Ukrain­ States will not join the Ukrainian liberation al concert, the Foundation selected in Anna He was sonorously dramatic in Dankevych's ians in America brought some important movement" (A. Harriman to Brezhnev), and Chornodolska, Andrij Dobriansky, Yuri Pastels and, alternately romantic and structural changes in the UCCA, and some others. All this indicates that the comm­ Mazurkevich and Thomas Hrynkiv four of humorous in two of Revutsky's composi­ personnel changes as well. The presidential unity's political and educational work must the best artists on the contemporary Ukrain­ tions that closed out the program. elections brought back the Democratic continue vigorously and relentlessly. ian scene. While all four artists were in excellent Party to the White House with, undoubted­ The choice of music-that of 15 compo­ form, it was Mr. Hrynkiv who should have ly, a new policy both in domestic and foreign In the forthcoming year, the UCCA will sers of the 1907-67 period—gave the concert received the "yeoman's award," if such were affairs. publish at least three major works on a meaningful format without in any way to be given out, for putting, in a layman's Yet the UCCA must move forward and Ukraine in English, namely, "The Ukrainian limiting the latitude of the performers, each words, a "hard day's work" into the event. implement its various programs and objec­ Heritage in America," "Acts of Ukrainian of whom shone in his own, inimitable His was a taxing task of switching be­ tives. In order to attain its purposes, the Statehood" and "Ukraine in a Changing manner. tween accompaniment for Miss Chorno­ UCCA must have people and funds, to World," in addition to The Ukrainian Miss Chornodolska, who opened the two- dolska and Mr. Dobriansky, singers of two guarantee the success of its operations. Quarterly which soon will enter its 33rd year hour program with four compositions by different types and styles, and playing in his of existence. All these publications require Lysenko, Stetsenko, Kyreyko and Grou- own right with Mr. Mazurkevich. To his Minimum Budget of S150,000 substantial sums of money. dine, and returned in the second half with credit it must be stated that Mr. Krynkiv Furthermore, another project of the five more by Stepovyi, Hnatyshyn, Liudke- made the mental and technical adjustments The Board of Directors, at its last pre- UCCA, which has been going on for several vych and Kos-Anatolsky, displayed the full flawlessly, enhancing an already brilliant convention meeting this fall, designated a years, is the defense of Ukrainian political range of her powerful soprano, coupled with program. minimal budget of 5150,000 for the forth­ prisoners and human rights in Ukraine. The highly sensitive handling of coloratura, The audience—at some 400 numerically coming year. This budget was approved and UCCA will continue to defend Ukrainian letting out all of her vocal prowess, tempera­ somewhat disappointing, but qualitatively is in effect now. political prisoners through interventions ment and personal charm in Kos-Anatol- quite select — rewarded the performers with Compared to the size of the Ukrainian with official institutions and by informing sky's folkish encore. prolonged applause after each selection and community and other projects which our world public opinion about the relentless Mr. Mazurkevich, a superb violinist, at the conclusion of the concert. community undertakes, this sum is not persecution of the Ukrainian people by found a peer in Mr. Hrynkiv, the young (Continued on page 3) overwhelming or impossible to attain. (Continued on page 5) pianist, as they went through Kosenko's Prof. Alexander Granovsky, Renowned To Unveil Shevchenko Entomologist and Community Leader, MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.-Prof. Alexan­ be admitted as a freshman to Colorado A Sc BUENOS AIRES, Argentina.- Ukrain­ der A. Granovsky, internationally renowned M at Fort Collins. He graduated in 1918 ians of Paraguay are readying for the official entomologist, who made lasting contribu­ with majors in agronomy and entomology. unveiling of a monument in honor of poet- tions in the area of insect control, and a While in school, Dr. Granovsky was one of laureate Taras Shevchenko, scheduled for prominent Ukrainian community leader, the first recipients of a UNA scholarship. Friday, November 19, in Encarnacion, that died here Thursday, November 4, 1976. He Dr. Granovsky, who volunteered for the nation's captial. was 89 years old on the day of his demise. U.S. Armed Forces during World War I, The monument has been erected on the was in France and remained there for a few A professor of entomology at the Univer­ Gen. A. Stroessner Square, named in honor months after the war studying at the Sor- sity of Minnesota since 1930 until he of Paraguay's President. The unveiling of bonne University. officially retired in 1956, Dr. Granovsky was the monument is scheduled for 8:00 a.m. Upon returning to the U.S., Dr. Granov­ a member of numerous scholarly societies, High government officials, civic leaders, sky taught at a vocational school in Mancas, including the Shevchenko Scientific Society literary and scholarly figures are expected to Colo., and was principal of a school in and the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and take part in the ceremonies which will Rocky Ford for a year. Sciences in the U.S., and authored scores of launch three-day festivities in conjunction He began his entomology research career articles in the area of his specialization. with this event. in 1922 at the University of Wisconsin where He was responsible for the establishment The monument unveiling and the subse­ he also earned his Master's and Ph. D. of the American Immigrant Archives at the quent events are being staged under the egis degrees. University of Minnesota and donated part of the Ukrainian Central Representation of One of his first projects was in the Door of his personal library for the establishment Argentina. It is expected that Ukrainians County peninsula, testing grasshopper baits of the Ukrainian section. from other countries of the free world will and seeking controls for fruit insects that A poet by avocation, Prof. Granovsky take part in the unveiling. plagued-that famous cherry growing area. was the founder, long-time president and The monument in Paraguay is the sixth Under his leadership, some of the nation's honorary president of the Organization for first aerial spraying for insect control was erected by Ukrainians in the free world in the Rebirth of Ukraine (ODWU). honor of Ukraine's poet-laureate and cham­ carried out. pion of liberty. Born November 4, 1887, in the village Another project of his, undertaken al­ Others have been erected in the U.S., Bereztsi in the Volhynia region of Ukraine, Dr. Alexander A. Granovsky ready at the University of Minnesota which Canada, Brazil, France and Argentina. Dr. Gr anovsky came to the United States in he joined in 1930, was the control of whitf 1913 at the age of 25 with but one year oi grubs, the tiny insects that live in the first f cl­ ЗОС^Юі college education in Kiev and no knowledge inches of topsoil, often killing out em.x- For the third installment of profiles of UNA scholarship winners for the of the English language. pastures. Dr. Granovsky, assisted by a lefcr-t academic year 1976-77, see pp. 7-Ю. He worked for 18 months at odd jobs in Chicago and learned English wHj enough to (Continued on і ?'5) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1976 No. 221 Report New Arrests Harassments Carter Expresses "Admiration": As Resistance Grows In Ukraine For Ukrainians In Letter To UCCA NEW YORK, N.Y.—In a reply to a Union, I will use the most effective means LONDON, ENGLAND.-A group of Oleksander Bilakov, assistant professor telegram from the participants of the Xllth possible to strengthen the hands of those students was arrested in the Chortkiv area of of English at Lviv University, was dis­ Congress of Americans of Ukrainian De­ who are oppressed.