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Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc.. a fraternal non-profit association! crainian Weekl ї Vol. LI No. 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 26,1983 25 cents famine committee Ukrainian fests herald summer in Canada, U.S. in D.C. launches Kingston's Folklore `83 Jersey's Ukrainian Festival media campaign by Mykbailo Bociurkiw KINGSTON, Ont. - During the summer, Canada's HOLM DEL, N.J. - New Jersey's Garden State Arts by Andrij BUyk Ukrainian communities corr/e alive with festivals. Celebra­ Center was the site of the ninth annual Ukrainian festival on tions of past, present and future take place across the country Saturday, June 18. WASHINGTON—The Washington from early May to late October. From the Ukrainian Pysanka Over 10,000 festival-goers attended the one-day festival arm of the National Committee to Festival in Vegreville, Alta., to Metro International Caravan despite the hot and muggy weather conditions which had Commemorai: Genocide Victims in in Toronto, Ukrainians gather from all parts of North plagued the Eastern Seaboard for days. This year's Garden Ukraine this week launched its media America to sample Ukrainian food, to gaze at numerous State festival was in very many ways similar to other relations campaign. The committee sent exhibits and to dance to some of the best Ukrainian music the Ukrainian festivals held in Canada and the United States. a letter to each of the 13 New England country has to offer. Ukrainian merchants from every corner of the continent lined reporters and editors bound for the The 1983 summer program of festivals kicked-off on the festival grounds with their booths, selling everything from Soviet Union, urging them to use their weekend of June 10-12 in Kingston, Ont. — a small historic "Kiss me, i'm Ukrainian"T-shirtstothelatestalbumsfromthe "Yankee ingenuity" jo uncover "the city located on the shores of Lake Ontario at the entrance to Ukrainian recording industry. For the connoisseur of world's most hideous cover-up — the the Rideau Canal. Kingston was the site of the 12th annual Ukrainian food, the festival offered several stalls serving murder by starvation of 6-8 million Folklore Festival, a multicultural event sponsored by the every size and shape of varenyky and holubtsi. Ukrainians during the 1932-33 drive to Kingston and District Folk Arts Council. Throughout the day, an entertainment program was held collectivize Ukraine." Folklore follows much the same concept as the Metro on the main square of the festival grounds. Performing at "This genocide against the Ukrainian Toronto International Caravan. Local ethnic communities regular intervals were the Lyman Ukrainian Dance Ensemble people continues today, although the sponsor "pavilions" located in halls and schools scattered from Maryland and the four-member Boys from Lviv band. methods are more subtle," the letter across the city. Each pavilion features music, cultural displays said, describing the policy of Russifica- food bistros and.performances. (Continued on page 5) tion. , - . Fsstivabgoers are required to, pur­ The media relations effort will con­ chase a "passport" to gain entrance to tinue with the preparation of a press each pavilion. Upon arrival to a release about the letter that will be sent pavilion, the passport is stamped with a to the majority of news media represen­ "visa," making the booklet a unique tatives headquartered in the nation's souvenir of the festival. capital. The press release will be follow­ This year, Folklore '83 featured 23 ed by phone calls to key media persons pavilions. Located at the corner of at which time "we will push hard for North and Bagot Streets, St. Michael's interviews, stories, anything we can Ukrainian Catholic Parish sponsored get," said Natalie Sluzar, Washington the Kiev Pavilion. Visitors to Kiev were committee coordinator. treated to Ukrainian food and refresh­ The 13-member delegation from the ments; a display of Ukrainian arts and New England Society of Newspaper crafts in the church hall; and an out­ Editors left yesterday for Helsinki and door cabaret featuring the Bayda Song Moscow. The delegation will attend a and Dance Ensemble of Toronto, the U.S.-Soviet newspaper conference in Voloshky Vocal Ensemble from Osha- Leningrad set up by the Soviets in wa, Ont., musicians from Toronto's return for a similar visit to New En­ exclusive Ukrainian Caravan Restau­ gland last year. The title of the confe­ rant, and dancers from the St. Mi­ rence is "A Search for Ways to Over­ chael's Parish School of Ukrainian come Confrontation Between the Soviet Dance. Union and the United States of America and to Prevent the Threat of Nuclear A few blocks away on Cowdy Street, War: What Editors Can Do." Follow­ the Ukrainian Canadian Club of ing the conference, the American dele­ Kingston sponsored the Lviv Pavilion gation will be broken up into three in the Frontenac School. Now in its groups, with one visiting Kiev and the third year of operation, Lviv, like Kiev, others visiting the capitals of Lithua­ seemed to be among the most frequent­ nia and Georgia. ed pavilions of Folklore '83. Large Editor and Publisher magazine re­ crowds during each performance left ported that the American delegation, "to only standing room for those arriving get a broauer and deeper look at and late. ' understanding of the real Soviet people, Headlining the performance schedule has requested meetings with some top at Lviv were the Rusalka Dancers of Soviet officials, home visits with average Burlington, Ont. The 25-member dance Soviet citizens, plus tours of collective group adds Folklore to its growing list farms, department stores, churches, a of out-of-town appearances which ballet studio and a journalism school." includes: Pittsburgh, California, and In its letter to each member of the Toronto. Among selections from the American delegation, the Washington troupe's repertoire performed at Folk­ branch of the National Committee to lore were the hopak, "Un^er the Cherry Commemorate Genocide Victims in Tree," hutsulka, and "Povzunets." Ukraine said, in part: Members of the group videotaped "We realize your mission involves several of their performances in order to discussions about what editors can do review their mistakes and improve on to avoid nuclear war. And we wish you technique. jMykhaiio Bociurkiv well in these discussions. We pray that The Lviv Pavilion was once again the (Continued on page 14) (Continued on page IS) A leaping Kozak dancer at the recent Kingston Folklore festival. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 26, 1983 m No. 26

Dissident profile. Afghans force ceasefire in key valley ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A land 29-year-old commander of insurgent mine planted by insurgents in the forces in the valley, recently told a Sergei Paradjartov: eastern Pakita province of Afghanistan correspondent from The Economist killed a top Defense Ministry official that guerrillas now control the Panjshir and nine other people traveling in an air unchallenged. jailed filmmaker force van, reported United Press Inter­ Since the Soviet invasion of the JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Although national. country in 1979, Soviet and pro-govern­ award-winning Soviet filmmaker Mohammad Shafiq Ahangar, a De­ ment forces have been unable to dis­ Sergei Paradjanov was born in fense Ministry secretary, was killed with lodge the insurgents from the valley, a Georgia of Armenian descent, it can his son whe,n the mine blew up their van force estimated to number 5,000 to be argued that his mid-1960s Ukrai­ on June 9,.rebel sources said. They said 7,500 guerrillas. In April 1982, about nian-language classic, "Shadows of three guards, four air force officers and 30,000 Soviet and government troops Forgotten Ancestors,"and the subse­ the driver were also killed. invaded the valley with"air support by quent trouble it has caused him, The sources also said that during the MIG jets and Hind MI-24 helicopter make him eligible for inclusion in the first week of June, Afghan guerrillas gunships. annals of Ukrainian dissent. killed 21 Soviet and 18 government The Soviet assault did well at first, The film, a haunting and lyrical troops in fierce clashes in Baghlan but the advance was then forced back. interpretation of the mystical aspects province in northern Afghanistan bor­ The valley floor is about 8,000 feet of Hutsul mountain culture, was dering the Soviet Union. above sea level, and the mountains that based on Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky's The news comes amid reports that the line it reach 16,000 feet. Guerrilla book of the same name. What's Soviets had asked for and were granted positions high in the hills could not be more, Mr. Paradjanov first ran afoul a ceasefire in the strategic Panjshir reached by Soviet fire, and the insur­ of Soviet authorities when he refused valley, which begins some SO miles gents used Dashaka heavy machine to dub his Ukrainian-language films north of Kabul and runs northeast guns, anti-aircraft guns and Sam-7s to into Russian. For this he was labeled Sergei Paradjanov through the mountains of the Hindu shoot down enemy helicopters. The a Ukrainian nationalist. Kush. mountains are so high that guerrilla In addition, Mr. Paradjanov lived fewer than 16 international film Earlier reports had suggested that the gunners sometimes fired from above to in Ukraine and sent his son to a prizes. ceasefire came about because local knock out Soviet aircraft flying below Ukrainian school. In 1965 and 1969 Back in the USSR, however, Mr. residents were tired of the yearlong them through the valley. he signed petitions in defense of Paradjanov's fortunes were turning. Soviet offensive and wanted time to By December, the Economist report­ persecuted Ukrainian intellectuals Both Khrushchev and Shelest were tend their crops. Still others speculated ed, the Soviets and their allies had been and dissidents. ousted. The cultural thaw was over. that squabbling among, the various pushed back to the village of Ruka, 12 Mr. Paradjanov, who is in his late- Since all six of Mr. Paradjanov's fundamentalist factions lead one group miles into the valley. They had scorched SOs,.was arrested on February II, films were in Ukrainian, coupled to sue for a temporary peace. the earth as they retreated, hoping to fSei,'in' Tbilisi, capital of Soviet .with the fact.that the filmmaker had It now appears that it was the Soviets deprive the mujaheddin forces of food. Georgia, and'charged with "associat­ lived in Ukraine, sent his son to a who requested the ceasefire, and that it Later that month, the aerial bom­ ing with undesirable persons," pro­ Ukrainian school and defended such was granted on the condition that they bardment stopped suddenly, and a bably foreigners. Several mqnths Ukrainian dissidents as Valentyn get entirely out of the valley except for a Soviet emissary contacted guerrilla later, he was sentenced to five years' Moroz, he was eventually arrested token garrison and not bomb it from the leaders to ask for cease-fire negotia­ imprisonment. His arrest and sen­ and accused of Ukrainian nationa­ air. tions. In January, an agreement was tencing culminated a campaign by lism. In fact, Ahmad Shah Massood, the (Continued on page 11) Soviet authorities to make Mr. He was released, however, and Paradjanov a non-person, an effort allowed to return to his native Cau­ which saw hjrajall from^ decorated . casus. There, he continued to churn cultural figureJo a socjatnariah. And' out screenplays at a feverish pace, Lithuanian dissident sentenced J it was the'`tumult caused by "Sha­ and finally, in 1969, a project was BROOKLYN, N.Y. - The brother letters written to him by his sister from dows" that signaled his decline, his approved. He was allowed to make of a well-known Lithuanian human- labor camp. Despite repeated requests, fall from grace. "The Color of Pomegranates," a rights activist was sentenced to 18 the militia refused to investigate the Mr. Paradjanov attained his full visually gorgeous life of Armenian months' imprisonment on May 24 after theft for three days. creative powers in the 1960s, a brief mystic poet Sayat Nova which con­ being found guilty of libeling a state On October II, 1982, authorities time of liberalization shortly before tained reflections on the massacre o'f functionary. confiscated several books and religious the ouster of Nikita Khrushchev Armenians by the Turks in the early Jonas Sadunas, whose sister, Nijole items during a search of Mr. Sadunas`s which saw the appearance of Alex­ part of the century. Sadunaite, served a six-year sentence house. Less then a month later, he was ander Solzhenitsyn's "A Day in the The film was instantly banned. In from 1974 to 1980 for typing a dissident called in for interrogation from a Life of Ivan Denisovich,"a story of a 1973, he was arrested and charged publication, was charged with libel hospital, where he was being treated for prisoner in a Stalinist labor camp, as with currency speculation and homo­ under Article 132 of the Lithuanian a chronic eye disorder. well as Yevgeni Yevtushenko's poem sexuality, a criminal offense in the Criminal Code for allegedly criticizing a Later in November, he was incarce­ "Babi Yar," a homage to Jews mas­ USSR. He was sentenced to five state farming director in several letters, rated in a psychiatric facility for two sacred by the Nazis in a ravine years' imprisonment, and shortly reported the Lithuanian Information weeks, then released. outside Kiev. thereafter, another lO-year term was Center based here. On January 24 of this year Mr. A friend of Petro Shelest, then first tacked on. t Authorities first began harassing Mr. Sadunas was summoned to the prosecu­ secretary of the Communist Party of Thanks largely to an international Sadunas in 1980 when his sister return­ tor's office in Vilnius, capital of the the Ukrainian SSR, Mr. Paradjanov campaign on his behalf, the director ed from exile and moved in with him, republic, and questioned about letters made several Ukrainian-language was released in 1977 after serving his wife and 8-year-old daughter. At the he purportedly wrote criticizing Petras films. But it was "Shadows" which four years. The petition asking for his time, the government began interrupt­ Dukstas, a farm director. At the time, was to earn him international ac­ release was signed by virtually every ing his mail service. officials threatened him with a libel suit. claim. important filmmaker in Europe. On September 26, 1981, Mr. Sadunas It is not known whether Mr. Sadunas Set in the Bukovina region of Destitute, Mr. Paradjanov was discovered that someone had'broken will serve his term in a labor camp or be Ukraine, the film, though not expli­ forced to live with his sister in Tbilisi. into his basement and made off with sent to prison. citly political, makes stunning use of Barred from filmmaking, he was folk ' ostumes and peasant architec­ forced to scrounge a living by doing ture of the region to tell a brooding, odd jobs. He became an ardent fatalistic tale with a sense of destiny Armenian patriot, writing screen­ not unlike that of Greek tragedy. plays dealing with the ancient Ar­ menian nation. Mr."Paradjanov himself wrote that In 1981, The New York Times ran Ukrainian WeeH the partly pagan world of the Hutsuls a story about the director based on V was used to address such themes as reports from an Armenian American FOUNDED 1933 love, despair, solitiude and death. As who visited him in his small room in a Ukrainian weekly newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal a film, "Shadows" ran contrary to the house with no running water. drab and regimented style of the non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St, Jersey City, NJ. 07302. Expecting a man broken by inacti­ (The Ukrainian Weekly - USPS 570-870) accepted Socialist realism school vity and years of persecution. The Also published by the UNA: Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. tolerated by the government; and it Times reported that Mr. Paradjanov was clear that an artist with Mr. appeared "alert, eloquent and ap­ Paradjanov's surrealistic and highly' The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: parently in perfect health." He seemed (201) 434-0237, 434-0807 (201) 451-2200 imaginative view of life `was headed invigorated, full of ideas for screen­ for trouble. plays. Yearly subscription rate: |8, UNA members - J5. When "Shadows" was commer­ He said the worst part of his ordeal cially released in Western Europe, it was the inability to make films. Now, Postmaster, send address changes to: was instantly hailed as a masterpiece. locked away in the gulag, it appears THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Editor Roma Hadzewycz Writing in "Sight and Sound," Herb that this genius of Soviet cinema may P.O. Box 346 ' Associate editor George Bohdan Zarycky Marshall counted that it had won no never make a film again. Jersey City. NJi 07303 Assistant editor. Malta Kotomayets No. 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 26, 1983 3 4,000 hold famine memorial march in downtown Detroit

by Stephen M. Wichar DETROIT - Church bells from the Central Methodist, St. Aloysius, Mariners and Holy Trinity churches in downtown Detroit tolled a funeral dirge on Sunday afternoon, June 12, for the 7 million Ukrainians who had perished in the genocidal Great Famine of 1932-33. Some 4,000 persons, according to police estimates, participated in a Memorial March and then converged on the city's Grand Circus Park to express a personal homage to the men, women and children who had suffered death by starvation during the Stalin regime. Although the temperature reading hovered in the 90s, Ukrainians from Detroit and outlying areas demonstrat­ ed an enthusiastic but mournful deter­ mination to make the Memorial March a historic event in the state of Michigan. Under the skillful guidance of Yaroslaw Duzey, the master plan for marching was executed with military precision. The Memorial March was led by Organizations' banners are seen during the ecumenical memorial service. veterans bearing the American and Ukrainian colors. Emblazoned on a banners and placards, youth groups of large banner was the masthead: "Com­ Plast, SUM-A and ODUM marched memorating the 50th Anniversary in somberly to the slow cadence of snare 1932-33 of a Genodical Famine Perpet­ drums. Many of the youngsters wore rated by Stalin." Ukrainian costumes and youth or­ Heading the parade was Mary V. ganizations' uniforms. The Detroit Beck, general chairwoman and coordi­ News, which has a circulation of over nator of all commemorative projects in 500,000, used color photos of these Metropolitan Detroit, and Municipal children with a front page story on the Judge Michael Mazola, acting as an following day. Honorary Marshal. As a long-time On of the largest banners Ukrainian activist, Judge Mazola play­ in the parade identified the Great ed a key role in the preparation of a Famine as "Mass Murder by Moscow similar Detroit parade in 1933. of 7,000,000 Ukrainians." Forming a The executive board of the united symbolic cross, 15 women in Ukrainian Ukrainian Community Committee embroidered blouses carried black followed. Representing the Ukrainian wreaths before a black-draped 15-foot Orthodox, Catholic and Baptist parishes coffin. Attired in long, toga-like black of all communities, an impressive robes, eight young men acted as pall­ entourage of 15 priests, accompanied by bearers, carrying the massive coffin on religious flags and banners, comple­ their shoulders. A United Men's Chorus mented the forward position. of Metro Detroit, under the direction of With an abundant display of Ameri­ can and Ukrainian flags, organizations' (Continued on page 11) Veterans bearing U.S. and Ukrainian flags lead the Memorial March.

Victims of the Great Famine recalled at Hamptonburg pilgrimage HAMPTONBURG, NY. - The Stamford and director of the seminary in 1970, primarily to pray for those Catskill Mountains. Its founder. Metro­ estimated 7 million victims of the Great choir, and by Peter Koczanski, cantor buried there. This year, however, marks politan Joseph Schmondiuk, formerly Famine engineered by the Stalin regime at the pro-Cathedral of St. Vladimir in the 50th anniversary of the peak of the bishop of Stamford, is buried there. in the early 1930s were commemorated Stamford, sang the congregational Ukrainian famine. Bishop Losten and the clergy sang a during the annual pilgrimage to Holy responses. The cemetery is located in the Town shorter requiem service, the panakhyda, Spirit Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery on The annual pilgrimage has taken of Hamptonburg near the Village of over the metropolitan's grave shortly Sunday, June 12. place since the founding of the cemetery Washingtonville, in the foothills of the after the parastasis. As several thousand faithful looked on in the bright sunshine and 90-degree heat, the Rev. Bohdan Kin and the Rev. Basil Juli assisted Bishop Basil H. Losten of Stamford, in placing a four- foot wreath at the base of the white marble monument that graces the center of the 291-acre burial ground. Bishop Losten prayed that the famine victims would not have died in vain but that "the Lord might, in His mercy, grant them eternal life and our people a future of freedom." - The English-language homilist, Archi­ mandrite Dr. Victor J. Pospishil, refered to the famine as "the greatest in number of all genocides in the history of any nation." The Very Rev. Michael Реге– tiatko CSsR , also spoke of the Stalin regime's "satantic"plan to decimate the Ukrainian peasant population and thus break the national spirit of the largest non-Russian nation in the Soviet Union. The hierarch then led several dozen clergy, vested in red, in singing the parastasis, a requiem service. A group of parish cantors, led by Joseph Roll, music professor at St. Basil Seminary in Bishop Basil Losten dedicates wreath honoring victims of the Great Famine in Ukraine. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 26,1983 No. 26

Advisors meet presidential assistant Fraternally yours WASHINGTON - UNA Supreme and support for the Reagan administra­ Advisors Taras Szmagala and Eugene tion were also discussed. by Marta Korduba lwanciw recently met with the newly Mr. Szmagala, chairman of the ' UNA fraternal activities coordinator appointed special assistant to the presi­ Ukrainian Republican Federation and dent for public liaison, Linus Kojelis. a long-time activist in the ethnic com­ Mr. Kojelis is responsible for liaison munity, raised the issues which have Fund will support fraternal activities with ethnic groups; he replaces Jack been of traditional concern to ethnic Burgess who served in that capacity for communities in their dealings with any the past two years. administration. The Ukrainian National Associa­ a Many Ukrainian senior citizens A Lithuanian American, Mr. Kojelis Messrs. Kojelis and lwanciw had tion's Supreme Assembly approved a experience financial and social hard­ is a California native who recently previously worked together both on 55,000 grant program during its recent ships, finding little solace in American served in the Department of State. Prior ethnic concerns and in their official annual meeting in order to boost UNA and Canadian social agencies due to to joining the Reagan administration, positions in the U.S. Senate. fraternal activities on the branch and language and cultural barriers'. he served on the staff of Sen. Richard The UNA advisors offered their district levels. a The rising number of non-Ukrainian- Schweiker (R-Pa.). assistance to Mr. Kojelis and pledged Dubbed the Fraternal Activities speaking youths has difficulty integrat- The discussions included topics of their support for his efforts to broaden Fund, the program will take effect July , ing themselves into organizations where concern to the Ukrainian National the contacts between the administration I. It will provide financial aid on a grant only the Ukrainian language is used. Association as well as the general and the ethnic communities. Mr. Kojelis and matching-fund basis to those UNA a Parents with young children are often Ukrainian American community. Ethnic welcomed the offer of support and branches and districts which demon­ excluded from activities because of a involvement in the Republican Party assistance. strate initiative in organizing local UNA lack of child-care services or family- activities. oriented projects. Branches and districts are urged to UNA branches and districts should Obituary form fraternal activities cdmmittees consider addressing these and other whose objective would be to develop challenges by initiating local fraternal fraternal programs. Committee mem­ programs. Joseph Ercha, branch secretary for 47 years bers should apply for grants or match­ The nature of these programs de­ ing funds on behalf of their branches pends upon the branch or district KERHONKSON, N.Y. - Joseph and bv districts. members themselves. Fraternal activity Ercha, secretary of UNA Branch 224 for A total of 55,000 was allotted for can be as simple as sending a local youth 47 years, died here on May 31, while the first trial year of the program, which to Ukrainian camp, or running errands attending the UNA Seniors Association will be re-evaluated at the 1984 Su­ for a senior citizen; or it can be a series convention at Soyuzivka. He was 68. preme Assembly meeting. of events such as cultural programs, Mr. Ercha, a resident of Salem, The FAF program comes at a time lectures or outings. Branch 155 of Perth Mass., was born there on March 30, when local UNA activities have become Amboy, N.J sponsored a success­ 1915. He was the son of Sava and Mary ominously anemic. "So what?" some ful series of Ukrainian language (nee Drabik) Ercha. - say. The Ukrainian community is abuzz courses for young adults (the majority He was a charter member of St. John with non-UNA activities. The plethora of whom were third-and fourth-genera­ the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church of Ukrainian organizations has under­ tion Ukrainian Americans) and their in Salem and a long-time cantor at the taken many of the community projects spouses, some of whom were not Ukrai­ church. He was also chairman of the once assumed by UNA branches and nian. charities drive for 19 years and secretary districts. The UNA's treasury has The FAF program will not restrict of the church council. supported Ukrainian organizations branches or districts to particular Mr. Ercha retired in 1980 after over the last three decades with sizable projects; applicants are encouraged to working fo`r 35 years for General Elec­ contributions. In the last four years pursue innovative, self-styled programs tric.'We '`was a renowned orchestra alone, the UNA has donated 5110,476 to meet the needs and interests of their leader in the` 1930s and 1940s and-was to various Ukrainian academic, reli­ particular community. active in the Ukrainian folkloric plays gious and youth organizations. Applying for the FAF: presented by St. John's during the early Now, the time has come to provide 1. UNA branches and districts must years of its existence. more to local UNA activities. organize a fraternal activities commit­ Surviving are his wife Ann (nee The UNA and the Ukrainian commu­ tee (if one hasn't been already esta­ Strusa), daughters Joanne Valliquette nity at large have much to grain from blished) which will develop a fraternal of Largo, Fla., and Julianne Galonzka Joseph Ercha resuscitating local fraternal activities activities program or project. Whether of Walpole, Mass.; son Joseph B. of programs. Although other Ukrainian this includes one event or a series of Beverly, Mass.; brothers Adolph of and Mark and Andrew Galonzka. organizations sponsor a variety of activities depends solely upon the Salem, Bronislaw of Peabody, Mass., The funeral was held June 4 from St. worthwhile programs, much remains committee. and Stephen of Beverly, Mass. Also John the Baptist Church; interment "undone" in the Ukrainian community. 2. The committee must apply for a surviving are grandchildren Suzanne followed at St. Mary's Cemetery in UNA'ers might consider the follow­ Fraternal Activities Grant. Аррііса– and Danielle Ercha, Paul Valliquette, Salem. ing gaps in community services: (Continued on page 12) UNA district committee chairmen hold annual conclave at Soyuzivka

KERHONKSON, N.Y. -Theeighth During the afternoon session, the dealing with UNA senior housing. the UNA Champions Club for 10 years. annual meeting of UNA District Com­ meeting was visited by a delegation During the dinner program, which Membership is awarded to those who mittee chairmen was held here at the from the UNA Seniors Association - included a brief address by Mr. Flis and organize 25 or more members in a given Soyuzivka resort on June 4-5. Dr. Roman Baranowsky, Dr. Oleh an invocation by the Rev, Bohdan year. Also taking part in the presenta­ Twenty-two UNA district officers Wolansky and Mykha`ilo Olshansky. Volosin of Kerhonkson, Roman Tatar- tion were Messrs. Hawrysz and Sochan. from the United States and Canada Dr. Baranowsky told participants about sky, chairman of the Detroit District On Sunday, following the divine took part in the weekend meeting — 19 a resolution, adopted at the associa­ Committee, was presented with a gold liturgy, the meeting reconvened with a district chairmen, two vice chairmen tion's last meeting on May 29-June 3, watch by Mr. Flis for being a member of (Continued on page II) and a district representative. The meeting was opened by UNA Supreme President John Flis and chair­ ed by Stefan Hawrysz, UNA supreme organizer. Ulana Diachuk, supreme treasurer, Wasyl Orichowsky, senior field organizer, anu Walter Sochan, supreme secretary, were also in atten­ dance. Each district officer reported on the work of his district. Participants at the opening were greeted by Sen. Paul Yuzyk, supreme director for Canada. Mr. Flis delivered a brief address on the work and responsibilities of district committees, noting that they play an integral role in the UNA structure. He also acknowledged the work and dedi­ cation of the district committee chair­ men. Following Mr. Flis`s remarks, Mr. Hawrysz spoke on general organizing matters UNA district committee reps with supreme officers at Soyuzivka. No. 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 26,1983 5

Mykola Zhukovin, and is now under Jersey's... the direction of Lev Kerstburg. Among (Continued from page 1) selections performed by the group were: Festivals: eat, sing and dance Also taking part in the festivities were "Welcome Dance," "Kopirush" (a Walter Polovchak and his chief at­ men's dance from the Podillia region); torney, Julian Kulas of Chicago. Bo'th "The Old Flirt," "Viterets" and the your way across North America hopak. were guests of the New Jersey-based by Mykhailo Bociurkiw ville, Edmonton, and Calgary). Also Americans for Human Rights in U- Other performers appearing at the featured are exhibits and food stalls. kraine, which arranged their appearance concert included: the Bulava Song and Next up on the 1983 summer On July 28-31, the 18th annual as part of the campaign to raise funds Dance Ensemble of Toronto; the Tempo festival agenda was the Metro To­ Canada's National Ukrainian Festi­ for Walter's legal costs. Ensemble of New Jersey; Metropolitan ronto International Caravan - val takes place in Dauphin, Man. A news conference was held where Opera bass Paul Plishka: and CBC billed as the largest North American This festival showcases local enter­ the young Polovchak and his attorney comedienne Luba Goy. cultural festival. Each year, for nine tainment as well as Ukrainian singers, responded to reporters' questions per­ Toronto's Bulava enchanted the days at the end of June, Toronto's dancers, musicians and comedians taining to the legal battle. audience with its repertoire of fast- population swells significantly as from across Canada. Appearing this Mr. Kulas informed the media that paced dancing and humorous antics. tourists and local residents — in 1981 year at the festival grandstand show unconfirmed reports were received over The four-man troupe displayed its a total of 2 million people — flockt o will be: Toronto's Bulava Song and the weekend indicating that Walter's versatility .with a selection of Ukrainian Caravan. Dance Ensemble; violinist Al Cherney mother Anna Polovchak, had applied folk songs played on traditional Ukrai­ Caravan '83 started June 17 and from Cooksville, Ont.; the Roz Mai for a visa to immigrate to the United nian instruments. During the finale, the ended yesterday. Celebrating its 15th Dance Ensemble of Winnipeg, Man.; States. group managed to generate a feverish year, the festival featured 46 ethnic the Zaporozhtsi Bandurists from Walter, who appeared somewhat level of excitement among viewers with pavilions spread across locations in Beamsville, Ont.; Yaseny of Saska­ uncomfortable with all the media atten­ its version of the hopak. Metro Toronto. This year four U- toon; and vocalists Charlene and tion, said that he looked forward to Comedienne Luba Goy made a pre­ krainian pavilions opened their Rosemarie Todaschuk from Winni­ becoming an American citizen and miere performance at the festival. Ms. doors to Caravan travelers: Odessa peg. Bohdan Zajcew of Edmonton furthering his education. When asked Goy, who stars in the CBC national at St. Vladimir Institute; Lviv at the returns this year as master of cere­ what would become of him if forced to radio comedy, "The Royal Canadian Ukrainian National Federation Hall; monies, along with Ted Komar and return to the Soviet Union, he respond­ Air Farce," performs often in front of Lviv at SUM's Ukrainian Cultural his orchestra from Winnipeg. ed, "ПІ be arrested and put in jail." Ukrainian Canadian audiences — in­ Center; and Poltava at St. Vladimir's In addition to the daily grand­ Trie Americans for Human Rights in cluding several stints at the Dauphin Cathedral on Bathurst Street. stand shows, the festival offers the Ukraine group manned several booths and Vegreville Ukrainian festivals. Her Each Ukrainian pavilion has basi­ sprawling Ukrainian Fine Arts throughout the festival grounds where improvisations of the typical paranoid cally the same layout: first, there is Centre, which houses an array of festival-goers could sign a petition on Ukrainian mother seemed to elicit the the display of Ukrainian ethnic Ukrainian artists and merchants. Walter's behalf and make a donation most response from the audience. items, supplemented by an exhibit of Saturday features a Ukrainian parade toward ` his legal costs. Appearing as the only Ukrainian paintings or a pysanka and cross- idown Main Street and a perfor­ In the evening, an estimated 5,400 American solo performer was Metropo­ stitch embroidery demonstration. As mance of the Canadian Forces Para­ spectators flocked to the center theater litan Opera bass Paul Plishka. Mr. usual, there are varenyky and chute Team "Sky Hawks." for the grandstand show. New Jersey Plishka, who was out in the sun most of holubtsi for sale, and all the pavi­ On the last day of the festival, a Gov. Thomas Kean opened the show the day pushing his latest record, lions rely on a bar for profits. Per­ liturgical service is held at the Тгет– with a few complimentary words about performed with his usual fine form and formances of music, song, dance and bowla Cross of Freedom site. Тгет– New Jersey's Ukrainian community. He precision. Three Ukrainian composi­ drama take place at regularintervals . bowla is 12 km. west of Valley River, said that he is especially proud that so tions were sung by Plishka: "Oh, Polya;" For those festival-goers who didn't Man., and is the location of St. many Ukrainians - including the "Oh, You Oak;" and "Oh, Dnipro."In have a chance to take part in Caravan Michael's — the first Ukrainian Ukrainian National Association — had response to a request from several festivities this year, there will be church in Canada. The service is held decided to settle in the state of New customers that day, he sang the popular another chance in August, when the outdoors and is a must for anyone Jersey. He also commended the com­ song, "Some Enchanted Evening." Ontario Council of the Ukrainian wishing to attend a. church service munity for the fact that one-third of all The concert concluded with the Canadian Committee holds Ukrai­ celebrated much the same way as did - Ukrainians in the state speak Ukrainian Ukrainian national anthem and a few nian Heritage Day. Scheduled for the first Ukrainian pioneers. Follow­ at home. concluding remarks by the master of cere­ August 21, the one-day festival ing the service, festival-goers have The performance part of the concert monies. Next year, the Garden State features some of the most popular enough time to partake in the picnic was hosted by Winnipeg-native Yaro- Ukrainian Festival will be celebrating Ukrainian talent in North America. (featuring, of course, Ukrainian slav (Cecil) Semchyshyn. Mr. Semchy- its 10th anniversary, and Mr. Semchy­ The event is held at Ontario Place varenyky and holubtsi), and then shyn - who kept the entire show shyn noted that the grandstand show — the Ontario government's sophisti­ head back to the festival grounds for flowing with his unique repertoire of might feature exclusively Canadian cated summer playground situated the. concluding grandstand show. jokes and stories — made note of the talent — including appearances by the r on four man-made islands in To­ The Cross of Freedom service is presence of Walter Polovchak. After Koshetz Choir and the renowned ronto harbor. Among the festival's sponsored each year by the Ukrai­ the audience had given Walter a stand­ Rusalka Ukrainian Dance Ensemble of attractions are: an outdoor ecumeni­ nian National Association. ing ovation, Mr. Semchyshyn remark­ Winnipeg. cal molcben; arts and crafts displays; Winding up the summer "`estival ed: "Well never let you go." Following the concert, many festival- a Ukrainian numismatic and phila­ circuit in western Canada is Folk- The performing acts at the concert goers retreated to Carteret, N.J., forthe telic display; Ukrainian Canadian lorama '83 - Winnipeg's festival of consisted almost entirely of Canadian Ukrainian Festival U.S.A. Dance. films; showboat performances; and, nations. Folklorama was instituted content. Headlining the show was the Approximately 400 people danced of course, the grandstand shows in 14 years ago by a Ukrainian - Ukrainian Festival Dance Company the night away to the tunes of the the Forum amphitheatre. Some of former Winnipeg Mayor Steven (UFDC) of Toronto. UFDC was esta­ Tempo Orchestra and the Alex and the entertainment confirmed as of Juba. Mr. Juba thought that the blished in 1979 under choreographer Dorko Band. this date includes: vocalist Rokso- Caravan idea was a good one and lana Roslak; violinist Marko Sabat: imported it to the West. Since then the Burlaka and Yazmin choirs; and the festival has grown tremendously, dance grou"ps from Hamilton, Bur­ and this year, on August 14-20. a lington, Sudbury and Oshawa. This total of 40 ethnic pavilions will be year Ukrainian Heritage Day at operating. Ukrainian pavilions can Ontario Place celebrates its fifth be found at the Garden City Colle­ anniversary. giate on Jefferson Avenue (Kiev Western Canada comes alive Pavilion), and at the Ukrainian during the months of July and Labour Temple Hall on Pritchard August with three major festivals iGn Avenue (Lviv Pavilion). Both pavi­ July 1-3, the small town of Vegreville, lions are located in the heart of Alta., will be hosting the 10th annual Ukrainian Winnipeg - the North Ukrainian Pysanka Festival - End — and feature entertainment, named after the 31-foot tall Ukrai­ exhibits and food stalls. nian Easter Egg built to commemo­ In eastern Canada, the Sudbury rate the 100th anniversary of the Branch of the Ukrainian National Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Federation will be sponsoring the Vegreville is located 55 miles east of Sudbury Ukrainian Centennial Edmonton, on the Yellowhead High­ Festival, at Richard Lake on July 30 way. This once small, sleepy town to August I. The festival commemo­ gained prominence when the giant rates the 100th anniversary of Sud­ pysanka was erected in 1976. bury and will include games, swim­ The Vegreville Ukrainian Pysanka ming, Ukrainian food stalls, ceramic Festival usually attracts tourists and embroidery demonstrations, and from all parts of Western Canada. an outdoor bake oven. Groups in­ This year the festival committee vited to perform at the festival are: decided to scale down its selection of Sudbury's Dnipro Choir and Veselka stage entertainment and feature Dance Ensemble; the Caruso Club exclusively local talent (from Vegre­ (Continued on page 15) Mykhailo Bociurkivv Walter Polovchak with his attorney, Julian Kulas. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. JUNE 26, 1983 No. 26 JZommentory The mess in our school system: Ukrainian Ween blame the educational establishment У by Dr. Myron B. Kuropas content of school programs should be determined by the felt needs'...pf those "Our nation is at risk," declared the in society who had the least comprehen­ National Commission on Excellence in sion of what education was for and now Good news in Detroit Education. "We have, in effect, been it accomplishes its ends." committing an act of unthinking, uni­ "Education's first duty," wrote Dr. lateral educational disarmament." Max Rafferty in 1962," is to make It was heartening news. On June 7 some 4,000 Detroit-area Poor quality education threatens possible the survival of our country." A Ukrainians representing over 56 community organizations united in a America's economic and social well- school administrator. Dr. Rafferty somber memorial march for the 7 million victims of the Great Famine being, echoed an Educational Com­ criticized the educational establishment in Ukraine (1 ?32-33). Putting aside any political, social or religious mission of the States report a few days for de-emphasizing phonics, drill, differences, members of Plast, SUM-A, ODUM, student groups, civic later. homework, grades, standards and uni­ and veterans' organizations, professional societies, et al, joined "By almost every measure," con­ versal values while promoting "look-see together in remembering this tragic event and, perhaps more cluded a study prepared for the Twentieth reading" (word/picture recognition is Century Fund research foundation, the more important than phonics), simplistic importantly, reminding non-Ukrainians about this little-known stories (relevance is more -important Ukrainian holocaust. "performance of our schools falls far short of expectations." than significance), "free writing" (ex­ pression is more important than gram­ But our reflex joy at this much-needed display of community Three report cards. Three failure notices. mar and spelling), life adjustment cohesiveness is undercut somewhat by the sobering realization that (defined as group adaptation), self- several years ago the fact that Ukrainians marched together would For those of us who have labored in the educational vineyard for 20 years or actualization (if it feels good, do it) hardly have warranted editorial comment. When over- 20,000 more, the findings were hardly surpris­ progress reports (all standards are Ukrainians demonstrated on the streets of New York in 1977, it ing. What was surprising was the fact variable), relativism (all truths are seemed only a natural manifestation of a national will, of unity in the that so little attention was devoted to mutable) and situational ethics (all face of a clearly identifiable common enemy. Over the last several the source of the problem: the educa­ values are relative). years, however, the community perspective has blurred. We appear to tional establishment. Also to blame for our present school have lost sight of the enemy. Our political infighting and petty Most at fault for our present educa­ crisis are those administrators and squabbling has so dominated our community life, sapped so much of tional debacle are America's professors school boards which allowed these ideas its vital energies, left so many people shell-shocked and discouraged, of education, especially those who to be put into practice. Posturing as that even an event of the scope and significance of the famine march under the banner of "progres- "child advocates" and "change agents," far too many superintendents permitted anniversary has not been spared. -'`.r'' sivism." Replacing tradition, structure and content with reform, fadism and the uneducated to dictate curriculum changes, disciplinary procedure and One need only look at the disappointing turnout at the recent famine methodology - what is taught is less important than how it is taught —they dress codes. Board members, many of commemoration in Washington to realize this point. Where 20,000 have consistently argued that the major whom simply rubber-stamped the once marched for Ukrainian rights in New York, under 1,000 showed purpose of education is not to transmit wishes of administration, compounded up in the nation's capital to mark what is unquestionably the most America's rich cultural heritage but to the problem by refusing to respond to heinous attempt at genocide of the century. To be sure, 13,000 did prepare children for change. Woefully parental wishes. 1 participate in the South Bound Brook memorial services, but the total out of touch with the realities of the classroom, they believe that the school Yes, teachers' unions share in the Could easily Have been over 20,000 — if we all had a unity of purpose. blame for protecting incompetent As the saying goes: we have met the enemy, and it is us. curriculum is best determined by the child's expressed needs. colleagues. But unions also protect those competent teachers who make up This is why the memorial march in Detroit merits comment and It's not as if America's educational the teaching majority. In school districts praise. The Detroit community rightfully placed the magnitude of the establishment wasn't warned of the where superintendents and board mem­ famine - the calculated murder by starvation of millions of our consequences of this type of thinking. bers have only a vague idea of what brothers and sisters — above all other considerations. They realized "Educational advancement ceased," constitutes quality education, pro­ 'wrote Arthur Bestor, a University of fessional organizations are the only that the famine was a national tragedy, one that morally transcends the Illinois professor, in 1959, "when narrow-minded parochialism of partisan politics. What's more, they protection outstanding teachers have educationists deserted the ideal of against administrative fadism, political showed other communities that diversity and community differences disciplined intelligence and accepted the need not preclude decisive and unified actions, and that compromises whim and ill-informed, single-issue, fallacious notion that the character and community zealots. must often be made for the greater good. If liberals and their educational A member of President Reagan's This display of national maturity should serve as a valuable lesson to minions were out of touch with reality transition team in the Department of in the past, conservatives are equally any communities currently planning famine commemorations. We Education. Dr. Myron B. Kuropas has out of touch in the present. The most only hope that it is not too late. worked as a teacher, counselor and dangerous conservative fallacy is the principal in Chicago's public schools belief that education is soley a local and a principal and teacher in DeKalb, concern. It is not. If it were, the com- III. (Continued on page 14)

Letters to the editor seem to have more organizations than anniversary passes. It is very good that people. Clarifies article Robert Conquest, James Mace and on famine seminar Marco Carynnyk ere writing books on Asks community When will we learn that in unity there 1932-33, but we should be aware that is strength? Our recent poor turnout in Dear Editor: also many other works will need to be to quit fighting New York City to commemorate the Since I may have expressed myself written in the future on this central 50th anniversary of the famine in unclearly, I wish to add two or three event of modern Ukrainian history, on its origins and its impact. , Dear Editor: Ukraine is just another example of the sentences of explanation regarding Roman Szporluk 1 appeal to all Ukrainians to raise lack of cooperation among the leaders remarks attributed to me by Stephen M. professor of history their voices and demand that our of our organizations. Is it any wonder Wichar Sr., in his report (The Weekly, organizations stop destroying each that our people have become dis­ May 8, "Seminar on 1932-33 famine University of Michigan Ann Arbor other. couraged? ч ' held at Wayne State University"). I did not criticize "The Ukrainian We must channel our energies toward We should follow the example of the immigration for remaining virtually finding a way to solve the problems that various Afghan resistance groups who silent" during the famine itself: this Send The Weekly have rocked the Ukrainian Congress have put aside their differences and would have been a very mistaken Committee of America. May I suggest united in their heroic struggle against statement. What I think 1 said was that to Andropov that a mutually accepted arbitration Russia. 1 also strongly urge all Ukrai­ the Ukrainians in the free world have Dear Editor: committee be formed to study the nians and organizations to send contri­ waited far too long with giving the Enclosed is S20 for 20 copies of The situation that has caused the split within butions c/o Afghanistan Relief Fund, attention to the famine they are giving Ukrainian Weekly's special holocaust the UCCA? Furthermore, all the leaders Suite 4100, 345 Park Ave., New York, now, 50 years after the event. Why was edition. Please use the extra money to involved in this dispute must agree to N.Y. 10154. We now have the opportu­ there nothing on this scale done 10 or 20 send copies to foreign newspapers and abide by the decision of the arbitration nity to help the brave Afghan freedom years ago? heads of state. Please also send a special committee and to once again unite as fighters who willingly fight and die in Secondly, I expressed fear that the copy to Andropov, as he seems to enjoy before within the original organization the war against our common enemy! current commemoration will not be corresponding with Americans. of the UCCA. We don't need to create Markian Solonynka followed by a sustained effort to study B. Korolyshyn -''-any more organizations. We already - -.v../, -..` і Bayonne, N.J: recent Ukrainian history after the ' ` '` ' 'New York No. 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 26,1983 7

Media reports on famine intellectual tendency, which still abounds today, to speak no evil about socialism." The editorial drew a varied response frojn readers, THE GREAT FAMINE with most letters supporting the paper's stand. Marta The Herald American Pietska-Farley, in a letter published May 29, congra­ SYRACUSE, NY. - The Syracuse Herald tulated the paper for publicizing the genocide, which American has recently run several items concerning she said "is rarely recognized in the popular press for the Great Famine in Ukraine (1932-33), including two what it is." articles on the local Ukrainian community's 50th She added that the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan is anniversary commemorations and a letter by John only a continuation of an imperialist mentality Hvozda, chairman of the commemorative committee. manifested by the famine, and serves the dual function In the letter, published May 19, Mr. Hvozda said of subjugating that country while risking the lives of that the nearly 6,000 Ukrainians living in the Syracuse non-Russian soldiers such as Ukrainians. area planned to commemorate the death by starva­ In a letter printed in the same issue, Nicholas C. This year marks the 50th anniversary of one of tion of some 8 million people, the result of a "tragic Kotow, president of the Ukrainian Technological history's most horrifying cases of genocide — the holocaustal policy designed by the Soviet Russian Society, also praised the editorial, saying that "it was Soviet-made Great Famine of 1932-33, in which enslavers to force the deeply religious and freedom- most welcome to the Ukrainian community in some 7 million Ukrainians perished. loving Ukrainians into submission." Pittsburgh." On May 28, the paper ran a short article announc­ But Stephen Shufran, also in the same issue, wrote Relying on news from Svoboda and, later. ing that former Ukrainian dissident Sviatoslav that the editorial was written "to perpetuate the 'hate The Ukrainian Weekly (which began publica­ Karavansky would take part in a June 5 commemora­ Russia'campaign." He accused the paper of omitting tion in October 1933), this column hopes to tive ceremony at St. Luke's Ukrainian Orthodox relevant facts, and blamed a revolt by the Soviet remind and inform Americans and Canadians of Church. peasantry on food shortages which resulted in this terrible crime against humanity. On June 5, the paper ran a feature article by staff widespread famine. By bringing other events worldwide into the writer Renee Graham outlining the commemoration picture as well, the column hopes to give a and its significance to the Ukrainian people. Responding to the Shufran letter, George Nestor perspective on the state of the world in the years "Ukrainians will pause and remember today," the said in a letter published June 5 that the charges that of Ukraine's Great Famine. article began. "They will reflect upon the death of 8 the peasants were to blame for the famine were "pure million of their forebearers 50 years ago in a struggle rubbish." He wrote that "it is a known fact that 1933 Part XIX for freedom which they say still continues." (the height of the famine) was a record year for Citing Mr. Hvozda, the article said that "the Ukrainian farm production," and that the famine was political beginning of the Ukrainian holocaust" dates created by Stalin, who "wanted to eradicate the April 16-30, 1933 back to the Ukrainian war of liberation in 1917-20, independent Ukrainian farmers because they refused "during which Ukraine declared its independence to collectivize." The headlines in Svoboda on April 18 read: "Bolsheviks Execute Peasants." According to from 250 years of Russian domination." In another rebuke of the Shufran letter, Yaroslav reports from London, English correspondents Mr. Karavansky, who came to the United States in Hodowanec wrote in a letter, also printed on June 5, had learned that the populace of three villages 1979 after spending years in Soviet penal institutions, that Mr. Shufran's view was "a ludicrous distortion." was exiled to the"'North for taking part inSa told the paper that his message at the commemoration He cited crop-yield statistics to bolster his argument rebellion against the secret police. Some pea­ "will not be directed only to those of Ukrainian that the Soviet Union dumped millions of tons of grain sants were executed for interfering with spring descent, but to all throughout the free world who on the international market while millions were planting on collective farms. The news stated cherish their independence." He also warned that the starving in Ukraine. West must be vigilant in the face of Soviet machina­ that the Communist regime had decided not to tions. bother with court trials in these cases, but to dispose of the peasants in its own way — The paper said that "Ukrainians remain concerned Stevens Point Journal execution or exile. The peasants found out about that the Soviet Union has not changed its tactics in 50 the executions in the town newspapers, which, years." STEVENS POINT,-Wis. - The . Stevens.Point. . according t,o,,th,e,,L^ndo^ .rpDqrt^,,yP,rjc^ in ,a Journal published two long letters concerning the while." published, lists pf Otje^c ecuieg u^diyi)uajp. Great Famine in Ukraine (1932-33) in its "Open Svoboda reported on April 22 that'Commu- Pittsburgh Press Letter" section on May 14 and 24. nist newspapers in the Soviet Union said that the The first, wirtten by Edmund P. Suchomski, "Bolsheviks were pleased with their planting PITTSBURGH - On May 22 The Pittsburgh Press campaign." The reports indicated that three ran an editorial titled "The Soviet Holocaust" which provided an overview of Joseph Stalin's political aims in organizing the famine, which killed an estimated 5-7 times as many fields had been planted this year compared the Great Famine in Ukraine (1932-33) to than during the previous one. The regime the extermination of 6 million Jews by the Nazis. million Ukrainians. According to Mr. Suchomski, the famine was the believed that one good,harvest would consider­ Citing Robert Conquest, whose book on the famine ably change the mood of the peasants a/id their is due out shortly, the paper said that the Great direct result of the Soviet regime's efforts to collecti­ vize private farms, bolstet industrialization and gain attitude toward the Communist Party. For this Famine, a culmination of Stalin's "dekulakization" reason, the regime was paying the mostattenticjh campaign, killed as many as. 14 million people. much-needed hard currency. "After some deliberation, Stalin came upon what he to the agricultural situation in the countryside. The editorial said in part: "There were no death According to reports from the Kharkiv news­ camps. No gas chambers. No machine guns in front of believed to be a brilliant idea," wrote Mr. Suchomski. "He would take everything the farmers produced, paper Komsomolska Pravda, cited by Svoboda mass graves. Stalin did it by simply confiscating the on April 24, the peasants in Ukraine had begun harvests of the farmers and all foodstuffs in the hands thereby acquiring the means with which to procure the foreign money he required (for industrialization) and taking actions against collective farming. They of the rural.population." had sabotaged the grain collection stations and The paper went on to say that few in the West Were at the same time create an artificial famine which would break the opposition of the farmers." interfered with grain delivery. The aware of the tragedy partly because "of the strange newspaper reported that these actions were To attain his objective, the letter goes on, Stalin sent planned by the "Petliurivtsi" and Ukrainian 25^000 Russian agents into Ukraine to oversee the "chauvinists." The Soviet newspaper had listed Book notes confiscation of grain, seed and foodstuffs. The result, names of a few collective farm workers who had according to Mr. Suchomski, was mass starvation, spoken out against collective farming. The cannibalism, infanticide and suicide. workers had stated that the peasants were not New famine monograph used to this system; that the peasants knew Mr. Suchomski said that the reason the famine was LONDON - A 72-page illustrated book on the enough about the agricultural system to be so little known in the West was that reported accounts productive and did not need instruction on how Great Famine in Ukraine by Stephen Oleskiw with a were "displaced by Soviet propaganda and received foreword by Malcolm Muggeridge has recently been to plant and harvest; and that they resented little attention." government meddling in their fields. published here by the National Committee to On May 24, the paper ran a letter by T. Jaworski, Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Artificial who agreed with Mr. Suchomski, but added that the Komsomolska Pravda also listed the names of Famine in Ukraine 1932^33. famine was just part of a broad campaign of Stalinist a few "agitators-provocateurs," who, according In the foreword, Mr. Muggeridge, who was the terror which included the widespread use of forced to the newspaper, provoked the peasants to rebel Soviet correspondent for the Manchester Guardian at labor on huge government projects such as the against collective farming, telling them that the time of the famine, called Mr. Oleskiw's book a Belomer Canal linking Lake Ladoga and the White "Moscow is stripping and ruining Ukraine." "well-researched, lucid and truthful account of the Sea. The canal was finished on May 1, 1933, after 20 The newspaper also stated that in order to appalling famine which in 1932-33 afflicted Ukraine..." months. spread these feelings among the Ukrainian Mr. Oleskiw's account is divided into sub-sections "Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, along with peasantry, the agitators composed nationalistic dealing with the political, social and economic reasons other nationals, were herded by the KGB (then the "kolomyiky," destroyed agricultural tools on the for the famine; collectivization; peasant resistance; NKVD) into box cars and transported to those areas farms, beat up Soviet agents at the farms, and purges of the cities and intelligentsia; and results of the with an average temperature of 45 below zero, dumped disseminated nationalistic propaganda in famine. on the snow, given a shovel and a primitive wheel­ schools and institutions. Nationalistic slogans The book also includes a conclusion and a 10-page barrow, with an order to "work or die,' " wrote Mr. were found on the walls of public buildings, section of eyewitness accounts. There are also a Jaworski. reported the Soviet newspapers. number of graphic photographs showing the horrors According to the author, some 250,000 people died On April 25, Svoboda reported that Komso­ of the famine. from starvation and exposure on the project, or 416 molska Pravda, had asked Moscow to organize The book may be ordered from the National corpses a day, one for every yard of the 140-mile canal. a new movement against Ukrainian nationalists. Committee to Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Among the dead were hundreds of Ukrainian priests A correspondent for the paper reported that the the Artificial Famine in Ukraine 1932-33, 49 Linden and bishops, including the Rev. M. Matwiejenko, in (Continued on page 11) Gardens, London, England W2 4H6. whose memory Mr. Jaworski said he wrote the article. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 26, 1983 No. 26 A FESTIVAL MOSAIC: Kingston's Folklore `83...

Burlington's Rusalka Dancers perform "Povzunets" A Bayda Kozak performs at the Kiev Pavilion. No. 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 26, 1983 S and Garden State Ukrainian Festival

Maryland's Lyman Dancers performing the hopak. CBC comedienne Luba Goy. `Kozak Specials" being prepared at TUSM booth. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 26, 1983 No. 26

Panorama of Ukrainian culture in the Big Apple by Helen Perozak Smfndak

Winding up. Hajduczok, the museum's public rela­ tions director, who thanked everyone Winding up the cultural season Pilfer . MP`` for coming and urged them to "enjoy before taking off for the mountains, the 4 this beautiful day." It was an easy seashore or Europe, the Big Apple's jV ^PHaV^B W directive to follow. Ukrainian community really went to town during the past month with a W` - "Ш -якш шГшшЩ шЧкм An ethereal carousel round of art exhibits, drama presenta­ tions and lectures. The whole was Swinging through a 14-city tour in topped by three outstanding events - Canada and the United States, the the Ukrainian Bandurists Chorus con­ ШОУМІШІ renowned Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus cert at Carnegie Hall.anappearance by LOf^i7 l touched down at Carnegie Hall on May pianists Luba and lreneus Zuk and S3 ід 2и 9ВнВЛ 20 and gave a concert that called forth architect Radoslav Zuk at the Ukrai­ "^ЗН ИУ иР standing ovations, many floral offerings nian Institute of America, and a gala and a glowing tribute from the New garden party to benefit The Ukrainian //І If York Times music critic. Museum held at the home of Dr. Karl і III "The bandura sounds like nothing and Sofia Zaininger in Princeton, N.J. : else on earth," wrote Jon Pareles in The Possibly the busiest weekend was the і і New York Times on May 23. "It is one which began on Friday, May 20. darker than a balalaika, and gentler That evening included the bandurists' than a zither. When the chorus plays appearance at Carriegie Hall, the open­ ч 'і and sings a waltz, the massed plinking ing of the Ukrainian Festival sponsored evokes a pristine ethereal carousel." by St. George's Ukrainian Catholic І Noting the richly blended male voices Church (with Mayor Edward Koch and dynamic contrasts, Mr. Pareles making a brief appearance), and a described the chorus thus: "Its chordal ї Ш -І– І ік Ш іЩҐ^”^Ш Віжв И І dance at the Ukrainian National Home passages can balloon suddenly from a to the music of the Volcanos band. ШІ w іь., Ч^^^^НЯ ( `'., ' -"Яр яяВ hush to a roar, then back to another Saturday broughtjthe Zuk family to the ьЖ' лШВШ hushed chord, with every section poised Ukrainian Institu(e, preceded earlier in Dr^.-Як-Ш. Bohdan Cymbalist– , ,."""fy of th. e museum's board of trustees addresses the audience in perfect balance. Underpinned by the дпе,фу by.a gathering in,jionor of at the garden party. Seen from left are: Lida Firczuk Hajduczok, Sofia, Karl and banduras, its tragic, comic, elegaic and Mykola Khvylovyi, sponsored by the Heidi Zaininger and. Ola Stawnychy. military songs amply repaid every Slovo Writers' Association and the Smolo- crescendo." skyp Association. On Sunday, the the 50-member chorus, conducted Ukrainian Academy of Arts and by Hryhory Kytasty, began the pro­ Sciences hosted a lecture by University gram with Irving Berlin's "God Bless of Delaware professor Jaroslav Віїіп– America," acknowledging the tradi­ sky, the Ukrainian Artists Association tional ideals of Ukrainian bandurists - gallery introduced an exhibit of work by God, truth, human dignity and sanctity Tamara Orlowsky of Boston, and the of the family. Liudkevych`s, "Black "Оїічйпшгі Insiifo'te^Waytrre'eccheMof a:: Tillage" was dedicated to the millions of recital by outstanding students of the Ukrainian victims of the 1930Vfamine. Ukrainian Music Institute (now cele­ The bandurists also sang about the brating its 30th anniversary), which glorious Zaporozhians, serenaded the included students of Taissa Bohdansky, green hazelwood, and raised listeners' Raphael Wenke, Daria Karanovych, spirits with a toe-tapping medley of Halia Klym, Lev Struhatsky, Halyna merry folk songs. Myroshnychenko, Andrij Dobriansky During the second half of the pro­ and Thomas Hrynkiw. gram, 22-year-old Victor Mishalow from Australia displayed his virtuosity as a bandura instrumentalist with A shining example Variations on a Ukrainian Folk Theme by Serhiy Bashtan, a bandura professor When you've got a large, festive at the Kiev Conservatory of Music. gathering in a lush suburban setting, an orchestra playing on the patio, a bounti­ Though such longtime chorus mem­ ful buffet аг і bar service, a parade of bers as Michael Minsky and Petro live models in historical Ukrainian Honcharenko appeared with the chorus, fashions, and beautifully sunny weather, the solos at this concert were handled by could you ask for anything more in a Jarema Cisaruk, Oleh Moroz, Mark garden party? Farion, Pavlo Pysarenko, Yurij Orysh- That was the picture on the afternoon kevych, Dior Zamiaty, Victor Sheweli of June S when Dr. Karl and Sofia and Roman Kasaraba. Zaininger welcomed 200 guests of The Only four of the 18 members of the Ukrainian Museum to their elegantly Guests mingle at the Zainingers' garden party held to benefit the The Ukrainian chorus who left Kiev in 1942 are still appointed home and sweeping lawn in Museum. with the ensemble — Mr. Kytasty, Princeton, N.J. — and picked up the tab lawn, was narrated by Olya` Stawnychy, ing that "as a Ukrainian, 1 think we have Gabriel Machynia, Petro Kytasty (son for all expenses. This was the second a member of the planning committee. to get our show together; there is no of Ivan Kytasty), and Eugene Ciura. time that the Zainingers have hosted a Others on the committee were Oiya room for dissension, and we have a lot With many young people taking up the party as a benefit for the museum. Trytiak, Tania Tershakovec and Maria more to offer than pysanky." study of the bandura in recent years, the Proceeds from this one are earmarked Cymbalisty. Lubomyra Artymyshyn Surveying the museum's financial chorus continues to flourish. for the museum's building fund. and Olena Kachala, who selected the situation, Alex Tysbovnycky, treasurer Assisting Mrs. Zaininger, who was models, were on hand to assist them and of the museum's board of trustees, After the concert, a private reception born in Ukraine,j and Dr. Zaininger, to put headpieces together in correct reported that the museum was awarded was held in the banquet room of the who is of German; ancestry but speaks form. a S39.5O0 grant by the New York State Ukrainian Restaurant. Mr. Honcha­ Ukrainian and says he `Teels Ukrai­ Among the guests were Scott McVey, Council on the Arts in March and has renko and Nick Czomy, administrative nian," were their sons Mark, 20, and executive director of the Geraldine received three endowment funds from director of the New York School of Alex, 24, and daughter Heidi, 22, who Dodge Foundation, and his wife and Ukrainians — Maria Yasinsky-Muro- Bandura, expressed thanks to Theodor has just graduated from Princeton daughter, Prof. Lawrence Taft of wany, Mr. and Mrs. Wasyl Kyj and Mr. V. Shumeyko for his volunteer publicity University. Rutgers Medical School, and Mary G. and Mrs. Ivan Olensky. Because of the work and to Michael Iwasiwka for Modeling the historic costumes, Roebling, a relative by marriage of the urgent need for more space, the board administrative chores. Appreciation recreated by members of Branch 64 of Roeblings who designed and built the of trustees is considering rental of was extended for the financial assistance the Ukrainian National Women's Brooklyn Bridge. Mrs. Roebling, who storage facilities and is giving utmost of Vera Kobasniuk Shumeyko and League of America, were Olha and spoke briefly during a formal segment attention to the acquisition of a larger Anthony Shumeyko, Mykballo Pyrsky Roksana Hnateyko, Myroslava Hrab, that followed the fashion show, said she building, he said. and the Self-Reliance and Ukrainian Roxolana Luchechlio, Luba and Zenia felt it was important for Ukrainians to Other speakers were Dr. Bohdan Orthodox Credit Unions. The "Mno- Matkiwsky, Tamara Slupchynskyj, retain their culture. Cymbalisty, the board of trustees haya Lita" that the chorus delivered at Motria Turiansky, Heidi Zaininger and Dr. Zaininger, the senior vice-presi­ chairman, who extended thanks to Dr. that point was the most resounding and Ksente and Sophia Zielyk. dent of the Siemens Corporation, a and Mrs. Zaininger and their family for melodious I have ever heard. The fashion show, presented on the German-based company, told the gather­ hosting the party, and Lydia Firchuk- (Continued on page 12) - No. 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 26, 1983 11

Detroit; and the Rev. Abraham Miller professor emeritus of Wayne State 4,000 hold... OSBM, vicar and associate pastor of University, an expert in political geo­ UNA district... (Continued from page 3) Immaculate Conception, Hamtramck. graphy and renowned scholar of Soviet (Continued from page 4) Walter Litinsky, followed this proces­ Other concelebrants were: the Rev. affairs. Dr. Dohrs said: "We speak to report by Mr. Sochan on new -life sion. Constantine Wysochansky OSBM, America and the world, to those who insurance plans. Mrs. Diachuk then For the first time in several decades, pastor of St. Josaphat`s Church, may know little of Ukraine and Ukrai­ spoke about the benefits offered by the irrespective of religious and p.olitical Warren; the Rev. Wayne Ruchgy, nians, of the tragedy and the terrible UNA to its members and the Ukrainian convictions, 56 organizations demon­ pastor of St. Michael's Ukrainian truth about Ukraine under the continu­ community. Supreme Vice President strated a unified force of youth groups, Catholic Church, Dearborn; the Rev. ing tyranny of Moscow." Myron Kuropas also attended the parishes, civic organizations, fraternal Sergius Fedyniak OSBM, Immaculate session. associations, professionals, student Conception Church, Hamtramck; the He stressed that "it is more important groups, womens` organizations, captive Rev. Sebastian Sabol OSBM, Immacu­ to fight for Ukraine than weep for Following the reports, a question` nations groups, veteran posts, etc. Each late Conception Church, Hamtramck; Ukraine." There was a pessimistic note and-answer period gave participants an independent unit was identified with a the Rev. Demetrius Kowalchik OSB, when the speaker pointed out that opportunity to discuss a host of UNA- banner. St. John's Ukrainian Catholic Church, "there are many negative signs in related matters. The concluding section of the parade Detroit; the Rev. Hilarion Benedik respect to nationalism in Ukraine, was comprised of persons who elected to OSBM, associate Pastor of St. Josa­ perhaps the most important, the destruc­ Taking part in the meetings were pass in review as individual partici­ phat`s Church, Warren; and the Rev. tion of the Helsinki watch committee." district chairmen Anna Haras (Lehigh pants. Although not completely repre­ Basil Bura, Ukrainian Baptist Church, However, Dr. Dohrs concluded that Valley), Roman Konotopsky (Buffalo), sentative of the 50,000-strong Detroit Bloomfield Hills. there is, indeed, a rising tide of nationa­ Volodymyr Hetmansky (Boston), Ukrainian community, the 15-block After liturgical services were com­ lism throughout the Soviet empire. Walter Bilyk (Jersey City), Tekla parade was perhaps the most pleted, the marching units reassembled Moroz (Montreal), Julian Baraniuk impressive and effectively planned and proceeded to the Veteran's Memo­ Following the talk, Dr. Beck intro­ (Newark), Dr. Michael Snihurovych community event of the last 50 years. rial Hall for the Feast of Famine, the duced Msgr. Clement Kern, formerly (New Haven), Michael Zacharko (Perth After advancing southward on Wood­ last segment of the day's commemora­ with the Holy Trinity Church in De­ Amboy), Petro Tarnawsky (Philadel­ ward Avenue, Detroit's main thorough­ tive program. With standing room only, troit's Corktown, and one of the most phia), Andrew Jula (Pittsburgh), Walter fare, the marchers assembled 4t Kennedy more than 800 people jammed the hall; distinguished and well-known pastors Hawrylak (Rochester), Tymko Square. Several religious choral selec­ many remained in the corridors to hear in the city. During the next solemn Butrej `(Shamokin), Wasyl Sharan tions were offered by the United Men's the program. moment. Dr. Beck asked the entire (Toronto), Roman Diakiw (Wilkes- Chorus as people filed into the square. audience to partake of a piece of bread Barre), John Hewryk (Winnipeg), Leon After a lengthy interview with Jack and glass of water. She declared that Stephen M. Wichar, public relations McCarthy, popular newsbroadcaster Hardink (Woonsocket), Estelle Wolo- chairman, called the congregation to this "Feast of Famine" was a commit­ shyn (Youngstown), Mr. Tatarsky with TV Channel 7, mistress of cere­ ment by free Ukrainians to forever order and presented the Very Rev. monies Mary V. Beck greeted the (Detroit) and Mr. Olshansky (Chicago). Superior Bernard Panczuk OSBM, memoralize the victims of the Great audience and commended it for the Famine. pastor of Hamtramck's Immaculate extraordinary response and subsequent The two vice chairmen in attendance Conception Ukrainian Catholic Church, success of the memorial project. With Mr. Wichar then presented greetings were Hryhoriy Klymenko (Passaic)and to lead the ecumenical memorial ser­ TV cameras focusing on agenda partici­ from U.S. Rep. Denis Hertel (D-Mich.) Ivan Chopko (Syracuse). Walter Kwas vice. pants. Dr. Beck called upon Father with an assurance that data concerning represented the Troy District Commit­ The Rev. Panczuk stated that "over 7 Panczuk to present the clergy and the historic tragedy in Ukraine will be tee. million dear brothers and sisters venerable Catholic nuns. formally entered into the Congressional perished in Ukraine...and died because After a prayer, the Taras Shevchenko Record. Mr. Wichar then read the they loved Ukraine as they fell victims Bandurist Chorus, under the direction resolutions prepared by the Ukrainian Afghans. to a godless invader." He called for a of Hryhory Kytasty, mesmerized the Community Committee of Metropoli­ (Continued from page 2) common prayer as a way to seek the gathering with brilliant arrangements of tan Detroit. Immediately following the reached: all Soviet and government repose of the victims' souls. "God Bless America," Liudkevych's reading, the audience was requested to troops would be withdrawn except for a The outdoor ecumenical requiem was "Chorna Riia Izorana" and Bortnian- rise in approval of these resolutions. garrison of 300 Soviets stationed seven celebrated by the 15 priests represent­ sky's "Blazhen Muzh." Following the The passage was unanimous. Christine miles inside the valley; the guerrillas ing all Ukrainian faiths. The responses chorus, Ksenia Kucher presented a Lypeckyj, in the closing moment, led would have the right to inspect all at the liturgy were sung by the Memorial group of children from the Immaculate the audience in the Ukrainian national supplies to the garrison; 'the Soviets Men's Chorus. Conception Elementary School, who anthem. would not venture outside the garrison The concelebrants were: the Very dedicated a prayer scenario to the fallen Coverage by both the Ukrainian"and to contact Panjshir residents; and all Rev. Panczuk, the Rt. Rev. Proto­ victims. English-language media was admirable hostile action on both sides would stop. presbyter Alexander Bykowetz, pastor Olha Liskiwsky, corresponding secre­ and extensive before and after June 12. By early March the Soviets had with­ of St. Andrew's Ukrainian Orthodox tary of the community committee, read All three major TV channels (2,4and 7) drawn. Church, Hamtramck; the Very Rev. a proclamation issued by Detroit Mayor covered the day's events. Both the Archpriest Nestor Stolarchuk, pastor of Coleman Young. Sophie Anderson, an Detroit News and the Detroit Free The Economist correspondent said St. Mary's Protectress Cathedral, associate secretary in the committee, Press covered the commemoration with that although he could not confirm the Southfield; the Very Rev. Archpriest read a proclamation issued by Michi­ stories and pictures, while radio stations events which preceded the ceasefire, he Volodymyr Melnyk of Ann Arbor; the gan Gov. James Blanchard. Emily WJR, WXYZ, WCAR and WPON reported that on a recent tour of the Very Rev. Archpriest David Palchikoff Zaporozets, member of the English provided interviews and news briefs. valley he saw more than 100 recently of Fort Wayne, lnd.; the Very Rev. publications committee, read a pro­ Suburban and ethnic newspapers also wrecked helicopters, tanks, armored John Lazar, dean of the Detroit Dea­ clamation by Rep. William S. Broom- cooperated in this effort. More than 65 personnel carriers, heavy artillery and nery and pastor of Our Ladey of Perpe­ field (R-Mich.), who entered the certifi­ press kits were distributed to broadcast tracked vehicles. He said that he did not tual Help, Dearborn Heights; the Very cate also into the Congressional Record. and print news media; each kit contain­ see any Soviet troops except in the Rev. Canon Joseph Shary, pastor of St. Dr. Beck introduced the principal ed a copy of The Ukrainian Weekly's garrison, and it appeared that the John's Ukrainian Catholic Church, speaker for the day, Dr. Fred E. Dohrs, special issue on the Great Famine. guerrillas had free reign in the valley.

fiery spirit, courage, hope and faith in a better agriculture and terror to the people. April 16-30, 1933 future." (Continued from page 7) In 1933, Mr. Jones saw a totally different "nationalistic elements try to isolate Ukraine Kharkiv. The city had deteriorated; the streets culturally from Moscow" by distributing Ukrai­ were filthy and in disrepair. The large buildings Around the world: nian materials in the schools. He added that had never been finished, and the walls were An economic war was on between England Moscow must pay attention and bring a stop to crumbling, he wrote. The populace was em­ and the Soviet Union, as the English placed a the "contraband" Ukrainian nationalist materials bittered and indifferent, with no hope for the ban on importing grain, cotton, lumber and and propaganda, which were being promoted future. Thousands of homeless and hungry petroleum from the Soviet Union. also with the help of official Ukrainian Soviet children wandered the. streets in search of a Ramsay MacDonald and Franklin Roosevelt institutions. kopeck with which to buy a piece of bread, he met in Washington to discuss the world eco­ On April 27, the headlines in Svoboda read: said. nomy, as they readied themselves for the "Ukraine in the Claws of Terrible Hunger." In a In the train stations outside of Kharkiv he saw International Economic Conference to take story published in London's Daily Express was hungry and apathetic souls. "The populace place in London in June. Gareth Jones, Lloyd George's secretary, who laughs at the Soviet regime, laughs bitterly The U.S. Senate passed a resolution calling had spent time in Kharkiv in 1930, 1931 and because of its terrible slavery and its slow death for a 30-hour work week as a way to curb 1933, revealed that the towns were overcrowded by starvation. The bitter laughter through tears unemployment in the country. with hungry and defenseless children and that and jeering anecdotes have become the people's Ukrainians in western Ukraine continued to the populace seemed listless and apathetic to its only form of amusement," he wrote. be persecuted by the Polish government. A situation. According to reports in Svoboda, in addition correspondent for the Chicago Daily Tribune He reported that in 1930 Kharkiv had been to rampant hunger in the towns and villages, stated that a Ukrainian revolutionary organiza­ growing, everyone had had hope for the future, typhoid fever had struck the people. tion (the Organization of Ukrainian Nationa­ new buildings had been going up. In 1931 he had On April 28, Svoboda carried a commentary lists) led by Evhen Konovalets had become returned to the area, which was still expanding, signed with the initials "O.S."The author wrote international in scope and had sympathizers in and had observed the Soviets boasting that that after over 15 years of exitence, the Soviet the United States, Europe and Canada, as well as "socialist buildings would soon exceed Ame­ Union was coming to a tragic end. Collectiviza­ in Poland. Most of these were young Ukrainian rica's." Mr. Jones reported that then there was a tion had brought the complete destruction of students, the correspondent wrote.

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was architect Radoslav Zuk, the pia­ role he's been dreaming of — the title Artists galore Panorama.. nists' brother, who gave a brief lecture role in Mussorgsky's "Boris Godunov." (Continued from page 10) on architectural design theory. A pYo- During the Metropolitan Opera com­ ' Some 45 watercolors, color pencil New York debut fessor in McGill University's School of pany's national tour, he sang Boris in drawings and pencil drawings by the Architecture who has designed nine Memphis, Minneapolis and Detroit, naive painter Nikifor Dvorniak, who Canadian pianists Luba Zuk and her Ukrainian churches, in association with adding depth of character to his inter­ lived in Krynytsia in the Lemko region brother Ireneus Zuk, who were born in or as design consultant to various pretation of the role as he proceeded. of Ukraine, were recently on view at the western Ukraine, offered a rare pro­ architectural firms. Mr. Zuk said he Detroit Free Press music critic John Ukrainian Institute of America. The gram of abstract music for two pianos at considered his architecture to be both Guinn, who'heard Mr. Plishka in exhibit, co-sponsored by the institute the Ukrainian Institute on May 21. Canadian and Ukrainian in heritage. "Boris" at the Masonic Temple in and the Lemko Research Foundation Their crisp, well-balanced perfor­ The architect, who was elected a Fellow Detroit on May 26, declared he would with Slava Gerulak as curator, was mance included the New York pre­ of the Royal Society of Arts in London remember the occasion as "the night from the collection of the late Vadim mieres of George Fiala's newest and in 1981. worked or) the design of the Paul-Plishka rose to greatness." Lesytch. At the opening on June 4, largest work for two pianos. Sonata for U.S. Embassy in London and the new Mr. Guinn felt that Mr. Plishka's visitors were welcomed by U1A pro­ Two Pianos, David Keane's Fantasy, City Hall in Ottawa. Canada's capital. virile, clear and sonorous bass took on gram director Walter Hnatkiwsky and based on a Ukrainian folk song, Ihor On display for guests to examine and "a marvelous brooding quality that Bohdan Czajkiwsky of the Lemko Bilohrud's Sonatina, Op. 20, and Dia- admire during the reception afterwards became tinged with heart-rending sad­ Foundation. Iryna Petrenko Fedyshyn, chronie Pour Deux Pianos by Marian was an exhibition of drawings of Ukrai­ ness as the opera wore on." Physically, a professor at the John Jay Institute in Kouzan, a Ukrainian composer from nian churc,hes designed by Mr. Zuk. too, he was also further into the Manhattan, compared .Nikifor to the Paris and brother-in-law of the New illustrating his ability to combine the character than he had been a week 20th century French painter Paul Klee York woodcut artist, Jacques Hnizdov- richness of eastern liturgy and modern earlier in Minneapolis, Mr. Guinn in her lecture on Nikifor's art. sky. The duo also played compositions architecture. The churches included St. noted — his steps heavier, his gestures " Nikifor works of art from the by Robert Schumann, Clermont Pepin Stephen Byzantine Catholic Church in bolder, his facial expressions firmer, collection of Stephan A. Pelts were and Michael Baker and, as an encore, Calgary (his latest Ukrainian Church and he was more tender in the scene included in an exhibit of work by Mr. performed Roger Matton's lively Brazi­ design) and five Ukrainian Catholic^ with his son, more ruthless in his Pelts at the Ukrainian Artists Associa­ lian Dance. churches Holy Family and St. dealings with Shuisky, and more terri­ tion gallery, 136 Second Ave., from Although the majority of the works Joseph in Winnipeg. Holy Eucharist in fied as his madness overcame him. June 19 to 26. were in an abstract, dissonant medium Toronto. Holy Cross in Thunder Bay, In Cleveland (where two busloads of a The historic Ukrainian Kozaks, not always enjoyable to every listener, Ont.. and Holv Trinity in Kerhonkson. Ukrainians from outlying areas came to portrayed in rich colors and vivid detail the two pianists delighted their audience N.Y. the Met Opera performance) and in by Leonjd W. Bencel of Seattle, Wash., with their fine musicianship and great Luba and Ireneus Zuk are graduates Boston, Mr. Plishka sang the role of occupied the UAA gallery from June 5 rapport and the warm personalities they of McGill University and the Conserva­ Pimen the monk, while the role of Boris to 12 Mr. Bencel, horn in Poltava, revealed as they gave introductions, by toire de Musique de la Province de was undertaken by Serhei Kopchak, a Ukraine, shows a style that some have turns, of the works they were perform­ Quebec and have also studied at the Ukrainian bass from Bratislava, Slo­ likened to photo realism and others say ing. International Summer Academy of the vakia. Helping to give the Russian captures the romantic and the narrative. The pianists are champions of Ukrai­ Mozarteum in Salzburg and at the opera a decidely Ukrainian "cast" was The exhibit, his first in New York, nians music and have always included University of Alberta Banff School of Andrij Dobriansky, who handled two included 47 works - oil paintings and Ukrainian works in their recitals and Fine Arts. Miss Zuk is an associate roles, Nikitich and the Lithuanian color pencil drawings of Kozaks and a radio broadcasts, as soloists and as prolessorin McGill University's Faculty police officer. series of charcoal drawings of the rpembers of chamber ensembles. Miss of Music. Ireneus Zuk. who is also a On June 14, Mr. Plishka performed Galician kings. Depicting the Kozak era Zuk has organized two concerts of graduate of the Royal College of Music before a Central Park crowd estimated is one way for him to express his love of music by Ukrainian composers in in London and holds a master of science at 75,000 in a concert performance of Ukrainian history and culture, and share Montreal. In 1981. she and her collea­ degree from New York's Juilliard Donizetti's bel canto tear-jerker, "Lucia this experience with the rest of the gues at McGill University's Faculty of School of Music, is assistant professor de Lammermoor," which opened this world, Mr. Bencel says. The painter, Music joined with members of the in the Department of Music at Queen's season's Met Opera summer series of who has given many exhibits on the Montreal Symphony Orchestra to give University in Kingston, Ont. As a piano free outdoor presentations in New West Coast and in Canada, is also a a concert of chamber music hy Ukrai­ duo, the two have given concerts in York. Of his performance in the role of fencing master and a self-appointed nian composers. Last year, both Luba Canada, the United States, Europe and Raimondo, Tim Page of The New York ambassador of Ukrainian culture. He and Ireneus Zuk appeared with a the Far East.. Times wrote: "Mr. Plishka's dark, noble has` served for years as co-chairman of similar ensemble in a concert of Fiala's voice boomed with effortless power and the Magnolia Art Show, which includes chamber works celebrating the com­ Plishka's dream role his ensembfes with John Gilmore, who a Ukrainian booth and Ukrainian poser's 60th birthday. sang Normanno, and (Brian) Schex- performers, and has become involved in Also appearing during the evening Paul Plishka finally got to sing the nayder (as Enrico) were exemplary." aiding the development of the perma­ Mr. Plishka repeated his perfor­ nent Fine Arts Center associated with mances in "Lucia" presentations at Canada's National Ukrainian Festival project, and the demonstrated need for Prospect Park irr Brooklyn on June 22 in Daupin, Man. Fund will. implementing the proposed project, b) and at Eisenhower Park in Nassau о О!еха Denysenko, who is only 5`A (Continued from page 4) the matching fund program, by which County on Long Island on June 25. years old, made his debut as an artist on tions and proposal outlines are available the UNA matches the sum raised by a The Met basso, who thrilled the large June 5 with a one-man show at the at UNA's fraternal activities office. branch or district for a fraternal acti­ audience at last weekend's Ukrainian Mayana Gallery on East Seventh Street. (Write to: Marta Korduba, Ukrainian vity, not exceeding S350, an,d no less Festival in Holmdel, N.J., with his A prolific artist, Olexa has been using National Association, 30 Montgomery than S50. interpretations of songs by Ukrainian crayons and watercolors for over two St., Jersey City, N.J. 07302). 4. Branches and/or districts who composers and a rousing finale of years to express his ideas of the world receive funding are required to submit "Some Enchanted Evening" which about him — from a turtle, a snail, a 3. Two types of fundsareavailable:a) progress reports regarding their project equals that of the famed Ezio Pinza,will fireboat and Mighty Mouse to the East the FAF, which appropriates funds to results. This will increase communica­ appear in concert at Soyuzivka on Side Heliport and space ships. Some of branches and districts on a number of tion between' branches and the UNA August 13. He is scheduled to perform his recent works, including "Pelicans," criteria, including the proposal itself, main office, and will provide a basis for with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the "Violins" and "Self-Portrait," could the number of UNA`ers involved in the re-evaluating the over-all program next Mann Music Center (formerly Robin easily pass for professionally drawn June. Hood Dell West) on July 21, and will caricatures seen in today's cartoons and 5. Applications are currently available. sing in operatic presentations at the advertising illustrations. A student at Join the UNA They will be reviewed on a monthly ancient Theatre Antique of Orange the International Play Group school, basis by members of the Supreme during the Festival of Orange in France Olexa is the son of Martha and Yuri Executive Committee. this summer. Denysenko of Manhattan.

There's no place like Soyuzivka The Ukrainian National Association RESORT SOYUZIVKA in the Catskil Mountains, near Kerhonkson, N.Y.

Sunday, July 3, 8:30 p.m. Friday, July 1, 10 o'clock CONCERT DANCE to the tunes of ALEX and DORKO BAND EDWARD EVANK0, tenor Saturday, July 2, 8:30 p.m. THOMAS HRYNKIW, accompanist CONCERT SEASON LIDIA HAWRYLUK, soprano "VERKHOVYNA" - vocal quartet from Toronto YURIJ and 0LES FURDA, accompanists 10 o'clock - DANCE 10 o'clock - DANCE OPENER Bands: CHERV0NA KALYNA, ALEX and DORKO Bands: CHERV0NA KALYNA. TEMPO Mistress of Ceremonies: ANYA DYDYK No. 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 26, 1983 13 Surmaches treat diplomats' wives to a little Ukrainian culture

SADDLE RIVER, N.J. - Approxi­ mately 60 women, consisting of wives of United Nations ambassadors, diplo­ mats and members of the U.N. Secre­ tariat, as well as the consulate services from 32 countries, participated in a program featuring Myron Surmach Sr. and his daughter Yaroslava Surmach Mills, and held under the auspices of the International Hospitality Committee of the National Council of Women of the United States. The 32 countries represented were: Australia, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Burma, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, El Salvador, Finland, France, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Korea (South), Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, the Philippines, Poland, Senegal, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, the United Kingdom and Yugoslavia. Each year about 40 programs are held. In the past several Ukrainian programs were held, thus acquainting hundreds of women with Ukrainian culture. Inasmuch as the composition of United Nations and consular personnel changes very often, there is a constant Yaroslava Surmach Mills and Myron Surmach Sr. (seated) with U.N. wives. influx of new people. The May 4 program in Saddle River milieu of downtown New York where Europe in 1956 and 1957. they eat sensibly and practice positive was coordinated by Mary Dushnyck, a she was reared and educated at the In introducing the nonagenarian folk thinking, good posture and proper member of the NCW international Cooper Union art school. Mrs. Mills philosopher, Mrs. Dushnyck noted that breathing. He then entertained the Hospitality Committee. The long-time has served as a college teacher, art Mr. Surmach arrived in the United ladies, playing the bandura, intersper- chairman of the committee is Betti director of Humpty Dumpty Magazine States from western Ukraine in 1910, ing his performance with folksy asides. Salzman, also a vice president of NCW- for 10 years and is famous for her and in 1918 settled in New York City pysanky, her prize-winning illustrations During the lunch period, Ukrainian USA, whose dedicated efforts have where he opened a book and periodical sweets were served the ladies, eliciting provided thousands of foreign visitors of children's books — some of which business. For 65 years his Surma Book she herself authored, and for her glass- many requests for recipes. Acting as with a wide spectrum of American life. and Music Store has been a center of hostesses were Dora Rak, Irene Padoch, paintings. One of her paintings was Ukrainian activity, and its proprietor The initial part of the program took Olga Liteplo, Luba Ostapiak. Emily chosen by UN1CEF for a Christmas has been an adviser, benefactor and place in the Saddle River Tqwn Hall Massoth and Mary Ford, as well as card and a calendar. helper to many of his Ukrainian country­ where the guests were welcomed by Leonorc Friedman, Joan Marx. men. The store is now run by son Mayor Dudley Cameron, who gave a Recently she has been, working in Dorothy Willner, Olive Abbott and Myron. brief history of this affluent municipa­ Toronto, painting 12 stained glass Helen McAlpin. lity. Incidentally, Mr. Surmach, long a windows for St. Demetrius Ukrainian Since his retirement Mr. Surmach During and after lunch' much interest" resident of the town, contends that Catholic Church. Also, she has il­ has been active as an apiarist and was shown in Mrs. Mills'exhibit of her research has revealed that the first lustrated a beautiful children's prayer organic farmer at his Saddle River glasspaintings, Easter eggs, illustrated Ukrainian to live in Saddle River was book, which has been printed in Ukrai­ property, but he has found time to write children's and prayer books, cards and Alexander Zaborowsky, who after nian and English and will shortly his memoirs and to address and enter­ leaflets on pysanka painting. fleeing from Poland came to New York appear in Portuguese and several other tain various groups. where he married a Dutch girl. They languages. He has been called on by the Library Then it was off to "Surmachivka," moved to Saddle River where he bought Mrs. Mills delighted the guests with of Congress and the Smithsonian Insti­ where Mr. Surmach showed off his 3,000 acres of land in 1648. Nine sons her presentation, explaining the art of tution for consultations. Recently he organic garden and his apiary (from were born to the couple, and the family making pysanka and glasspainting, her appeared in a film about Ellis Island afar) and talked about bees, herbs, changed its name to Zabriskie, of which interest in folk art and her trip to and in "Forever Young," a documen­ plants and his honey jars of which most there are many in the area. Ukraine, Poland and Czechoslovakia tary about active senior citizens. of the ladies brought home. for ethnic research. Of special interest In his informal remarks, Mr. Sur­ A final stop was at a local farmer's Mrs. Salzman then recalled previous was the showing of slides taken on her mach stated that good health and market where the foreign ladies each Ukrainian programs, including two in trips to Ukrainian colonies in Eastern longevity are possible for more people if received an apple and made purchases. which Yaroslava had been the main attraction. Thereupon she presented Mrs. Dushnyck who offered a short overview of the Ukrainian settlement in the United States, especially in the New York Metropolitan area, stressing the uniqueness and distinctiveness of the Ukrainian people and their culture. Yaroslava Surmach Mills was first to appear. In presenting her, Мь. Dushnyck noted that this versatile lady was a plus ... 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non-Russian republics of the Soviet Union." SOYUZIVKA TENNIS SEASON Famine committee... Enclosures included a copy of the (Continued from page 1) Washington Post photo and story you find a Soviet editor with the describing last month's UCCA demon­ 1983 strength of the Radio Moscow com­ stration in front of the Soviet Embassy, mentator who was recently removed Soviet population figures showing that USCAK East July 2-4 when he said Russia invaded Afgha­ Ukraine's population actually decreased nistan. We hope that you find an Doubles August 6-7 between 1926 and 1939, The Weekly's individual as dedicated to journalism as special issue on the Great Famine and a USCAK Nationals September 2-5 the Ukrainian TV commentator Vya- booklet titled "Inside Soviet Prisons," cheslav Chornovil, who was sent to UNA Invitational September 17-18 which lists hundreds of Ukrainian prison when he presented accurate political prisoners. Doubles for Plast senior men September 24-25 reports from the trials of Ukrainian dissidents. KLK October 8-9 "Unfortunately, the Soviet journa­ Th lists you will meet will most probably be іе mess... like `Joe,` also a Radio Moscow com­ (Continued from page 6) mentator, who recently appeared on mission report would not be titled "A Theie's no place like Soyuzivka ABC's 'Nightline' and said, without Nation at Risk." To believe, as Secre­ blinking, 'I want to assure the American tary of Education Bell does, that Ameri­ people that the days of the gulag are cans will respond to the need for quality SOYUZIVKA gone forever.' " education once they realize its impor­ The committee's letter, signed by Ms. tance is to ignore recent history. Cali­ The Ukrainian National Sluzar, also noted: "We can document fornia's superb educational system has quite convincingly that half of the been gutted by Proposition 13, a com­ Association RESORT prisoners in the gulag are Ukrainians." munity initiated mandate. Scores of The letter told the editors that 1983 defeated local school referendums in the Catskil Mountains, marks the 50th anniversary of the Great suggest that many Americans care near Kerhonkson, NY. Famine in Ukraine and that the Ukrai­ about quality education only when their nian community is both commemorat­ own children benefit. Referendums are SUMMER - 1983 ing this sad event and using it to focus not defeated by parents who have on the continued genocide against the children in public schools but by parents Ukrainian people. whose children have either completed SUNDAY ART EXHIBITS school or are enrolled in private schools. In a separate letter to the Associated The commission has wisely con­ Press reporter who will be covering the cluded that "public education should be July 10 PANORAMA OF YOUNG UKRAINIANS. 1983 delegation's activities, the Washington the top priority for additional federal July 17 DR. BOHDAN KONDRA (oils) committee said: "We know that you are funds" in order to "foster key national July 24 LARYSA MARTYNIUK (oils) going to the Soviet Union to cover a educational goals." If the present July 30 8, 31 ANATOLE KOLOMAYETS (water colors) meeting of American journalists and administration does not respond to its August 7 IRENA FEDYSHYN (oils) Soviet 'journalists' — while there per­ responsibility in the educational arena haps you will uncover the genocide that August 14 MYCHAJLO MOROZ (oils) soon, the title of the next commission is destroying Ukraine and the other report may well be "A Nation Lost." August 21 IRYNA HOMOTIUK-ZIELYK (oils) August 28 JACQUES HNIZDOVSKY (woodcuts, oils) The large air conditioned Hall "VESELKA" SOYUZIVKA: (914) 626-5641 WHAT WILL YOUR NEW CAR COST YOU?

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Festivals: eat... UAVets of Spring Valley hold annual dinner-dance (Continued from page 5) SPRING VALLEY, N.Y. - The officer; Vasyl Luchkiw, judge advocate; of Clarkstown and county legislator of Choir of Sudbury; the Kalyna Ukrainian American Veterans of Post Mary Scott, trustee; Nicholas Moskal, Rockland County, was there to con­ Dancers and Orchestra from To­ No. 19, held their annual dinner-dance trustee; Michael Tymoch, chaplain; and gratulate his father. ronto; and soloist Oksana Rohatyn and installation of officers on May 21, John Smolley, past commander. The women of St. Ann's Sodality Makohon of Toronto. On Saturday, here at the Ukrainian Hall. Dr. Luchkiw installed the incoming prepared the delicious food which was Sudbury`s Zirka Ensemble will enter­ The following were installed as officers. Rep. Benjamin Gilman of the enjoyed by all. Dancing followed. tain festival-goers at an outdoor officers: Teddy B. Dusanenko, com­ 22nd Congressional District attended. zabava. mander; Michael Wengrenovich, senior State Sen. Linda Winikow sent her For Ukrainian American festival- vice commander; Chester Kaniecki, representative to present a proclama­ goers, an event scheduled to take junior vice commander; Michael Za- tion to the new commander. dayko, adjutant; Peter Zemsky, finance SLA VIC place next month is the Verkhovyna Theodore R. Dusanenko, supervisor Ukrainian Youth Festival at Glen FESTIVAL Spey, N.Y. The Verkhovyna Ukrainian Youth and a souvenir booth. Providing musical Kingston's... entertainment and back-up for the Festival takes place July 15-17 and dancers was the Dniprovi Khvyli Vocal will showcase the following groups: (Continued from page 1) showcase for the Маку Dancers and the and Instrumental Ensemble from Mon­ the Ukraina Dance Ensemble treal. of Chicago; the Voloshky Dance Dorist Dancers — both from Kingston JULY Ensemble of Philadelphia; and the and under the direction of Nadia When all is said and done. Folklore Namysto Vocal Ensemble of Wash­ Luciuk. This year the Маку Dancers '83 can be regarded as an excellent premiered their version of "Marena," a opportunity for Kingston's ethnic com­ 9-Ю ington. No less than three bands will о Fatje Na Vosi Band (Ohio) be on hand to provide musical enter­ pre-Christian ritual dance incorporat­ munities to display their hospitality, о Limbora Slovak Dancers tainment; they are: Iskra and ing various traditions from the summer creativity and, of course, culture. e Tomov Yugoslav festival of Kupalo. The group also To the stalwarts of a bicultural Dance Ensemble Vodohray of New York and the 0 performed an all-girls dance from Canada, it demonstrates the determina­ Vasilok Beylorussian Solovey Orchestra of Toronto. Dance Group The festival will also feature Ukrai­ Poltava, a hutsulka and a hopak. As tion of ethno-cultural groups to main­ nian food stalls and 35 arts and crafts soloist, Ms. Luciuk added to the perfor­ tain and propagate their culture in their Admission 16.00 exhibition booths. mance with her rendition of the lyrical home away from home. Over the next dance "Lastivka." few weeks, other communities across Rt. 94 Vernon. N.J. Adding to the long list of summer Besides hourly performances, the the country will showcase their talent festivals are the numerous local Lviv Pavilion featured cultural dis­ and cultural products at numerous 201-827-2000 festivals and heritage days happening plays, a Ukrainian food bistro and bar. summertime festivals. in towns and cities across Canada and the United States. In short, the summer of 1983 has a wide array of ethno-cultural events І There's no place like Soyuzivka and festivals to satisfy the most discriminate festival-goer and con- The Ukrainian National noiseur of Ukrainian food, song and SOYUZIVKA dance. Bon Voyage! Association RESORT SUMMER in the Catskil Mountains, 1983 near Kerhonkson, N.Y.

SEASON OPENER: Saturday, August 20, 1983 Law Offices 8:30 p.m. - CONCERT. Friday, July 1, 1983 NUSHA MARTYNUK. CARTER MCADAMS, modern dancers of 10 p.m. - DANCE. Band: ALEX and DORKO KATRYA 0RANSKY-PETYK, singer-actress ZENON B. Saturday, July-2,1983 10:00 p.m. - DANCE. Band; VODOHRAY 8:30 p.m. - CONCERT MASNYJ, Esq. "VERKHOVYNA" Vocal Ensemble from Toronto Saturday. August 27,1983 10:00 p.m. - DANCE. Bands: CHERVONA KALYNA, TEMPO 8:30 p.m. - CONCERT 140-42 Second Avenue ANDRIJ DOBRIANSKY, bass-baritone (Ukrainian National Home) Sunday, July 3,1983 і CHAMBER MUSIC TRIO: KALYNA, - Suite 46 8:30 p.m. - CONCERT HALYNA STRILEC, THOMAS HRYNKIW, EDWARD EVANKO, tenor NESTOR CYBRIWSKY New York, New York 10003 LIDIA HAWRYLUK, soprano 10:00 p.m. - DANCE. Band: ISKRA Tel.: (212) 4773002 EDWARD EVANKO, tenor THOMAS HRYNKIW,accompanist REAL ESTATE, SMALL CORPORATIONS 10:00 p.m. - DANCE. LABOR DAY WEEK-END: WILLS, TRUSTS, etc. Bands: CHERVONA KALYNA. ALEX and DORKO Friday, September 2,1983 І Saturday, July 9,1983 8:30 p.m. - CONCERT І 8:30 p.m. - CONCERT BULAVA - Kozak Entertainers from Toronto І PANORAMA of YOUNG UKRAINIANS 1983 REAL ESTATE Щ "THE EXHIBIT", a one-act comedy I 10:00 p.m. - DANCE. Band: ALEX and DORKO 10:00 p.m. - DANCE

RETIREMENT FUTURE І Saturday, July 16,1983 Saturday, September 3,1983 IN S.W. FLORIDA! I 8:30 p.m. - CONCERT 8:30 p.m. - CONCERT і The 0гонІпз communities near St Andrew's I IYA MACIUK-HRYTSAY, soprano JOY BRITTAN, singer from Las Vegas ! Ukrainian Religious and Cultural Center. Ш DARIA KARANOWYCZ, pianist JULIANA OSINCHUK. pianist І 10:00 p.m. - DANCE. Band: BOHDAN HIRNIAK 10:00 p.m. - DANCE. Bands: TEMPO, VODOHRAY NICK ft EI.0ISE POPOVICH Realtor-Associate/Broker-Salesman Ш Saturday. July 23.1983 Sunday, September 4, 1983 t Hotline phone: 1-813-629-3179 1 8:30 p.m. - CONCERT І CHOIR and DANCE ENSEMBLE "S.U.M.K." from Edmonton 8:30 p.m. - CONCERT TARAS BARABASH JOY BRITTAN, singer from Las Vegas 'Realtor-Associate I 10:00 p.m. - DANCE. Band: TEMPO "SYZOKRYLT - Ukrainian Dance Ensemble. Eves: 1-813-625-0011 ROMA PRYMA-BOHACHEVSKY, choreographer RANDOL REALTY, INC., І Saturday. July 30,1983 REALTOR І 8:30 p.m. - CONCERT 10:00 p.m. - DANCE. Bands: TEMPO, ALEX and DORKO 3221 Tamiami Trail І OLES KUZYSZYN Port Charlotte, Fla. 33952 I SOYUZIVKA ENSEMBLES "MISS SOYUZIVKA" ; 625-4193 І 10:00 p.m. - DANCE. Band: ISKRA Saturday, September 17, 1983 LOOKING FOR THE CAREFREE LIFE? 8:30 p.m. - CONCERT \ Condo living is right for the snowbirds with 3 Saturday. August 6, 1983 NAMYSTO. Vocal Ensemble I: a Charlotte County winter address. No lawn І 8:30 p.m. - CONCERT. DUMKA Choir care, no maintenance, just walk in the door IRENA PELECH. pianist J and leave the worry to someone else. Re­ І 10:00 p.m. - DANCE. Band: ALEX and DORKO 10:00 p.m. - DANCE. Band: CHERVONA KALYNA duction price: J25.000. Negotiable. RAM820 Call day or nigh' l-(813)-629-3179. І Saturday, August 13,1983 Program subject to change і 3 8:30 p.m. - CONCERT Summer Special Only. Rentals - 'Only 5 minute walk to Florida's S PAUL PLISHKA. bass The large air conditioned Dance Hall "VESELKA" І THOMAS HRYNKIW. pianist famous Warm Mineral Springs! SOYUZIVKA: (914) 626-5641 | " Special rates for groups " 10:00 p.m. - DANCE. ШвштМ а ШХЩШІ 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 26,1983 No. 26

Monday, June 27 versity, 4700 Keele St., Downsview, PREVIEW OF EVENTS Ont., M3J 2R3; (416) 667-2211. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: Orientation and a reception will be held tonight on July I and again at the closing Life in Kiev in the 1930s: Personal July II. Recollections." The lecture will be STILLWATER RESERVOIR,, N.Y.: for incoming summer school stu­ The annual Nautical Camp ("Мог– dents of the Harvard Ukrainian held at Harvard University's Ticknor Lounge in Boylston Hall at 7:30 p.m. skyi Tabir") for Plast youths age 15 Summer Institute. The event will Saturday and Sunday, July 2 and 3 and up will be held in Adirondack begin at 7:30 p.m. in Boylston For more information please call (617) 495-4053. State Park, on islands located on tHe . iitorium. BROOKLYN, N.Y.: The National huge Stillwater Reservoir, July 30 through August 6. Deadline for Convention of Ukrainian Baptist ADVANCE NOTICE Tuesday, June 28 Youth in the United States will be registration is July 15; the number of campers is limited. Cost: S100. The held this weekend at the Ukrainian GLEN SPEY, N.Y.: The Ukrainian CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: Zenovia Baptist Chuch, 151 Noble St. Leonid weeklong program includes instruc­ "ochor, assistant professor of go- Sitch Sports School of Newark, N.J., tion in water sports such as canoeing, Maruschak will serve as general will sponsor a summer sports camp ernment at Clark University and chairman of the convention, which scuba diving, water skiing and sail­ research fellow at HUR1, will speak at the Verkhovyna Resort of the ing. For information contact: An­ has as its slogan: "Freely Give" from Ukrainian Fraternal Association, on "Andropov, Reagan and the the Gospel of Matthew 10:8. drew Hadzewycz, 24 Conklin Ave., Ukrainians," tonight at Harvard from July 24 to August 20. Registra­ Morristown, N.J. 07960; (201) The program will include seminars tion is open to youths age 6 to 16. The University, Boylston Hall, Ttcknor all day Saturday with a literary 538-8910. Lounge at 7:30 p.m. summer session will include instruc­ program at 7 p.m. Sunday there will tion in soccer, volleyball, swimming be two services at 11 a.m. and.3 p.m. and tennis. For more information PREVIEW OF EVENTS, a listing Friday, July 1 For more information please call please write to: Ukrainian Sitch of Ukrainian community events open Pastor Volodymyr Sawchuk at (212) Sports School, 680 Sanford Ave., to the public, is a service provided EDMONTON: The Dnipro Ensemble 296-8287. Newark, N.J. 07106. free of charge by The Weekly to the of Edmonton, under the direction of Ukrainian community. To have an Maria Dytyniak, will partake in the event listed in this column, please opening ceremonies of the World TORONTO: Registration for Ukrai­ Tuesday, July S nian studies at York University will send information (type of event, University Games in Edmonton. The date, time, place, admission, spon­ choir will be part of a larger perform­ take place from July 4 through CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: Ludmyla August 1. Scheduled fall evening sor, etc.), along with the phone ing group and will sing at the opening Demydenko will speak on "Student courses include: modern Ukrainian number of a person who may be history, and the nationalities of the reached during daytime hours for Soviet Union. Day courses offered additional information, to: PRE­ will be: Ukraine: its history, litera­ VIEW OF EVENTS, The Ukrainian ture and the arts; elementary Ukrai­ Weekly, 30 Montgomery St., Jersey In the Soyuzivka spotlight: July 14 nian and intermediate Ukrainian. City, N J. 07362. KERHONKSON, N.Y. - Soyu­ the Chervona Kalyna and Tempo The Ukrainian Canadian Commit­ zivka, the Ukrainian National Asso­ bands will provide dancing music for tee offers a scholarship to a student in PLEASE NOTE: Preview items ciation resort in the Catskills will guests, both inside the Vcselka Pavi­ the Ukrainian studies course as must be received one week before kick off its 30th summer season at 10 lion and outside on the terrace. recommended by the department. desired date of publication. No p.m. on Friday, July I, with a dance On Sunday evening at 8:30 p.m. For more information please contact information will be taken over the to the sounds of the Alex and Dorko tenor Edward Evanko,accompanied the UCC, Ontario Council, 120 phone. Preview items will be publish­ Band, a group which got its start as a by pianist Thomas Hrynkiw,and Runnymede Road, Toronto, Ont., ed only once (please note desired date Soyuzivka house band a few summers soprano Lidia Hawryluk, accom­ Canada M6S 2Y3; (416) 767-4595. of publication). All items are publish­ back. panied by Oles and Yurij Furda,will To register for the courses, please ed at the discretion of the editorial Saturday evening will be highlight­ contact The York Enquiry Service, staff and in accordance with available entertain Soyuzivka audiences with a 1 ed by a season-opener concert featur­ special program highlighting Inde­ Steacie Science Library, York Uni­ space. ing the Verkhovyna vocal quartet pendence Day. from Toronto, which made its Soyu­ zivka debut last year during the Miss Anya Dydyk, newly appointed Cultural courses deadline nears Soyuzivka weekend. The ensemble program director for Soyuzivka, will has prepared a full concert program serve as mistress of ceremonies for KERHONKSON, N.Y. - The re­ will be presentations by Slava Gerulak including works by Ukrainian com­ both weekend concerts. gistration deadline for Soyuzivka's on Ukrainian folk art, with a concen­ posers Mykhailo Haivoronsky, A 10 p.m. dance on Sunday will Cultural Courses, scheduled for July tration on ceramics, and by Nusia Dmytro Bortniansky, Anatole Kos- feature the Chervona Kalyna and 17-30, is Friday, July I. Paszczak-Denysyk on Ukrainian textile Anatolsky and Volodymyr lvasiuk, Alex and Dorko bands. Daria Sochaniwsky, a teacher at St. art. Oksana Lukasewycz-Po(on and to name but a few. The Verkhovyna During the day at Soyuzivka, Demetrius Ukrainian School in To­ Lavro Polon will screen their audio­ quartet also celebrates its 30th anni­ guests will be able to" view the tennis ronto, will serve as course director as visual production titled "An Artist in versary this year. tournament sponsored by USCAK- well as Ukrainian geography instructor. His Own Time." Zenon Onufryk of the Following the concert at 10 p.m. East. Mrs. Sochaniwsky holds a master's Media Action Coalition will discuss the degree in Slavic studies from the Uni­ implications of misinformation about versity of Toronto. Ukraine and Ukrainians in American Oksana Bakum will return for a fifth schools and the media. summer at the cultural courses; this year she will teach 19th and 20th century The courses will also offer instruction Ukrainian literature. Mrs. Bakum is an in Ukrainian folk singing and dancing. instructor of Soviet literature courses at Films with Ukrainian themes will be the State University of New York at shown throughout the two-week period. New Paltz. Recreational and educational field trips Also during the two-week period, are also scheduled for the students. Leonid Heretz, a student at Harvard Interested persons should write or call: Featured performers at Soyuzivka July 4 University, will present a survey of Soyuzivka, UNA Estate, Foordemoore weekend include clockwise from top left: Ukrainian history. Road, Kerhonkson, N.Y., 12446; (914) Yurij and Oles Furda, Edward Evanko, Highlighting the two-week courses 626-5641. Thomas Hrynkiw, Lidia Hawryluk, the "Verkhovyna" ensemble - Nadia Kochan- sky, Oksana Makohon, Bohdanna Ibna- Captive Nations commemoration slated tovych - and accompanist Adriana Radelyt- WASHINGTON - On July I and 2 sky. the Captive Nations Vigil Committee The second activity will be a rally, to will hold activities near the Vietnam be called a "Commemoration Cere­ Veterans Memorial on the Mall in mony" at I p.m. on Saturday, July 2. Washington to honor those who have The rally will also be held near the been victimized by communism since Vietnam Memorial on the Mall. 1917 and to remind Americans of their The slogan for both activities is "No responsibility to help those who are More Betrayals." This theme is design­ fighting communism in their homelands ed to show the support for U.S. aid to today. the anti-Communist elements in Cen­ The first of two activities will be.a 24- tral America and other areas, of the hour "Chronology of Betrayal" — a world, such as Afghanistan. reading of the names of as many of Among the organizers of the Captive those who have been killed by commu­ Nations Vigil Committee are Vietnam nism as can be located; a reading of the Veterans who are angered by plans of histories of the various captive nations, far-left groups to demonstrate near the a testimony by those who have per­ Vietnam Memorial in opposition to sonally witnessed Communist atroci- U.S. aid to democratic governments.