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Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXIV HE No.KRAINIAN 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1996 EEKLY$1.25/$2 in Ukraine Canadian foreign minister brings FleetT negotiationsU are nearly completed W by Roman Woronowycz issues, including the division of bays. Kyiv Press Bureau However, Viedomosti did report that a 20- $600 million in aid to Ukraine year lease had been agreed upon. KYIV — Discussions on the splitting President Kuchma later stated, “So far by Roman Woronowycz Foreign Minister Axworthy explained of the Black Sea Fleet are practically as Russia has agreed to a lease, it is not Kyiv Press Bureau that the time is right for expanded invest- completed and a draft agreement should ment in Ukraine. “When you look at the worth returning to rubber-band pulling,” KYIV – Canada’s Foreign Minister be ready for review by the countries’ two referring to the political gamesmanship new Constitution, the new currency and the prime ministers shortly, said the press Lloyd Axworthy came to Ukraine on new economic stability, these are major that has surrounded movement toward October 23 loaded with $600 million service of Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers resolution of the differences. changes,” he explained, adding that the on October 31. (Canadian) worth of financial treats. It The latest round of discussions began new agreements expand the already close A statement by First Vice Prime was a week early for Halloween, but this relationship between the two countries. Minister Vasyl Durdynets released by on October 29, with the two sides strug- financially starved country readily gling through three issues: the status and “After these agreements are signed the press service explained that his cur- accepted the financial aid and new busi- today, Canada will become one of the rent meetings with Russia’s Vice terms for the basing of the Russian fleet ness investments that Canada handed out. in Sevastopol; on the parameters of the largest investors in Ukraine,” said Mr. Premier Valerii Serov “open the way to On October 24, Mr. Axworthy, meeting Axworthy. Canada has already committed the resolution of the politicized and splitting of the infrastructure; and the with Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Minister terms of lease and method of payment. more than $120 million through CIDA for extremely painful Black Sea Fleet (BSF) Hennadiy Udovenko, announced a series of the development of the energy sector, eco- At that meeting, Mr. Durdynets urged problem and the signing of a comprehen- agreements that would develop Ukraine’s nomic reform and relief for victims of the the parties to work to ensure a November sive bilateral treaty of friendship and energy sector, including a $150 million Chornobyl nuclear disaster. 10 signing date. He said the three issues partnership,” according to Interfax- project by Northland Power for reconstruc- The Canadian minister also announced are the final obstacles to agreement. The Ukraine. tion and modernization of Ukrainian elec- that a Canadian consulate will soon open two sides are scheduled to finalize nego- The two high-level Cabinet ministers tric power plants, and a plan to build a in Lviv and that Air Canada will begin tiations next week. President Kuchma have met several times in the last month “World Trade Center” in Kyiv, the cost of air travel services to Kyiv beginning has said he would like to see a formal and have slowly moved forward in which is estimated at $400 million. sometime next year. signing of the Black Sea Fleet agreement resolving many strategic, political and Other agreements include $2.8 million, Foreign Affairs Minister Udovenko, before November 15. ethnic issues that have held up or de- financed by the Canadian International explaining how the business climate in railed the process for the last four years. The city of Sevastopol seems to finally Development Agency (CIDA), for the Ukraine has developed, said that what However, even as Messrs. Durdynets have accepted the idea of two fleets in its implementation of a $200 million program Ukraine has done in five years in develop- and Serov were making their announce- port. On October 31, Sevastopol Mayor funded by the World Bank to modernize ing an infrastructure for business is just ment, news sources were saying the discus- Viktor Semenov told Interfax-Ukraine that hydroelectric plants that is being coordi- short of miraculous. “We are a young sions, few details of which have been the signing of an agreement on the Black nated by Hydro-Quebec International, as country that had to develop everything announced, were stalled on the issue of Sea Fleet will contribute to an improve- well as $ 7.5 million in technical assistance from point zero. We had no banking sys- who is to receive what docks in Sevastopol. ment of the city’s economic situation. He to increase security and develop an inspec- tem or any free market structures. We have Interfax and Vseukraiinski Viedomosti also criticized Russia’s Duma for “not real- tion licensing system for the Chornobyl come a long way. I cannot name another quoted Minister Serov as saying, “The izing the complexity of the situation.” He nuclear power plant. His entourage includ- country that has developed economic, negotiations were drawn out and strenu- said separate bases would provide income ed representatives of 60 leading Canadian ous. We have a number of unsettled for the city from both Russia and Ukraine. companies. (Continued on page 15)

Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies marks 20th anniversary Husar comments by Andrij Kudla Wynnyckyj Toronto Press Bureau on his new role EDMONTON — In early October, the University of by Oksana Kolinchenko Alberta-based Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies cele- and Roman Woronowycz brated its 20th anniversary, and its growing reputation as the LVIV — Bishop Lubomyr Husar pre-eminent Ukrainian academic body in the diaspora. made it clear on October 22 that his new On October 5, the CIUS’s contributions were noted by position as auxiliary bishop to the head Ukraine’s envoy to Canada and by the institution’s current of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, director, at the Ukrainian-owned Chateaux Louis Hotel and although giving him extraordinary pow- Conference Center on Edmonton’s outskirts. ers, does not in any way put him in a Ukraine’s Ambassador to Canada Volodymyr Furkalo was position closer to the title of major arch- keynote speaker during a special luncheon in honor of the bishop of the Church. CIUS, and he brought greetings from Ukrainian President As Bishop Husar stated at a press con- Leonid Kuchma, by way of reading the section of the chief ference after the closing of the Synod of executive’s Independence Day address directed to the Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Ukrainian diaspora. Church, “The responsibilities that I have The envoy commended the institution’s members for received are accorded for as long as [the being at the forefront of an effort to preserve Ukraine’s cul- major archbishop] wishes and as long as tural heritage and historical record. He said the fact that they are needed. It is not that I have been Ukraine’s fifth anniversary of independence and the CIUS’s given power as if to a new administration.” jubilee year coincide is significant, because of the work of its Bishop Husar was appointed on scholars “to help my country reclaim its concealed history.” October 14 as Major Archbishop Ambassador Furkalo also thanked CIUS Director Dr. Myroslav Lubachivsky’s auxiliary with Zenon Kohut for his reply (forwarded to the Ukrainian extraordinary powers. They include the Mission in Ottawa) to the September 9 “Tinderbox” article in ability to “call synods, preside over them Forbes magazine. and approve their decisions,” which U.S. The CIUS director’s own keynote address, delivered at the Metropolitan Stephen Sulyk explained to 20th anniversary banquet, was introduced by the University of The Weekly the day after the announce- Ambassador Volodymyr Furkalo greets the Canadian (Continued on page 12) Institute of Ukrainian Studies on its 20th anniversary. (Continued on page 15) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1996 No. 44

NEWS ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS Crimea: Ukraine’s Sicily Mejlis comments on Duma’s claim to form another Church. The synod also by Taras Kuzio “biznes” worlds. voted to bar another hierarch, Bishop Ihor SYMFEROPIL — The Crimean Tatar of Kharkiv and Poltava, from the UAOC. The irony is that pro-Russian factions Mejlis (assembly) claimed that the Russian On October 9 the Crimean Verkhovna within the Crimean Parliament, who have Patriarch Filaret of the Ukrainian Rada voted 74-2 to dismiss its chairman, Duma’s October 24 appeal for Sevastopol Orthodox Church — Kyiv Patriarchate close ties to Russian organized crime, is a territorial claim on Ukraine, Radio Yevhen Supruniuk, and then voted 59-26 which uses the peninsula as a stepping- said the split within the UAOC is bound to to replace him with Vasyl Kyseliov. Ukraine reported. The Presidium of the lead to its demise. (OMRI Daily Digest) stone to the offshore island of Cyprus, Mejlis urged President Leonid Kuchma to Mr. Supruniuk was in the hospital dur- organized an “Anti-Crime Opposition” to ing the vote following a mysterious, and implement Article 17 of the Ukrainian Morningstar urges halt to corruption obtain populist support against Mr. Constitution, which prohibits deployment still unresolved, kidnapping. While in the Supruniuk. KYIV — Ambassador Richard hospital his post was temporarily held by of foreign military bases on Ukrainian terri- There are also two other alarming tory. Meanwhile, Crimean Communists Morningstar told a press conference in Kyiv Refat Chubarov, leader of the Tatar par- trends. First, cooperation between the on October 17 that Ukraine must eliminate liamentary faction. Uncharacteristically called for the preservation of a single fleet militia and organized crime, a concern as a common security guarantor for the corruption if it wants to attract more for the Tatars, they joined together with investors. “There are problems in various which led to the creation of a counter- Commonwealth of Independent States and pro-Russian factions to vote out Mr. projects that are day-to-day, literally corrup- intelligence unit within the Crimean as a counterbalance to Turkey on the Black Supruniuk, who was accused by the latter tion and threats of violence,” the special Ministry of Internal Affairs directly sub- Sea. In other developments, Viktor of being too “pro-Ukrainian.” advisor to President Bill Clinton and secre- ordinated to Kyiv; second, the influx of Zakharov, head of the Russian Navy’s radi- Mr. Kyseliov, the newly elected tary of state on assistance for the newly large numbers of weapons from the sepa- ation, chemical and biological defense, Crimean Parliament chairman, was born independent states said after a four-day ratist regions of Trans-Dniester and expressed surprise that Yurii Kostenko, in 1948 in Russia but has worked within U.S.-Ukraine committee meeting on eco- Chechnya. Ukraine’s minister of environmental pro- the agricultural sector on the peninsula nomic matters. Foreign and local investors tection and nuclear safety, wanted the issue during the last 25 years. During the last Three major mafia-style groups say that bribes and dealing with mafia-like 10 years he was chairman of the Druzhba of pollution caused by the BSF included in Some 120 active criminal gangs exist criminal gangs have come to be considered Narodov collective farm. negotiations on the fleet’s division, which in Crimea; 52 of them are organized into a normal part of doing business in Ukraine. In contrast to the incumbent deposed resumed in Sevastopol on October 29. Mr. mafia-style families. Three of these “Ukraine can’t expect large-scale invest- speaker, Mr. Kyseliov is more pro- Zakharov said the fleet caused no more extend their influence throughout the ment while some of these problems exist,” Russian, with some views that are remi- environmental damage than regular mer- peninsula and beyond – into Ukraine, Ambassador Morningstar said. “If some of niscent of former Crimean President chant vessels. (OMRI Daily Digest) Russia and even Western Europe. The these problems can be solved, that’s a real Yuriy Meshkov. Nevertheless, Mr. accumulated capital of these three mafia Crimeans protest ban on Russian TV opportunity to show the world that Ukraine Kyseliov denied that he would promote groups (Seilem, the Sheviov group and is a place for investment.” Deputy Prime pro-Russian separatism. “The renewal of the Bashmaki) reportedly exceeds that of SYMFEROPIL — Some 200 people Minister Viktor Pynzenyk did not deny the pro-Russian feeling is possible only in the entire Crimean annual budget. picketed the Crimean Verkhovna Rada to existence of corruption, but said that crimi- the economic sphere, and I’ll do every- Seilem and the Bashmaki control deliv- protest a recent ban on Russian Public nal activity was a matter for the courts, not thing to restore business ties with eries of metal and oil into Crimea and TV broadcasts in Ukraine, Ukrainian the government. (Reuters) Russia,” Mr. Kyseliov cautioned. abroad, and act as patrons to local banks media reported on October 23. Crimean Mr. Kyseliov is merely bowing to Chornobyl closure threatens Slavutych and commercial firms involved in tourism deputies warned that the move could lead local feelings, which turned against sepa- and transportation. They are strongly to a significant deterioration in the situa- KYIV — Chornobyl director Sergei ratism in the winter of 1994-1995. Sergei interested in moving into the potential oil tion in Crimea. The Crimean government Parashin said on October 4 that the planned Tsekov, the former Crimean Parliament and gas sector after deposits found off the has requested that Kyiv maintain Russian closure in November of reactor No. 1 at the chairman and a leading ally of Mr. Crimean coast are developed. broadcasting in the autonomous republic, Chornobyl nuclear power plant will finan- Meshkov, admitted recently that, The Sheviov group is led by Vladimir while the Ukrainian government claims cially cripple the town of Slavutych. “The “Separatism as Ukraine saw it – rejoining Sheviov, an Armenian born in Russia that Russian Public TV has run up a large shutdown will mean an immediate plunge Russia – did not have much support (in who moved to Crimea in 1985 and is debt for broadcasting in Ukraine. Russian in living standards for everyone in Crimea).” reportedly one of the richest persons on radio programs were squeezed out of Slavutych,” Mr. Parashin said. Slavutych, Despite the election of the more pro- the peninsula. Mr. Sheviov is the leader Ukraine in 1993. (OMRI Daily Digest) located 18 miles northeast of Chornobyl, is Russian Mr. Kyseliov as the new of the Construction faction within the home to 30,000 people and 90 percent Parliament chairman, his ability to UAOC patriarch resigns Crimean Parliament. funded by the Chornobyl plant. “They’re abruptly alter Crimea’s strategic and The Seilem are a Tatar-organized KYIV — A synod of Ukrainian all connected, the plant, the sarcophagus, geopolitical course will be limited. Both crime group closely tied to the Tatar Autocephalous Orthodox Church hierarchs Slavutych, nursery schools, roads, hospi- the Crimean Parliament and government Mejlis (the Tatars have 12 seats in the announced the resignation of Patriarch tals. And when on source (of income) dis- have few real powers. Real power in the Crimean Parliament). Violence during Dimitrii Yarema, Radio Ukraine reported appears, a serious lack of funds arises,” he Crimea is held by two groups: that of the summer of 1995 in Crimea, which led on October 21. Metropolitan Vasylii of said. Mr. Parashin said none of the foreign Ukraine’s permanent presidential repre- to riots and the deaths of two Tatars, was Ternopil and Volyn was elected to run the aid projects associated with the shutdown sentative, Dmytro Stepaniuk, and orga- linked to conflict between the Seilem and UAOC until a sobor of Church hierarchy of the plant have taken the future of nized crime (which is closely tied to local Bashmaki organized crime families. and laity, scheduled to convene on Slavutych into consideration. The shut- politics). The Bashmaki are a Crimean orga- December 12, elects a new patriarch. No down of reactor No. 1 will mean the loss of The Crimean Parliament or govern- nized crime group that has close ties to reason was given for Patriarch Dimitrii’s 10-11 billion kilowatt hours of electricity ment (the post of president was abolished the political bodies that unite former resignation, but the synod issued a state- annually, which the Chornobyl director by Ukrainian presidential decree in members of the local nomenklatura (e.g. ment quelling rumors that the patriarch estimates is worth $240 million. Mr. March 1995), for example, has no influ- the Party of Economic Revival or the had issued an edict dissolving the Church. Parashin also said the Chornobyl plant has ence over the appointment of the heads “Party of the Fat Cats,” as they are The newspaper Den (Day) reported on had to upkeep the cracked sarcophagus of the local branches of the power min- described). The deposed Parliament October 22 that five hierarchs of the encasing reactor No. 4, which should be istries (Security Service, Ministry of chairman, Mr. Supruniuk, was supported UAOC had sought to remove Patriarch addressed in Ukraine’s federal budget. He Interior, Ministry of Defense, National by the PER. Another former chairman of Dimitrii for a long time. The patriarch has said the government promised to compen- Guard, Border Troops). Crimean officials the Crimean Parliament, Nikolai Bagrov, accused the five of trying to usurp power sate the plant at least for this year’s expens- can meet foreign dignitaries only upon who unsuccessfully ran for the post of and had allegedly threatened to split away es on the sarcophagus. (Associated Press) obtaining prior agreement from the Crimean president against Mr. Meshkov, Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. also is close to the PER. 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by Andrij Kudla Wynnyckyj from the Orthodox, to the Uniate, then back. the norm rather than the exception from the earliest days Toronto Press Bureau Dr. Sysyn said this intellectual see-sawing led of apostolic missions, and that the commonly accepted Smotrytsky to focus on ancestral “blood” ties as a deter- date of the schism, 1054, is inaccurate. TORONTO — With a one-day conference held at the minant of Ruthenian identity. Prof. Bilaniuk marshaled his mastery of Church University of Toronto Sanford Fleming Building on Another important figure, in Dr. Sysyn’s estimation, arcana to paint a picture of the Medieval Vatican’s harsh September 12, the Canadian chapter of the Shevchenko was Adam Kysil, a statesman of the immediate pre- dogmatism and readiness to excommunicate all and Scientific Society commemorated the 400th anniversary Khmelnytsky period, who insisted on the necessity of a sundry as the source of many conflicts. of the Union of Brest and the 350th anniversary of the single united “Ruthenian Church” and deplored the cul- Prof. Bilaniuk asserted that the Papal States’ sponsor- Union of Uzhhorod. tural decline caused by religious strife. Dr. Sysyn said ship of a rapacious Crusade resulted in the single most Consummated at a sobor in Brest (Berestia) on Kysil despaired over the lines of conflict in Ukrainian traumatic event leading to the eventual schism. In 1024, October 16-20, 1596, the ecclesiastical treaty brought a society drawn by the Union of Brest. before any Mongols got to it, Constantinople/Byzantium section of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church into the orbit Dr. Sysyn highlighted a positive aspect of attempts to was sacked by Crusaders who destroyed the city’s of the Roman Holy See, creating what became known as integrate with the Polish order, in that Polish aristocratic churches, trampled icons, defiled graves and assaulted the Uniate, or Greek-Catholic Church. insistence on citizenship and independence from one’s members of monastic orders. As Shevchenko Scientific Society President Dr. monarch was decidedly more progressive than the Wolodymyr Mackiw noted in his introduction to the pro- He then provided a detailed account of the boisterous Muscovite absolute fealty to the tsar. ceedings, the irony of this act of union is that it codified three-day Church Council held 30 years later that, in his Dr. Sysyn contended that the Ukrainian framers of the divisions among the Ukrainian people who, as a state- opinion, led to the Great Schism. In Nicea, Prof. the Union of Brest although they were not supported by less nation, grew more and more subject to the influences Bilaniuk related, “while the Greeks (legates of the the majority of the Ukrainian nobility or clergy and the exerted upon them by the Polish Commonwealth, the Byzantine Church) showed maturity and restraint, the grassroots, were primarily concerned with cultural and Vatican, Muscovy and Constantinople. Papal legates persisted in confusing spiritual obedience “national” concerns, because they sought to secure equal And yet, the conference’s first speaker, Dr. Frank with canonical submission.” rights for themselves and their compatriots within a Sysyn, director of the Peter Jacyk Center for Historical Prof. Bilaniuk placed responsibility for the schism Research at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, legal framework, rather than with questions of “religious squarely on Rome’s shoulders, quoting the final declara- in a paper titled “National Consciousness at the Turn of universality.” tion of the papal legates, in which they asserted, “We the 16th and 17th Centuries,” stressed that questions The historian added that the Orthodox reaction to the separate from you, as you are heretics and anathema.” concerning confessional allegiances (Orthodox versus union also served to sharpen concepts of nationhood, And yet, the Toronto-based Church historian cited the Greek-Catholic or Uniate) actually helped crystallize particularly among Lviv’s burghers. Dr. Sysyn said coronation of King Danylo of Halych as evidence that “the concepts of national identity in Ukrainians. Orthodox clergymen took to writing Kozak chronicles in Ukrainian Church of Kyiv-Halych paid no heed to the While many historians contend that national conscious- a religious light, in some sense to bring the Hetmanate schism between the Greeks and the Latins,” and added that ness as such is a strictly modern idea that did not emerge and the Zaporozhians over to their side of the theologic- Kyiv’s hierarchs fully accepted the resolutions adopted at until the early to mid-19th century, Dr. Sysyn countered cal struggle. the Council of Florence in 1439, whose provisions, he that the concept of “nation” appeared in Ukraine in the History of Church schism claimed, were adhered to right up until the Union of Brest. mid- to late 16th century, and it was then that the seeds of In conclusion, Prof. Bilaniuk asserted that “from the ethnic and political identification were sown. The Rev. Petro Bilaniuk, professor emeritus of theol- time of the apostles to the Union of Brest, the Rus’- Dr. Sysyn pointed out that the cultural and ethnic ogy and Church history at the University of Toronto, Ukrainian Church was never in schism with either the identities of Ukrainians and Belarusians (then known provided some religious historical background for the Eastern or Western Churches, since it never issued any collectively as “Ruthenians”) were basically fused, but Union of Brest and shed some light on the rather formal acts or declarations to that effect,” and that the signs of differentiation had begun to emerge at the time ambivalent nature of the Vatican’s “unifying” impulses. subsequent (1646) Union of Uzhhorod, was but a of and after the union. In fact, the historian contended In a paper titled “The Greco-Roman Sobor in Nicea, regional reaffirmation of the Union of Brest, the deci- that support for the Uniate Church was initially much the Nymphaion of 1234 and the Final Schism between sions of the Council of Florence, and the reaffirmation stronger among Belarusians. the Roman and Byzantine Churches,” Prof. Bilaniuk of the existence of a single, united, holy Catholic Dr. Sysyn said that in some circles, particularly illustrated his contention that, in terms of canon law, no Apostolic Church and its Orthodoxy. among Catholic polemicists, Ruthenian identity was act of union had been required of the Ukrainian thought to be closely tied to Orthodoxy. However, the Orthodox Church, because none of its hierarchs had ever Legal aspects of the union historian said, among the earliest attempts to differenti- made any formal declaration of secession from the Prof. Ihor Monchak, a lecturer at the Lviv Theological ate religious and national identities was formulated by “Universal (Catholic) Church.” Academy, formerly an instructor at the Ukrainian Catholic Meletii Smotrytsky, a thinker whose confessional alle- Prof. Bilaniuk also stressed that schisms and conflicts giances shifted often during his lifetime (1577-1633) over heresies in the realm of organized Christianity were (Continued on page 12) Ukrainian-American Military Association established in Chicago by Leonid Kondratiuk Along with 60 interested members of Lt. Col. Leonid Kondratiuk spoke about Sgt. Peter Lysenko, discussed their expe- the community, they listened to four pre- the 200-year history of Ukrainian riences as interpreters during various CHICAGO – The Ukrainian-American sentations and discussed the relationship Americans serving in the U.S. military as joint exercises. One of the concerns that Military Association was established here between the U.S. and the Ukrainian well as U.S. Army operations in Ukraine was voiced is the planned closing of during a conference concerning “The armed forces. after World War I and during World War II. Ukrainian language training at the Evolving Relationship Between Ukrainian The keynote speaker was Maj. Gen. Lt. Col. Yaro Oryshkevych spoke about Defense Language Institute in Monterey, and United States Armed Forces.” Nicholas Krawciw (ret.), who is the U.S. the landmark U.S. military medical mis- Calif. Held on September 28-29 at the Ss. Department of Defense senior military rep- sion to Ukraine which took place in Also in attendance were Lt.Col. Volodymyr and Olha Ukrainian Catholic resentative to Ukraine. He discussed recent September 1993, while Sgt. Maj. Daniel Volodymyr Havrylov, Ukrainian military Church’s Cultural Center in Chicago, the U.S.-Ukrainian military exercises, desig- Zahody spoke about Ukrainian language attaché, Col. Julian Kulas, USAR (ret.), a conference was attended by some 35 offi- nated Peace Shield 95 and 96, as well as training in the U.S. military and the role of leading member of the Ukrainian com- cers and noncommissioned officers from the growth of closer working military rela- Ukrainian Americans in special operations. munity in Chicago, and Dr. Dmytro the U.S. Army, Army National Guard, U.S. tions between the two countries at the A panel of U.S. military Ukrainian Bodnarczuk, national commander of the Naval Reserve, Air National Guard and Air Department of Defense and Ministry of interpreters, Lt. Col. Myroslaw Malaniak, Force Reserve, all of Ukrainian descent. Defense level and at the unit level. Lt. Col. Inia Yevich, Lt. Ihor Kobryn and (Continued on page 12)

At the conference in Chicago (from left) are: Maj. Gen. (ret.) Nicholas Krawciw, 1st Lt. Ihor Balaban, Col. Julian Kulas, Lt. Col. Leonid Kondratiuk, Col. Ihor Kotlarchuk and Col. Michael Kos. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1996 No. 44

Basilian fathers have new provincial superior in Canada Pharmacia Upjohn by Christopher Guly The Rev. Chimy began his four-year novices of Ss. Peter and Paul Monastery. term on October 1. “I guess it’s a promo- “It’s hard to explain, but it was almost a OTTAWA – The Order of St. Basil tion of sorts, but it’s also going to be a lot spiritual experience for me.” helps Kyiv hospitals the Great, or the Ukrainian Catholic of work,” he told The Weekly. At the age of 16, the Rev. Chimy by Inya Bonacorsa Basilians, recently acquired a new superi- Faced with diminishing membership and joined the Order of St. Basil the Great. KYIV – The Children of Chornobyl or general and a new provincial superior having only one candidate for the priest- Ten years later in 1960, he was ordained for its Canadian province. Relief Fund joined forces on September 4 hood at its Mundare, Alberta, novitiate not a priest. Now, 36 years later, the monk with the pharmaceutical company The Rev. Dyonisius Lachovicz, 50, far from Edmonton, the Rev. Chimy real- will head the Canadian wing of his order. superior and pastor of the Nativity of the Pharmacia Upjohn to distribute the antibiot- izes his new responsibilities present a tall The Rev. Chimy comes from a family ic Solu-Medrol, valued at nearly $13,000, Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Curitiba, order. (Given his mighty physical stature, filled with vocations. Two of his to four medical institutions in Kyiv. Brazil, was recently appointed superior the man could pull off the job). deceased uncles were Basilian priests: The four institutions were: the Kyiv general of the order for an eight-year term. Indeed, as a teen growing up in rural Jerome, the first bishop of the Ukrainian Emergency Hospital, Kyiv Hospital No. The Rev. Lachovicz recently spent Alberta, the Rev. Chimy fancied the idea Catholic Eparchy of New Westminster, 22, Kyiv Oblast (Regional) Intensive two years teaching philosophy in of joining the Royal Canadian Mounted British Columbia, and Athanasius, a for- Care Clinic and the Center for Surgery of Ukraine. He succeeds the Ukrainian-born Police. More than 40 years ago, Canada’s mer provincial consultor. The Rev. the Thyroid Gland. Rev. Isidore Patrylo, who held the posi- venerable Mounties had a minimum Chimy’s aunt, Sister Jerome Chimy, 82, Solu-Medrol is a powerful post-opera- tion over two terms for the past 20 years. height requirement that cadets be at least is a former superior general of the Sisters tive antibiotic and is frequently used in The Rev. Patrylo, 76, will remain in 5-foot-10-inches tall in their stocking Servants of Mary Immaculate. the treatment of cancer patients. Rome, where the Basilians’ general head- feet. At a strapping 6-foot-6, the Rev. The Rev. Lachovicz, 50, selected the In addition to providing supplies of quarters is based. Chimy certainly bested that. Rev. Chimy from among three Canadian the antibiotic, Pharmacia Upjohn med- The Rev. Lachovicz recently chose the Though he did take advantage of his candidates. The other two were the Rev. ical specialists provided a program of Rev. Myron Chimy as the new Basilian size to play volleyball in school, the Mark Zazula, superior of St. Gregory of on-site lectures and slide presentations provincial superior for Canada and the Ukrainian Catholic Basilian priest was Nyssa Monastery in the Toronto suburb on several topics to physicians and med- United Kingdom. more enamored by another role model: of Weston, and the Rev. Zuzula’s col- ical care workers in the facilities. The Rev. Chimy, 62, succeeds the his parish priest. “I used to go into league in Weston, longtime choral master Through the CCRF, Pharmacia Rev. Isidore Dziadyk, who will remain in church and watch the priest stand alone the Rev. Boniface Malowany. Upjohn in April donated antibiotics val- the provincial house in Winnipeg and at the altar,” the Rev. Chimy explained The Rev. Chimy, who was born in ued at $900,000 to the relief mission serve as pastor of St. Basil’s Church in from his office in Mundare, where he organized by the U.S. Department of the southwest section of the city. recently served as superior and master of (Continued on page 14) State to aid the victims of Chornobyl. OBITUARIES

Robert Nicholas Zencuch, 20 Sister Mary Oksanna Popiel OSBM, by Mary K. Siemon comed into their home as part of the family to share happy holidays. Robert Nicholas MINNEAPOLIS – On August 10, a was always present, appropriately and longtime elementary school teacher tragic car accident in Wisconsin claimed handsomely dressed, always the gentle- FOX CHASE MANOR, Pa. — Sister Mary Oksanna Popiel of the Sisters of St. the life of Robert Nicholas Zencuch, 20, man, seating me at the family table, while Basil the Great in Fox Chase Manor died son of the Very Rev. Stefan and Dr. assisting his mother in her preparations. I on October 8. Katarina Zencuch. marvelled at his good manners, his warmth A native of Poland born in 1919, Sister Robert Nicholas was born in Kosice, and friendliness. Oksanna came to Chicago as a child and Czecho-Slovakia. He was only 4 years old When his parents transferred to Silver became a parishioner of St. Nicholas when he arrived with his parents and sis- Spring, Md., Robert Nicholas stayed in Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral. She entered ter, Jane, in America. The Rev. Zencuch’s Minnesota working and attending the the Sisters of St. Basil in 1935 and made first parish was in Minneapolis and later in University of Minnesota. her final profession in 1944. Chicago where the family resided for 10 For many years he faithfully served at Assigned to various parish elementary years. When the family arrived in the altar, assisting his father during schools staffed by the sisters, she taught in Minnesota for the second time in 1992, church services with dignity and rever- Watervliet, N.Y.; the towns of Reading, Robert Nicholas attended Mounds View ence. When his parents left for their new Scranton, Centralia, Olyphant, High School and graduated in 1995. assignment, Robert Nicholas regularly Northampton and Arnold in Pennsylvania; While in high school he studied hard, attended St. George Ukrainian Orthodox and at St. Josaphat’s in Philadelphia. Sister enjoyed playing soccer and tennis and Church, just a few blocks from his room- Oksanna taught primary and elementary being with friends, worked part-time ing house, where he would also serve - grades, but her pride and joy were the “lit- jobs, and still found time to give to chari and assist the priest at the altar. table works by helping to pack boxes of tle ones” preparing for their first holy com- On August 14 a memorial service was clothing and sorely needed items des- munion. held for Robert Nicholas at the Kozlak- tined to help the needy in Europe. Sister Oksanna completed 19 years at Radulovich Funeral Home in He was active in the Ukrainian Orthodox Immaculate Conception school in Minneapolis. Officiating at the panakhy- League and a Christian organization for Hamtramck, Mich., where she became ill da was Bishop Paisij, spiritual fathers teens called Teens Encounter Christ. and was brought back to Fox Chase on Sister Mary Oksanna Popiel from the three Ukrainian Orthodox When the family arrived in Minnesota October 5. Churches of the Twin Cities area, and in July of 1992, it wasn’t long before I was She is survived by a sister, Patricia assigned until her illness. guest clergy: the Rev. Anthony Coniaris warmly greeted and adopted into their fam- Sutherland of Bergenfield, N.J., and a A memorial service was held on of St. Mary Greek Orthodox Church and ily as their “American grandma.” Since my cousin, Leo Popiel of Des Plaines, Ill. October 10 at the Motherhouse Chapel in the Rev. Michael Stelmach of St. own immediate family lives in Seattle, and Sister Oksanna was dedicated and Fox Chase, followed by a funeral liturgy Constantine Ukrainian Catholic Church. we could not be together at holidays and devoted to her students and her many on October 11, with burial at the sisters’ Many of Robert Nicholas’s friends other special times, I was graciously wel- friends in Hamtramck, where she was cemetery in Fox Chase. came to pay their last respects — school friends, co-workers, parishioners from all the churches, friends of the family and out-of-town guests. The combined choir of the three Ukrainian churches under the Ted Komar, music man well-known direction of Kira Tsarehradsky very beau- tifully and movingly sang the responses. at Ukrainian Canadian festivals The following day, the remains were by Christopher Guly orchestra soloist and moved to television, shipped to South Bound Brook, N.J., where appearing on the long-running series, on August 17 a funeral service took place in OTTAWA — For decades, he was the “Red River Jamboree.” the Memorial Church of St. Andrew. minstrel at all of Canada’s major Mr. Komar traveled extensively, Officiating were Metropolitan Constantine Ukrainian cultural festivals. Accordion in playing to Canadian troops stationed together with Archbishop Antony and hand and a big grin on his face, Ted Komar overseas and for audiences as far north many attending clergy. Burial followed at was the premiere Ukrainian Canadian as Alert in Canada’s Arctic and as far the Ukrainian Orthodox Cemetery. music man. south as the Sahara Desert. Many people came from neighboring Following a lengthy illness, Mr. Komar One of the founders of Winnipeg’s parishes along with their clergy as did died in London, Ontario, on October 3. He immensely popular multicultural summer parishioners from St. Andrew Cathedral was 67. festival, Folkorama, Mr. Komar also estab- of Silver Spring, Md., who traveled by Nicknamed “Bear,” Mr. Komar’s lished several music schools under his bus to attend the service. Following the career encompassed six decades and name. A memorial service was held in burial service, the sisterhood of St. began when he performed on Winnipeg’s Winnipeg on October 9. Mr. Komar leaves Andrew Church hosted a memorial din- CJRC and CKY radio stations. behind his wife of 46 years, Helen, two Robert Nicholas Zencuch ner for the family and mourners. He would eventually become an children and two grandchildren. No. 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1996 5 THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUM

Detroit District holds UNA Day by Stephen M. Wichar Sr. WARREN, Mich. — A primary objec- tive in the Ukrainian National Association is to promote fraternalism through activi- ties that engender both unity and growth. The Greater Detroit area maintains a vigor- ous level of such activity under the leader- ship of Dr. Alexander Serafyn, district chairman and advisor on the UNA General Assembly. One popular activity is the annual UNA Family Day designed for offi- cers, members and special guests. On August 17, approximately 40 UNA’ers gathered at the popular Ukrainian Resort Center in Milford, Mich. After early cocktails and dinner, Dr. Serafyn opened the program with a welcome and with introductory information on the UNA, especially those facts that have a bearing on Detroit-area fraternal life. Dr. Serafyn announced that in the first seven months of this year 37 members were enrolled by the district’s branches as follows: Branch 174, 12 members; Members and guests at the Detroit District Committee’s UNA Family Day. Branch 82, seven members; Branches 175 and 183, five members each; Branch held in a beautiful setting amidst perfect 146, three members; Branch 94, two weather, and said being at the event was a members; Branches 292, 303 and 341, once-in-a-lifetime experience. one member each. These 37 new mem- On a lighter note, Irene Pryjma, secre- Newby York Mary Dushnyck District CommitteeNamed to the Auditing Committee bers represent $330,000 in life insurance. tary of Branch 292, provided a delightful summation of the Ukrainian people she were Mr. Spontak (chairman), Taras Dr. Serafyn also spoke of UNA prob- NEW, YORK, N.Y. – Representatives and her husband, Myroslaw, visited with, Schumylowych and Mrs. Zarycky. lems in respect to the sale of the UNA of 12 branches of the UNA New York the beautiful construction of various edi- At this point, the meeting chairman, building, the search for a smaller head- District were welcomed by its chairman, fices in Ukraine, and a host of other Mr. Wynnyk, called upon UNA quarters building, and other lesser issues. Dr. Vasyl Luchkiw, to the annual meeting Much interest was generated in the forth- observations. Mrs. Pryjma also presented President Diachuk for her presentation. held at the Self-Reliance Hall here. Also She began by focusing on organizing coming merger with the Ukrainian a pictorial exhibit. welcomed were UNA President Ulana Fraternal Association. Olha Maruschak rounded out the after- new immigrants from Ukraine, and then Diachuk, Auditor John Wynnyk, and covered the topics of scholarships, Acting as the afternoon toastmaster, Dr. noon with colorful and pleasing satirical Honorary Members of the General Serafyn introduced two featured speakers, stories direct from Kyiv, while Vera Soyuzivka, and new term and other poli- Assembly Walter Sochan and Mary cies. She especially emphasized striving who recently were in Ukraine and suggest- Kryvyj, the new financial secretary of Dushnyck. to strengthen our communities in the ed that each give his reflections of Ukraine. Branch 174, added humoresques from A presidium was chosen consisting of U.S. and bringing in young people. The first speaker, Zenon Wasylkevych, Ivan Franko’s literary works. A traditional Mr. Wynnyk as chairman and Nadia Mrs. Diachuk also spoke of the possi- described his visit with his brother-in-law, “UNA Chorus” followed with a songfest Sawczuk as secretary. ble merger of the UNA with the the newly installed Bishop Lubomyr that lasted late into the afternoon. Dr. Luchkiw reported that new mem- Ukrainian Fraternal Association and the Husar of the Kyiv-Vyshhorod Exarchate Chairman Serafyn concluded the UNA bers can be organized, and he attested to Ukrainian National Aid Association, of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church. Family Day with many thanks to those that by enrolling 11 members in 1995. The UNA publications, the sale of the UNA He described the installation ceremonies who made it such an outstanding success. district gained 67 members, 45 percent of building, etc. its quota, for total insurance of $678,351. Mr. Wynnyk recalled the role of the Dr. Luchkiw’s 11 members were followed UNA in helping the Ukrainian communi- by Zenovia Zarycky’s, six, and Eustachia UNA’ers take to the links in Ohio ty to develop in the U.S. and the need to Milanytch’s and Mary Dushnyck’s five publicize the UNA more, especially each. Marion Klymyshyn and George Yurkiw each had four; Barbara Bachynsky among professionals and young people. had three; Maria Kulczycky, Oksana Mr. Sochan spoke of the UNA’s help Lopatynska, Maria Maslowycz and John given to Ukraine and the need for the Pryhoda had two each. Fourteen UNA’ers community to undertake more of that enrolled one member each. aid. Dr. Luchkiw said 25 scholarships Mrs. Dushnyck noted there were sev- were granted to New York District appli- eral branches in the New York District cants. He also stated that he wrote 50 let- that did not organize a single member in ters to the U.S. government on Ukrainian 1995 and stressed the necessity to matters. change this in 1996. Also, we should The minutes of last year’s meeting endeavor to correct errors about Ukraine were then read by secretary Ms. in the American press, she said. Sawczuk, while treasurer John Choma Mrs. Diachuk answered questions reported on the District Committee’s raised concerning the sale of the UNA finances. Following a discussion on the building, plans for a new one and the reports, Auditing Committee Chairman current real estate situation. Michael Spontak requested a vote of At the conclusion of the meeting, Dr. confidence be given to the outgoing offi- Luchkiw announced a plan of action for cers, which was granted. the coming months and adjourned the Next, the Nominating Committee, con- meeting. sisting of Mr. Choma, Yuriy Kostiw and UNA Branch 161 in Ambridge, Pa., sponsored three golf outings for its members this Mr. Yurkiw, presented its slate of nomi- summer. The first outing was held Saturday, June 22, at Stonecrest Golf Course in nees. Elected were: Dr. Luchkiw, chair- Wampum, Pa. A total of 67 members attended. Seen above at that outing are (from man; Mr. Kostiw and Dr. Dmytro Correction left) Ron, Richard, Robert and Steve Monzi. The second outing was held Saturday, Bodnarchuk, vice-chairmen; Ms. Sawczuk, Due to the fact that there were two Dr. August 10, in Spring Lakes, Ohio, where 37 members were in attendance. The final secretary;and Mr. Choma, treasurer. Baranowskyjs (Stefania and Roman) who outing was scheduled for Saturday, September 29, at Stonecrest. Special thanks goes Committee members elected were: participated in the UNA Seniors confer- out to Ron Monzi, branch president, John Sradomski, auditor, Jim Paliani, trustee, and press — Mrs. Bachynsky (Ukrainian) ence at Soyuzivka, the story published on Eddie Rudakewich, member. The outings are an annual event that have become a tra- and Ms. Dushnyck (English); organizing September 15 created some confusion. It dition for this branch. Other UNA branches, districts or members that would like to be a – Maria Szeparowycz and Olga Liteplo; was Dr. Stefania Baranowskyj who part of future outings are invited. Information may be obtained by contacting Ron program – Ms. Liteplo; members-at- arranged a cruise on the Hudson River Monzi at the UNA Branch 161 lodge, (412) 266-3130. large – Roman Forostyna, Ivan Darnobid and recited a poem about the Chornobyl — Nick Diakiwsky and Mr. Yurkiw. nuclear disaster. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1996 No. 44

RESPONSE TO FORBES THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Forbes’ flippancy CIUS director criticizes article A month after it published the article “Tinderbox,” Forbes magazine responded to the numerous letters it had received regarding Paul Klebnikov’s as biased and anti-Ukrainian report on Ukraine in a note from the editor titled “They protest too much.” Following is the text of a letter to the Ukraine if they ask for his help.” The James M. Michaels noted: “At first there was very little reaction, but a few editor of Forbes magazine written by Dr. slogan of protecting Russian-speakers weeks later our e-mail was jammed with angry letters. From the tone and the Zenon E. Kohut, director of the Canadian in the former Soviet republics is used delay in responding, it was clear that most came from non-Forbes readers. Institute of Ukrainian Studies, in response by Russian hawks as a political tool and Soon we understood why. A Ukrainian nationalist Web site gave our address to the recently published article titled reminds one of Nazi policy towards and urged viewers to flood Forbes with complaints.” “Tinderbox” by Paul Klebnikov. Czecho-Slovakia on the eve of the Forbes responded to that flood of complaints as follows: “Knock it off, folks. World War II. We love to hear from readers and take what they say very seriously. But organized Dear Mr. Michaels: Mr. Klebnikov tends to exaggerate the campaigns by special interests sway us not at all. Down the road in a year or two Paul Klebnikov’s article “Tinderbox” importance of the language issue in con- we will revisit Ukraine, and if our forecast proves wrong, we will admit as much. represents one of the most biased pieces of temporary Ukraine. The vast majority of We make a prediction, we follow up on it. Until then, we stand by ‘Tinderbox.’ ” journalism on Ukraine that I have seen the citizens of Ukraine are bilingual and Frankly, we think Forbes has seriously missed the boat on this one. The mag- published in the West. It harbors anti- can easily switch from one language to azine is protesting about the protest — not responding to the substance of the Ukrainian sentiments, justifies Russian another. There are no sharp political complaints. Its response to comments about the grave inaccuracies in Mr. interference in the internal affairs of divisions along language lines in Klebnikov’s report is, well, flippant. neighboring countries, and even advocates Ukraine, and it is very naive to judge After all, the issue here is not who is writing letters, or even the tone of those let- changes in borders in Eastern Europe. something happening in Ukraine solely ters, but the accuracy of Forbes’ report. And, given that among the many letters the on the basis of the language issue. magazine received were letters from the such solid scholarly institutions as the Mr. Klebnikov boldly asserts that Ukraine is currently “riven between The article states, for example, that Harriman Institute at Columbia University and the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian “Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Studies (the texts of which were published in this paper, respectively, on those who want reunion with Russia Lazarenko blamed the Russian-speaking September 22 and in this issue), Forbes’ comment about “special interest groups,” and those who want to remain indepen- coal miners for a bomb that narrowly “non-Forbes readers,” a “Ukrainian nationalist Web site” and such is way off base. dent.” Where did he obtain this infor- The Harriman Institute’s director, Mark L. von Hagen, and associate direc- mation? It seems to be based on conver- missed him in Kyiv in July.” This is not tor, Alexander J. Motyl, are right: Mr. Klebnikov has done Forbes and its read- sations with two persons, one in Odesa, true in terms both of facts and interpreta- ers “an enormous disservice”; his article on Ukraine surely is an “embarrass- who prefers Russian to Ukrainian TV, tion. First of all, Mr. Lazarenko never ment.” David R. Marples of the University of Alberta is right to question (as he and another in the Donbas, who prefers blamed the miners, but instead those did in his commentary on the media and Ukraine published in The Weekly on to speak Russian and not Ukrainian. Is forces that did not want him to meet with September 29) “why a magazine with such a solid reputation among the inter- this any basis to reach such a conclu- the miners. Secondly, Mr. Lazarenko national business community should indulge in what is manifestly disinforma- sion? himself comes from the predominantly tion.” And the CIUS’s director, Zenon E. Kohut, is right to state that the goal According to the survey cited in the Russian-speaking Dnipropetrovsk region of Mr. Klebnikov’s article “was clearly not to inform,” but to “justify Russian article, 70 percent of Ukraine’s popula- and in no way implied that Russian- interference in Ukraine and to undermine Western confidence in its future.” tion supports the country’s indepen- speakers were presumed disloyal. The Forbes readers and even “non-Forbes readers” (whatever that is) deserve better. dence. There are no anti-independence whole incident has nothing to do with Fallacies are not countered by flippancy. Come on, Forbes, set the record straight blocs in the Ukrainian Parliament. So the Russian- or Ukrainian-language speak- and give us the facts. image of Yugoslavia or Chechnya that ers. Instead, it is widely believed to be Mr. Klebnikov continually brings into the result of the ongoing struggle his article in connection with Ukraine between two east Ukrainian regional has nothing to do with Ukrainian reali- elites — one from Dnipropetrovsk, Nov. ties. Moreover, unlike Yugoslavia or another from Donetsk. Turning the pages back... Russia, Ukraine has managed to obtain The article is full of statements that Turning the pages back... and preserve its independence without betray Mr. Klebnikov’s ignorance on 9 spilling a drop of blood. many issues of Ukrainian history and the The article mentions some of the real current political situation. He states, for 1976 problems in the Ukrainian economy, but example, that Crimea was given to Twenty years ago, on November 9, 1976, a group of 10 the way those problems are presented in Ukraine as a gift by “Soviet Premier” courageous human and national rights activists in Kyiv got the article and the measures proposed by Khrushchev in 1954. Khrushchev was together and formed the Ukrainian Public Group to Promote the author to solve them are very strange, not a premier in 1954. At that time he the Implementation of the Helsinki Accords, or as it came to be known, the Ukrainian to say the least. was locked in a power struggle with his Helsinki Group. They knew from the start that by the very act of organizing into a Indeed Odesa used to be one of the more powerful competitors like group they were putting themselves squarely in the range of fire; they knew they wealthiest cities in Europe at the turn Malenkov and Bulganin and was able to would suffer for their convictions and their bravery. of the century, but its wealth is long accumulate power only in 1956-1957. The very day the group was formed Soviet authorities arranged for a group of gone, not because of Ukrainian inde- That means that he could not make any “hooligans” to throw bricks at the home of the group’s chairman, writer Mykola pendence, but because of decades of gift, especially as precious as Crimea, in Rudenko. While Mr. Rudenko was away in Moscow, where a press conference for Communist misrule and the shift of 1954. Instead, the decision to “give” the foreign journalists was held to announce the formation of the Kyiv group, another trade routes in Eastern and Southern Crimea to Ukraine was made by member, Oksana Meshko, a 71-year-old retired widow and a former political prisoner Europe. The drop in the productivity of Moscow in order to use Ukrainian during the Stalin regime, was injured as a result of the incident. Odesa ports after Ukrainian indepen- resources in the process of post-war The Weekly reported in one of the first news stories about the Ukrainian Helsinki Group dence is very moderate and actually restoration of the Crimean economy, that, in addition to Mr. Rudenko and Ms. Meshko, other founding members were: two represents a success story compared to which had been completely devastated lawyers, Ivan Kandyba and Lev Lukianenko; a former Soviet Army officer, Gen. Petro the decline of the GNP both in Russia by the Nazis. Grigorenko; a microbiologist, Nina Strokata-Karavanska; and a writer, Oles Berdnyk. Later and Ukraine. Mr. Klebnikov also does not know it was learned that among the original members also were Oleksiy Tykhy, a teacher; Mr. Klebnikov sees the solution to that it was the Ukrainian referendum of Mykola Matusevych, a historian;and Myroslav Marynovych, an electrical engineer. many of Ukraine’s problems in its reinte- December 1 that put an end to the exis- Gen. Grigorenko, it must be noted, was a member also of the Moscow Helsinki Group, gration with Russia. He makes Russia tence of the USSR, and Ukrainians did formed just a few months earlier, on May 12. As such, he served as liaison between the two seem like a prosperous country and not a not vote for their independence when the groups. The Moscow Group was helpful in relaying information from fellow rights activists nation in the midst of both political and “Soviet Union was dissolved anyway” in Kyiv to the news media and diplomatic representatives based in the USSR’s capital. economic crisis. Moreover, Belarus is as the article states. There is also no Just days after the Ukrainian Helsinki Group was created, a counterpart group, attempting such a “reintegration” with proof as to the author’s claim that called the Ukrainian American Committee to Monitor Compliance with the Helsinki Russia, and this has brought no relief to money is taken by the state from eastern Accords, was established in Washington by persons who had been involved in the Belarus’ struggling economy. Ukraine to subsidize the more rural movement to defend Soviet political prisoner Valentyn Moroz. The D.C. group Mr. Klebnikov states that Yeltsin’s west. Agricultural production, when it pledged to help disseminate information on rights violations gathered by the government did not exploit Ukraine’s comes to the Russian market today, is as Ukrainian Helsinki Group. economic problems or pro-Russian sen- marketable a commodity as the iron ore The Ukrainian Helsinki Group’s first public document, Declaration No. 1, was timents in eastern Ukraine. This is sim- extracted in eastern Ukraine. released on the day of its founding. It noted: “experience has shown that the imple- ply not true. On a number of occasions One can go on and on listing inconsis- mentation of the Helsinki Accords (especially the humanitarian sections) cannot be Russia used Ukraine’s dependence on tencies, mistakes and examples of politi- guaranteed without the participation of the citizenry of the signatory nations. For this Russian energy to gain political conces- cal bias in Mr. Klebnikov’s article. reason, on November 9, 1976, we formed the Ukranian Public Group to Promote the sions on the issue of the Black Sea Fleet Clearly, its goal was not to inform the Implementation of the Helsinki Accords.” from the Ukrainian government. readers of Forbes magazine about the sit- The group’s goals, as delineated in the declaration, were to acquaint the Ukrainian Moscow’s mayor, Yurii Luzhkov, Boris uation in Ukraine. Rather, it attempts to public with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to promote implementation Yeltsin’s close political ally, has repeat- justify Russian interference in Ukraine of the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (the edly pronounced Sevastopol to be a and to undermine Western confidence in Helsinki Accords), to seek Ukraine’s representation at all international conferences Russian city. The article also states that its future, just as Ukraine has entered dealing with the Helsinki Accords; and, in order to promote the free flow of informa- because Russia is a democracy the onto the path of real economic reform, “Russian president cannot ignore the introduced a new currency and adopted a (Continued on page 14) pleas of the Russian-speakers in new Constitution. No. 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1996 7

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR CCAANNADAADA CCOOURIERURIER the issue revolves around Ukraine’s by Christopher Guly Bandurists’ friends announced sale of modern T-80 Main Battle Tanks (MBT) to Pakistan. (Pakistan respond to letter is presently in a state of disfavor with the Dear Editor: U.S. because of nuclear weapons activities.) Although the congressional action The September 8 edition of The might be a significant accomplishment Ukrainian Weekly contained a tongue- for Ukraine and those who worked hard Canada’s northern Ukrainian in-cheek letter from R. L. Chomiak won- to push the bill through and had it signed It’s fall in Ottawa and the chill of bered that and temporarily forgot about dering why lottery contributions in self- into law, I believe that we must take off imminent snow is in the air. Mr. Ostashek’s government record in addressed envelopes were returned to our “rose-colored” glasses and report the More than 2,000 miles away, above reducing unemployment by 10 percent to senders, and what is going on with the complete story to the readership. British Columbia in the Yukon, it’s seven (two points lower than the national Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus. This letter already snowing. For John Ostashek, the average) and creating the Yukon as is a response from “Friends of the Orest Kaczmarskyj premature snowflakes marked a bad start Canada’s sole political jurisdiction that Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus.” Centreville, Va. to the Yukon’s usually warmer autumn. could claim debt-free status. Due to unforeseen circumstances, our On the last day of September, the 60- “What happened here is what hap- P. O. Box was closed and all mail year-old Ukrainian Canadian’s Yukon pened in Ontario when the NDP were returned to senders. We apologize to all Museum design Party government was defeated at the elected in the early 1990s,” said Mr. contributors and assure you that a situa- polls. Ostashek over the telephone from his tion such as this will not happen again. reflects The Gap The left-of-center New Democratic Whitehorse office. “Nobody expected Those contributors who re-mailed their Dear Editor: Party won 10 of the Yukon’s 17 legisla- the NDP to win, but they did.” contributions to chorus members and tive seats. Pending the outcome of a judi- other individuals will automatically be Is art reflecting Ukrainian life in New cial recount where the Yukon Party and included in next year’s lottery. York City? The museum design has gone NDP candidates were tied with 68 seats The Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus is from Ukrainian Curio (remember the apiece, Mr. Ostashek may become the doing just fine. During the last five brick embroidery in the first proposal) to territory’s opposition leader if he can get years, it executed two monumental tours The Gap. Welcome to the melting pot. that contentious seat and bring his in Ukraine, celebrated its 75th anniver- The decision to drop the first architect party’s tally to four seats over the sary with a series of anniversary con- is commendable, but the process is mov- Liberals’ three. (He held on to his subur- certs, and in October 1995 concluded a ing in the wrong direction. Why can’t ban Whitehorse riding of Porter Creek 10-city tour of western Canada. The cho- The Ukrainian Museum come up with a North.) rus was also awarded the prestigious building design that will ‘“kick ass”? Small comfort for the Alberta-born Taras Shevchenko prize by Ukraine’s Zenko Mazurkevich politician — whose family originated in government. Philadelphia Crimea – who had led the Yukon since After an internal reorganization, the 1992. chorus gave its first concert under the The writer is an architect and planner. An outfitter by trade, Mr. Ostashek artistic leadership of its new conductor, came to the Klondike land of gold min- Oleh Mahlay, in London, Ontario, on the ing almost a quarter-century ago. The occasion of the ODUM convention and New museum looks picturesque Jasper area of Alberta was the 20th anniversary of the Ukrainian getting too crowded for him. So he went estate Ukraina. like office building west and north, and settled in Yukon’s Currently, the bandurists are preparing Dear Editor: capital city of Whitehorse, while main- for a fall 1997 tour of Eastern U. S. and taining a getaway 200 miles west in a Canadian cities. It appears from the plans that the muse- place called Kluane Lake. We, the “Friends of the Ukrainian um is building an office building rather The son of a coal miner, Mr. Ostashek Bandurists Chorus,” wish to express our than a museum reflecting Ukrainian val- mixed his outdoor business interests with most sincere gratitude to Mr. Chomiak ues, culture and aspirations. a passion for politics. In 1977, he and countless other supporters whose Natalie Lucyk became a founding member of the John Ostashek continued moral and financial support Tanawanda, N.Y. Yukon Party. enables the chorus to continue its work. When the territory held its first party- Now, the Yukon has a new leader, the For the record, our new address is: system election the following year, the NDP’s Piers McDonald, and the territo- Friends of the Ukrainian Bandurists federal Progressive Conservatives threw ry’s most visible Ukrainian Canadian is Chorus, P. O. Box 12129, Detroit, MI About bashing some money the Yukon Party’s way. relegated to the opposition ranks in the 48212. With that, the Tories added their name to legislature. Petro Honcharenko and open doors the party and the Yukon Progressive But Mr. Ostashek, who only spoke Detroit Dear Editor: Conservative Party took power until Ukrainian until he was 5 years old, plans to It is difficult for The Ukrainian 1985 when voters switched to the NDP. keep up the fight and remain in his north- The writer is secretary of Friends of Weekly readers in Michigan to under- But, when the federal Conservatives’ ern climbs. “The Yukon is my home,” he the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus. stand why Dr. Myron Kuropas and fortunes diminished during their years in insists. “I always have a place here.” Eugene Iwanciw always write about government under Prime Minister Brian improving working relationships with Mulroney, Mr. Ostashek campaigned to More on earmarks politicians in Washington and then turn revert the party’s name back to its origi- How to reach around to bash and malign the president nal Yukon Party. In 1991, he became its for aid to Ukraine of this country. I have been voting for leader. In 1992, he led the party to its Dear Editor: presidents since Franklin Delano first victory and became government THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Roosevelt and I cannot recall any presi- leader of Yukon. MAIN OFFICE (editorial, subscrip- I read with considerable interest the Unlike those living in the 10 Canadian dent who has done more for the tions and advertising departments): article and the letter to the editor penned Ukrainian community than President Bill provinces, residents of the country’s two by Eugene Iwanciw in the October 6 territories – the Yukon and the The Ukrainian Weekly Clinton. I suggest that our Ukrainian 30 Montgomery Street issue. Although the report is probably bashers do a comparative accomplish- Northwest Territories – sparsely popu- Jersey City, NJ 07302 accurate and credit given by Mr. ments study. From my point of view, late a vast area larger than France. In the Iwanciw is where credit is probably due, both Dr. Kuropas and Mr. Iwanciw are Yukon’s case, 32,000 people over phone: (201) 434-0237 I find that a major caveat within the tied for first-place whiners. 200,000 square miles – or about six peo- fax: (201) 451-5486 appropriation bill language later signed Let me further clue the foregoing gen- ple for every square mile. KYIV PRESS BUREAU: into law by the president was not ade- tlemen to some predictions in the Given such a small electoral base, quately reported on. Michigan races. The Clinton-Gore ticket there is no diffusing political decisions. The Ukrainian Weekly As most of us know, and regardless of will landslide Dole-Kemp. Sen. Carl Part of Mr. Ostashek’s success in the 11 Horodetsky Street — Apt. 33 party affiliation, Congress very rarely ear- Levin will obliterate Ronna Romney, early 1990s was reminding Yukoners Kyiv, Ukraine 252001 marks funds for any reason or cause with- Rep. Sander Levin will pepper John that six of the territory’s mines had shut Ukraine out attaching a string to the appropriation Poppageorge, and Rep. David Bonior down during the NDP’s seven years in phone/fax: (380-44) 229-1906 (which they can pull if the intent is not will knock out hand-picked (by Newt power. met). In this case, the language of the bill Gingrich and Gov. John Engler) Suzy Part of Mr. Ostashek’s failure, per- TORONTO PRESS BUREAU: stipulates that the bets are off if Ukraine Heintz. haps, was in being too strict a fiscal con- Ukrainian National Association provides military support to Libya. There After November 5, Ukrainian servative. Faced with a $64 million The Ukrainian Weekly Press Bureau are now also factions within the opposition Democrats will have an open door. I deficit – larger on a per-capita basis than 1 Eva Road —Suite 402 to this appropriation, who are attempting to don’t know about the bashers. the federal government’s annual deficit – Etobicoke, Ontario M9C 4Z5 interpret/expand the constraints beyond which they inherited from the NDP, the Canada those specified in the law. These constraints Stephen M. Wichar Sr. Yukon Party set to trim some fat. phone: (416) 626-1999 concern Ukraine’s military cooperation Clinton Township, Mich. Employee wages were rolled back by fax: (416) 626-3841 with other countries where U.S. has sus- The writer is state advisor for two percentage points over three years. pended normal relations. In the latter case, Ukrainians for Clinton-Gore in Michigan. On September 30, Yukoners remem- 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1996 No. 44 Lashchyk Memorial Scholarship established at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

DETROIT – The Prof. Eugene 1969. He specialized in the philosophy of actively, assisting in making Lashchyk Memorial Scholarship Fund at science and wrote his dissertation on the changes in the curriculum and the University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy theories of scientific revolutions in the compiling an anthology on critical in Kyiv was established on July 20, the works of Thomas Kuhn and Paul thinking. In December 1994, at first anniversary of his death. The schol- Feyerabend. the invitation of the Soros arship in the sum of $2,000 will be He was the recipient of the Bacon Foundation in Kyiv, he conducted awarded annually to the best Ukrainian Fellowship, the Carnegie Summer Institute the Seminar on Critical Thinking student of philosophy at UKMA. in Philosophy of Science at Notre Dame, for professors of philosophy. In addition to this scholarship, prepa- and an academic visitor at the London In the academic sphere he was a rations are under way to open a School of Economics. He lectured at member of the American library/reading room at the department of Brooklyn College, St. Francis College, the Philosophical Association, the philosophy at the Kyiv-Mohyla University of Delaware and the University American Association for the Academy. This library will house the of Pennsylvania. For three decades he Advancement of Slavic Studies, the collection of Prof. Lashchyk’s books on taught such courses as philosophy of sci- British Society for the Philosophy philosophy and science, which he ence, logic, epistemology, critical thinking of Science, the Ukrainian Academy bequeathed to the university. and ethics at La Salle University. of Arts and Sciences and the Dr. Lashchyk was born in Ukraine in Dr. Lashchyk also worked on Ukrainian Shevchenko Scientific Society. In 1937 and came to the United States in philosophy and published works on the Philadelphia area, Dr. Lashchyk 1949. He attended high school in New Hryhoriy Skovoroda and Volodymyr was one of the active organizers of York City, was active as a youth coun- Vynnychenko. Throughout his life he was the monthly Colloquium of the selor in Plast and in the Ukrainian concerned with the state of Ukrainian phi- Greater Philadelphia Philosophical Students Organization and was a member losophy and cooperated with his col- Consortium (GPPC) of universities of the Dumka Chorus. leagues in Ukraine. and colleges. He completed his B.A. and M.A. at He watched the developments in As a member of the executive City College in New York and his Ph.D. Ukraine’s transition and rejoiced in the committee of the GPPC, he pro- at the University of Pennsylvania in declaration of independence. He worked posed and laid the groundwork of Prof. Eugene Lashchyk the conference on “Nationalism: Its Nature and Development in the Post- creative work, not having the opportunity Saskatchewan college appoints religious studies Soviet Republics and Central Europe.” to complete his numerous plans. Despite Due to his untimely death, the conference his serious illness, he maintained a posi- SASKATOON – St. Thomas More published numerous articles in North was held as a memorial to him and was tive attitude and was optimistic to the College at the University of American and British journals. made possible through the work of Prof. end. This year the department of philoso- Saskatchewan has announced the The Rev. Tataryn is a priest of the Hans Oberdiek of Swarthmore College, phy at La Salle University is planning a appointment of the Rev. Dr. Myroslaw Ukrainian Catholic Church and in addi- the generous support of the GPPC board of special lecture on philosophy of science Tataryn as assistant professor of religious tion to his 15 years of parish ministry governors and Prof. Lashchyk’s friends in his memory. studies, specializing in Eastern was the executive director of the St. and colleagues, particularly Prof. Alex The Prof. Eugene Lashchyk Memorial Christianity. St. Thomas More College is Sophia Religious Association in Canada Marshal and Dr. Bipin Shah. Scholarhip Fund was established from committed to developing an interesting (1988-1996). The participants included such noted donations in memory of Dr. Lashchyk by and comprehensive Eastern Christian He brings not only an academic back- scholars as: George Kline, James Scanlan, family, friends, colleagues and acquain- Studies program and to that end Prof. ground to St. Thomas More but a breadth Murad Akhundov, Veljko Vujacic, tances. (All donations are tax deductible.) Tataryn has joined the faculty. of experience and familiarity with the Andrew Arato, Yevhen Bystrytsky, Anyone wishing to make additional con- Prof. Tataryn comes to St. Thomas Ukrainian community in Canada and Alexander Motyl, William Sullivan, tributions can do so by writing a check More College after completing his doc- Ukraine. Prof. Tataryn will be teaching Andrew Chrucky and Michael Kerlin. for Ukrainian Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, torate at the University of St. Michael’s courses on Eastern Christian thought, Many of the speakers warmly reminisced Dr. Eugene Lashchyk Scholarship Fund, College in Toronto, where he lectured iconography, Ukrainian Church history, about their joint work with their colleague. c/o Liuba Lashchyk, 1101 River Road, sessionally for a number of years. He has and others. Dr. Lashchyk died at the height of his Yardley, PA 19067.

USA/USA helps students obtain scholarships by Bohdan A. Oryshkevich American colleges, had won first place in national CIUS author receives academic competitions in Ukraine: Yuri NEW YORK – In two years, the number of stu- Omelchenko of Kyiv won the Junior Achievement dents from Ukraine who have earned scholarships Award of Ukraine in 1994, and Miss Babych won Edmonton Book Prize directly as a result of USA/USA seminars in Kyiv the high school All-Ukrainian English Language EDMONTON – Frances Swyripa, director of the has more than doubled to 16. To better meet its Olympiad in 1993. In addition, one student, Mr. Ukrainian-Canadian Program at the Canadian Institute of objectives, USA/USA, an organization that matches Andriichenko, managed to obtain partial but very Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, is the co-recipient Ukrainian students with scholarships to attend uni- substantial supplemental funding for his American of the first annual City of Edmonton Book Prize, inaugurat- versities in the United States, has moved to New studies through aid from EPE Kreoma, a Ukrainian ed in 1995 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the found- York City and become a program of the company specializing in environmental protection. ing of Fort Edmonton. Coordinating Committee to Aid Ukraine Inc. The students are excelling in the United States. Dr. Swyripa and Bob Hesketh are the editors of the win- As a result of its fourth annual seminar, held in They have earned internships with Merrill Lynch, ning entry, “Edmonton: The Life of a City” (NeWest Press), 1995, six students from Ukraine have won com- the Business Council for International a collection of over 30 articles, poems and photographs plete aid packages enabling them to enter six lead- Understanding, Deutsche Bank and Microsoft. highlighting people and events from Edmonton’s fur trade ing American liberal arts colleges. These include: This program has been made possible through past to professional hockey in the present. Pavlo Kharitonov of Kyiv, who will study comput- generous seed money given by the Ukrainian In addition to situating Edmonton within the larger pic- er sciences at Lake Forest College; Katerina National Association in 1993 and 1994, and by a ture of Canadian and prairie urban development, the book Shishova of Kerch, biology at Mt. Holyoke large contribution made in 1994 by Dr. George and also recognizes the deep roots and continuing significance of College; Yuliya Khomska of Lviv, international Oksana Melnykovych of Overland Park, Kansas. the city’s cultural diversity. Jars Balan’s piece on Ukrainian relations at Colby College; Yaroslava Babych of Most recently, Self Reliance Federal Credit Union of theatrical activity in early Edmonton – a meticulous record Kirovohrad, comparative literature at Franklin and New York City has provided financial assistance. of the plays staged and their sponsors – complements arti- Marshall College; Andrij Poshtaruk of Lutsk, Many USA/USA students have benefited from cles on the Metis, French, Chinese and more recent immi- astronomy at Brown University; and Olexii travel grants provided by the Soros Foundation. grant groups from south Asia. Approximately 15 percent of Andriichenko of Zaporizhzhia, Grinnell College. The organization has benefited from office space These six scholarships add up to over $600,000, Edmonton residents can claim Ukrainian ancestry. provided by the University of the Kyiv Mohyla Drs. Swyripa and Hesketh were among those bringing USA/USA’s four year scholarship total to Academy. Special thanks also goes to Marian Kots $1.3 million. This has come at a total cost to the Edmontonians honored at the city’s 45th annual Salute to of Hunter, N.Y., for providing moral support and Excellence, held at the Timms Centre on the university Ukrainian American community of about $20,000. funds for an intern in 1993. campus on June 20. Sixteen USA/USA students have now earned full USA/USA’s work is continuing. USA/USA is seek- grants: three to Mt. Holyoke, two to Smith, two to ing better ways to serve the students already here in the Grinnell, and one each to Yale, Brown, Middlebury, United States and to fund a coordinator position to do Lafayette, Colby, Laboratory Institute of the day-to-day work of administering and expanding Merchandising, Lake Forest, Franklin and Marshall, the program. Such a position should result in further and Southwest State University in Minnesota. Two- increases in the amount of scholarships won every year SENDTo THEorder an WEEKLY air mail subscription TO UKRAINE to thirds of these students are women. A majority are and expansion into other activities such as internships The Ukrainian Weekly for addressees majoring in economics. They represent most social for USA/USA and other students from Ukraine. strata and all major geographic regions of Ukraine, USA/USA’s new address is P.O. 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Mr. Susak said he was often criticized for having too TORONTO — Viktor Susak, academic director of narrow a focus, that only the story of displaced persons the “Living History” laboratory at Lviv University’s would be highlighted, and that there would be too much Institute for Historical Research (IHR), is now back repetition. But this turned out not to be the case at all. home, sifting through the hours, indeed days, of taped “The expectation was that most situations would be interviews he gathered over the course of October 1995 repeated — join Plast or SUM, send your kids to to June of this year in an oral history project. school, become professionals, and so on,” Mr. Susak In eight months, Mr. Susak conducted 50 interviews said. “In fact, while the selection was made with a cer- with members of 12 extended families as project manager tain type of family in mind, the variety of experience of an effort known as “Ukrainian Canadian Families in the reported justifies this step.” 20th Century: Continuity and Discontinuity, Social Trajectories and Inter-Generational Relationships.” An activist background Having met in Toronto, this writer visited Mr. Susak in Mr. Susak’s own path to Canada is fascinating in Lviv in late August, as Mr. Susak struggled with the huge itself. In the spring of 1989, Mr. Susak became one of quantity of material he has assembled in order to turn it the co-founders of the Lviv branch of Memorial, the into a work of scholarship. A modest and generous-mind- organization dedicated to the remembrance of the ed scholar, Mr. Susak said he hopes the interviews he Soviet regime’s victims and the regime’s crimes, while conducted will both set a precedent and prove to be a a student at the Institute of Social Studies of the gold mine for sociologists and historians like him. Ukrainian SSR’s Academy of Sciences (now the With a barely audible high-pitched voice and mild Institute of Ukrainian Studies, whose director is Dr. manner, Mr. Susak seems an unlikely figure to revolu- Yaroslav Isaievych). tionize any field, but his work represents a shift from He traveled throughout the country, but concentrated the overly broad, collectivist perspective mandated by on western Ukraine, gathering eyewitness testimonies the Soviet regime, to the exclusion of everything else. about the seemingly endless morass of Stalinist, Viktor Susak “In the Soviet Union and in Ukraine, to this day the Khrushchevite and Brezhnevite atrocities. accent has always been on society, on the generality, Asked about his work in the field as a Memorial mass graves from NKVD (Soviet Internal Police).” and the individual always had to be considered as a researcher, Mr. Susak recalled, “Initially, I was over- Having done considerable work in gathering oral his- smaller element in a greater mechanism — a participant whelmed with rage and emotion. Then I worked like a den- tories of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in the or a witness of events,” Mr. Susak said. tist locating a decayed tooth, extracting information. ‘Aha, catacombs, from the fall of 1993, Mr. Susak served as “We were taught to go from the global to the individ- right, they murdered your sister, very good, that’s good deputy director of the Institute of Church History at the ual, and only then to observe how the nuts and bolts information, very useful,’ and I began distancing myself.” Lviv Theological Academy, under Dr. Borys Gudziak behaved in the greater mechanism,” added the scholar. He added, “But then, the lifelong experiences of people from the fall of 1993 to early 1995. “You’ll still get arguments from most of the academ- struck me as just as interesting, if not more, than simply After serving as an administrative advisor to Prof. ic hierarchy in Ukraine over focusing on individual their testimonies about specific horrendous acts. That’s Hrytsak in the formation of the IHR at Lviv University, experience, and in that sense, perhaps I’m already much when I started to reflect more on what we were doing, and Mr. Susak joined its full-time staff as a research associ- more Western in my approach.” what methods should be used. I started reading Prof. ate and academic director of its “Living History” lab. Mr. Susak definitely has Western connections. Thomson’s and Dr. Perks’ books, then writing to them. In September 1994, Mr. Susak was the principal organizer of an international conference on “Methods His present project is a joint effort of Mr. Susak’s “Thus it was that I arrived at my conviction that the and Methodology in Oral History and Life Story in institution and the Toronto-based Multicultural History life history, biography, life story, life path, of concrete Social Research” at Lviv University. Society of Ontario (MHSO), whose director is Prof. people must be at the center of research.” Among those Mr. Susak managed to attract to the Paul Magocsi, also the holder of the Chair of Ukrainian “But it was difficult to take that step — to move from a conference, was Prof. Daniel Bertaux, a noted French Studies at the University of Toronto. It was funded in general conception of history, of a Ukrainian movement scholar (author of the study “Biography and Society,” a part through a grant making the Lviv-based researcher or society, that one built a model of from the pieces of landmark textbook of sociological research) who found- the MHSO’s 1995-1996 Harry Gairey Visiting Scholar people’s testimonies — to put that aside and instead con- ed the method of “social genealogy,” and is now anoth- to the Multicultural History Society of Ontario. centrate on the life paths of people,” he explained. Toronto’s Ukrainian Canadian Research and er mentor to the Lviv researcher. Documentation Center (UCRDC) also has been an impor- The activist meets a Western scholar In May 1995, Mr. Susak was in England at the invita- tion of Dr. Perks, at the University of Bristol, to partici- tant player in the effort. In fact, it all began three years ago In August 1991, Mr. Susak received a letter from the when Mr. Susak met the UCRDC’s Dr. Iroida Wynnyckyj, pate in a conference on religious affairs “Talking about Moscow branch of Memorial saying that Dr. Perks, the Belief: An Oral History of Religion” a researcher also closely affiliated with the MHSO. secretary of the British Oral History Association, would As Mr. Susak tells it, Dr. Wynnyckyj was working After a few months to finalize particulars of the be arriving to see the impact of the momentous political “Ukrainian Canadian Families” project, the Lviv-based with Lviv University’s faculties of philology and history, changes for himself. delivering lectures on the methodology of interviews. researcher arrived in Toronto in October 1995 and met “Dr. Perks was looking to tour Ukraine,” Mr. Susak his supervisor at the MHSO, Dr. Gabe Scardelatto, who During one of Dr. Wynnyckyj’s visits to the IHR, they recalled, “and it so happened that I was collecting testi- met through Dr. Yaroslav Hrytsak, the institute’s director, is head of the society’s research programs. monies about the repressions suffered under the regime, Mr. Susak also worked closely with Prof. Wsewolod and began discussions about the present project. and so I served as his interpreter and guide. We witnessed The project’s concepts and focus exhumation of Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) graves, (Continued on page 18) Mr. Susak said he subscribes to the classical British school of oral history, and his mentors are Dr. Rob Perks, curator of the Life Stories Collection at the British Library’s National Sound Archive in London, Community jobs change with leaves in Ottawa autumn and Dr. Paul Thomson, whose book “The Voice of the by Christopher Guly teach a second-semester course on the Old Testament Past” is considered the bible of family studies. at the Lviv Theological Academy. In accordance with the family studies method, Mr. OTTAWA – Leaves adopting their autumn colors Ordained to the priesthood in 1988 by retired Lviv Susak said, it is desirable for people to talk about their life aren’t the only things changing in Ottawa’s Ukrainian Archbishop Volodymyr Sterniuk, the Rev. Onuferko experiences and the experiences of other members of the Canadian community. Some major institutions have recently worked with a Belgium-based Catholic radio family. People are encouraged to talk about their grandpar- new faces. and TV network that produces the Ukrainian pro- ents, their ancestors, their roots, what happened to them. Less than two months after the Ukrainian Canadian gram, Radio Resurrection. In this fashion, an interview contains the essential Congress dumped the director of its Information Bureau, Eventually, he hopes to teach courses related to elements of “I, my family, my society.” Andrij Hluchowecky, over budgetary considerations, it Scripture and the Eastern Catholic Church. Also an object of study is the formation of popular has now lost Mr. Hluchowecky’s successor. Meanwhile, the Sheptytsky Institute’s second myths about historical events. Thus, respondents’ veracity Faced with a 30 percent salary cut, Lydia Migus, semester will welcome a new lecturer in the area of isn’t the issue, it’s what they say. Mr. Susak quoted Dr. found a better-paying administrative position with the canonical traditions of the Eastern Church. Perks — “Memories are mixtures of facts and opinions.” Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute for Eastern The Rev. David Motiuk, a Ukrainian Catholic Mr. Susak said that most oral history collections have Christian Studies at the University of Ottawa. priest from the Edmonton Eparchy, will balance his a central conception: the focus on life experience; how There, she will be working with a team of six, teaching duties with those as the new director of the their paths in life were shaped by events, by what has including the Rev. Peter Galadza, who teaches East- Holy Spirit Ukrainian Catholic Seminary in Ottawa. come to be known as “history.” West ecumenism at the institute. The Rev. Galadza’s The Rev. Motiuk succeeds ex-Winnipegger, the Rev. “Such interviews are a very rich, complex source that wife, Olenka Hanushevska-Galadza, meanwhile, is Andrew Wach. can be used by a wide variety of scholars — linguists, pinch-hitting at the UCC Ottawa office on a part-time The Sheptytsky Institute already has four lecturers, sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, historians,” basis. including the Rev. Galadza; the Rev. Andriy the IHR “Living History” lab director said. But Ms. Migus is not the only new face at the Chirovsky, the institute’s director, who teaches a For the “Ukrainian Canadian Families in the 20th cen- Sheptytsky Institute. The Rev. Andrew Onuferko graduate course in patristics (the study of the writing tury” project, subjects were chosen primarily from clans recently came on board as their new information and and background of the Church fathers) – both of that emigrated during or soon after the second world war, publications officer. whom are full time professors – along with sessional the so-called “DP’s” (displaced persons). Mr. Susak said Born in Philadelphia, the 41-year-old married lecturers Prof. Mary Morocco, who also teaches the project title’s reference to the entire 20th century is Ukrainian Catholic priest with three children will be patristics; and Prof. Lucian Turcescu, who lectures in justified because although D.P. families were selected, shuttling between Ottawa and Lviv, where he will ecclesiology or theological church doctrine. many of them had relatives who had come to North 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1996 No. 44 BOOK REVIEW: New book for children tells of internment

by Lubomyr Luciuk the mighty Atlantic, tears in their eyes as they leave their country. We watch as KINGSTON — For an author, having they cross Canada’s steppes and build one’s work appreciated is always a plea- themselves a one-room, sod-roofed house sure. More satisfying is the feeling a in the wilderness. Then comes the hard writer gets upon discovering that an work of clearing the bush and planting even-more creative person has built upon their first small crop of wheat. Anna one’s labors, crafting a tale meriting – pushes and Ivan pulls their plow. But indeed already receiving – national when they shed tears, now they cry out praise. So it was with relish that I delved of pride, not sorrow. into Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch’s first These are good people, we learn, gen- children’s book, “Silver Threads.” For erous with what little they have, sharing there’s a thread that binds her to me. To their meager supplies even with a small, Kingston. To work that I have done here black spider, a creature we saw before in and to people I have met over the past their Bukovynian village. It joined them decade as I studied an episode of in their migration to these new lands, Canadian history that, in a way, began nestling down in their home, there to spin right here in our city, at Fort Henry. its threads of silver. It was not at all hard for me to become Then comes the war: the first world enthralled, immediately, with “Silver war, the “great war for civilization.” Ivan Threads.” The same will be true for just insists that he will fight for his adopted about anyone. Striking, full-color graph- homeland – “Canada is my country when mankind celebrates the birth of state-sanctioned repression. ics by renowned illustrator Michael now!” Like hundreds of other Ukrainian new hope and liberation from evil, Some went mad. Others died of Martchenko transport readers – child and Canadians he tries to enlist. He is not Christmas. injuries, exposure and disease. Some adult alike – through the trying yet ulti- welcomed. Instead, wrists shackled, Ivan Eight years ago Ms. Skrypuch opened killed themselves. All suffered what an mately triumphant story of a young is dragged away, one of thousands of The Globe and Mail and read “And who editorialist in The Daily British Whig Ukrainian immigrant couple’s first years “enemy aliens” soon to become a slave says time heals all?” – an article in (today’s Whig-Standard) described as a in Canada. laborer in a Canadian concentration which I described the indignities done to “national humiliation.” He sensed that Effortlessly, one enters the world of camp, Anna weeps in fear and anguish. thousands of Ukrainians and other East “the ‘alleged’ foreigners and hitherto Anna and Ivan, prairie sod-busters, the Ivan’s tears are of humiliation and Europeans imprisoned during Canada’s ‘naturalized’ Canadians” who probably salt of the earth, strangers within our betrayal. first national internment operations. bear their reproach meekly but claimed gates, who have come to this New World Will he ever return? Anna does not They had done nothing wrong. They that “they will have sown in their hearts searching for freedom and free land, know. But she heeds her husband’s final were not disloyal. Their only fault was the seeds of a bitterness that can never be escaping the tyranny of the Austro- plea and returns home to protect their that they had emigrated from lands then extirpated.” Presciently he added, “the Hungarian Empire’s domination of their land against all the odds. Keeping her under Austro-Hungarian occupation. man whose honor has been mistrusted” Old World homeland. We see them cross company during a long and lonely vigil Mislabeled as “Austrians,” these men, will remember it and, sooner or later, “it is the spider, its silvery web sparkling in women and children – some Canadian- will have to be atoned for.” Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk is the author of the light, a few bread crumbs always born, others naturalized British subjects Ms. Skrypuch’s grandfather was one several books on Canada’s Ukrainians spread before it, even as Anna goes hun- – lost their freedom, had valuables and of those men. When she discovered that, and a professor of political geography at gry. Ultimately, happily, Anna’s pluck, properties confiscated (some of that she began striving to recover his tale. the Royal Military College of Canada in and her magical spider, prevail over wealth has never been returned), were She began to write. That is how and why Kingston, Ontario. injustice – and do so on the very day disenfranchised, censured and exposed to we have “Silver Threads” today. Another woman read her newspaper that day eight years ago and remembered what was done to her. Mary Manko Haskett, Montreal-born, was 8 years old CD-ROM helps kids learn Ukrainian alphabet when they came and took her and her by Nestor Gula bordering the illustration one can visit any letter of the parents and locked them up in the Spirit Ukrainian alphabet. Lake camp, near today’s Amos, Quebec. TORONTO — There’s a whole new way of learning and The child, or adult, can also explore the alphabet through Her younger sister, Nellie, perished teaching children the Ukrainian alphabet. images that are fragments of each letter’s accompanying there. Mary contacted me. No one else This often arduous task, – against objections like “Why do illustration. In a different section the whole alphabet is sung. had ever believed her story. Even her I have to do this, Mom?” – is made easy and fun by a newly Although aimed at young children, “Kozatska Abetka” can own children had doubted their mother’s released interactive CD-ROM titled “Kozatska Abetka.” teach, and entertain, an adult as well. This writer had fun tale about being interned in Canada. This CD-ROM, for the cruising (surfing is for the Why, they asked, was there nothing Windows platform, is a talking Internet) through the CD-ROM, about that in any of their history books? ABC book that presents a fun- even chuckling at the comical And where was Spirit Lake anyway? It filled introduction to the illustrations and rhymes. no longer appears in any Canadian atlas. Ukrainian language. “Kozatska “Kozatska Abetka” was pro- My article changed her children’s minds. Abetka” has a simple interface duced by SvitCOM Inc., a Now they know. And Mary’s grandchil- that provides an enjoyable plat- Toronto-based software company dren will know, too. Thanks to Ms. form for children who are start- that specializes in multilingual Skrypuch. ing to learn the Ukrainian lan- applications. In business since Someone else also was paying atten- guage. “Kozatska Abetka” is 1992 it has released tion. In September 1991, Peter Milliken, designed for children between “MultiTYPE!” and “MultiTYPE! our local member of Parliament, peti- the ages of 2 and 6. Using all PRO,” an application to facilitate tioned for an official acknowledgment of the tricks multimedia offers, it the creation of multilingual this injustice, asked that Parks Canada means to entertain the child as (Cyrillic+) documents in place historical plaques at all 24 intern- well as educate. As a Ukrainian Windows 3.1, “Akademia Set” ment camp sites, and called upon the multimedia educational tool, for the Slavic academic commu- government of Canada to negotiate Kozatska Abetka is the first of nity that uses IBM-compatible redress with the Ukrainian Canadian its kind on the market. computers and MS Windows 3.1 community. His motion was passed, Using “Kozatska Abetka” is environment and “CY Font unanimously, in the House of Commons. very straightforward. Each let- Series,” a collection of 12 decora- In October 1993, Jean Chrétien even ter has a separate screen with a tive English/Cyrillic fonts. promised that the Ukrainian Canadian humorous rhyme, a zany illus- SvitCOM’s president, community’s requests would receive tration and a snippet of Adrian Lepki, said that “ favorable consideration, after – the Ukrainian folk music. A letter ‘Kozatska Abetka’s’ interface Liberals were elected, of course. is selected, the appropriate music sounds out and the rhyme was designed specifically so children could navigate the vari- Like the internment operations, those is read, in well-enunciated Ukrainian. From there one can ous elements of the CD-ROM by themselves.” To ensure this commitments are now history (that is, hear individual words of the rhyme, hear individual sentences he had several children involved in the design process itself. forgotten). This government, like the one read, hear the letter pronounced or listen to the poem or According to Mr. Lepki the design process took a great deal before it, has not kept its promises. The music again. All you do is use the mouse to point and click of time to strike the right balance between simplicity and trilingual historical plaques and statues on whatever you feel like reviewing. challenge. “We did not want ‘Kozatska Abetka’ to look like a placed at some internment camp sites Getting from letter to letter is a snap (or a click). From child designed it. But we did not want it to be so complicated have been put up largely at the expense anywhere in the CD-ROM you can explore the alphabet that a child would become frustrated with it and not learn,” of the Ukrainian Canadian community alphabetically, of course (forwards or backwards), or in a and its friends. The first were consecrat- random pattern as one wishes. Simply clicking on the letters (Continued on page 16) (Continued on page 16) No. 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1996 11 Once upon a time in Kyiv, there was a poet looking for a happy ending by Marta Kolomayets KYIV — Once upon a time, not too long ago, there was a young Hutsul named Ivan who encountered a fair Ukrainian maiden named Yaryna. She, a musician, enchanted him with her violin; he, a poet, inspired her with his sonnets. Together, they made beautiful music. They fell in love, got married and had a son, Tarasyk. But unfortunately, they lived in a drab, gray land called the Soviet Union, where big bad Communists ruled and the only form of entertainment for little Ukrainians was rhymes about socialist tractors plowing for peace and the super- heroic escapades of young Vladimir Illich Lenin. Ivan wanted to expose his curious son to the beautiful stories he remembered from his childhood in the Carpathian Mountains — Ukrainian tales about Ivasyk Telesyk and Koza Dereza — as well as world classics such as Snow White. When he could not find any color- fully illustrated books about cats and roosters, and little boys with their puppies, and little girls decorating Christmas trees, and children anxiously awaiting St. Nicholas, Ivan decided to take matters into his own hands. As luck would have it, by this time the big bad giant on Ukraine’s doorstep had retreated back north after Ukraine declared its independence in 1991. And Ivan breathed a little easier, hoping to create a magical world “Zolotyi Pavuchok” (The Golden Spider) , a Christmas story by Ivan Malkovych, illustrated by Kateryna Shtanko. for his son and his son’s friends through Ukrainian-lan- guage books, richly illustrated by his circle of friends, he often gets letters from Russian-language Ukrainians, “I want this publishing house to be essential for all young, aspiring artists. who tell him how their children will go to sleep with his kids, age 2 to 102,” he added, using the slogan of his This is no fairy tale, but the true story of a determined newest book, or how they will beg their parents to read publishing house. A-BA-BA-HA-LA-MA-HA is father wanting to make life better not only for his son, but a Ukrainian folktale. already recognized in Ukraine as a top publishing com- all children growing up in independent Ukraine, as well as “A-BA-BA-HA-LA-MA-HA’s credo is such: If chil- pany, having been awarded first place honors at the all Ukrainian children throughout the world. dren’s books from around the world are placed side by Forum of Ukrainian Publishers in 1995. In the early 1990s, Mr. Malkovych began developing a side in a bookstore, a child should first pick up the Although times are tough in the publishing world, children’s magazine called Soniashnyk (Sunflower) to Ukrainian-language book because of its eye-catching Mr. Malkovych will not compromise his high standards. serve as a teaching aid for children who were growing up cover, its colorful illustrations and high quality,” added He continues to engage the most popular artists to illus- in post-Soviet society. But, he soon realized that his son Mr. Malkovych, who often uses his 7-year-old son trate his books, he uses only the finest glossy Finnish and children of his generation would need much more Taras as a creative consultant in his projects. paper for his oversized books, and he has struck a deal than a magazine to discover the whimsical world of danc- Although Taras has already outgrown his father’s with a high-quality Slovak printing company to print the ing bears and singing billy goats and talking frogs. He projects (Mr. Malkovych noted that his son, a voracious eight new releases. [Although he is disappointed that he understood that they would need a library of “golden reader, now ponders over tomes of the encyclopedia), cannot use a Ukrainian factory to print his new titles, he books” to instill in them the values that Communism and the Malkovych clan recently welcomed a new addition cannot afford to lose money on the venture. More than the Soviet state had destroyed, such as the meaning of to the family, Hordiy, who was born in November 1995. $10,000 worth of “Favorite Poems” were stolen from Christmas and the importance of a national identity. So, Mr. Malkovych has once again been inspired to the Ukrainian factory where the books were printed in So, Mr. Malkovych, 35, the poet and parent, became create new books. He is ready to release eight more 1994.] He is planning to have books ready for distribu- a publisher and started the first private Ukrainian-lan- books, including a new edition of the alphabet book, in tion in the early spring of 1997. guage-only children’s book publishing house in inde- durable, heavy cardboard, complete with a CD for chil- A-BA-BA-HA-LA-MA-HA is not only a business for pendent Ukraine. And, he called it A-BA-BA-HA-LA- dren to sing along with, as well as such classic stories as Mr. Malkovych; it is a commitment, a way of life. He is MA-HA, taking the name from the adventures of Hryts, “Rukavychka”(The Mitten), the Brothers Grimm story one of those people in Ukraine today who is working to a mischievous schoolboy in Ivan Franko’s classic story, of “The Wolf and the Seven Kids,” “Snow White and make life better for his children and their generation — the “Hrytseva Shkilna Nauka,” (Greg’s School Studies). the Seven Dwarfs,” and “Zolotyi Pavuchok” (The future of Ukraine. He also wants his books to serve as a Mr. Malkovych began creating books: A-BA-BA- Golden Spider) , a Ukrainian Christmas story written by bridge between the children in Ukraine and the children in HA-LA-MA-HA now boasts 15 titles with a total press Mr. Malkovych. both the Eastern and Western diaspora. run of 375,000 books, starting with the Ukrainian alpha- The projected costs for this ambitious endeavor are “If I can accomplish this, then my story will have a bet primer released in 1992. close to $200,000 and Mr. Malkovych hopes to collect happy ending,” he said. These include “Kotyk i Pivnyk” (The Cat and the half of that amount in Ukraine and half among sponsors Rooster) — a famous Ukrainian folktale about a crafty fox in the diaspora. Mr. Malkovych continues to look for sponsors both in who steals a rooster and then is saved by his friend, the “I hope the name A-BA-BA-HA-LA-MA-HA becomes Ukraine and in the diaspora for his books. For more clever cat. Two years ago, Mr. Malkovych sold Alfred A. the first word every Ukrainian child will read and recog- information about the project or to send donations to A- Knopf Publishers the world rights to this book, which nize,” said Mr. Malkovych in a recent interview. It is BA-BA-HA-LA-MA-HA, please write to: Ivan came out in English last year. It has also been published in already one of the first entries in the guide to world publish- Malkovych, c/o Christine Fedynsky, 364 Elmwood Road French, by Calligram, a publishing house in Switzerland. ers, he adds, half-jokingly, as he shows off the guide book. Rocky River, Ohio 44116; or call (216) 356-2584. Another popular children’s book released over the last few years includes a collection of “Favorite Poems,” featuring classic Ukrainian rhymes as well as German, British and French children’s poetry in transla- tion. A companion to this book is a cassette tape, which features songs and stories from the book. While Mr. Malkovych hopes to introduce world classics children’s literature to Ukrainian kids, as he has in the “Favorite Poems,” he also hopes to acquaint the world with such classic Ukrainian stories as “Ivasyk- Telesyk,” “Koza Dereza” and “Pan Kotsky.” All three are ready for publication, but he currently lacks funds to print these modern-day masterpieces, richly illustrated by leading Ukrainian artists Kost Lavro, Oleh Petrenko and Oleksander Koshel. His commitment, first and foremost, is to Ukrainian children throughout the world. As a matter of fact, he was recently approached by a large Russian publishing house which wanted to buy the rights to several of his books, a deal that would have given Mr. Malkovych the funds to publish a few of his new projects. Mr. Malkovych refused the deal, explaining that if he succumbed to pressure now, his publishing business would be doomed to failure. “When you walk the streets of Kyiv, you see the wide variety of Russian-language books for children. Once in a great while, you’ll see a Ukrainian children’s book in the kiosks, but it’s usually dull and drab. This is not the envi- ronment I want my children to grow up in,” he said. “Koza Dereza” (The Bully Goat), a Ukrainian folktale, “Pan Kotsky” (Mister Catz), a Ukrainian folktale He is doing something to change that environment; illustrated by Oleh Petrenko. illustrated by Kost Lavro. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1996 No. 44

ister of advanced education, who used his dent; Maj. Roman Golash of Schaumburg, Canadian Institute... position in the Cabinet to push through the Ukrainian-American... Ill., vice-president; Lt. Cmdr. Charles (Continued from page 1) initial $350,000 in funding that provided (Continued from page 3) Dobra of Roselle, Ill., secretary; Lt. Col. Alberta’s director of research, Dr. Ron the nascent scholarly body with a financial Ukrainian American Veterans. Walter Chyterbok of Schaumburg, Ill., Kratowil. The senior academic administra- base. Dr. Hohol received a four-minute At the conclusion of the conference, the treasurer; Lt. Col. Kondratiuk of Lorton, tor said the “energy, ability and enthusi- standing ovation when identified by Gene attendees voted to organize the Ukrainian- Va., historian. asm of those working in the institute is Zwozdesky, an Alberta provincial legisla- American Military Association for the Membership is open to all military remarkable.” tive assembly member who acted as mas- purpose of promoting the national security personnel, active and reserve, who are of Dr. Kohut compared the institute to a ter of ceremonies. interests of the U.S. and to foster U.S.- Ukrainian descent. human 20-year-old, “who has gone Dr. Kohut graciously thanked the Ukrainian military cooperation. Information concerning membership through teething, basic learning and Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian The UAMA will be an affiliated organi- in the Ukrainian-American Military growth, the problems of teenage years Studies and the many donors who “made zation of the Ukrainian-American Veterans. Association is available by writing to history” in making the CIUS’s work pos- and is poised to enter adulthood, but still The newly elected officers are Lt. Col. UAMA, P.O. Box 852, Lorton, VA sible. He added that they also made it needs a lot of help from parents, gener- Oryshkevych of Silver Spring, Md., presi- 22199; or by calling (703) 681-0717. possible to weather the cuts sustained ous relatives and trustworthy friends.” when the Alberta government’s austerity The former Woodrow Wilson scholar program resulted in a full one-third echoed sentiments voiced by Ambassador reduction in CIUS’s operating budget. Furkalo, in noting that the CIUS was He listed the institute’s major accom- formed “to preserve its historical and cultur- plishments, including the five-volume al values under attack from three sources: 1) English-language Encyclopedia of Ukraine a totalitarian Soviet regime bent on sup- (“the largest scholarly project undertaken pressing Ukrainian culture; 2) an indifferent by Ukrainians in the diaspora”), the estab- and sometimes hostile political and intellec- lishment of a number of programs in tual establishment in the West; 3) strong Ukrainian studies at the University of assimilatory pressures among second and Alberta, the development and publishing third generation Ukrainian Canadians.” of the Nova Ukrainian language develop- Dr. Kohut said preservation of ment series for bilingual (English- Ukrainian identity was pursued in the Ukrainian) schools, the launching of a pro- belief that it was a benefit to Canada, and ject to translate Mykhailo Hrushevsky’s an outgrowth of the Canadian experience. monumental 10-volume “Istoria Ukrainy- He traced the history of the CIUS’s Rusy” (The History of Ukraine-Rus’), and founding in 1976, thanks to the tirelessness the publication of more than 100 books of Dr. Manoly Lupul, then a professor of and 58 research reports. history of education at the University of Dr. Kohut said Ukraine’s newly Alberta and president of the national achieved independence both lifted a great Ukrainian Professional and Business burden off the CIUS scholars shoulders, Federation; the stature of a trio of scholars and brought many new opportunities and — the late Dr. Ivan Lysiak Rudnytsky, a responsibilities. Through an office in Kyiv, University of Alberta history professor; it began to republish works of Ukrainian Prof. George S.N. Luckyj of University of scholarship, produce Ukrainian translations Toronto’s department of Slavic languages of Western English-language studies, award and literatures; and Dr. Bohdan Bociurkiw, grants to Ukrainian scholars and assist insti- Lt. Col. Walter Chyterbok (left) with Lt. Comdr. Charles Dobra. professor of political science at Carleton tutions in Ukraine to establish strong pro- University in Ottawa — and the political grams in Ukrainian studies and education, papal bull proclaiming the union (which clout of Peter Savaryn, a prominent lawyer and set up major cooperative ventures with was issued a full 10 months prior to the with high standing among the province’s leading Western academic institutions, “in Shevchenko Scientific... (Continued from page 3) sobor in Brest, in December 1595), Progressive Conservatives and the position order to spark a re-evaluation of Ukraine’s dropped the various preconditions agreed of chancellor at the University of Alberta. role in Western scholarship.” University in Rome and the University of Ottawa, provided a nuts-and-bolts view of upon from the text. In addition, the text The CIUS director also mentioned the To top off the banquet, the assembled read that “permission” to use Church instrumental support shown for the insti- the agreement entered into by the “Kyivan citizenry sang a rousing “Mnohaya Lita” Slavonic and adhere to the Eastern Rite tute by Dr. Albert Hohol, the former min- to the institute. Church” and the Holy See. This aspect of the canonical treaty was of was granted, while the original had stipu- particular importance for Prof. Monchak, lated a “guarantee of rights” to do so. who stressed that it was “an agreement, not Prof. Alexander Baran, a historian a declaration of submission.” The Montreal- from the University of Manitoba, then based Church historian likened the Union of provided a factual account of the sobor in Brest to the Treaty of Pereiaslav, signed by Uzhhorod of 1646, which he described as Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky and repre- a Transcarpathian outgrowth of the sentatives of Tsar Aleksei of Muscovy in Union of Brest. Prof. Baran also provid- 1654, which the latter used to subvert the ed a brief historical sketch of the autonomy of his weaker partner. Mukachiv Eparchy’s tumultuous history. Prof. Monchak explained that the pre- The Rev. Hryhoriy Kutash, a lecturer at conditions assuring the Ukrainian Church St. Andrew’s College in Winnipeg, pro- of its rights and autonomy (referred to as vided an Orthodox 20th century perspec- “the Articles”) were never formally dis- tive on the issue. Compared to the other avowed or abrogated by the Vatican, but presentations, however his address was that over the years the Curia applied more of a sermon on the desirability of pressure to individual bishops to back unity and a plea for mutual tolerance and down from their adherence to their rite understanding than a substantive examina- and independence. tion of the issues facing the Ukrainian Specifically, Prof. Monchak said the Orthodox and Catholic Churches today.

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34, and he did.” doesn’t matter when you get drafted,” Ukrainian pro hockey update The Whalers are not certain whether said Wasylko, the 104th player chosen. they will play Wasyluk at wing or defense. “It’s what you do from now on.” by Ihor Stelmach Manager Rutherford loves the flexibility “I’m real happy with our draft list,” that gives the Hartford organization, par- Rutherford readily admitted afterwards. ticularly at the point on the power play. “We had hoped picking at 34 that some- The 1996 NHL Entry Draft Whalers reel in Wasyluk Hartford scout Ken Schinkel said one we had listed in the first round Wasyluk’s more natural position is left would drop. We had Wasyluk rated at wing. 10th over all. I’m not saying that’s right, Led by the Stanley Cup Champion The Hartford Whalers are of the opinion “I’m very excited, it’s a dream come but certainly based on our list, it appears Colorado Avalanche’s drafting of they got a first-round calibre pick in the true,” said Wasyluk, whose first cousin is that we got a good player there. In the Ukrainian defenseman Peter Ratchuk second round of the 1996 NHL entry draft. Avalanche Ukrainian defenseman Curtis fourth round we got Wasylko from the with their 25th selection of the first “He’s a guy we had rated 10th on our Leschyshyn (good genes, strong blood- Detroit Junior Whalers. We know this round, preliminary research reveals at list,” Whalers general manager Jim lines). “They chose me because they want guy real well. We think he was a real least 10 known Ukes were chosen in this Rutherford said after Hartford selected me to be part of their team and their fran- bonus player in that round. It was good. year’s National Hockey League entry Medicine Hat Ukrainian leftwing/defense- chise, so I’m very happy with that.” It turned out well, based on our plan. The draft. The positional breakdown reveals man Trevor Wasyluk 34th over all at the Wasyluk is 6-foot-1 and 187 pounds. same as all drafts, we’ll find out in about four defensemen, two goaltenders, a pair Kiel Center in St. Louis. Some scouts feel the shuffling between four years,” Rutherford said. of centers and one each at the wings. The Whalers were excited and totally positions has hindered his development. A Ratchuk offensive on defense Seven of the 10 were drafted out of the delighted to have nabbed Wasyluk, the lack of aggressiveness has also been some- junior hockey ranks in the Western most valuable player of the Canadian what of a concern. The Whalers are confi- Peter Ratchuk lists Paul Coffey as his Hockey League, two from the Ontario Hockey League’s prospects game last win- dent they can develop this young Uke into favorite NHL player and has always junior league and Ratchuk was drafted by ter at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. a super pro prospect down the immediate admired former Boston Bruins legend Colorado straight out of high school. “He’s a player that has great poten- road. (See mini-profile of Wasyluk below.) Bobby Orr. The Colorado Avalanche Below is a listing of the 10 drafted tial,” Rutherford said. “Consistency is Whale watch: One of Hartford’s two thinks he compares quite favorably to Ukrainians complete with their final sta- something he has to work on, but he’s fourth-round selections was still another Sandis Ozolinsh. Any guesses as to what tistics for their completed 1995-1996 sea- got a good upside. lt was one of those Ukrainian, Detroit Whalers’ (OHL) cen- playing style best characterizes the 1996 son, in order of entry draft selection. guys we hoped would drop through to ter Steve Wasylko. “We’re getting told it No. 1 draft pick of the Avalanche? Yes, this 18-year-old Ukrainian is def- initely considered an offensive defense- A look at 1996 Ukrainian NHL draft picks man. He isn’t quite at the level of the afore-mentioned players, but Colorado is Draft No. Team Player Position 1995-96 team League HT WT GP G A PTS PIM confident he will someday play at the 25 COL Peter Ratchuk D Shattuck (USHS) 6-0 175 35 22 28 50 24 NHL level. 34 HFD Trevor Wasyluk LW Medicine Hat (WHL) 6-1 187 69 25 21 46 59 “We’ve seen him for two years now and he’s a very strong offensive defense- 77 PITT Boris Protsenko RW Calgary (WHL) 6-0 180 71 46 29 75 68 man, and we think he’ll turn out to be a 82 FLA Joey Tetarenko D Portland (WHL) 6-1 205 71 4 11 15 190 very solid NHL defenseman,” said 95 STL Jonathan Zukiwsky C Red Deer (WHL) 6-2 185 72 20 28 48 38 Avalanche chief scout Dave Draper. 104 HFD Steve Wasylko C Detroit (OHL) 6-1 173 65 18 30 48 33 Ratchuk, from Buffalo, scored 22 goals and 50 points in 35 games St. 210 CHI Chris Twerdun D Moose Jaw (WHL) 6-0 200 72 5 16 21 93 Mary’s Prep School in Shattuck, Minn., 218 NYI Mike Muzechka D Calgary (WHL) 6-2 200 69 1 8 9 81 last season. He was pleasantly surprised with his 25th overall selection. Draft No. Team Player Position 1995-96 team League HT WT GP MINS GA AVG “I didn’t think I’d go as high as I did,” 107 COL Randy Petruk GT Kamloops (WHL) 5-9 178 52 3071 181 3.54 said Ratchuk, who will play at Bowling 135 DET M. Podolka GT Sault Ste. Mar. (OHL) 5-11 146 44 2391 149 3.74 (Continued on page 15)

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(Continued from page 6) tion and ideas, to seek accreditation in Ukraine of foreign news media representatives and work toward formation of independent news agencies in Ukraine. Its primary objective was “informing the signatory nations and the world community about viola- tions in Ukraine of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the humanitarian principles accepted by the Helsinki Conference.” The Soviet authorities’ retribution for their activity was swift and sure. After a series of searches in December 1976 at the homes of group members, the first arrests came in early February 1977. However, as the original members of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group were arrested, new members joined. Ultimately the Ukrainian Helsinki Group grew to encompass 37 members — all of whom suffered at the hands of Soviet authorities. And yet they persevered for — as they made clear in Memorandum No. 1 — “The struggle for human rights will not cease until these rights become the everyday standard in social life.” Source: The Ukrainian Weekly, November 21, November 28, December 5, 1976; November 9, 1986.

spend two years in Mundare learning Basilian fathers... about the monastic lifestyle, and another (Continued from page 4) six years studying philosophy and theol- Raday, Alberta, has been based in Mundare ogy in Rome. The Rev. Chimy’s provincial council since 1982. His priestly career included will include his predecessor, the Rev. two years’ service serving with former Dziadyk, the Rev. Malowany, the Rev. Canadian provincial superior, the Rev. Larry Huculak – his successor in Mundare Vladimir Shewchuk, as associate pastor of – and the Rev. Eugene Richlark, the order’s St. Nicholas Church in Winnipeg from new secretary and bursar, who will also 1965 to 1967. serve as associate pastor of St. Nicholas That is where the Rev. Chimy will Church. return this fall when he will be faced The Rev. Chimy is Canada’s 10th with trying to add to his religious provincial superior. province’s 42 members. In addition to the Rev. Dziadyk, the “It’s been tough to attract new candi- other surviving former provincial superior dates,” he said. “Some write with interest is the Rev. Vital Pidskalny, who was in knowing more about the order, but they recently named superior of St. Basil’s never follow up. But, we’re not the only Monastery in Edmonton. Like the Chimys, community faced with dropping member- the Pidskalny family has two members ship. Even the Latin rite is faced with the among Basilian ranks in Canada. In fact, same problem. Across the board, there’s a the Rev. Pidskalny’s nephew. The Rev. lot of frustration.” Joseph Pidskalny, is pastor of St. Nick’s At the moment, Basilian novices Church in Winnipeg. No. 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1996 15

Canadian foreign... Commenting on the state of economic development in Ukraine, the Canadian (Continued from page 1) foreign minister said, “Today the glass is LOW COST banking and financial systems this quick- not half empty but half full.” ly,” said Mr. Udovenko. Mr. Axworthy also held talks on the INTERNATIONAL CALLING Bosnia crisis, NATO expansion and the At the same time he admitted that Black Sea Fleet issue. He met with Prime CYBERLINK, a full-service telecommunications provider, bureaucratic snafus and red-tape entan- Minister Pavlo Lazarenko, Chairman of the glements that still exist must be resolved. Verkhovna Rada Oleksander Moroz, gives you cost-effective high-quality services. Mr. Axworthy said he had talked with Chairman of the National Security Council President Leonid Kuchma about how to Volodymyr Horbulin, Vice Prime Minister Other carriers provide their services over inferior microwave “move aside the continued barriers to busi- Ivan Kuras, Minister of the Environment or satellite networks, while CYBERLINK uses the most ness investment and to do it constitutional- Yurii Kostenko and Justice Minister Serhii technologically advanced transmission medium in the industry: ly. That topic was specifically discussed.” Holovaty. DIGITAL FIBER OPTlCS. Church was selected because of his close Husar comments... personal relationship with the ailing arch- (Continued from page 1) bishop, who had asked the Synod of CALL THE WORLD AND SAVE ment. The major archbishop, who is 82 Bishops to appoint an individual or a group with whom he could work and continue to years old, has kept a low profile for the last Cost per minute Cost per minute three years and lately has been ill. be effective. Bishop Husar said the synod ruled out a combined temporary leadership. Bishop Husar’s appointment absolutely “To divide these responsibilities among UKRAINE $0.73 U.K. $0.27 does not provide for the right of succession. several individuals, as was attempted earli- RUSSIA $0.79 AUSTRALIA $0.32 “When His Beatitude dies, and with God’s er, could have led to misunderstandings POLAND $0.61 GERMANY $0.42 blessing that will not soon happen, all my and tension,” he explained. authority dies with him,” he explained, Bishop Husar was appointed on April BELARUS $0.85 CANADA $0.22 underscoring that he has not assumed the 2 as bishop of the newly created Kyiv- position of a co-adjutor. “I am simply an Vyshhorod Exarchate, a position he will For rates to other countries, please call. assistant with extraordinary powers.” now vacate. “I will be returning to Lviv He said his powers give him “practical because I need to be near His Beatitude.” No monthly minimum administrative control” and that Cardinal He said he would appoint the new bishop Flat rate charges - 24 hours a day - 7 days a week Lubachivsky retains his status as head of of Kyiv-Vyshhorod after consultation No need to switch your long distance carrier the Church. “His Beatitude delegates to with the major-archbishop. me, but I am not some new canonical “You know, I just recently brought the International Call Back creation,” explained Bishop Husar. last load of my belongings from Lviv to Calling Cards The new administrative leader of the Kyiv. Some of it is still in boxes. Now I Inbound 800 Service

Hometown: Clavet, Saskatchewan Pro hockey... Medicine Hat’s Trevor Wasyluk has yet Call now and start saving (Continued from page 14) to score a goal in 10 career playoff games, Green University this coming season. but his sense of timing isn’t all bad. 1 - 800 - 466 - 4678 Ext. UTE “But it was an unbelievable feeling when The big winger was named MVP of UTE is a master agent of CYBERLINK I was.” (See mini-profile of Ratchuk the Canadian Hockey League’s prospects below.) game before a bevy of NHL scouts and Avalanche Rumblings: With their GM’s. fourth-round selection in the draft, “He has a ton of talent, and it hasn’t ATTENTION Colorado pulled a Hartford and selected all surfaced yet,” said one scout who ALL MEMBERS OF BRANCH 390 a second Ukrainian in goaltender Randy labeled Wasyluk an underachiever. “He Petruk from Kamloops of the WHL. The has great speed. He’s a raw talent. If he Please be advised that Branch 390 had merged with Branch 254 as of November 1, 1996. Hockey News had Petruk rated as the develops, he could turn into a special 51st top amateur in its pre-draft guide. It player.” All inquries, monthly payments and requests for changes should be sent to is thought he slipped down so far Consistency has proven to be a prob- Mr. Basil Romanyshyn, Branch Secretary: because of his diminutive stature. lem, raising the spectre of lack of moti- Mini-Profile: Peter Ratchuk vation. “Some nights he just doesn’t 1995-1996: Shattuck-St. Mary’s show up,” a scout said. “He has all the Mr. Basil Romanyshyn Position:D, Shoots: L tools, but doesn’t put them together.” 117 Fairway Drive HT: 6-0, WT: 175 Wasyluk was a key member of the New Britain, CT 06053 Born: September 10, 1977 Saskatchewan team that won the under- Hometown: Buffalo, N.Y. 17 world title. (860) 229-7843 This U.S. high school defenseman will Mini-profile: Randy Petruk play under coach Buddy Powers at 1995-1996: Kamloops Bowling Green next season, and scouts Position: Goalie, Catch: R like that idea. HT: 5-9, WT: 178 Bowling Green has a history of devel- Born: April 23, 1978 oping good NHL defensemen, including Hometown: Cranbrook, British Columbia Rob Blake, Garry Galley and Dave Ellett Randy Petruk has been fighting battles among others, and Powers was an assis- on two fronts. One of them he’ll never tant coach with the Falcons during those win. At 5-foot-9, the Kamloops Blazers’ players’ times there. stopper is on the small side for goalies. If Ratchuk certainly gives the Falcons that precludes him from consideration by something to work with. some NHL clubs – and it does – there’s “He’s a fast, highly skilled defense- nothing he can do to change that. man who is still physically immature,” a scout said. The other battle, though, is winnable: “He’s a tremendously competitive kid, the fight to play well. and there is reason to believe he will be “He really had an off-year this season an impact player as a college freshman.” (1995-1996) after a really strong rookie He is, however, a 19-year-old, and that year,” one scout said. “His stock fell.” diminishes some luster. Ratchuk graduat- Petruk is a quick, reflex goalie who ed from Shattuck, a private school loves to challenge the shooters and make coached by former NHLer Mike Eaves. the acrobatic save. A number of scouts Ratchuk, a Buffalo native, originally wondered how well that would play in attended Lawrence Academy, but then the pro game, but he has his supporters. jumped to Rochester of the United States “I can’t believe a kid with his track League, only to finally end up at Shattuck. record suddenly can’t play the game,” the scout said. Mini-profile: Trevor Wasyluk 1995-1996: Medicine Hat (Quotes courtesy of Whalers’ beat Position: LW, Shoots: L writer Phil Sweetland and Avalanche HT: 6-1, WT: 187, beat writer Adrian Dater. Profile quotes Born: May 4, 1978 from the Hockey News draft preview.) 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1996 No. 44

New book... For generations, (Continued from page 10) ed on August 4, 1994, here in Kingston, Canadian schoolchild- at Fort Henry, Canada’s first permanent internment camp. Other markers stand in ren have been taught Kapuskasing, at Castle Mountain and Cave and Basin in Banff, in Jasper an incomplete history of National Park and soon, we hope, in Winnipeg, Brandon, Vernon, Spirit Lake their country. An essen- and perhaps elsewhere. When Ottawa was asked for a modest tial chapter is missing grant to pay for a commemorative plaque at Spirit Lake, the minister responsible in school texts: the for the Status of Women and Multiculturalism, Sheila Finestone, pre- chapter that documents varicated. Even though the last two known survivors of these internment operations, both ethnic women, both the unjust persecution Montreal-born, were needlessly incarcer- ated at Spirit Lake, a minister presum- and internment of ably charged with advancing women’s rights and promoting a better understand- Ukrainian Canadians ing of our national heritage was not at all interested in Mary Haskett and Stefania during World War I. Mielniczuk, or their story. Not that the current minister, Dr. Hedy Fry, is any better. It seems Ukrainian Canadian women can’t be victims of racism and “Daddy, why were those men so bad to state repression. people like us?” I had to tell her honestly As for Dr. Fry’s boss, minister of that I still don’t really know. But if Canadian Heritage Sheila Copps has “Silver Threads” gets the read that it never even bothered to take a few min- deserves, by Canadians of many differ- utes to meet with the Hamilton-based ent creeds and colors, many will recom- Mrs. Haskett. Doing something more mit themselves to ensuring that the glamorous, like spending the taxpayers’ calamities which crippled Ukrainian millions handing out Canadian flags to Canadian society so long ago are never promote national unity, is far more suffered by any other Canadian ethnic, appealing. Remembering what some religious or racial minority. Canadians were forced to pay to become That achievement is thanks to women Canadians is troubling, inconvenient, of creative talent like Marsha Forchuk unhappy. Skrypuch and to women of grit, like Now in a seniors’ home, Mrs. Haskett Mary Manko Haskett and Stefania may never get her chance to speak Mielniczuk. Their spirit should shame directly to those who have so adroitly if those politicians whose lip service pro- ignobly ignored her cry for justice. She nouncements on multiculturalism pale knows that. But she is not cowed by their before the true-lie brutalities that befell Lesya Muraszczuk, D.D.S. antics. In 1994 she wrote that, even if these Canadian pioneers. those who ignore her message manage to Thankfully, Marsha’s grandfather sur- is pleased to announce outlive her, they will not outlast the tes- vived and quietly told his tale. He plant- tament she has left about what was done ed a seed in the heart and soul of a remarkable new Canadian author, ensur- THE OPENING OF HER DENTAL PRACTICE to the Manko family. Her children now know the truth. They are becoming “sec- ing that someday “Silver Threads” would ond-generation survivors” of the germinate. I am proud that something I AT Canadian concentration camps. And their did helped fertilize this growth. For this children’s children will know. We’ve put is a book that every Canadian grade school library should own. It tells a tale 110 DEHAVEN DRIVE, L16 her testimony on the World Wide Web. It can’t be erased. And, as the govern- which all of us, and our children, and our ment has learned, the campaign for grandchildren should hear, about a dis- YONKERS, NEW YORK 10703 acknowledgment and restitution won’t graceful chapter in our nation’s history be ignored. that we should never forget. For it must Although I am sad that men like never happen again. Mykola Sakaliuk, who was interned in “Silver Threads” (1996, Penguin (914) 963-4820 Fort Henry, later in Petawawa and Canada, ISBN 0-670-86677-6) is in Kapuskasing, and who was the first stock in bookstores across Canada. It Office hours by appointment internee I met, did not live to hold may be ordered from any book dealer in “Silver Threads” in his own hands, at North America. A limited Ukrainian-lan- least Mrs. Haskett and Mrs. Mielniczuk guage edition (ISBN 1-895380-88-X) have. We made sure of that. And, at the may be purchased directly from the same time, we sent this book to the Ukrainian Language Education Center, forked-tongue politicians whose cunning University of Alberta, Edmonton, TO ALL UNA MEMBERS: indifference, ignorance and prejudices Alberta, T6G 2E8. Kindly be reminded that your dues (premiums) for insurance coverage are have now been laid low by a children’s book. How appropriate – defeated by payable on the first day of the month, and not at the end, as some assume. wisdom from the mouths of babes. By paying promptly to your Branch Secretary, you will help him/her remit “Silver Threads” is, first and fore- CD-ROM helps... (Continued from page 10) the monthly collection to the Home Office in a timely fashion. most, a children’s book. Anyone can read it and take inspiration from its mes- said Mr. Lepki. HOME OFFICE OF UNA. sage of hope, perseverance and faith. But “Kozatska Abetka” went through it is much more than just entertainment, many test versions before the final copy a fable. It embodies memory. Its prose was released at the beginning of and its illustrations intentionally remind. September, 1996. Aside from children TRANSLATION SERVICE I am quite certain that it will be read consulting on the design of this CD- English to Ukrainian, Ukrainian to English nationwide, and will take a rightfully ROM, Mr. Lepki used the services of All types of legal and commercial documents important place on the bookshelves of Ukrainian educators and linguists to get Special service: adoption from Ukraine. List of required documents, translation, families and in libraries across the land. everything right. assistance in contacting International Adoption Centre in Kyiv. 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ADULTS ADD TOTALS Dues And Annuity Premiums From Members Returned 103.00 Mr. Susak had high praise for Prof. TOTAL AS OF JULY 1996 16,470 38,728 4,862 60,060 Endowments Matured 68,187.00 Isajiw, saying that the Toronto-based GAINS IN AUGUST 1996 Indigent Benefits Disbursed 550.00 academic had a unique ability to view Total new members 26 185 0 211 Interest On Death Benefits 51.81 New members UL 4 2 0 6 interviews from the specific perspective Payor Death Benefits 45.73 Reinstated 44 81 1 126 of the Ukrainian experience and in terms Transfered in 8 20 1 29 Scholarships 59,600.00 of the broader Canadian context. 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Cash surrender 40 47 0 87 Reward To Branch Presidents And Treasurers 15.00 “He’s a true sociologist,” Mr. Susak Endowment matured 13 25 0 38 Reward To Organizers 1,612.57 Fully paid-up 9 36 0 45 said, “he’s very tolerant of any phenome- Reduced paid-up 0 0 0 0 Reward To Special Organizers 24,526.96 non society might present, even the most Certificate terminated 0 2 7 9 Traveling Expenses-Special Organizers 8,224.71 drastic, and tries to provide a dispassion- TOTAL LOSSES 97 235 24 356 $ 41,800.73 ate assessment of it.” INACTIVE MEMBERSHIP Total $ 455,466.39 GAINS IN AUGUST 1996 Both Dr. Wynnyckyj and Prof. Isajiw Payroll, Insurance And Taxes: introduced Mr. Susak to the UCRDC’s Paid-up 9 36 0 45 Employee Benefit Plan $ 11,852.83 Extended insurance 7 35 0 42 large collection of audio and video tapes Salaries Of Executive Officers 17,740.09 TOTAL GAINS 16 71 0 87 Salaries Of Office Employees 81,787.24 of testimonies about World War II, the LOSSES IN AUGUST 1996 Taxes-Federal, State And City On Employee Wages 101,437.34 famine of 1932-1933, plus the general Died 1 36 0 37 Total $ 212,817.50 diasporan experience throughout Europe, Cash surrender 35 31 0 66 North American and Oceania. Reinstated 2 7 0 9 General Expenses: AIP 40 122 0 162 Actuarial And Statistical Expenses $ 1,022.00 “In terms of Ukraine, this is the richest TOTAL LOSSES 78 196 0 274 Bank Charges 4,563.39 collection relating events to individual TOTAL UNA MEMBERSHIP Bank Charges For Custodian Account 859.37 lives,” Mr. Susak said. In his estimation, it AS OF AUGUST 1996 16,398 38,660 4,840 59,898 Books And Periodicals 60.00 is comparable to those held by the British MARTHA LYSKO General Office Maintenance 1,884.29 Library in London, the Yad Vashem Secretary Insurance Department Fees 153.50 Collection in Israel and the Holocaust Legal Expenses-General 4,391.42 Museum’s collection in Washington. Operating Expense of Canadian Office 175.00 FINANCIAL DEPARTMENT Postage 3,771.10 Parallels and differences Printing and Stationery 1,908.15 INCOME FOR AUGUST 1996 Rental Of Equipment And Services 9,550.56 One of the project’s sidelines was Dues From Members $ 352,534.16 Telephone, Telegraph 4,303.23 work with Dr. Nadia Luciw, at the Annuity Premiums From Members 61,842.34 Traveling Expenses-General 433.00 Institute for Teacher Development in Income From "Svoboda" Operation 123,323.95 Total $ 33,075.01 Toronto, with whom he discussed teach- Investment Income: Miscellaneous: ing children the rudiments of genealogy. Banks $ 236.57 Donation From Fund For The Rebirth Of Ukraine $ 5,202.12 In one project Dr. Luciw described to Bonds 344,593.23 Donations 9,024.25 Mr. Susak, pupils were asked to match Certificate Loans 236.86 Exchange Account-UNURC 514,037.99 their family’s histories with a chronolog- Mortgage Loans 32,792.03 Fraternal Activities 150.00 Real Estate 236,834.17 ical grid of major political events to pro- Professional Fees 6,400.00 Short Term Investments 18,313.80 duce an instant study of the impact of Rent 3,585.96 Stocks 8,521.37 such events on their families. Transfer Account 597,562.50 $ 641,528.03 Total $ 1,135,962.82 This teaches pupils and students at all Total $ 1,179,228.48 levels to understand people, to learn how Investments: Refunds: their personalities are shaped, and to Certificate Loans $ 6,031.82 learn which events shape their lives. Employee Hospitalization Plan Premiums $ 1,124.97 E.D.P. Equipment 6,754.23 General Office Maintenance 0.73 Mortgages 135,000.00 Mr. Susak commented that children in Investment Expense 100.00 Real Estate 1,025.72 Canada are taught to communicate their Official Publication "Svoboda" 50,000.00 Short Term Investments 5,539,129.89 views, form groups and associations. “In Rent 225.72 Stock 5,627.07 Ukraine, we face a very different situa- Reward To Branch Presidents And Treasurers 2.50 Total $ 5,693,568.73 tion — in school, we are taught and Taxes Federal, State & City On Employee Wages 90,341.61 Telephone 41.98 Disbursements For August, 1996 $ 7,921,003.08 shaped by people who are, generally Total $ 141,837.51 speaking, very poor communicators. They can be very wise and knowledge- Miscellaneous: BALANCE Donations To Fund For The Rebirth Of Ukraine $ 4,041.04 able, but that’s often not enough.” Exchange Account-UNURC 514,037.99 ASSETS LIABILITIES “There is also a much greater inter- Transfer Account 556,799.34 Cash $ 983,220.82 Life Insurance $ 72,989,997.79 generational rift,” the IHR scholar said, Transactions Within UNA 9,654.25 Short Term adding that this rift is reflected in the Total 1,084,532.62 Investments 4,987,439.21 $ society at large: public opinion is rarely Bonds 43,555,470.71 Investments: consulted in order to arrive at policy. Mortgage Loans 7,382,023.36 Bonds Matured Or Sold $ 29,613.61 Mr. Susak said he hopes the project Certificate Loan 682,169.31 Certificate Loans Repaid 5,643.56 Real Estate 3,139,555.95 Accidental D.D. 2,215,726.01 will be part of a process whereby the Mortgages Repaid 23,196.96 Printing Plant & E.D.P. severed limb of consciousness, of experi- Short Term Investments Sold 5,498,568.92 Equipment 563,801.70 Fraternal 0.00 ence, that Ukrainian émigrés represent is Total $ 5,557,023.05 Stocks 1,528,603.61 Orphans 442,100.30 reattached to the body of experience that Income For August, 1996 $ 7,962,621.66 Loan to D.H.-U.N.A Housing Corp. 104,551.04 Old Age Home 0.00 lives and has lived in Ukraine. Loan To U.N.U.R.C. 12,774,728.89 Emergency 53,740.50 For Mr. Susak, an interesting parallel DISBURSEMENTS FOR AUGUST 1996 Total $ 75,701,564.60 $ 75,701,564.60 between Ukraine and Canada was that both the displaced persons’ generation of Paid To Or For Members: ALEXANDER BLAHITKA Annuity Benefits And Partial Withdrawals $ 6,028.96 Treasurer immigrants and those who remained in Cash Surrenders 190,654.82 Ukraine faced fundamental problems in Death Benefits 62,921.00 integrating with society. Dividend Accumulations 1,970.31 date of The Weekly edition in which the information is to be published. Society was regarded as the enemy, Dues And Annuity Premiums From Members Returned 103.00 • All materials must be typed and double-spaced. and the family was the fortress against ToEndowments The Matured Weekly Contributors:68,187.00 • Newspaper and magazine clippings must be accompanied by the name of the the enemy. 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One of the prin- given event. • Persons who submit any materials must provide a phone number where they cipal questions facing researchers, and our Operating Expenses: • Information about upcoming events must be received one week before the may be reached during the work day if any additional information is required. Real Estate $ 249,877.80 society, our polity as a whole, is: ‘How can Svoboda Operation 163,787.86 we get people to communicate?’ ” Organizing Expenses: Advertising $ 2,102.91 Commissions And Overrides On Universal Life 4,518.58 Medical Inspections 800.00 Reward To Branch Presidents And Treasurers 15.00 Reward To Organizers 1,612.57 Reward To Special Organizers 24,526.96 Traveling Expenses-Special Organizers 8,224.71 $ 41,800.73 Total $ 455,466.39 Payroll, Insurance And Taxes: Employee Benefit Plan $ 11,852.83 Salaries Of Executive Officers 17,740.09 Salaries Of Office Employees 81,787.24 Taxes-Federal, State And City On Employee Wages 101,437.34 Total $ 212,817.50 General Expenses: Actuarial And Statistical Expenses $ 1,022.00 Bank Charges 4,563.39 Bank Charges For Custodian Account 859.37 Books And Periodicals 60.00 General Office Maintenance 1,884.29 Insurance Department Fees 153.50 Legal Expenses-General 4,391.42 Operating Expense of Canadian Office 175.00 Postage 3,771.10 Printing and Stationery 1,908.15 Rental Of Equipment And Services 9,550.56 Telephone, Telegraph 4,303.23 Traveling Expenses-General 433.00 Total $ 33,075.01 Miscellaneous: Donation From Fund For The Rebirth Of Ukraine $ 5,202.12 Donations 9,024.25 Exchange Account-UNURC 514,037.99 Fraternal Activities 150.00 Professional Fees 6,400.00 Rent 3,585.96 Transfer Account 597,562.50 Total $ 1,135,962.82 Investments: Certificate Loans $ 6,031.82 E.D.P. Equipment 6,754.23 Mortgages 135,000.00 Real Estate 1,025.72 Short Term Investments 5,539,129.89 Stock 5,627.07 Total $ 5,693,568.73 Disbursements For August, 1996 $ 7,921,003.08 No. 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1996 19

Newark school welcomes new princi- by Terenia Rakoczy cussed at the orientation. An Open House is scheduled for Sunday, November 17, at NEWARK, N.J. – St. John the Baptist 11 a.m. in the church hall (back room). Ukrainian Catholic School in Newark, Parents can learn about the St. John’s Pre- N.J., welcomed Sister Chrysostom School program and the kindergarten cur- Lukiw as its new principal. Sister riculum for the 1997-1998 school year. The Chrysostom conferred with the presi- Rev. Frank Szadiak, pastor of St. John’s dents of the Mothers’ and Fathers’ Clubs, Church, Sister Chrysostom, as well as the Zenia Lesko and Myron Martynetz, to pre-school’s director, Olenka-Makarushka prepare the school calendar and plan Kolodij, and representatives of the upcoming programs for the students. Mothers’ and Fathers’ Clubs will be avail- Parents had an opportunity to meet the able to answer questions. new principal and the rest of the faculty A St. Nicholas program is planned for * and learn more about the school curricu- Saturday, December 7, at 3 p.m. in the UNA “YOUTH” PLAN lum at the Parent-Teacher Orientation on school gym. The annual children’s September 20. Christmas Concert will take place on Upcoming fall events also were dis- Sunday, December 15, at 1 p.m. in church. 10 years old

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Tuesday, November 5 information call (908) 826-8721. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard Monday-Wednesday, November 11-13 Ukrainian Research Institute is holding a SCOTTSDALE, Arizona: Pianist lecture by Oksana Zabuzhko, author and Volodymyr Vynnytsky will appear with senior research scholar at the National the Scottsdale Symphony Orchestra, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, who will Irving Fleming, music director, in the the speak on “Being a Woman Writer in a Post- first concert of the season. He will be Colonial Culture: The Case of Ukraine.” playing Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in E The talk will be held at the institute, 1583 Flat Major. The concert program includes Massachusetts Ave., at 4-6 p.m. works by C.P.E. Bach, Symphony No. 3 in Wednesday, November 6 F Major and Symphonia in D Major, and the late Ukrainian composer Hryhoriy NEWARK, N.J.: The Ukrainian Club of Tsytaliuk, “Songs from My Country” Rutgers University, Newark Campus, is (U.S. premiere), Mark Pearlman, conduc- holding a lecture by Prof. Vitalij Keis, tor. The November 11 concert will be held professor of English at Rutgers University, at Desert Mountain, 12575 E. Via Linda; who will speak on “Ukrainian Education the concerts on November 12 and 13 will in the Donbas Region,” to be held at 2:30 be held at the Scottsdale Center for the p.m. in Conklin Hall, Room 324 (third Arts. Performance time: 8 p.m. For infor- Field & Olesnycky floor, History Seminar Room), 175 mation and to purchase tickets call (602) Attorneys at Law University Ave. (corner of Bleeker Street). 945-8071. Saturday, November 9 11 Eagle Rock Ave., Suite 100 Thursday, November 14 PASSAIC, N.J.: East Hanover, N.J. 07936 The Ukrainian American MORRISTOWN, N.J.: Renowned violist Youth Association (SUM-A), Passaic (201) 386-1115 and conductor Yuri Bashmet and the Branch, is holding its annual fall dance- Moscow Soloists will be joined by acclaimed Fax (201) 884-1188 zabava, featuring the dynamic Burlaky pianist Alexander Slobodyanik and trumpet (Three Miles North of Ramada Hotel, at Ridgedale Ave.) orchestra of Montreal. The dance will be soloist Vladimir Kafelnikov in concert as part held at the Ukrainian Center, 240 Hope of the Third Morris International Festival of Representation of Small Businesses, Ave., starting at 9 p.m. Tickets are $12, in the Arts, saluting Jerusalem 3000, at the advance, and may be purchased by calling Wills, Estates and Asset Protection, Commercial and Corporate Law, Community Theater. The three featured per- the center, (201) 473-3379, or Mr. Harhaj, formers are all originally from Ukraine. The Real Estate and Family Law. 772-3344; $15, at the door. concert program includes works by Brahms, COATSVILLE, PA.: Holy Ghost Schoenberg, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich. (By prior appointment, on selected Fridays, between the hours of 5:00 P.M. and 7 P.M., Mr. Olesnycky Ukrainian Orthodox Church, 399 Charles The concert will be hosted by Robert will hold office hours at Self-Reliance Ukrainian Federal Credit Union, 558 Summit Ave., Jersey City, NJ. St., is holding its annual fall bazaar, 10 Sherman, musicologist and well-known radio a.m.-2 p.m. There will be craft tables and a commentator from New York. The theatre is Please call (201) 386-1115 to make such appointments in advence) variety of Ukrainian food and baked located at 100 South St. Performance time: 8 goods. For more information call Irene p.m. Tickets may be ordered by calling (201) Nestor L. Olesnycky Robert S. Field Pashesnik, (610) 384-7285. 993-1331, or purchased at the Community Theatre Box Office and through Sunday, November 10 Ticketmaster. The festival series, founded by NEWARK, N.J.: The Rosary Altar Mr. Slobodyanik in 1993, is presented by Society of St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Nova Artists Inc., Laryssa Krupa, executive PHTHALMIC URGICAL SSOCIATES P C Catholic Church, Sanford Avenue, is hold- director. O S A , . . ing a Chinese Auction in the school gym- Friday, November 22 D. Benedetto, M.D. M. Lopatynsky, M.D. nasium, starting at 1 p.m. There will be door prizes and refreshments will be ST. GEORGE, Utah: The Leontovych served. Donation: $5. String Quartet — Yuri Mazurkevich, first violin; Yuri Kharenko, second violin; Marta Lopatynsky, MD PARMA, Ohio: St. Vladimir Ukrainian • Medical, laser and surgical treatment of eye diseases Borys Deviatov, viola; and Volodymyr Orthodox Cathedral will commemorate the Panteleyev, cello — will appear in concert • Comprehensive eye examinations 75th anniversary of the rebirth of the • Specialty interests at Dixie Center Cox Performing Arts, 425 Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox South 700 East, in a program of works by - Small incision cataract surgery Church (1921, Kyiv) with a moleben ser- - Nearsighted surgery (Excimer laser and radial keratotomy surgery) Schubert, Shostakovich and Dvorak. vice for the church in Ukraine, to be said Performance time: 8 p.m. - Corneal surgery and external eye disease following the 10:15 a.m. liturgy. Evening and Saturday hours. Following the service, there will be a com- Sunday, November 24 memorative program in the parish center. SAN JOSE, Calif.: The Leontovych 261 James Street, Suite 2D 124 Avenue B Throughout the month of October and String Quartet will appear at Le Petit Morristown, New Jersey 07960 Bayonne, New Jersey 07002 concluding on the day of the program, Trianon, 72 N. Fifth St., in a program of 201-984-3937 201-436-1150 donations are being solicited for Ukrainian works by Schubert, Shostakovich and Full participation with all major insurance companies including Medicare, Orthodox seminaries in Ukraine. Brahms. Performance time: 7 p.m. Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Oxford, USHealth Care. BLOOMINGDALE, Ill.: Baritone Tuesday, November 26 Yaroslav Hnatiuk will appear in concert in a program of works by Ukrainian com- IRVINE, Cal.: The Leontovych String posers and opera arias, with piano accom- Quartet will appear in concert at the Irvine paniment by Svitlana Hnatiuk, to be held at Barclay Theater, 4242 Campus Drive, in a St. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Church program of works by Schubert, Shostakovich parish center, 300 E. Army Trail Road, at 1 and Brahms. Performance time: 8 p.m. p.m. Admission: $10. The concert is spon- ADVANCE NOTICE sored by the Ukrainian Melody Hour-TV. Saturday, January 11, 1997 PERTH AMBOY, N.J.: The Ukrainian Assumption School, Meredith and Jacques PHILADELPHIA: The Philadelphia streets, is holding its annual Christmas Branch of the Ukrainian Engineers’ bazaar, 11:30 a.m.-6 p.m. There will be Society is holding a debutante ball at the games, craft items, a Chinese Auction, raf- Hotel Atop the Bellevue. For registration fles as well as food. There will also be a of debutantes and further information con- special visit by Santa at 2-4 p.m. For more tact Yaroslava Halaway, (215) 671-9418.

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