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Recently freed Ukrainian Baptist Ukrainian Canadian Committee opens begins a new life in Chicago lobby office on Parliament Hill by Marianna Liss when his family first requested by Michael Bociurkiw duced to a group of about 100 UCC permission to exit the Soviet Union, officials and guests at a Sunday recep CHICAGO - Mykhaylo Kopot - "The persecution (of believers) reached OTTAWA - Several months of tion commemorating the opening of the Ukrainian, Baptist, refusenik, Soviet such intensity that we wondered what planning and fund-raising came to an office. dissident — arrived at Chicago's could be done to protest; other forms of end on October 11 as members of "The bureau will facilitate communi- 0'Hare Airport on October 2, with his protest had been successfully Canada's national umbrella organiza cations between the Ukrainian father, Ivan, and mother, Ahna, to start repressed." tion of Ukrainians opened an office Canadian Committee and the various a new life here. Ironically, the new wave of terror within a few blocks of Parliament Hill. executive and legislative branches of the Two months ago the family had took place while Soviet delegates were Described by some as a "Ukrainian federal government and the media," ended a longer voyage through 10 years dutifully signing the 1975 Helsinki embassy" and a "lobby office" by said Mr. Hluchowecky. "They will of red tape, official refusal and Accords that affirmed the freedoms of others, the facility is regarded by the receive accurate and rapid information harassment which began when the religion, speech and movement, among Ukrainian Canadian Committee as a about any aspect of Ukrainian life... Kopots of Lviv, Ukraine, sought an exit others. major step in increasing its influence on whether it pertains to Ukrainians living visa from the USSR. To protest the sham, Evangelical the federal government. in Canada or to the repressive situation On Sunday, October 14, here at the Baptists began en masse requesting The office, housed in a downtown that Ukrainians find themselves in their Ukrainian Baptist, Church during both permission to go to the West. If the office tower, will be staffed by two homeland." the morning and evening services, Soviets had agreed in principle to the people. Organizers said it will serve as The deputy speaker of the House of Mykaylo Kopot, 26, explained th^ human-rights accords, promising the an important mechanism to funnel Commons, Steve Paprosky, presented reason the family sought to leave the freedom to emigrate to its citizens, they information on a wide range of Ukrai greetings from Prime Minister Brian USSR despite so many barriers. As his reasoned, then believers would ask the nian community issues to government Mulroney. UCC National President mother remarked, most people would government permission to depart. and media representatives. Dmytro Cipywnyk ceremoniously rather compromise than endanger Eventually, 50,000 Baptists and Pente- Organizers credited the late Sen. Paul presented the keys to the office to Mr. themselves. "And yet they (the people in costals from all over the USSR peti Yuzyk with conceiving the idea of a Hluchowecky. the country) would look to us," she tioned the government. Ukrainian office in Ottawa. The push The opening of the office coincided noted. "The authorities were taken aback by for an office gained momentum after with the UCC*s three-day national con The young Mr. Kopot outlined a this action," said Mr. Kopot. After the senator's death last year with the ference, which attracted local UCC situation in which believers, specifically wards the government relented some establishment of a memorial fund that heads to a round of plenary sessions, Baptists, had no other recourse but to what; pressure on believers was eased a channels donations to the office. workshops and lectures. emigrate. little. Andrew Hluchowecky, the new exe During one plenary session, delegates He said that during the late 1970s, (Continued on page 2) cutive director of the office, was intro (Continued on page 13) Miss America discusses her dreams, plans by Natalia A. Feduschak gone and will go toward financing her education. She received her Registered Nurse diploma in 1985 JERSEY CITY, N.J. - "My attitude ^yas that I from St. Vincent Medical Center and hopes to con didn't want to beat out anyone else," Kaye Lani Rae tinue her studies in nursing and eventually obtain Rafko, Miss America 1988, said recently. "I bachelor's and master's degrees specializing in thought it would be a wonderful experience even if oncology. I didn't win. My dream was to make it to Atlantic Although she does not speak Ukrainian and was City. I was preparing myself for defeat." not involved in Ukrainian organizations while she Make it to Atlantic City she did and she did not was growing up, Miss Rafko stated she fee1s very leave defeated. A mild-mannered nurse who has much a Ukrainian. Indeed, right after winning the worked with cancer and AIDS victims, Miss Miss America pageant, when asked about the talent Rafko, 24, represents, perhaps, a new breed of Miss part of the competition during the pageant (she America. performed a Hawaiian-Tahitian dance) she was During a 15-minute telephone interview with The quoted as saying "I'm not Hawaiian, I'm Ukrai Ukrainian Weekly recently, the new Miss America, nian." whose first name is Hawaiian, but whose heritage is "It was always a part of me," she said of her Ukrainian (with some Irish and Welsh mixed in) Ukrainian background. "When I was growing up, discussed her ethnic background, the Miss America my great-grandparents were from Austria, and we pageant and her hopes for the future. always used to go over there. It was just always a "I still haven't come down," Miss Rafko said of part of me. I was brought up with it. My mother her feelings on becoming Miss America on makes pyrohy twice a month. That is my favorite September 19, a dream shared by some 80,000 dish. She makes them with potato and cheese — young women annually. well over 100. We (the family) all love them. I've Winning the pageant was the culmination of a made them before, but never had any luck. We11 fry six-year process, which began when Miss Rafko them for breakfast, lunch and dinner." wanted to go to college, but had no money to do so. Miss Rafko said she did not know off-hand what "The tuition was S70O," she said. So, to pay for her part of Ukraine her family came from (her father is education, Miss Rafko decided to enter a local Ukrainian), although in the 10th grade she did a pageant and won. The prize was S70O. "roots project, my whole family history. I learned a "I stuck with the pageants, went to the state great deal from Baba." pageant - the prize was S1,50O — and won. The Miss Rafko also noted she had initially hoped to money was wonderful. 1t was almost like an addic perform a Ukrainian dance for the talent part of the tion. 1 fell in love with it." Miss Rafko has won over pageants she competed in but could not find a S40,00O in scholarship money including S30,000 place near her home that taught the ethnic dance. from the Miss America contest, a11 of which has (Continued on page 16) шштшШтштшшшшшшшшшшшш THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25. 1987 No.43
authorities tried to prevent him from Recently freed... receiving his diploma, earned at a A GLIMPSE OF SOVIET REALITY (Continued from page 1) technical school. He received the But to dissuade people from leaving, document, but then could not find work the KGB resorted to veiled threats for a while. Later he found a job as a saying that leaving the Soviet Union janitor, and then at a construction site. Ukrainian writers express dissatisfaction was not something a normal person The final maneuver of the Soviet would contemplate. (This is a subtle officials was to draft Mr. Kopot into the way of saying that such "abnormal" army, though he was well beyond the with "restructuring" of national life people might have a psychiatric ward age at which Soviet citizens are usually stay in their future, if they persisted in conscripted. by Roman Solchanyk problems that led to the decline of acting "crazy.") Mr. Kopot announced to the govern Ukrainian cinema and theater, warning Later, Soviet officials used another ment and to his friends at the Moscow The recent resolution of the Central that things are not so easy to do and tactic; telling petitioners that they group that he had decided to go to Committee of the Communist Party of expressing hopes for the future." There would wind up homeless in the West - prison rather than serve in the army. Ukraine "On Measures for the Realiza was no lack of well-wishing, no one wanted them. When this line of "This of course was a sensational tion in the Republic of the Decisions of commented the newspaper, but what is argument failed, the authorities com decision," he commented, "though the 27th Party Congress and the CPSU needed is concrete proposals. plained that Baptists would be used to there are many hundreds of Baptist Central Committee Plenum of January Doubt about the party's sincerity was promote anti-Soviet propaganda by the young men sitting in prison because of 1987 in the Area of National Relations also apparent in the speech of Vitaliy West. "We replied that we would not their refusal to join the army." The and Strengthening the International Donchyk, who emphasized that the involve ourselves in propaganda, but difference in his case was that his and Patriotic Education of Workers" problem is "not in the number of pro only speak the truth," Mr. Kopot said. declaration was so public and that has come in for implicit criticism at a posals, but in a principled stand on the Through all this the Kopots, and Secretary of State George Shultz was in session of the presidium of the board of part of responsible comrades to the others trying to emigrate, li\ed in Moscow at the time. Mr. Kopot said he the Ukrainian Writers' Union. The resolution of the Central Committee." constant uncertainty. Most continue to is convinced that Secretary Shultz party resolution, which focused mainly The harshest criticism of the bureau do so - the great majority of them have brought up his group's predicament on various aspects of the language cracy came from Dmytro Pavlychko, not received permission to leave the with General Secretary Mikhail question, clearly fell far short of the de who once again argued "the need for USSR. Gorbachev. mands that have been put forth by the constitutional protection of the Ukrai Mr. Kopot said of his state of mind: "Our leaving was a great mercy of Ukrainian intelligentsia during the past nian language from the determination "I didn't know whether or not I would God, planned beforehand by God... All two years. of the yahoos in officialdom": succeed, but I always had the feeling happened for the good of the cause for The dissatisfaction of the writers with "This point has been formulated that I would." At any rate, there was precisely in our initiatives. But we which I fought," he said. the party's approach to restructuring in little for him to lose. He had never "I never thought that we were leaving matters related to the national question should add: in order to choose — freely! joined the Komsomol, the Communist - in what kind of school a child is to be (from the USSR) to go to a paradise. came to the surface in the course of the youth organization, which is a There is one sort of problems there and speeches at the session of the presidium, taught, there have to be schools. Also prerequisite to acquiring a good for Jews and Poles. But in some 0bIasts, other types here. But whatever which was convened to discuss imple position or higher education. problems we encounter, with God's mentation of the party resolution. A even in the Ukrainian-language ones, "Even the seminary was out of reach they [Ukrainian-language schools] are help, they will all be within our strength report on the meeting was published in a for me," he told the congregation, to overcome," he stated, adding that he recent issue of the literary weekly in a minority. And until we realize that "because it is controlled by Russians the free choice of the language is a felt a continued responsibility toward Literaturna Ukraina. and secondly (it is controlled) by the the believers left behind. He said he The fact that the party has adopted a prerogative of the state, no one will government. So whether I tried to leave protect us from the vulgar sociological would keep working.on their behalf, resolution, it was argued, does not mean or not it, was all the same." Currently the Kopots are living in that everything has changed overnight: manipulations of those miserable individuals who are trying to make a At this time he also began associating their own apartment provided by the "It does not at all mean that our with an organization called the Moscow Ukrainian Baptist Church with stipends mistakes have been corrected, that with career at the expense of the native language. 1 don't know how one can Group for Establishing Trust Between for necessities such as food and clothing the adoption of the above-named the East and West. included as well. The church p1ans to resolution of the Central Committee of trust the ideological and aesthetic upbringing of people who even talk to Its primary goal was to promote trust send Mykhaylo to school. the Ukrainian party the civic and between the two blocs, closer links When asked his thoughts on the departmental failings at the appropriate their own mothers in the language of the subordinate bureaucratic office." between people and governments in struggle of believers to emigrate, the levels will suddenly be transformed into order to relieve tensions between the pastor of the congregation, the Rev. virtues... One can hardly expect that the Mr. Pavlychko also noted that the two blocs. Some members of the group 01exa Harbuziuk, stated that Ukrai measures that have been outlined will be time has come for Jewish, Bulgarian tended to be pacifists as well. But nian Baptists in the West are ready to put into practice just because they are and other theaters in Ukraine, and he shortly they recognized that the deeper help anyone who expresses a dire need democratic." referred once again to the small editions is?sue and the cause of tensions lay in the to leave the Soviet Union. Not only were the Ukrainian writers of books and journals published in the human-rights problem within the republic. "Can it be that this is of no On the other hand they would like the skeptical as to the concrete results that Soviet Union, Mr. Kopot explained. Baptist pastors to try to remain in the can be expected from the proposed concern to the Ministry of Culture?" he asked rhetorically. Subsequently the group was highly country, in Ukraine, if at all possible. restructuring in the sphere of national successful in fostering and maintaining "Otherwise the Word would die," he relations, but there were also references The dissemination of publications ties with similar groups in the West. said. to "relapses of stagnation phenomena." was also raised by Ivan Tsyupa, who Particularly rewarding was their work The Baptist community's help is not The head of the Ukrainian Writers' referredI0 a decree cutting institutional with the Green Party in England and in limited to co-religionists; Catholics or Union, Yuriy Mushketyk, coniplained subscriptions by 30 percent. As it turns West Germany, which rethought its Orthodox who express their desire for that thus far there has been little more out, this decree is being implemented by support of Soviet initiatives because of help are assisted as well, the pastor than talk in Ukraine. In the other cancelling Ukrainian-language publica the personal contact the Moscow group noted. tions issued by the Ukrainian Writers' republics, he argued, there has already had established with the Greens. The central issue, the reason people been action, ministries and specially Union. At the same time, said Mr. But Mr. Kopot's life in the Soviet Tsyupa, pupils in a Ukrainian school do want out, is persecution, the Rev. formed commissions headed by dissident movement was soon to end. Harbuziuk said. 1t is the conditions in ministerial-level functionaries have are greeting their teachers with the start The KGB attempted to silence him. He of the new school year in the Russian the USSR and the desire for a better life begun to tackle the existing problems. was detained, he lost his job. The and for freedom that draws refugees. According to Literaturna Ukraina, language. the Ukrainian Minister of Culture, Another target of the writers was the Yuriy 01enenko, talked a great deal Ministry of Education which, according about "the important tasks at this new to Tamara Kolomiyets, has yet to FOUNDED 1933 stage of cultural construction, "but "un approve the appropriate curriculum for ОI:гаіпіапиееУі fortunately [he] carefully avoided those (Continued on page 11) An English-language Ukrainian newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.j. Ukrainian receives death sentence 07302 MOSCOW - A Ukrainian has been The Associated Press reported that in sentenced to death by firing squad by a 1944 Mr. Honcharuk became a member Second-class postage paid at Jersey City, N.J. 07302. 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He stressed end of 1945; ;;n that many war criminals are living in the The Ukrainian WeeklyV October 25K1987, No. 43; Vt)ILV Tlfe triai was held in the town of : West under the protection of the Copyright 1987 by The Ukrainian Weekly /v KaniinTl^oshyF^^, f1i National Millennium Committee for the record pickets Russian convocation BaIts' testimony before Helsinki Commission by AndnjBilyk He said that both Ukrainian events Following are excerpts of testimony troyed: The work undertaken by the received massive media coverage. by three recently released Baltic human Latvian regional environmental pro SGRANTON, Pa. - The Ukrainian "More than that, these Ukrainian rights activists given before the U,S, tection c1ub is consistently hampered. National Millennium Committee last events, carried out to near perfection Commission on Security and Coopera Often, during talks with the KGB, club month picketed a convocation of despite being organized at the last tion in Europe on October 6. members have been told that the c1ub is Russian American churches affiliated minute, became a directchallenge to the ^ Rolands Silaraups, 21, was ex too nationalistic and that in their work with Moscow. By doing so, the commit Soviet-Russian September 22-25 pelled from Latvia on July 25. He had they do not take into account state in tee blunted a Soviet attempt to use its convocation," Mr. Futey said. been sentenced in 1986 to five years* terests. American affiliate — the Russian Or Why is the Soviet Union holding the hard labor for "anti-Soviet activity'*: # 4. Restriction of personal thodox Church of the USA — to pro major Millennium festivities in Moscow he was released in February, He was a freedoms: The personal freedoms of mote the Soviet version of the Christian and throughout Russia, when the event member of the Helsinki 86 Latvian each individual, regarding foreign Millennium of Kievan-Rus'(988-1988). they are celebrating occurred in Kiev human-rights group and led a travel, access to literature and similar It happened in Scranton on Friday and throughout Ukraine? Why were nationalist demonstration in Riga on matters, are severely restricted. evening, September 25, the last day of Ukrainian Catholic and Orthodox June14, # 5. Restriction of religous 'free the fifth convocation of the Russian Churches destroyed? And why, despite ^ Tiit Madisson, 37, was expelled dom: This is primarily manifested as re Orthodox Church of the USA. glasnost, are they not being resurrected from Estonia on September 12. He had pression against religious activists and The picketing was in the form of a — these were among the key questions been sentenced in 1980 to four years of the clergy. At this moment, the most candelight vigil at the convocation site, Ukrainians posed to the Soviet delega labor camp for "anti-Soviet "activity: he vivid example is that of the Lutheran Ss. Peter and Paul Russian Orthodox tion, was released last year. He led a mass minister Modris Plate, who, because of Church. Nearly 100 Ukrainian Ameri "The Soviet delegation had no demonstration in Tallinn on August 23, his outstanding work with the congre cans from a half dozen cities took part. answers. We had them on the run, and ^ Vу taut as Skuodis, 58, emigrated gations of Kuldiga and Edole, has been Most came by car from Binghamton we and they knew it," said Stephen from Lithuania on September8. He had relieved of all his ministerial duties and Washington, and by bus from Procyk, the Washington-based been sentenced in 1980 to seven years' within the Latvian Lutheran church. Kerhonkson. coordinator for the Ukrainian National hard labor for "anti-Soviet "activity. He Other examples include the punish The Russian convocation was Millennium Committee's October 1988 was a member of the Lithuanian Hel ment of the Rev. Dr. Roberts attended by four bishops from the celebration in the nation's capital. sinki Monitoring Group and the Akmentins, who was removed from his Catholic Committee for the Defense of post as head of the Latvian theological Soviet Union and by more than 100 "1n fact," he said, "the Soviet delega delegates, mostly Russian Orthodox Believers'Rights, seminary because of his membership in tion received a second shock when they the Latvian Christian Movement for priests from parishes throughout the visited their Moscow-affiliated Russian Northeastern United States. Rolands Silaraups: Rebirth and Renewal. Still today, be Orthodox Church the next day in lievers do not have the right to express "Picketing a church (the site of the Baltimore. There, too, they were met by 1n the beginning of this year, a change their religious views outside the walls of convocation) wasn't something we Ukrainian protesters, one of whom took place in the attitude of Soviet the church; any charitable church work wanted to do, but we had no choice,'* called out, *How was Scranton?' " said Dr. George Soltys, chairman of the authorities toward human-rights is also forbidden. National Millennium Committee's In Scranton, newsmedia turned out activists. The same, however, cannot be # 6. No freedom of press: Today in executive board. in force to cover the Ukrainian candle said of their attitude toward the idea of Latvia it is impossible to establish a free "It was clear to us that the Soviet light vigil at the Russian Orthodox human rights itself. press, independent of the government. Russians, through their American Church. Both daily newspapers and all The change was manifested in such a As a result, a11 the efforts of the affiliates, were going to make this three television stations sent reporters. way that many human-rights activists, openness and democratization convocation into a major media and One of the TV stations led off its 6 p.m. including myself, who were imprisoned campaign are channeled through the political event. We couldn't let that news show with a live feed from the vigil solely for their human-rights activities, government-controlled press. That happen," Dr. Soltys said. site. were released. Similarly, in Latvia which presently appears in the press is not free thought, but only a "letting off He said the potential for Russian PR The city's leading daily paper, The today, it is easier to express one's was enormous. "As early as July 3, opinions — opinions which are of steam," subject to government Scranton Tribune, wrote the next day: controlled and established limits. At convocation spokespersons misin "Protesters light candles and sing independent of those held by the formed the Scranton mayor and the authorities — without fear of this moment, the lack of press freedom hymns to demonstrate against the is especially well demonstrated through city's newsmedia that "Prince Vladimir Russian Orthodox Church's intention immediate arrest, as has been the case in imported Greek Orthodox priests into the past. However, the KGB continues ongoing press attacks on the members to celebrate the Millennium of and supporters of the group Helsinki 'Russia' for his conversion and the mass Ukrainian Christianity in Moscow. to collect information about these conversion of the *Russian' people to people so that, if there is a change in the 86. Not only is it impossible to protest They say Kiev, where Christianity was these attacks, it is also impossible to Christianity." accepted in Ukraine, is not Russia, political climate, they can be held The convocation was going to plan accountable. Otherwise, everything is publicly respond40 them. Articles although it has been annexed by an expressing opposing views are refused how the "Russian" Millennium is to be expansionist Soviet Union." the same as it was in the past. celebrated (throughout the United ...there have been no changes for the and the TV stations have turned down States), the mayor and the media were In the story, Dr. Soltys and Mr. better regarding human rights. 1n fact, offers for open discussions of the told. Futey noted that religion is just another such changes cannot even be expected issues. ... "But, instead of seeing stories about arm of repression in the Soviet Union. as long as the singlemost important themselves and their p1ans for a *Rus They said that the Russian Orthodox question concerning Latvia is not Tilt Madisson: sian' Millennium, convocation partici Church has no moral or historic rightI0 addressed - the question of self pants, including two bishops from Mos celebrate the Millennium in Moscow. determination. Beginning in June of On the 23rd of August, 1987, the offi cow and Bishop Filaret from Minsk, all During the week of September 20-26, I940, and continuing to this day. the cial Soviet version of history pertaining week saw and heard stories about the in addition to TV and radio stories, people of Latvia have been robbed of to Estonia collapsed upon itself. The de Ukrainian Millennium and how there were seven newspaper stories, their right to determine their own fate monstration in Tallinn on August 23, Moscow is stealing it," said Bohdan many of them long ones, about the and regulate their own internal and 1987,was an event of the first magnitude Futey, chairman of the subcommittee Ukrainian Millennium. These stories external affairs. Each and every Latvian in post-war Estonian history, in both that organized the candlelight vigil. flowed from separate, but coordinated suffers this lack of basic human rights the quantitative and qualitative sense. Mr. Futey said that the Ukrainian media campaigns. Paul Ewasko most heavily in the following ways: For the first time in 43 years of National Millennium Committee's totalitarian rule, a publicly planned handled the media campaign for the * 1. Russification: 1n Latvia^ the September 25 candlelight vigil came on mass demonstration dealing with the September 20 local commemoration, Latvian language is increasingly being the heels of the September 20 joint and Andnj Bilyk handled the media for key issues of the Estonian people's forced out of all spheres of life. This, destiny took place. This was nothing Millennium commemoration in the September 25 candlelight vigil. despite the fact that recently this painful Scranton by Orthodox and Catholic The effect of the Ukrainian actions less than the beginning of multi-dimen subject has been openly written about in sional, genuine, self-initiated social Ukrainians of northeastern Pennsyl was such that they caused the mayorof the newspapers. vania . (Continued on page 1S) political activity. (This is again an example of what 1 1t has become clear that despite the mentioned earlier — that on the surface much is said about major changes, but passage of nearly half a century, the TWG publishes Chomobyl bibliography in reality, nothing is changing.) Estonian people will not forget WASH1NGTON - The Washington individuals interested in the Chornobyl ^ 2. Massive Russian migration to injustice, violence and falsehoods. Group has published a new reference disaster and its impact will find this Latvia and special privileges for Forty-three years of actively distorting work titled "Chernobyl and 1ts After bibliography a useful guide to the immigrants: For example - native the truth has not succeeded in making a math: A Selected Bibliography" com current literature available in piiblic . Latvians cannot get apartments, single thinking person accept the Soviet piled by JurijDobczansky. and university libraries. regardless of how difficult their version of the post-war system in The bibliograi)hy features a wide The foreword consists of the full text personal circumstances. Russian Estonia.::..;'- . -:';':'^'rЛ"^^^/ range of регіошсаГ articles, books, of a speech by Dr.David R.Marples immigrants, on the other hand, can I would like to mention ai few events technical reports and records of Con delivered at the 1ntertaith Memorial obtain presented, it is cynically that are continuing in occupied Estonia0 gressional hearings which have Service for the Victims of Chornobyl obtain these new apartments in a few On September 1, JuriMikkbegarii it appeared since nhe April 26, I986, held in Washington on April 27. years' time. 1f this fact is presented, it is long-term hunger strike to pr6test both nuclear accident in Ukraine. Most of The dhbrnobyl bibliography is cynically described as *'Latvian the media smear campaign agaimt us the 115 citations are in English but other available for S3 from The Washington hospitality." and attempts by officials to justify the languages are also represented. Groupr P.O; Всіx 11248, Washington, * 3. The Latvian environmtot is Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. According Ukrainian comrnunity: ііЬшгіе5 and D,C, 7mm :. being ruthlessly exploited and des (СоііішмеД oii^pitge 4^ THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25.1987 No.43 Kazaniwsky heads immigration tasl( force Baits, testimony... Vytautas Skuodis: ^ ^ (Continue//^^м42ма*лdЯ fro#VA*mM pagno e 3) ...Though some reforms are taking practices against immigrants, ethnic by Marianna Liss to press reports, on September 30, Mikk place in the Soviet Union in the name of communities, employers or farmers in demonstrated on Red Square in "perestroika," there is no evidence of CHICAGO - Leo Kazaniwskyj, 41, volved in the process. Moscow. He was seized by the police better conditions for believers. 1n a Ukrainian American attorney from Recently, Mr. Kazaniwskyj wrote to and a sign he was carrying torn to predominantly Roman Catholic Chicago, was recently named chairman the 1llinois Bar Association to ask the shreds. Lithuania, the Church is in a most of the Governor's Immigration Reform bar to set standards and establish fair Two well-known Estonians, Mart precarious situation, as never before. Task Force by lUinois Gov. James R. fees for immigration processing by Niklus and Enn Tarto, still languish in The policy on religion is still along tra Thompson. attorneys. Also the state attorney Perm Camp No. 36-1. Both have ditional lines that the Communist Party Since February of this year, when the general was informed by the task force received I0-year forced labor camp must keep combatting its influence. A Task Force was organized, Mr. Kaza of recent reports that unscrupulous sentences, plus five years' "internal" liberalization of restrictions on religion niwskyj has been the co-chairman of the lawyers or unqualified individuals take exile. Niklus was arrested for the second would probably be seen as ideological coordinating body. As of September 1, money from immigrants for processing time in 1980, Enn Tarto in I983. Both laxity. Thus the Soviet government is he succeeded Paul 0'Conner, who was legalization papers, often at inflated were among the 45 Baltic human~ and trying by all means to divide and demo appointed the deputy director for prices, without doing anything for the national-rights activists who, inspired ralize the Lithuanian Catholic Church marketing at the Illinois Department of client. by the Helsinki Accords, signed the from within. Commerce and Community Affairs, Everyone, though, is effected by the Baltic appeal in I979. KGB infiltration of the Church in as task force chairman. IRCA law. All applicants for a job, Lithuania is at an all-time high. Mr. Kazaniwskyj has been the gover despite the length of residence or 1n a lengthy letter to his mother this Despite legal guarantees, the state nor's special assistant for ethnic affairs citizenship status, must prove that they spring, Mart Niklus describes Perm makes it very hard for believers to wor and was responsible for the first, highly are in this country legally and can take a Camp 36-1 as the "focus of evil in the ship and to live without fear. Intrusive successful Governor's Captive Nations job. wor1d" - an area untouched by government supervision of the sole Banquet held July 23. The occasion was And the immigration law will effect "glasnost." theological seminary in Kaunas; not the only statersponsored celebration in the Ukrainian community, as well. Besides Mart Niklus and Enn Tarto, allowing enough religious literature to the nation. Because of the emergency immigration both of whose names have appeared in be printed; refusal to allow the opening This current appointment follows policies toward Polish citizens, ethnic appeals by Dr. Andrei Sakharov, nearly of new churches or the return of confis naturally from Mr. Kazaniwskyj's pro Ukrainians from Poland have migrated 30 other Estonians are known to be cated ones (except for Queen of Peace fessional experience and from growing to the U.S. Their situation is compli incarcerated in concentration camps or church in Klaipeda, which, TASS up in an immigrant family. cated by the prejudice they sometimes psychiatric facilities. These individuals, reports, will be returned in two years); Gov. Thompson characterized the face in Eastern Europe, and can be a ranging in age from 18 to 74, are being restricting the ro1e of priests with Chicago lawyer as someone who *'brings little more desperate. As Walter Szcze- punished for various kinds of "crimes" administrative fines; not allowing unique, personal insights to the imple blowsky, director of Ukrainian Social which are clearly political in nature - religious instruction of children -~ in mentation of the Immigration Reform Service Bureau of Chicago, reported, such as tearing down the flag of these and other ways, the state makes and Control Act of 1986." there may not be many, but there is a occupying Soviet forces, raising the the practice of religion difficult, and When asked how he felt about the steady stream of needy Ukrainians blue, black and white flag of free often impossible. ... appointment, Mr. Kazaniwskyj said, coming from Poland. Estonia, conflicts with Russian immi Now that the new directions in Soviet *'I'm tickled pink. I think my experience In his present position, the chairman grants, etc. policy allow us to discuss subjects that in America is exactly what this (legali of the task force is trying to help not previously were taboo, we need to zation) is all about. ...Through the in only Ukrainians but the entire ethnic In spite of the loss of about one reassess approaches to the natk)iiaU|ies stilling of my parents' values of hard community in Illinois get a fair and fourth of its l million population during question. For^^47 yfears, t^J ^^iet work and education, it doesn't matter compassionate hearing. Wor1d War И and the Soviet occupa government has portrayed itself as the what my name tnds in; the opportuni And his appointment comes at a time tion, the spirit jQf the Estonians has not legitimate government of the Baltic been ЬгокепГ "Guerrilla resistance, ties (afforded) in the U.S. are the when the ethnic community in Illinois is states, insisting that Estonia, Latvia and which was not stainped out until the greatest anywhere." increasingly recognized for its Lithuania willfully joined the USSR The job of the 19-agency task force is contributions in the political and 1950s, was the first logical expression of dissent. Even though everyone who has and that there is no basis for to access the impact of the Federal cultural life of the state. Such groups are independence. The Ba1ts maintain that Immigration Control and Reform Act becoming politically sophisticated, openly opposed or criticized the all encompassing falsehood and injustice their countries were illegally occupied in of 1986 (IRCA) upon Illinois resources observers say. 1940. It seems clear now that efforts at and agencies. In order to handle the "The ethnic community is no longer upon which the existing system is based has been repressed by the Soviet Soviet legitimacy have failed to stifle problems it must keep careful scrutiny. content to have proclamations read to widespread resentment of the Baltic As its chairman put it, "The feds will them. They want to be involved in the authorities, there is a constant stream of new people joining the resistance and peoples to the Soviet occupation. This fund a portion of the costs to state mainstream of American life," Mr. human-rights movement. The Estonian animosity was easily detected in the government; it will not pay for the entire Kazaniwskyj noted, "1t is important for people have not forgotten free Estonia. demonstrators, who chanted "freedom, ethnics to aspire to executive, legislative thing." Our best and bravest leaders freedom, freedom" during protests In addition, the Immigration Reform and bureaucratic positions." understand that the Estonian people which took place on August 23 in the Task Force has worked to reduce the When asked how a person can get can thrive only if their independence is capital cities of the Baltic states. possible disruptive aspects of such a involved in the political system, he restored. May I respectfully suggest that the massive legalization project. The co answered: "I recommend starting like I U.S. put forward cautious demands on ordinating group has used existing state did from the basics - working at the We are fully cognizant of the fact that nationality issues, at the very least in the agencies to address problems in ішр1е- precinct level. You must choose a party the future of the Estonian and other sphere of language and education? For menting IRCA. which reflects either your beliefs or your Baltic peoples depends upon public the Russians, demands for schooling "For instance," Mr. Kazaniwskyj ex community's. You work in the pre opinion in the free world as well as the and the expanded use of their language plained, "if a person needs to take a TB cincts for candidates. I ran Boris positions taken by the governments of are no problem. For the non-Russians, test before being processed for citizen Antonovych's campaign and I gave a the United States, Great Britain, West it's a different story. Those who have ship, he will then be directed to a publi- hand in State Sen. Walter Dudycz's Germany, France and other Western put forward timid requests to cally funded state agency to get the (both men are from Chicago's Ukrai nations. The greatest achievement of rehabilitate some aspects of pre-revolu- test." nian community)." Soviet propaganda has been to tionary Lithuanian history and who And the task force casts its watchful He went on to emphasize that all perpetuate the myth of the Soviet have taken up the defense of the Lithua eye ou! for discriminatory or abusive ethnics should combine forces and work Union's omnipotence and its ability to nian language make little progress. In a for their common interests. act with impunity. ... sense, glasnost has again proved the old dictum about "national equality" in the USSR - yes, everyone is equal, but St BasH's Orphanage closed some are more equal than others. by Sister Jerome Roman children in foster homes rather than in Non-Russian advocates of national institutions. Also, circumstances in the rights are assumed to exist only in PHILADELPHIA ~ The Order of community and family needs have emigre circles abroad, while those who Sisters of St. Basil the Great and the changed. Hence the enro1lment at St. dare to express ideas in defense of their Provincial Administration in Philadel Basil Home declined in the past number nationality in the USSR are safely phia, announced that as of September of years. It is now evident that an behind bars in the labor camps, where the operation of St. Basil Home on orphan home is not needed to serve the they represent the majority of political Lindley Avenue was suspended. purpose it did in its beginning years. prisoners. Their crime has been to talk When the care of orphans was under There were only three residents in 1986 or write about their heritage and taken as one of its major ministries by at St. Basil Home. history. the pioneering sisters who came to My colleagues, journalist and poet St. Basil Home still holds its state Gintautas lesmantas and the teacher Philadelphia in 1911,St. Basil Orphanage license, but operation of the home has was opened in 1913 with three applicants. Povilas Peceliunas, with whom 1 was been suspended as of September 1987. tried, are still in "internar exile, 1n time the institution on Seventh The next year will be a time of evalua and Parrish streets proved to be a very lesmantas wrote poems advocating a tion and resolution as to the future of right guaranteed by the Soviet Consti promising one, and the sisters cared for St. Basil Home. over І00 orphans. In 1954 the location tution - secession from the USSR, of St. Basil Home was transferred to its Donations for this cause can no whereas Peceliunas edited a magazine present location on Lindley Avenue. longer be accepted. However, those called Perspectives, . which carried 1n recent years both public, private who wish may offer their donations for articles cont6Шng the official Soviet and C^holic Social Service Ageticies the support of the other ministries of the line that Lithuania has no other choice Leo Kazaniwskyj have favored the placement of orphaned Basilian Order. but to remain part of the USSR. ... No.43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25.1987 Lemkovyna folklor1e ensemble presenfs gems of Ukrainian culfure The duo of Iryna Hrych and Bohuslav Hybey sing the Lemko folk song "']VIу Dear." a Hadzewycz Master of ceremonies Pavlo Stefanowski introduces a selection. To his left is Jar 0sIaw Tr0chan0wski9 Lemkovyna's director. Jaroslaw Trochanowski performs on the violin. UNION, NJ. - Lemkovyna, the The final selection, the powerful unique Ukrainian folkloric ensemble anthem "1n the Lemko Land," seemed from Poland, performed here at the quite appropriate as these Ukrainians Wilkins Theater of Kean College on from Poland, who so obviously cherish October 13. and maintain their Ukrainian identity The concert was one in a series by preserving cultural gems of the performed by the troupe during its tour Lemkos, sang: "Today in the Carpa of Canada and the United States. In this thian Mountains the nation has country alone, Lemkovyna appeared at resurrected; its right will not die." 18 concerts during a hectic three weeks. The program was conducted and Directed by Jaroslaw Trochanowski, each selection was introduced by with Jaroslaw Polanski as artistic Lemkovyna's own master of ceremo consultant, the 45-member ensemble of nies, Pavlo Stefanowski. Some of the musicians of Lemkovyna. singers and musicians was brought to The Lemkovyna ensemble members North America by Henry Michalski of were all dressed in authentic costumes During its September-October tour Edison, Union and Clifton, N.J.; American Arts. from the Lemko region of Ukraine. The of North America, Lemkovyna Philadelphia; Syracuse, Rochester, The group's Canadian tour was musicians provided Lemko music performed concerts in Montreal; Buffalo, Yonkers, New York and sponsored by the Ukrainian Canadian played on stringed instruments ranging Oshawa, Hamilton and Toronto, Kerhonkson, N.Y.; and Boston. Its final Committee, while the U.S. leg was from violins to a cello and bass, a so- Ontario; Warren, Mich.; Chicago; concert was in Hartford, Conn., on under the auspices of the Ukrainian pilka and tsymbaly. Parma, Ohio; Pittsburgh, Washington, Sunday, October 18. National Association. In Union, Lemkovyna opened its concert with '*Our Mountains,'' a Lemko folk song, and Woody Guthrie's 'This Land is Your Land," as a tribute to its host country. During the next two hours, the audience was treated40 a variety of Lemko songs, some humorous, some reflective, love songs as well as patriotic songs. Also on the program was "The Dnieper Roars," Taras Shevchenko's classic set to music by Danylo Kryzhanivsky, as well as a medley of Ukrainian folk songs. The group also performed a medley of Polish folk songs. A particularly moving selection, as seen by the audience's tearful reaction, was the recitation of the "The Dream" with the song "My Mountain" serving as the background. The poem was recited by Petro M-urianka- Trochanowski. . - Petro Murianka-Trochanowski recites "The Dream'' as the ensem|ble performs "My МоШІ^X ,: 'K ^L. :,^,c і THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1987 No. 43 Ql:rainian WeeI:IV faces and Places Capital to capital by Myron B. Kuropas The October 14 ABG News Special "Capital to Capital: Human Rights" was an exceptional example of both television and U.S.-Soviet exchanges. The second of a series of debates (the first covered the issue of mutual security) between members of the U.S. Congress and of the Supreme Soviet, it Soviet'American "pathfinders' was aired live and unedited in both the United States and the Soviet Union. Thus, it was the first time that a discussion on the topic of human rights had Among other things, my friend ran in peace. been shown live to millions of Soviet viewers - between 120 million and 150 the Moscow International Peace Mara "In short," they write, "while tradi million, according to figurescite d by Peter Jennings, the Washington host for thon in August. She was part of an tional diplomats serve as conduits the program. American contingent associated with between American and Soviet leaders, The special show was on the air for two hours as U.S. panelists, Sen. Daniel the so-called Hunger Project, a non citizens diplomats serve as conduits P. Moynihan of New York and Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, and the profit group that my friend claims is between American and Soviet people. Soviet guests, Vadim 2^gladin of the Central Committee's International busily stamping out world hunger. Yet citizen diplomats affect both na Department and Ivan Paltev, editor-in-chief of Izvestia, along with Leonid tions' leaders as well. Sometimes they Zolotarevsky serving as host in Moscow, discussed emigration, divided A professional colleague of mine do this by working alongside the tradi families, freedom of religion, civil rights, the abuse of psychiatry, barriers to recently returned from the Soviet Union tional diplomats. More often, they communication between citizens of the two superpowers, media freedom, the excited about what she had experienced. affect the political context in which Helsinki Accords and glasnost. leaders operate by spreading informa Of course, critics of U.S.-Soviet exchanges will point out that the Soviets *'It was wonderful^ Myron," she exalted upon her return, "a fantastic tion and forming people-to-people had their chance to present the Soviet line on freedom of worship, freedom of relationships...Even the most diehard assembly and the *'perestroika" now under way in the USSR. But, we must journey." "We're going to Moscow to establish skeptic would have to concede that point out, we also heard their assertions challenged, and we heard tough some threshold exists at which Soviet questions being asked of the Soviets by a senator, congressmen and by Mr. a partnership with the Russians to end world hunger," she told me before she public opinion is translated into policy. Jennings, ABC anchorman. If everyone in the Soviet Union except left. "Is there anything you want me to But, what is even more important, Soviet citizens heard all this as well. for the Politburo and the Council of tell the government officials when I get They heard Rep. Hoyer, co-chairman of the Commission on Security and Ministers believed that the Soviet Cooperation in Europe (the Helsinki Commission) call the USSR the "chief there?" she asked innocently. Union should stop building nuclear violator of human rights"; they heard Sen. Moynihan say that the USSR is "a I didn4 know whether to laugh or cry. weapons, how long could the oligarchy hell for human rights." They also heard Rep. Gerald Solomon point out that "Sure," I replied. "Have them admit to hold out?" he knows of three Ukrainians who received sentences of 10 years' starving 7 million Ukrainians and then imprisonment and five years' exile for simply speaking out against the Soviet get them to promise to never again use There's more. "History suggests," government and the Communist Party. hunger as a political or military wea continue Warner and Shuman, "that a Soviet and American viewers also saw former Soviet political prisoners pon." choice does not have to be made between Yuri Orlov and Lev Timofeyev speaking about the changes now taking p1ace My colleague laughed nervously. "Oh working for Soviet human-rights and in the Soviet Union. Myron," she said. "That was a long time working for global sufvi\^alvDtiriftgth^ Perhaps what was most remarkable during the program - especially for ago, It's time to heal." Before I could tell era of detente, in the mid-I970s, restric Ukrainians who were tuned in — were Sen. Moynihan's repeated references her about the Soviet-backed regimes of tions on religious workship eased, to the clandestine Ukrainian Catholic Church in the context of the Millen Ethiopia and Camb0odia using famine as permission for foreign travel increased, nium of Christianity. (There were three separate references — not counting a weapon to subdue a recalcitrant dissidents faced somewhat less persecu the three attempts to make the first reference at the start of the broadcast population, she changed the subject. tion, and Jewish emigration figures sky- when technical difficulties with the translation were encountered.) Sen. "They loved us in Moscow," my co rockefed..." Moynihan never did get an answer to his simple question: "Can't you let the worker told me upon her return. "Old ladies hugged and kissed me when I Knowing that should bring comfort Ukrainian Catholic Church become a legal church?" But we the viewers saw to Ukrainian Catholic dissident Yosyp that — and took note. showed them my card." The card, written in both English and Russian, Terelia who was committed to a psy Therefore, "Capital to Capita1" was an educational experience for all con chiatric clinic in 1976. It should also cerned on both sides. Kudos to ABC News and to our able members of Con read: "Hi! I'm an American. 1 am for peace and against wor1d hunger." bring joy to Mykola Rudenko, a leading gress for making it such. member of the Ukrainian Helsinki "Did you ever meet anyone that was Monitoring Group in Kiev who was against peace and for wor1d hunger?" I arrested and sentenced to a long labor asked. camp term and exile in 1977. The 27 LETTER TO THE EDITOR My colleague was not amused. Later, other imprisoned Helsinki Group mem she told me how angry she was at our bers and countless other jailed Ukrai nian dissidents should also take "so is certainly an "external" and not government. "I feel cheated. I've been lied to by my leaders who have always lace" from the many benefits they Is it really "internal" exile. received during the 1970s. The terminology used by the Soviet painted the Russian people in negative regime reflects its ideology and political terms." internal exile? Although my co-worker probably Detente came to an end, the Cold ambitions. It coincides with its dream of War was "renewed" and Jewish emigra eventual fusion of all the nations of the doesn't know it, she is just one of a long Dear Editor: line of Americans who have been tion "s1owed to a trickle" when Ronald The article which appeared in your Soviet Empire into one nation whose Reagan came to the White House, language and culture could hardly be traveling to the USSR since the 1920s to paper on September 20 under the title, "build bridges of understanding." Warner and Shuman contend. That "Popovych freed from internal exile," anything else but Russian. The expres may be true. But it was also during sion "internal exile" reminds one of the raises the question of proper termino Paul Hollander chronicled this phe President Reagan's watch that the Russian song "Fear not Siberia, for logy when speaking of Ukrainians nomenon in a well-documented book USSR began to negotiate seriously to Siberia is also Russian land." This may titled "Political Pilgrims: Travels of reduce the arms race and two Ukrai forcibly displaced from Ukraine into be an appropriate stance for Russian other regions of the USSR. Is it justified Western Intellectuals to the Soviet nians dissidents, Danylo Shumuk and dissidence, but hardly for Ukrainian. As Union, China and Cuba." Yosyp Terelia, were allowed to emigrate to call the exile of Ms. Popovych, a a matter of fact, many Ukrainians Ukrainian by nationality and a resident "Selective perception, combined with to Canada. actively protested against the imposi projection, allows for the almost total of Ukraine, to the Russian city of tion of exile outside the Ukrainian SSR, Tomsk, an "internal" exile? neglect of what objective reality is," Mr. Warner and Shuman devote most of if only because it was a sentence to exile Hollander wrote in explaining why so the book to the lives and "bridge The answer can be either "yes" or to a foreign land. "no," depending on our frame of refe many well-meaning Americans return building" efforts of nine individuals rence. Had Ms. Popovych been sent from LVІV from the Soviet Union bursting with including such well-known personali to Odessa, Kharkiv or some other city If we take the whole Soviet Union as enthusiasm. ties as Armand Hammer, Norman or village within the borders of Ukraine, our basic unit, then the exile is "inter Cousins and the late Samantha Smith. then such an exile would have been Today such "pilgrims" are called nal." However, if we wish to identify "citizen diplomats" or "pathfinders." Readers who wish to become involved "internal"; as it was, she was sent into are urged to contact one of some 232 only with Ukraine as the object of our foreign exile. According to Carl Sagan, they are national aspirations, then exile to Tomsk "committed, imaginative, resourceful organizations (representing I,313 staff 1t behooves the Ukrainian diaspora members and 89 exchange projects) to scrutinize the terminology it applies people who did not despair at the state of the wor1d but thought10 do some who work with the Soviets on issues Correction to (and often borrows from) Soviet ranging from animals to youth. reality, lest it fall into the trap of thing about it, They found ways. They are unlocking the deadly embrace, and SUSTA, the Federation of Ukrainian unwittingly promoting ideological My colleague returned with copies of Student Organizations of America, concepts hostile to its own Ukrainian replacing it with something better." Moscow News and News from Ukraine notes that an address given in its recent interests. 1n a 1987 book titled "Citizen Diplo which she left in the faculty lounge. 1n Action Item was incorrect. The correct mats: Pathfinders in Soviet-American the latter, one found the usual article address for Raymond Benson, director Roman Serbyn Relations - And How You Can Join attacking OUN as a "pro-fascist, autho of a U.S.-Soviet student exchange pro professor of history Them,'* authoгbandura: bridge between United States and South America by Xenia Jowyk It was mid-August and I was shiver ing from the cold. Though I should have known better, I had envisioned palm trees and cloudless, sunny skies. In stead, it was the end of a South Ameri can winter, the weather cold and rainy, the landscape flat and drab except for the short, fat trees and ever-present political posters and graffiti. So began the two-week trek through Argentina and Brazil that took us from Buenos Aires at the southern tip of the continent to Rio de Janeiro in the north. I was one of 15 bandura players from the United States on a concert tour of Ukrainian settlements in South Amerida. The entourage also included Mykola Czorny, longtime administra tor of the New York School of Bandura and organizer of the tour,and a group of 15 Ukrainian tourists from North America. Despite the cold that followed us everywhere, along with other assorted gripes, the tour left me with a wealth of wonderful memories and the feeling that I would have to return someday. It was a rare opportunity to meet with, laugh with, entertain and be entertained by our fellow Ukrainians on another continent. It was a chance to see their world and bring them a piece of ours. Andriy Kytasty entertains Ukrainians at their '*colony" near Prudentopolis. When we touched down in Buenos Aires after about 20 hours of travel lined with wine bottles, we tasted for energetic choir director at St. Andrew's Natalia Kovalchuk, Martha time, we must have been quite a sight - ourselves how good Argentine steak Ukrainian Orthodox Church in South Pywowariw and Joanna Buczko. bags underfoot, bags in our hands, bags really is. It was obvious that attempts to Bound Brook, N.J., and an experienced After we took our bows, after the under our eyes. Escorted by a friendly diet on the tour simply would not work, bandurist. The entire repertoire was warm (often lengthy) speeches by com contingent of local Ukrainians whose surrounded as we were with such plenti well-received, but the crowds simply munity leaders and politicians, the night Ukrainian had an appealing Spanish ful, inexpensive and tasty food. went wild when Lilya Pavlovsky was far from over. In Berizo, as else intonation and rhythm, we arrived at Although each concert was crooned the first few bars of "Cu-cu-ru- where, the fun was only beginning as the last at the elegant old City Hotel, memorable for various reasons (mostly cu-cu, Paloma," a romantic Mexican clock neared midnight. The continent located near the historic Plaza de Mayo due to the people we had met), our first ballad popular throughout Latin functions on a very different schedule and presidential palace known as "Casa was one of my favorites. When we America. from ours, one with afternoon siestas Rosa." In what was to become a ritual arrived in Berizo, a three-hour bus ride Another crowd pleaser was the and dinner anywhere from 8 p.m. to for us, we parked our mountains of from Buenos Aires, the local Prosvita comical duet of Mykola Deychakiwsky midnight. Young and old joined us in a baggage and extra banduras that would hall was already abuzz with excitement. and Marko Farion, who played to reception that reportedly lasted until be delivered to various settlements, and, We were there to help celebrate the perfection their roles as a coup1e of dawn. Since we had a concert the next after the paperwork and chaotic room Prosvita organization's 63rd birthday drunks in "Cholovik Propyv Pomelo." day at Buenos Aires' prestigious Teatro assignments, made for our rooms. and the 90th anniversary of Ukrainian Andriy Kytasty, our "starosta" from Coliseo, we had to make an early exit. Some of the more ambitious (com emigration to South America. sunny southern California, had the The reception that followed Teatro pulsive?) members of the group went Soon it was showtime, which in audience spellbound with his soulful Coliseo included a concert by the out again immediately to explore and South America is no earlier than 9 p.m. rendition of a historical duma. His community's youngest bandura players, shop for that famous Argentine leather (usually 10 p.m.). Warmed up, made up lively treatment of a folk tune about ranging from 4 to 11 years old. The and fur. My roommates and I opteid and with instruments tuned, we filed unrequited love, complete with all kinds group was led by the cheerful, instead to settle in and collapse. out on stage and played to a full house of sound effects, was a big hit as well. indefatigable Marta Sobenko- Shopping would have to wait. and one of the most responsive Our group also included tenor John Syschyk, who took over the group after Later that night, at the Restaurante audiences 1Vє ever seen. Lechicky, bass Zenon Bachir, altos the untimely death in January of Vasyl del M undo, an unimposing family Our program was put together by Darka Leschuk, Olga Chodoba, Lydia Kachurak. 1mpressive was the fact that eatery with attentive waiters and walls Taras Pavlovsky, the talented and Czorny and Irka Kytasty, and sopranos these children had received banduras only last spring, when Mr. Czorny had visited South America with the first batch of instruments. In a touching speech that night, he expressed great hopes for the youngsters before him on stage. "These little *patsyorky' will someday grow up to play bandura like those who played for you today," he said, gesturing paternally toward our group. We also heard a father and his three sons perform on their own home-made instruments, which only proves the old saying that if there's a will, there's a way. In the little time between rehearsals, concerts and meals (no "fast food" here), 1 had a chance to see at least some of Buenos Aires. It is a city of contrasts, a juxtaposition of classical European and 20th century architecture. Narrow cobblestone streets and a plethora of parks, churches and monuments (including an impressive one of Taras Shevchenko) attest to Old World influence, while glass-wa1led skyscrapers, bustling crowds and neon lights refiect the city's modernity and status as a growing commercial center and metropolis. On Monday, August 17, we departed from Buenos Aires and flew north to the Argentine state of Missiones. A choir of young girls in Prudentopolis sings to bandura accompaniment. Stepping off the plane, the milder No.43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1987 climate and accompanying difference in landscape and vegetation made me almost euphoric. The earth had a reddish brown color reportedly caused by an abundance of iron ore. 1 remember feeling somewhat apprehen sive as we drove to Posados, a small town in Missiones, troubled by the poverty, by the landscape filled with rundown storefronts, huts, unpaved roads and general disrepair. This and the slums outsi,de Buenos Aires were certainly a sobering experience. Posados turned out to be an oasis, a lovely little town whose center square was graced with palms and colorful, subtropical plants, and whose sidewalks were lined with busy cafes and trendy shops. We played that evening in a Spanish church, sharing the center with the Choral Associacion de Missiones. As we waited for our entrance, I looked at the faces around me. Dark, proud, serious faces with black eyes and sculpted cheekbones — Latin and Indian faces — seemed to outnumber Caucasian/European faces. It was at Bandurists of St. Josaphat Cathedral in Prudentopolis perform on instruments received from the United States, as this point that I really felt as if I was in a American bandurists look on. foreign country. Until now, it was almost as if we had been in a protective gesturing and creativity, we were able to goblets). They generously gave us the hours by bus to Prudentopolis, center of bubble, with little opportunity for understand each other quite well. mounted poster of our group's album the Ukrainian Catholic Church and contact with the outside wor1d. Next morning, basking in the sun cover (most of us belong to "Homin community in Brazil, stopping on the The preponderance of Spanish and shine that had eluded us in Buenos Stepiv" in New York), complete with way at some fascinating prehistoric Indians, we learned later, was a result of Aires, we were back on the bus, heading translation of the name into "Eco de las rock formations. At St. Josaphat's, the concert being organized by the local for Obera. In his neat little town with Estepas." We owed all this to Father young Ukrainian women from the government and not by Ukrainians. clay red streets, sidewalks and rooftops, Karpluk, who sponsored this portion of college greeted us with smiles and After the concert, Ukrainians rushed up the profusion of lush, colorful flora was our visit and took care of all the caipirinhas, delicious, potent concoc with thanks, questions and special re a welcome sight. We stopped briefly by publicity for our concert. tions made with "samohon," and sat us quests, such as contacting or delivering the Ukrainian Catholic church to pick down to an outdoor feast across from up our host and a vigorous supporter of From the Carima Hotel, near the the church. items to relatives in the states. Teenage border of Argentina, Brazil and Ukrainian dancers had hoped to bandura, the Rev. 0rest Karpluk. After looking in on the second'and As Obera's citizens disappeared Paraguay, we made a short excursion to third-grade Ukrainian classes, we were perform for us. Unfortunately, Ukrai Paraguay, where we loaded up on nians were not invited to the reception behind closed doors and shop fronts for treated to a concert by a choir of young the afternoon siesta, we lunched at the amazingly inexpensive leather goods at Ukrainian girls, ranging from 4 to about and had to make hurried contact with us a crazy, crowded marketplace. The next beforehand. place where they delivered meats to the 24 years old and approximately 20 girls table on two-foot-long swords. day was set aside for the legendary who performed on the bandura. With a Despite the disappointment of not Iguaccu Falls, one of the Seven being able to meet the local Ukrainians, Argentinians call it "asada," Spanish limited number of instruments, they for grilled meats. Of course, this was a Wonders of the Wor1d, which consists were forced to play in two shifts. As what ensued in the next six or seven of scores or perhaps hundreds of hours was clearly one of the tour's photo opportunity not to be missed. As everywhere else, they thanked Mr. could be expected, people made expres cascading falls of all sizes. We walked Czorny for his relentless efforts to highlights. Toward the end of a for about a mile until we reached the delicious meal, prepared and served by sions of horror as waiters held swords obtain the instruments and bandura, over their plates. walkway, near the foot of the falls, that instruction that Ukrainians had -members of the Argentine choir, it allowed us to walk a hundred feet out The concert, held in the church hall, hungered for in Brazil and Argentina. wasn't long before the guitars came out over the water. Mist covered us as 180 was memorable because it was 50 Also on the schedule was a visit to and the singing began. 1t became a sort degree rainbows danced in the light. of "battle of the choirs," except, of degrees inside and it was tough to get Esperansa, Spanish for "hope" and the course, that it was all in good fun. They the old fingers moving (even with five With the overnight bus ride and name of a Ukrainian "colony" near sang a song or two (or three), we sang a layers on). After a midnight "snack" Argentine border behind us, we Prudentopolis. Life in the fast lane this song, and so on. When it came time to served by our sword-bearing waiters, arrived at last in Curitiba, Brazil, where, was not. Visiting a colony, which leave the party, we decided to take the we returned to our hotel only to find thankfully, we could stay in one place someone likened to feudal land without party with us, inviting the entire group smoke in one of the rooms. Several for more than 24 hours. The day was a lord, is like going back in time to to meet us back at the Hotel embroidered blouses had caught on fire free for shopping, sightseeing and another century. International. because of a space heater that was whatever else we wanted to do. I Delivered by bus to the gates of the As various members of the choir took plugged in while we were out. slept...until 3 p.m. Later, after rehearsal church, we scattered immediately in all turns with the guitar, providing non Though several of us talked well into and dinner, we donned our costumes for directions. Some walked alone down stop Spanish music (heaven!), initially the wee hours of the night, we were back a quick taping with a local TV station the dirt road toward the corral where shy imitations of Spanish flamenco on the bus the next day for a tour of crew at our hotel. Crowded into a tiny livestock grazed, others went in pairs or dancing became bold as everyone hit the Obera that included the Ukrainian hotel room, we watched ourselves on small groups to examine the cemetery dance floor. This went on until 4 or 5 church, Shevchenko monument and the late-night news and relished our and nearby farmhouses. An old шип, a.m. in the hotel restaurant, after which Plaza de Ukranios. brief moment as media stars. accompanied by a younger mau #nd we went to a nearby cafe. That we barely At the Obera tourist information On Saturday, we traveled several (Continued on page 10) spoke Spanish and they barely spoke center, we stopped for picture-taking English (except for a few members of with the locals, who were drinking mate each group), seemed of little importance (scaldingly hot tea sipped through a With a lot of "you knows" and straw and often served in ornate silver The trio of Andriy Kytasty, Mykola Deychakiwsky and Marko Farion perform, Bishop Efraim Krevey thanks the American bandurists for their concert. І0 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1987 No.43 BOOK REVIEW restored and with clear belief in God, he is able to re no one to tell him where lie her remains. Around about Rudenko^s poem appears ject all Communist coercion and firmly tell the tyrants: him are just scattered headstones **And not one stone that marked her place." But he could not abandon the in English franslafion But you won't break me or ihy struggles lessen, cross. On the contrary, with it he **turned back toward Nor with your lies the Sacred Tablets shatter. the sparkUng plains." TheCross, by MykolaRudenko: translated by Roman It wouldn't hurt for you to learn the lesson, He roamed the whole night with one question in his Tatchyn, Philadelphia: St. Sophia Religious Associa That Eternity - mind: **Oh, where to search, to seek you, mama?" And, tion of Ukrainian Catholics, Translation Series No. 7, Is God!.. to Myron's surprise, **His dead mother was the all- 1987. And that's what matters. world,/ That raged in trembUng stars on high."Then, suddenly, the air was transpierced by a silvered string by Dr. Wolodymyr Zyla At this stage there is a comp1ete spiritual unity and he saw a bard who strode toward him with a lyre in between the author and the translator. The translator hand: Mykola Rudenko and his literary works are not becomes psychologically well coordinated with the well-known in the English-speaking wor1d. The poem original. This accord contribute to its poetic veracity Not someone else, *The Gross" is probably the most suitable to present by making it persuasive and thereby a good piece of But Christ Himself. Rudenko's poetical skills and his ideological views. literature. He looked like Him, whom Myron's mother The poem should answer the inevitable question of Very impressive artistically and ideological is the Had nailed back up in Lenin's place. why a formerly ardent Communist turned to Christian return of the Commissar Myron, a hero of the poem philosophy. (who represents the author himself), to his native What a powerful image and how beautifully it Responsible for his ideological changes, in our village during that year of death and hell, "the year of resembles the one Myron saw in his mother's house. It opinion, were his formative childhood, spent in a thirty-three." The once beautiful village is now lifeless: shows how Mr. Rudenko sought the divine power that Christian environment, and his later disappointment was for him truth and ability to explain the real with Marxism and Leninism. Communist ideology Darkened walls and doorsteps meaning of human existence, the nature of the began losing charm and interest for him as not Glint with weeds and grass. universe and of God. intellectually profound. He did not find in it any Has the end of mankind Again every line is provided with adequate English essential truth about life and human experience. Truly come to pass? equivalents. The fresh and colorful expressions of the The breadth of Mr. Rudenko's thought and his deep original have not withered in Mr. Tatchyn's transla intuitive grasp of universal truths make him a type of a Maybe, it's some nightmare, tion. They are as vigorous as ever. The exalted and Faustian poet. "Never satisfied with the Soviet status Some mad demon's fun? sacred tribulations of Myron are well understood and quo, with the shallow doctrinaire cliches and half '*Mother! Hear me, Mother! properly presented to the reader. truths meted out by the party establishment, he seeks Myron's home! Your son!" to imbue his writings with the spirit of truth and an Of great importance to us is the dialogue of Myron authenticity of expression," says Leonid Rudnytzky in But there is no response; the house where he grew up with Christ, in which the former expresses sorrow, his *introduction." The best example of such poetry is lies empty: pain, and reproach for all the suffering of the **The Cross," written in 1976. It is Mr. Rudenko's Ukrainian people. There is no truth in Ukraine, only apotheosis of religious poetry and **that most poignant Damply reeks the stove. unending and hellish torture. As Myron questions expression of the fervent, free embrace of his brand of On the wall - not Lenin? Christ: Christianity." Something strange astride; To translate such poetry is not easy because it is In his place of honor - Tell me, what certitude, what grace or freedom difficult to understand even in the Ukrainian original. Jesus Christ presides. Have you bequeathed or ever given Ukraine? Nevertheless, an experienced and gifted translator, Roman Tatchyn, successfully **conveys not only the We witness a profoundly psychological image, Christ answers: author's unwavering commitment to his religious where the true perception takes the upper hand and credo, but also his own, original perception of the where the needs of Soviet reality and the needs of the **I proffer that which men keep spurning lamely. tragedy of his native Ukraine." described occurrence cannot be reconciled. Soviet I breathed life-animation into lifeless stone..." The poet's own **Introduction" sets the tone for the reality is downgraded as worthless. Its hero cannot verse. Its philosophical and personal approach maintain his integrity; he must develop a different The people, however, did not perceive this teaching, describe the thoughts that germinated in the author's appreciation for the values of life and must reject and Satan gained the upper hand, playing **Man's mind as he contemplated the reality in which he lives. everyday Soviet lies, which are **sheer fantasies ancient shield against the Holy Spirit." For this reason This reality he subjects to a carefiil scrutiny. Despite insane." Meanwhile, in the empty village there sounds' the Ukrainian people must suffer as Christ did. all disappointments, he strongly states: the voice of an insane widow: Nevertheless: No, I don't rue my having been a Marxist — Look! The children now are gone! The actions of your nation are immortal. In life, I searched for new religions. **For it - is I" — says Christ. For without faith, what are we?... Eat up, 1over, eat don't linger, Beasts conditioned. Spit back out Orysia's finger. And, as Christ later continues, in a command to From my daughters, sons and babes, Myron: Furthermore, he communicates a feeling of firmness Just a pile of bones remains. and strength that he will maintain throughout the Pick up your cross. I'm crucified upon it poem: All their sou1s are safe forever. Your noble nation's glorious fate-to-be. Their remains I'll slice and sewer. Pick up your cross. And bear it as L.. It is Truth~ And ni bury them with care. The First and Last Foundation. Soon we all will end up there! The strong message which is expressed symbolically Bare yourself to it, here appears in a true Christian sense. It reveals the Find it within you! And, to complement the inherent tragedy of the parallel between Ukraine's tragedy and the crucifixion scene around him: of Christ. Thus, for Mr. Rudenko, Christianity is not Next surface the poet'^ recollections concerning his only a spiritual force and the answer to a need but also imprisonment, when he was told **that minds change Myron's dark locks turned white by morning: a traditional imprint, one familiar in Ukrainian for all time in prison," because: From forty farms — literary expressions. No one survived... On the whole, the translator has succeeded in Jail being - salvation from Eternity, recreating the beauty of the mood of Mr. Rudenko's From poetry, Myron recalls his childhood: *'The moonlit poem. He has preserved the meter and the content of And Optimism. steppes... The steeds he grazed..." and God's presence, the original and made his translation interesting and which he had already sensed. Now, remembering his moving, a good example of Mr. Rudenko's creativity Not in this case, however. With conscience now fully mother he fashions a cross for her, even thoughthereis for the English reader. under the church's jurisdiction were was filled tb capacity. From their perch players...musicians that could help pre The bandura... originally Orthodox. Although I didn't on the crowded balconies, clusters of serve and expand on our great Ukrai (Continued from page 9) join the rest of the group on their often rambunctious teenagers watched, nian musical tradition, our language, child, presumably his grandson,, drove expedition ihat day, I got a good picture cheered and whistled throughout the our history. up in a horse-drawn wooden cart and of life in these colonies from everyone's performance. As with **Cu-cu-ru-cu-cu, The seed was planted by one Mykola shared with us some stories about his stories (and photos that were later Paloma" in Argentina, the reaction to Czorny, a dedicated, perhaps fanatical, life. His experiences included developed). It was clear that what they **Verde Amarelo,*' a popular Brazilian forward-looking bandura enthusiast. imprisonment in the Dachau saw was quite indifferent from the song sung in Portuguese, was He saw the tremendous potential in concentration camp. neatly kept homesteads and ornate tremendous. (Learning to sing in South America's Ukrainian Days later, many of the bandurists church at Esperansa, which some said another language was definitely worth communities, with their high numbers traveled to Ligacon and colonies looked like a mode1 village designed to the trouble!) of children and desire to hold on to their outside the reach of the Catholic impress tourists. Looking back, it was a lot more than roots. Church because of distance or because Before you could say **tune over to just giving concerts. We had a job ~ a The wheels have been set in motion. th^y were prtbpdox. We were si)ocked ;the key of G," it was already time for our mission, if you will - and that was to With enough sup|port and hard work, to 1earn frpm, a Catholic priq^t, in last concert. As* in Berizo, the hall in nurture the seed that would eventually the bandura will ho|pefully take hold in Cttri|iba that many of the colonies now Cujritiba, actually a huge gymnasiutnV produce a whble new crop of bandura a big way in South America. No.43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. OCTOBER 25. 1987 11 George Fiala's ^^ConcertO'Canfata" for Millenrtium is rtew gertre by Marusia Soroka with orchestra, full symphony, chamber bration of the opening of the new Roy An other Millennium project will music, solo voice, piano s0I0,and piano Thomson Hall in Toronto. have its wor1d premiere on Sunday, TORONTO - The wor1d premiere duo. In 1983 Mr. Fiala was commissioned November 8, at Roy Thomson Ha1l. of a new genre in the field of composi He has composed some 200 works, of by the Ukrainian National Association Mr. Fiala has toyed with the idea of a tion will take place here on November 8. which about 15 have been published. in New York to write a work in celebra **Concerto-Cantata'' since 1949. With Under the patronage of the World Those which have perhaps made the tion of the association's 90th anniver this commission, again from Alberta, Federation of Ukrainian Women's Or strongest impression on the musical sary. **Festive Overture" (1983) was pre Ukrainians and non-Ukrainians alike ganizations, the Canadian Ukrainian public are his compositions for a s0Io miered on April 1, 1984, in Carnegie will be able to hear a new genre in the Opera Association will present a Gala instrument with orchestra. Hall in the presence of Mr. Fiala. The field of composition. Rather than Millennium Concert. Two concerto-like works, American Symphony Orchestra was adhering to the traditional concerto George Fiala was commissioned by '*Capriccio" (I962) and **Musique under the baton of Maestro form of a given instrument solo with an the Alberta Ukrainian Commerative Concertative" (1968) were test pieces for Kolesnyk. orchestra1 accompaniment, Mr. Fiala Society to compose a work especially the finalists in the celebrated Thematically, **Festive Overture" is has written a concerto for piano and for the celebration of the Millennium of International Institute of Music of based on two Ukrainian folk songs — choir. Throughout the score of the Christianity in Ukraine. The wor1d Canada Competition, held every year in **Spring Arrived" and the more lyrical *'Concerto-Cantata," while special care premiere of the **Concerto-Cantata" at Montreal. The other works in this **The Ruffled Waters of Fate." The was taken to maintain the leading ro1e Roy Thomson Hall will commence a category are the **Sinfonietta overture is constructed along the lines of the piano solo, the choral part has new chapter in composition. Concertata" (1971) commissioned by of a classical sonata form and is scored been designed to stand on its own George Fiala is a pianist, organist, the Edward Johnson Music for a medium-sized orchestra. merits. Quite often the choir sings in producer and composer, who was Foundation which was premiered in Mr. Fiala's main concern when eight-part harmony. recently chosen as composer of the year 1972 at the Guelph Spring Festival by composing chamber music is clarity. The **Concerto-Cantana" consists of 1987 by Radio Canada International. renowned accordionist Joseph Chamber music, the composer feels, is three contrasting movements. The He is a member of League of Macerollo, and the Concerto for Violin different from any other kind of music. theme is based on Ukrainian folklore. Canadian Composers. Last year in and Orchestra (1973) commissions by The players must enjoy what they are The first movement, Maestoso, is the March, the League hosted the Confe the Ukrainian Canadian Committee doing. It must not necessarily be easy, historical epic of the Holy Mother of rence of American Composers in To marking the Centennial of Winnipeg. It not simply recreational, but pleasing, Pochayiv Monastery who miraculously ronto. Mr. Fiala took an active role in was composed for the outstanding full of light and fun. In his work **Three saved it from the besieging hordes of the conference as a renowned composer Ukrainian Canadian violinist Steven Movements" (1957), he took the Turks and Tatars. The second move in Canada and abroad. To be accepted Staryk, who also gave its first medium of the piano quartet at face ment - Adagio — uses a lyrical song into the ranks of the League of performance in 1974 with the Winnipeg value and followed traditional lines on about the sad fate of a seagull losing her Canadian Composers, one must submit Symphony Orchestra. the treatment of the bow instruments. young to heartless strangers. This is an three written works for accreditation to In a purely orchestra1 category, Mr. The material is fresh and attractive, obvious allegory to the tragic history of a jury of recognized Canadian com Fiala's best known works include beginning with a Prokofiev-like Ukraine as a country. The final move ,posers. *'Montreal" (1967). This is a symphonic allegretto which is followed by a ment - Allegrissimo Ritmico - is the Born in Kiev on March 31,1922, Mr. suite commissioned by the Quebec reflective and very personal adagio of a rather lighthearted story of Johnny and Fiala was surrounded by music in his Ministry of Cultural Affairs. Also in strongly contrapuntal nature. the village maiden, Marusia. It is a family. Both parents were accomplished this category is Symphony No. 4, Mr. Fiala has been attracted to the traditional Ukrainian New Year's pianists and an aunt was a leading subtitled **Ukrainian," (1973), com large forms: the symphony, the con melody (**Shchedrivka") which in its coloratura with the Kiev State Opera. missioned by the CBC in conjunction certo, the sonata. Trained primarily in development is subjected to various Mr. Fiala began his musical training with Winnipeg's centennial. Unfortu the traditional school, Mr. Fiala ad transformations and modifications, at the age of 7 at the Kiev school of nately this work was neglected because hered to the tonal system until the culminatingin a return to the initial music for gifted children. Here he also it was impossible to find a conductor 1960s. At that time he succeeded in Maestoso theme of the first movement. began learning theory and composition. willing to tackle it. Symphony No. 4 reconciling his method of composition The chimes obbligato part was added to His ability for composition was premiered on November 21,1982, in the with the principles of serialism. This the score later at the suggestion of recognized early in his life. At the age of presence of the composer as part of the double allegiance has characterized his Maestro Kolesnyk. 13, a mazurka that he had composed celebrations of his 60th birthday. This composition. His works have a logical was selected for publication in a work was conducted under the baton of structure, although frequently angular, collection of pieces c6mposed by Maestro Wolodymyr Kolesnyk. are lyrical and expressive, and the Ukrainian writers... children. This collection was published Symphony No. 4 is in four move rhythms are always interesting. His (Continued from page 2) in Moscow. ments: Moderato, Allegretto, Adagio writings are colorful with rich contrasts, Ukrainian literature. Meanwhile, the From 1939 to 1941 while at the and Allegro Guisto. The third and but above all, Mr. Fiala seeks to be him Radianska Shkola publishing house is Tchaikovsky State Conservatory the fourth movements are performed self. continuing to issue old textbooks. young Fiala studied under Groudine, **attaca (without pause). An inate With the Millennium just around the 01eksa Yushchenko, reporting that Revutsky, Liatoshynsky and feature of the symphony is its saturation corner in 1988, Mr. Fiala has received he had recently attended book festivals 01khovsky. During this period he was of melody which sets it apart from numerous commissions. One of these in the Sumy and Chernihiv 0bIasts, con able to exchange ideas with Prokofiev, compositions of other contemporary commissions has already been per firmed that the situation was as bad Shostakovich and Khatchaturian when composers. Other contemporary formed. St. Basil's Ukrainian Catholic there as elsewhere in the republic: **But these notable composers were in Kiev composers tend to have the melody as a Church in Edmonton commissioned a these are obvious relapses into the past conducting their own works. Needless secondary consideration, replaced with new liturgy which was premiered on — that was the position taken with to say, these meetings influenced Mr. alternating snatches of sound and August 23 in Edmonton. The 100-voice regard to the Ukrainian school during Fiala's artistic development. silence. This symphony's contemporary church choir of singers from Edmonton the time of stagnation, isn4 it time to With the German occupation of nature is to be found in the instrumen and the neighboring area sang to a point this out to the comrades?" Ukraine, Mr. Fiala was forced to tation, harmonic progression, nuance packed church of over2,000 worshipers. The Ukrainian Writers' Union is continue his music studies in Berlin. and dynamics. The language itself is Mr. Fiala found the writing of the clearly unhappy with the fact that Under difficult circumstances, he was atonal. new liturgy a personal challenge, as the restructuring has had negligible impact able to complete his doctoral thesis Mr. Fiala often utilizes and illustrates music must fit the already established on the national question, and its during Wor1d War И. The subject of his the possibilities and beauty of timbre of words of the liturgy. This newly written concerns are reflected in very clear thesis was problems of the symphony in each instrument and novel timbre work is another first for Mr. Fiala terms in a wide-ranging resolution the Soviet Union. groupings. In this work, Mr. Fiala also because this is the only liturgy that has aimed at prodding the party and state After the war, Mr. Fiala went to assigns each instrument a solo function been composed by a contemporary bureaucracy to translate its words into Brussels where he was able to concen in a polyphonic texture. This work was composer since the days of Alexander deeds. trate exclusively on creative work. first heard during the Inaugural Cele Koshetz. Through a special scholarship from the Vatican arranged by the Committee for Aid for Ukrainian Students, Mr. Fiala INSURE AND studied composition and conducting. Соня Й Олександер He became an active member of the BE SURE music world of Brussels, participating in many musical events as composer, pianist and conductor. HUCULKA Since 1949, Mr. Fiala has lived in Icon & Souvenir's Distnbution Montreal where he has continued his The follow-up to "Lit0" is finally here! 2860 Buhre Ave. #2R successful career as composer, pianist, Bronx. 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Ohio44313/ ,. , soloist with or(-m:Pira, four-раГ' cho;r 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. OCTOBER 25, I987 No.43 bourgeoisie, but the national movement and helps perpetuate old myths and or because they thought that only the Ukrainians in... does not often integrate that group into stereotypes about Ukrainians. existence of some organization, as (Continued from page 7) itself. The existence of this very forum is Among the most popular stereotypes limited as it would be, either military or contrary, the presentation of such an yet another example of how the Ukrai is the myth of German-Ukrainian civilian, would enable Ukrainians to idealized picture undermines the nian community fails to respond to the collusion and the readiness with which salvage their land, some of their popula veracity of the whole story and per desire of professionals, businessmen this myth is accepted. Since one part of tion, and to prevent the mistakes they petuates a negative image of the Ukrai and entrepreneurs to be part of the Ukraine had fallen into the sphere of the thought their elders had made during nian. Ukrainian community. Divorcing old Austrian Empire, Ukrainians there and after the first wor1d war when all * Secondly, we should learn more politics from community action helps enjoyed a modicum of freedom of parts of Ukraine were lost. about the tradition and antecedents of neither; and abandons politics to assembly, and freedom of speech and of This rationable proved to be the constitutional form of government p0Iitie0s where exclusive definition of the press. The Eastern Ukrainians incorrect - mainly because the post- and politics in Ukraine, both Western Ukrainians helps perpetuate a negative before the first wor1d war availed World War l scenario was not repeated and Eastern. The involvement of image of us. themselves of opportunities to publish after the second wor1d war. In 1945, Ukrainians in local government, in * Finally, there has been a strong, their works there; during the war some unlike 1918, the great Empires did not legislative issues, in high level politics of although not always visible, under of the emigres sided with Austria against all collapse. The Soviets remained, and the empires of which our lands were current of educational striving among Russia; and in the inter-war period, actually expanded their borders and part, the interest of Ukrainian writers in Ukrainians. We want to better some Ukrainians used the opportunities spheres of influence beyond those of the limitations of populist democracy are ourselves, but we do not always include German military and secret service former Russian Empire. For the Ukrai issues that would have a direct impact the whole community in the process. offered for training for possible use nians that meant that the old canard of on both the image of ourselves as Having the full image of ourselves, in all against the Soviets. German Ukrainian collusion, of victims of evil powers and the the historical ramifications, will enable Interestingly enough, the most effec Germans inventing the Ukrainians, was stereotype of the Ukrainian incapable us to make better use of our time and of tive of these programs were run by the given a new lease of life. Another result of self-government. The struggle ourselves. The better we know military which had not been among was the generalization 0faII Ukrainians against the tyranny was valiant, but it ourselves, the more realistic an image those who came to support Hitler. as anti-Semites. took many shapes. The story is not we project, the less credible the negative From the Ukrainian point of view, These stereotypes are difficult to live simple, and it is not even irrelevant stereotype. especially before Hitler came to power down. It almost appears that there seem when properly understood and Our lack of knowledge of our own Germany was the most likely ally to be forces that are interested in re presented. past limits our understanding of the against the Soviets. None of the Russian surrecting the stereotypes whenever * Thirdly, we did and do have a situation of Ukrainians in the present governments in exile recognized the historical truth gets the upper hand. The Ukrainians, and the Western Allies vehemence of the accusation breeds a generally sided with the Russians in this vehemence of reaction that tends to non-recognition. backfire. 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For more mformation please call (212) 228-0110 No and Street THE UKRAINIAN MUSEUM, 203 3econd Avenue, New, York, N.Y. 10003 (|tV SM!e Zip-. odL ЛX-л [WJ' ,K^M.K' 4'/v4VA\vt^M^ No. 4З THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. OCTOBER 25. 1987 13 semble, singers and other instrumenta * Lilya Pavlovsky, 01ga Chodoba 25th anniversary music festival lists. She has provided background and Darka Leshchuk combined their music for weddings, brunches, cocktail talents and formed a trio through which to benefit TIie Ulcrainian IImuseum hours, private parties and receptions. they depict the essence of the Ukrainian She has also performed as part of the folk song. Their concern is to portray orchestra for shows like "Joseph and the ro1e of the Ukrainian woman — her NEW YORK - A talented and gifted' communities, and has studied privately the Amazing Technicolor Dream joy, her hardships, all aspects of her life group of young singers and musicians with Julia Drobner, Joan Dornemann coat" and "Merrily We Roll Along." in the Ukrainian village. Their inter have eagerly and with unusual and Martin Lies. She has appeared with Her repertoire includes works of Bach, pretations are enhanced with a bandura unanimity agreed to participate in a the Verdi Opera Company, at the Handel, Hayden, Massenet, Pachelbel accompaniment. They are members of gala concert marking the 25th anniver presitious Kent School in Connecticut, and Tournier. Other repertoire consists the Echo of the Steppes Bandura En sary of Branch 72 of the Ukrainian at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York of light classics and a large variety of semble, the Society of Ukrainian Ban- National Women's League of America City at welcoming ceremonies for Pope popular and folk melodies. She has per durists and the Promin vocal ensemble. that is scheduled for Sunday, November John Paul II, as well as Christmas formed with the Paulson Harp En All three participated in the South 8, here at the Ukrainian Institute of concerts in the United States, Canada semble, South Orange, N.J. She American tour that took place in America. and abroad. received the second-p1ace award at the August of this year. Most of the 13 performers will be re * 01eksander Kuzyszynisa 1975 gra Open Harp Competition in Keadue, turning to the scene of their first formal duate of the Ukrainian Music Institute County Roscommon, Ireland. * John T. Kolody, who will serve as appearance, and even their initial and received his B.A. and M.A. in music * Maria Wolansky receive a B.A. in the accompanist, is a free-lance opera triumph, before a public audience. theory from Columbia University. He music from Hunter College, City coach and stage director. He has toured The festival, marking a quarter of a was an instructor in music humanities University of New York, in 1981 and the country with Metropolitan Opera century of community service by and ear training in 1982-1984at Colum attended Ecole Normale de Musique, stars Rosalind Elias and Andrea Velis Branch 72, is dedicated to the Ukrai bia University, and musicologist for the Paris. Her performance experience as recital accompanist. In New York, he nian Museum in New York and the pro American Society of Composers, includes a joint recital with Mychail has been musical director of Opera Viva ceeds of the event (a donation of 525 is Authors and Publishers since 1985. He Newmerzyckyj, bass, sponsored by the and the Chelsea Concert Series and requested) will be donated to the is presently assistant manager of the Ukrainian Institute of America, as guest assistant conductor with the Bel Canto museum's Building Fund. The co-chair Classical Music Department there. He soloist for the Ukrainian School of Opera. He is staff pianist coordinator at persons of the benefit are Mary has performed with the Iskra Band from Bandura," Hunter College Playhouse, the American Institute of Musical Lesawyer and Rosalie Polche. 1977 to 1986 as a keyboardist and featured soloist at Washington Irving Studies in Graz, Austria. He has staged Following are notes on the perfor vocalist, is a music publisher for Duma High School, and a solo recital at the "La Boheme," "The Elixir of Love," mers: Music Inc. and is also a freelance Ukrainian Institute of America in New "Cosi Fan Tutte," "A Hand of Bridge," # Nadia BohachewskyJ 19, has arranger and producer. He has recorded York. She has performed the Elisir "Gallantry " and "The Impresario" for completed her freshman year at the three LP records with the Iskra Band, d'Amore with the Opera Viva, New which he re-wrote the text and lyrics in Mason Gross School of the Arts of was producer for a recording of the York, in 1986 under the direction of order to feature his cocker spaniel, Rutgers University, where she studies Promin vocal ensemble, and accompa John Kolody, and with the Bronx Opera Buddy (a professional mode1 in his own with I1ana Vered. She began her formal nist and producer for a recording by Company in 1987 under the direction of right). Mr. Kolody's off-beat sense of studies at age 6 at the Manhattan Danchyk. His publications are various Johnathon Pape. She is currently humor has helped him stage and School of Music, Preparatory Division, and include "The Iskra Songs." preparing for operatic ro1es as Blonde in perform in cabaret acts, notably his where she studied with Rosetta * Margaret Leskiw Pierce started *'Abduction from the Seraglio" and operatic spoof, "My Ga1's Another Gal Goodkind. Most recently, she won first studying harp at age 12 with her mother, Marianne in "New Moon." like Galli-Gurci." prize in the Summit Symphony Mary Leskiw. She attended Juilliard Prep and went on to further study with Coricerto Competition, the Livingston Recently, the national UCC Synriffh0Wy' C)rchestra Yt^ung Artists Dr. Rosalie Pratt. She played for the Ukrainian Canadian... Montclair Harp Ensemble, performed executive formed a committee to co Concerto Competition and the New ordinate the centennial celebration, Jersey Symphony Young Artists on local radio arid TV, and taiight harp. (C0nfi11iued from рй|е 1) She holds a B.A. and M.A. in which will be held in 1991. Auditions. debated the purpose of the office, with Myron Spolsky, the committee chair- # Kalyiia Cholhan, a New York City mathematics and is currently manager some saying its primary ro1e should be of technical services for BASF Corp., man, described several project native, is a s6phbmore studying music to publicize human-rights violations in proposals to delegates. More than at Barnard College, Columbia Parsippany, N.J. She and her husband, Ukraine. Richard, are the parents of two chil S35,000 he has budgeted for the com University. She began singing at the age Later, during a workshop on media memoration, said Mr. Spolsky. of 13. At first she studied with opera dren, Nat, 414, and Kirsten 2'/г. relations, delegates questioned two The group's projects include publish singer Andrij Dobriansky; now she is a journalists on ways to present a positive ing a brochure about the centennial; student of Julia Drobner. She is * Ulana N. Pinkowsky Senchyshyn image of Ukrainians to the media. funding a documentary film about the considering a professional musical has studied classical piano for 16years. On the Saturday of the conference, history of Ukrainians in Canada; and career. She has performed twice in pro She is a student of the Ukrainian Music Andrew Cardozo, executive director of asking the federal government to issue a grams featuring young talent at the Institute. At 16 she was accepted to the the Canadian Ethnocultural Council, postage stamp in 1991 that will "honor Ukrainian Institute in the role of Manhattan School of Music, Pre- urged the group to closely monitor the the arrival of Ukrainians in Canada." Cherubino in 'The Marriage of College Division. She is a veteran of impact on cultural activities of the During a luncheon address, John Fi^aro." She has performed at many over 30 concert performances in the federal government's free trade deal Gregorovich, chairman of the Civil PIast events, Soyuzivka, Ukrainian metropolitan area. In 1985 she won with the United States. He also voiced Liberties Committee, spoke about festivals at Rutgers University, and with the title of Miss Union County in the criticism of recent amendments to the developments since the release of the The University Choir and the Promin Miss America Pageant and also won the Canadian Constitution, which he report of the Deschenes Commission of Ukrainian vocal ensemble. talent award in that pageant. She was believes will erode the rights of minority Inquiry on War Criminals. # Olenka Heimur, an accomplished the fifth runner-up in the I985 Miss New groups in Canada. Jersey pageant and again won the talent A bill that will make it easier to lyric soprano has been acclaimed by "Multiculturalism is not recognized prosecute war criminals in Canada and Ukrainian and non-Ukrainian award. She was also Miss Elizabeth in as a fundamental characteristic in the 1985. She has been M.C. for various close Canada's borders to suspected war audiences throughout the U.S., Canada, Meach Lake Accord," said Mr. criminals was charaterizing by Mr. Italy and Germany. Graduating from festivals. She is a graduate of the Cardozo, adding that Ukrainian Cana Juilliard School and also studied with Gregorovich as a "satisfactory" piece of the Manhattan School of Music, she dians should take a special interest in legislation. pursued an opera career, appearing in Dr. Feder, Dr. Cannon and Prof. the accord because they are regarded as Lipkin. Mr. Gregorovich also spoke at length Rome with the Rome Opera Theater "the inventers of multiculturalism." about advertisements placed by his and with the Rome Festival Opera and * Odarka Polanskyj, harpist, studied Working sessions at the conference group in newspapers while the Orchestra. She sang in Spoletto and under Leone Paulson in South Orange, included discussions on the Millennium commission carried out its investiga Florence, appearing as the countess in N.J., and Dublin, Ireland. She has per of Ukrainian Christianity and the 100th tion. The ads were important, Mr. "The Marriage of Figaro," the firstlad y formed in concerts in the U.S. and Ire anniversary of Ukrainian immigration Gregorovich said, because of a "clear in *'The Magic Flute," and Musetta in land as a soloist, as well as with the en- to Canada. bias of the media." "La Boheme." I n New York she appeared with the New York City Opera Com THE FIRST OF A SERIES OF pany. In 1985 she won the American collectable T-shirt prints celebrating a Announcing the return of the: Opera Audition and was a semifinalist Millennium of Ukrainian Chns- of the New York Metropolitan Opera tianity is now available! National Council Auditions. She Printed blue on yellow, m sizes S, M, L, XL; s Bad Luek Ball participated in the 1986 Tchaikovsky 5О% cotton - S8.5O each, in Canadian 1nternational Competition and has dollars - 11.80each. ...a Halloween Dance sponsored by^ been seen and heard on numerous TV ^^^t^"^Uj. and radio programs. ^ Laryssa Magun-Huryn was born in THEXENIA New York City where she attended St. George Ukrainian Catholic School and Saturday Night, October 31, 1987, at 8:00 PM then went on to attend the legendary Featuring the Rock'N' Roll music of Performing Arts High School of New Wholesale quantaties and prices York. Although still deeply involved in available. "Johnny & The Rockets" Ukrainian and classical music, she Send check or money order to: received a degree in pharmacy from St. Zenko Kobasa THE XENiA %Vill also premiere Its new restaurant and lounge. John's University and is a licensed 26 Chestnut St. THE XENIA-i5 located оя' Rt-.-23A in Hunter, NY Salem, N.J. 08079 pharmacist, She is very active in both For reseivcitions ptooie coH (S18) 263^700. the Ukrainian and American musical Ariow 2-3 weeks for delivery. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25. 1987 No. 43 Ukrdinian National Association Monthly reports for August RECORDING DEPARTMENT DISBURSEMENTS FOR AUGUST 1987 Paid To Or For Members Cash Surrenders 136,940.77 MEMBERSHIP RECORD Endowments Matured.., 90,090.88 Death Benefits 74,494.00 Interest On Death Benefits : 81.17 Juv. Adults ADD Totals Payor Death Benefits 172.36 Reinsurance Premiums Paid... 1,574.38 Dues From Members Returned 239.47 TOTAL AS OF JULY 31,1987 18,652 49,691 6,643 74.986 Indigent Benefits Disbursed 2^50.00 GAINS IN AUGUST Trust Fund Disbursed 1,846.59 Mew members 42 53 8 10З Scholarships 11.900.00 Reinstated 23 44 2 69 1 1 Change class in 8 3 11 Total,, 1219.589.62 Transferred from Juv. Dept Operating Expenses: TOTAL GAINS: 73 101 10 184 LOSSES IN AUGUST Real Estate. S161,62O22 Svoboda Operation Suspended.. 3 28 26 57 92,43722 Official Publication-Svoboda 50,000.00 Transferred out 1 1 — Organizing Expenses Change of class out..... 8 3 11 Advertising 1626.57 Transferred to adults... 1 1 — Medical Inspections.. 329.86 Died 63 63 — Reward To Special Organizers 5,576.92 Cash surrender 25 33 58 Reward To Organizers 210.00 Endowment matured.. 26 34 60 Traveling Expenses-Special Organizers 2,092.95 Fully paid-up 31 59 90 Reduced paid-up... Тойг: S8J36,30 Extended insurance - 1 1 1 10 11 Oert terminated Payroll, Insurance And Taxes: TOTAL LOSSES: 94 223 36 353 Salary Of Executive Officers 112,916.68 INACTIVE MEMBERSHIP: Salary Of Office Employee.... 36,676.19 GAINS IN AUGUST Employee Benefit Plan 15,094.47 31 59 90 Insurance-Workmens Compensation..... 18.80 Extended insurance 3 13 — 16 Taxes-Federal, State And City On Employee Wages 19,057.34 TOTAL GAINS: 34 72 10б Tax-Canadian Witholding And Pension Plan On Employee Wages.... 311.59 LOSSES IN AUGUST — Died 21 21 Total ...... Z Cash surrender 21 7 - 28 ттлі Reinstated 1 8 9 General Expenses: 5 5 10 Lapsed Actuarial And Statistical Expenses S475.00 TOTAL LOSSES: 27 41 68 Bank Charges For Custodian Account... 15.00 TOTAL UNA MEMBERSHIP - — Books And Periodicals... 66.43 AS OF AUGUST 31,1987 18.638 49.600 6.617 74З55 Dues To Fraternal Congresses 3,356.72 Furniture & Equipment 2,916.16 General Office Maintenance 1,83226 WALTER SOCHAN Insurance Department Fees 99.00 Supreme Secretary 2,036.73 Printing And Stationery 4,972.68 Telephone, Telegraph... 3.414.74 Traveling Expenses-General 4,935.15 FINANCIAL DEPARTMENT TotoL m.nw INCOME FOR AUGUST 1987 Miscellaneous: Loss On Bonds...... ; 83.94 Youth Sports Activities 1.419.46 Dues From Members.... 1216,090.71 Ukrainian Publications , 39,362.56 Income From "Svoboda" Operation 79308.62 Fraternal Activities...... 40.90 Investment Income: Donations 4,825.00 Bonds... 1361,591.81 Professional Fees...... , 8,000.00 Certificate Loans -..— 2,193.36 Mortgage Loans 37,051.47 Total.. S53.731.86 Banks 58722 Stocks 2.808.11 Investinents: Real Estate 139.772.78 S40.000.00 Stock.. 2,783.11 1MZ 1544.004.75 Certificate Loans..... 3,793.36 Real Estate ..... 8,688.59 Refunds: E.D.P. Equipment 637.81 Taxes Federal, State & City On Employee Wages.. S15,4O626 Taxes-Canadian Witholding & Pension Plan 25445 1ШГ. Щ90О7 Taxes Held In Escrow 1.623.00 Disbursements For August 1987... і750,313,03 Employee Hospitalization Plan Premiums 1,079.56 Official Publication "Svoboda" 34,615.17 BALANCE Insurance Ret'd 728.63 Investinent Expense Ret'd 200.00 Scholarship Ret'd 300.00 ASSETS Liabilities Bank Charge Ret'd 1,475.61 Cash SI.317,381.61 Life Insurance S57,635.043.72 7Ші: кшиі Bonds 43.459,691.26 Accidental D.O 1.568,965.04 Mortgage Loans 4,565.156.97 Fraternal 102,489.65 Miscetla(ieous Certificate Loans 712,000.11 Orphans 363,38a31 Donatibnij.To Fraternal Fund.. 14.462.85 Real Estate 1.194.925.39 0Id Age Home 121.71251 Ukrainian Heiritage Defense Fund Donations... 10.69 Printing Plant & E.D.P. Emergency 30,5:1.548 Equipment ; 335,787.39 іш:. й,47154 Stocks 1,l92,6ia64 Loan To D.H. - U.N.A. Investments; Housing Corp. 104.551.04 Bonds Matured Or Sold ..; .; : S30,41627 Loan To U.N.U.R.C 7.000,000.00 Mortgages Repaid :....,.„..,. 237,248.75 Certificate Loans Repaid , 10,738.87 Total S59.882.U2.41 Total.. S59,g82,112,41 Total , .:..,..„ S278.403.89 ULANA DIACHUK 1|IС0ІП0 to Atimst 1987 л..^.г.л^лд;:.ь.;AЛ,.;.;^;.^..л^;;^..;.л.^^;.:..;.;^.i..^..^:;.:^ |1Л77.964.І9 Supreme Treasurer No.43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. OCTOBER 25, 1987 15 National Millennium... *'We are ready to create the kind of YEVSHAN RECORDS positive media stories Scranton brought (Continued from page 3) us. What happened in Scranton can NEW RELEASES FALL ^88 Scranton to miss a ceremony at which happen in any community where there JULIAN KYTASTY he was to have given the Soviet is a Ukrainian spirit of cooperation and delegation a key to the city. Although a Ukrainian Bandurist unity. 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INVITATION TO THL . 2^tn сУтшгі(7ЕЧ,±аги BRANCH 72 UKRAINIAN NATIONAL WOMEN'S LEAGUE OF AMERICA, INC 'GALA MUSIC FESTIVAL' AND BUFFET TO BE titLD ATTHE UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICA 2 EAST 79th STREET, NEW YORK CITY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8th, 1987 3:00 PM GUEST ARTISTS NADIA BOHACHEWSkY . Piano KALYNA CHOLHAN Mvzzo Soprano OLENKA HEIMUR Soprano LARYSSA MACUN HURYN Soprano OLEKSANDER KUZYSZYN Piano-Composer & Vocalist MARGARITE LESKIW PIERCE Harp ULANA N. PINKOWSKY SENCHYSHYN Piano ODARKA POLANSKY Наг() MARIE MANDZIE WOLANSKY Soprano LI LYA PAVLOVSKY OLYA CHODOBA Trio Bandurists DARIA LESHUK Accompan!st- lOHN KOLODY Oonat4on S2-5.0O ' - Benefit - The Ukraiman Museum, iN,Y.C. Co-Chairpersons MafY U'sawvt4, I-20І-2 Ji-S Й)4 Rosalie I'oI(ho 1-7 l8-44b-8()4 і 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25. 1987 No.43 October 30 instructors. For more information call Jim Kowalski, (306) 652-5850. MONTREAL: The Ukrainian Cana РКШ1VV OF EVENTS dian Professional and Business the church and his press statements mation call Damian Handzy, (215) November 8 Association of Montreal and the 643-9761. in Amsterdam and Toronto. A ques- McGill and Concordia universities tion-and-answer period will follow TORONTO: The Canadian Ukrai Ukrainian student associations invite YONKERS, N.Y.: The SUM the lecture. For more information the public to a lecture by writer call Mr. Pasiczniak, (201) 5З8-2899. nian Opera Association will sponsor organization of Yonkers invites a gala Millennium concert, featuring Count Nikolai Tolstoy of England, children of all ages to its second titled "Justice East and West: War the Canadian Ukrainian Opera annual children's masquerade ball, Chorus and Symphony Orchestra, Criminality 40 Years Later," at "Carnival," from 3-6 p.m. at the TRENTON, N J.: The? annual McGill University, Leacock build with Christina Petrowska on piano Ukrainian Youth Center, З01 commemoration of the November and Judy Loman on harp, under the ing, room 232, at 8 p.m. Donations of Palisade Ave. The program will in 1st Act will be held at St. Josaphat's S4 are requested. Student admis direction of Wolodymyr Kolesnyk, clude a pantomime production of Ukrainian Catholic Church hall, at 3 p.m. in Roy Thomson Hall. The sion is free. For information call "Koza Dereza," a children's circus 1195 Deutz Ave., Hamilton (514)48l-587l. performance will feature the wor1d with clowns, animals and games, and Township, at3 p.m. Featured will be premiere of Ukrainian Canadian music played by the Howeriia band. Prof. Wolodymyr Zarycky of New composer George Fiala's Concerto There will also be food on sale. Prizes York University and the women's October 31 Cantata for Choir and Piano, as well will be awarded for best costumes. choir Troyanda. Admission is S5 per as works by Bortniansky and Kykta. person. The event is being sponsored JERSEY CITY, NJ.: Branch 71 of by the Ukrainian Community Com the Ukrainian National Women's October 3bNovember 1 mittee of Greater Trenton. For infor NEW YORK: On the occasion 0fits League of America will hold a mation call Ivan Haftkowycz, (609) 25th anniversary, Branch 72 of the traditional fall dance, beginning at 9 HARTFORD, Conn.: The Sacred 585-4833. Ukrainian National Women's p.m. and featuring the music of the Heart Guild of St. Michael's Ukrai League of America will sponsor a Tempo orchestra, at the Ukrainian nian Catholic Church will sponsor its "Gala Music Festival" and buffet, National Home, 90-96 Fleet St. annual bazaar at the parish school WARREN, Mich.: A teachers' featuring performances by 12 young Admission for adults is S8 and S5 for auditorium, 125 Wethersfteld Ave., symposium on the genocidal famine musicians, at 3 p,m. at the Ukrainian students. from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. on Saturday, in Ukraine will take p1ace from 8 Institute of America, 2 East 79th St. and from 9:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. on Sun a.m.- 4 p.m. at the Ukrainian The featured performers will be: FRACKVILLE, Pa.: The South day. The bazaar will feature hand Cultural Center, 26601 Ryan Road. Nadia Bohachewsky, Kalyna Anthracite Council of the League of crafted items, ceramics, Ukrainian Cost for the luncheon and Cholhan, 01enka Heimur, Laryssa Ukrainian Catholics will sponsor an foods, pysanky decorating and curriculum materials is S1O. Drs. Magun-Huryn, 01eksander evening of Ukrainian song and Ukrainian embroidery demonstra James Mace, Myron Kuropas and Kuzyszyn, Margarite Leskiw Pierce, dance, featuring the Poltava Ukrai tions. For more information call Roman Serbyn will be the principals Ulana N. Pinkowsky Senchyshyn, nian dance ensemble, at 7:30 p.m. in Mary Seleman, (203) 528-1813. 1n a workshop designed for middle Odarka Polanskyj, Marie Mandzie the auditorium of North Schuylkill and/ or secondary school teachers. In Wolansky, Lilya Pavlovsky, 01ya Junior-Senior High School on Route addition, eyewitness accounts, Chodoba and Daria Leshuk. A 61. Admission for adults will be S1O November 1 visuals, and teaching strategies will donation of525 is requested. AH pro and S4 for children. For more infor be provided. For reservations and in ceeds will go toward The Ukrainian mation and tickets call (717) 622 NEW YORK: Combined Lystopa- formation call (313) 755-6855. Museum. For information call Mary 8О56 or 429-0485. dove Sviato and Veteran's Day Lesawyer, (201) 232-5304 or Rosalie memorial services will be held by the Polche, (718) 446-8043. YONKERS, N.Y.: The Yonkers St. George Ukrainian Post, Catholic SASKATOON: The Saskatchewan SUM branch will sponsor its annual War Veterans, at noon at St. George Provincial Council of the Ukrainian November 9 Halloween bash, beginning at 9 p.m. Ukrainian Catholic Church, 33 East Canadian Committee is sponsoring a at the Ukrainian Youth Center on 7th St, All veteran groups are invited one-day cultural workshop dealing WINNIPEG: Victor Deneka, church З01 Palisade Ave. Prizes will be to participate. For more information with Ukrainian harvest rituals from 9 architect, will give a lecture on awarded for the best costumes with call Harry Polche, (718) 446-804З. a.m. -9 p.m. at the St. George Senior Ukrainian church architecture in plenty of fun and games in store. The Citizens Centre, 1235 20th St. West. special attraction will be the Coors Canada, past, present and future, at 7 IRVINGTON, NJ.: The Regional The registration fee is S30 and p.m. in the Ukrainian Cultural and Beer promo-night, with free caps and Branch of the Ukrainian Patriarchal includes the price of both a luncheon Educational Centre, 184 Alexander t-shirts. The Howeriia band will pro Society will hold a meeting for and dinner. Orysia Tracz and Irka Ave. E. For more information call vide the music. For more informa Ukrainian Christians at 6:30 p.m. in BaI0n of Winnipeg will be the the centre at (204) 942^215. tion call (203) 322-4365. the Ukrainian National Home, 140 Prospect Ave. Wasyl Pasiczniak will PHILADELPHIA: The Chorno- speak on the "Exit from *0^^^Л0^^^^^^^^^^0Щ0^0^0^ mortsi P1ast fraternity and the Lisovi Underground and Legalization of Mavky P1ast sorority will sponsor a the Ukrainian Catholic Church on PREVIEW OF EVENTS, a weekly listing of Ukrainian community events Halloween masquerade for the Occasion of the Upcoming open to the public, is a service provided free of charge by Hie Weekly to the yunatstvo and starshi plastuny at Millennium of Christianity," which Ukrainian community. 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The Lord has His destiny for Miss America... Miss Rafko noted that four of the eight judges came all of us. That's how 1 cope." up to her and "told me 1 was natural." Miss Rafko said she hopes to manage her own (Continued from page 1) "They said, *You captured our hearts. We hospice program in the future and continue So her grandmother told her since her name was thought, that's a genuine person.'They watched me working with the terminally ill after this year is Hawaiian, she should perform a Hawaiian dance. to see how I interacted with the other contestants. over. She has done over З00 hours of work with (How Miss Rafko got the name Kaye Lani Rae is They (the contestants) were wonderful. It wasn't a cancer patients. interesting in itself - her mother borrowed the cutthroat competition." Miss Rafko added, she would not have competed name from a high school friend who was Hawaiian. Miss Rafko stated she has learned humility in any program other than the Miss America In turn, the name fostered Miss Rafko's interest in through participating in the pageants. She recalled pageant because it cost nothing to enter "and you Hawaiian dance.) one incident that taught her a very important earn money for school." This is extremely impor Winning the Miss America pageant ushers in a lesson. "Once, when I was 19,1 thought I was going tant because by its very nature the program empha new phase of Miss Rafko's life and she hopes to be a to go a11 the way." There were 20 women in the sizes that getting an education is important for worthy representative of the organization, Miss pageant. "I didn't make it even in the top 11. I every individual. Rafko contended. needed that humbling experience. I learned just to Miss Rafko was born on August 26, 1963. Her be yourself, be natural. They don't want a plastic parents are Lonny and Jacqueline Rafko. Mr. Miss America "is a ro1e mode1," she said, adding, person." Rafko owns a truck and auto parts business in "1 know I'm different (from past winners) by having And what has taught her compassion is working Monroe, Mich., and Mrs. Rafko works in customer a career established. That's the first of a long time. with the terminally ill, she said. It is her religious service at Michigan Gas Utilities Co. The new Miss I'm here to let them (the public) know that 1'm able faith that has enabled her to have the strength to America has three siblings - Kim, 22, Nick, 16, and to take off a year, to travel and meet people. Miss watch people die and then go on to help others. Paul, 9. America is a symbol of optimism. Miss America is "1'm Catholic, 1 have a great deal of faith. 1t is my She likes outdoor activities, including bicycling representative of the warm, caring individual that coping mechanism. Death is a part of life. 1 hope and swimming, collecting bells (of which she has one feels confident talking to," she said. I'm making their death easier, helping patients die over 3GO varieties from different areas of the U.S. Miss Rafko said she does see herself as a warm with dignity. I haven4 seen too many miracles. But and other countries) and aerobic dancing.