www.ukrweekly.com I CBOEOAAXSVOBODA І Ж Щ УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ ЩОДЕННИК ^И^7 UKRAINIAN DAILY Щ UkrainiaENGLISH-LANGUAGnE WEEKLY EDITIOWeeN k 25 CENTS VOL. LXXXVI. No. 118 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 27, 1979 UNA Supreme Assembly concludes annual meeting Adopts new organizing plan, resolutions and recommendations; allocates S25,000 for national causes; awards ^23,800 in scholarships; elects Basil Tershakovec editor-in-chief .of Svoboda; plans future actions KERHONKSON,N.Y. - The Su­ preme Assembly of the Ukrainian National Association concluded its weeklong annual meeting here at Soyu- zivka on Saturday, May 19, and adopt­ ed a new organizing plan, resolutions and recommendations, voted to allo­ cate 525,000 for national causes, award­ ed 523,800 in scholarships to Ukrainian students, and elected Basil Tershakovec editor-in-chief of Svoboda. The adoption of a new organizing plan proposed by the Special Organiza­ tional Committee and the election of a new editor-in-chief were considered by Supreme President Dr. John O. Flis the two major topics on the agenda of the meeting. The Supreme Assembly, the associa­ tion's highest governing body between conventions, meets once a year at the Photo by Ihor Dlaboha UNA estate during its four-year term of Participants of the annual Supreme Assembly meeting, including the Supreme Executive Committee, the Supreme Auditing office. Committee, Supreme Advisors and honorary members. Present at the meeting, in addition to r Lozynskyj - activating more Ukraini­ Supreme Advisor Repeta, Supreme On Thursday, May 17, Walter Kwas, . Flis, were: Supreme Vice-President the manager of Soyuzivka, gave his Dr. Myron Kuropas, Supreme Director an youths in fraternal affairs. Vice President Dr. Kuropas and Su­ A great deal of attention was focused preme Organizer Orichowsky. report on the operations of the UNA for Canada Sen. Paul Yuzyk, Supreme estate. Mr. Kwas also proposed a Vice President Mary Dushnyck, Su­ on the Special Organizational Commit­ The reports of the subcommittees moment's silence in tribute to Wolody- preme Secretary Walter Sochan, Su­ tee's subcommittee dealing with the sale were approved during the evening preme Treasurer Ulana Diachuk and of insurance. Reporting on this were session that day. (Continued on page 2) Supreme Organizer Wasyl Orichowsky; Supreme Auditors Dr. Bohdan Futey, Prof. John Teluk, the Rt. Rev. Proto­ presbyter Stephan Bilak, Prof. Bohdan Basil Tershakovec -— Svoboda editor-in-chief Hnatiuk and John Hewryk; Supreme Dr. Basil Tershakovec, the newly Dr. Tershakovec was a script Advisors Anatole Doroshenko, Tekla elected editor-in-chief of Svoboda, writer for the Ukrainian division of Moroz, Andrew Jula, Dr. Askold was born in Lviv, Ukraine, on July Radio Liberty in New York. City Lozynskyj, Taras Szmagala, Anna 24, 1938. He arrived in the United from July 1969 to March 1972. Since Haras, Helen Olek, Wasyl Didiuk, John States with his parents in 1949, and in May 7, 1973, he has been on the Odezynskyj, Myroslaw КаШа^ Mykola 1955 became a naturalized U.S. editorial staff of Svoboda. Chomanczuk, Roman Kuropas, Mi­ citizen. He is a member of many Ukrainian chael Soroka and Eugene Repeta; and He married Mariyka Fedoruk in organizations, among them Plast honorary members Roman Slobodian, and its "Lisovi Chorty" unit, and is a Maria Chuchman, Walter Didyk, Step­ 1967. They are the parents of 10-year old twins, Andrea and Alexandra. soloist of the "Dumka" Chorus. han Kuropas, John Ewanchuk, Dr. Since 1970 he has taught history at Jaroslaw Padoch, Joseph Lesawyer, Dr. Tershakovec began his ele­ schools of Ukrainian subjects, first in Genevieve Zerebniak, Dr. Anne mentary education in Munich and New York City, and now in Newark- Chopek, Bohdan Zorych and Walter completed it at St. George Ukrainian Irvington. The Educational Council Zaparaniuk. Catholic Grammar School in 1952. of the Ukrainian Congress Commit­ Also present was Svoboda editor He attended St. George Academy tee of America appointed him inspec­ emeritus Anthony Dragan. and Seward Park High School. He tor of schools of Ukrainian subjects graduated from the School of Ukrai­ The discussion on the report of the in New Haven and Hartford, Conn. nian Subjects in 1955. Special Organizational Committee, In addition to the news stories, which was formed during an extraor­ Dr. Tershakovec holds a B.A. in features and editorials he writes as dinary meeting of the Supreme Assem­ humanities (history) from Long part of his everyday work as a bly in September 1978, was held on Island University in Brooklyn, and member of the editorial staff of Wednesday, May 16. an M.A. and Ph.D., also in history, Svoboda, Dr. Tershakovec has pub­ Reporting were: Mr. Orichowsky - from Indiana University in Bloom- lished many articles, most of them the role of secretaries and branches; ington. He was the recipient of dealing with history. Prof. Teluk - the role of district numerous academic awards and He is a member of UNA Branch committees; Dr. Kuropas - fraternal scholarships. 25. Dr. Basil Tershakovec activity; and Mr. Doroshenko and Dr. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 27, 1979 No. 118 UNA Supreme Assembly... Dmytro Kvetsko to seek emigration editorial board consisting of Zenon (Continued from page 1) Snylyk, Dr. Tershakovec, Wolodymyr myr Hentisz, the long-time master of after his incarceration terminates Lewenetz, Dr. Eugene Fedorenko, Dr. ceremonies and guest performer at Wolodymyr Kosyk and Lubov Kolen- NEW YORK, N.Y. - Ukrainian ment, no matter how long it is. Not Soyuzivka who died on April 29. sky. political prisoner Dmytro Kvetsko said much more is left — three years — and The members of the Supreme Assem­ Mrs. Kolensky chose not to be con­ in a letter dated January 5 that he is then, exile. Every year is closer to the bly also heard that day the reports of the sidered for the post of editor-in-chief, seriously considering the possibility of inevitable and — this both gladdens and special committee's subcommittees. and the remaining five board members emigrating from the USSR after the frightens me. Because sooner or later I Mr. Sochan reported on the work of the served as chairmen and temporary completion of his sentence. The letter will have to start life anew -as if from subcommittee of new classes of insur­ editors-in-chief on a seven-week rota­ has been circulating in the samvydav the beginning, to start the count from ance, Prof. Teluk reported on the work tional basis. and was recently received in the West by zero. And then the weight of the past of the subcommittee on external affairs, Dr. Flis briefed the assembly mem­ the press service of the Ukrainian years will make itself felt; and, even Mrs. Diachuk reported on the matter ot bers on the work of each of the rotation­ Supreme Liberation Council (abroad). though these years were not lived in direct billing, and Dr. Futey reported al editors. His remarks were supple­ Kvetsko is imprisoned in camp VS vain, difficulties which will be hard to on the efforts for obtaining a census of mented by the Rt. Rev. Bilak, who 389/35 in the Perm oblast. He was born overcome will arise. Only life's experi­ Ukrainians in the United States and conducted the review of the Svoboda in 1937, is a university graduate, and a ences will be able to provide aid^in this Canada. operations for the Auditing Committee. former principal of a school in Lviv. He situation. I think I have definitively Dr. Flis also reported on certain Two nominees, Dr. Tershakovec and was arrested in 1967 as one of the made my way out of the ordinary rut of proposed changes in the structure of the Dr. Kosyk, were proposed by the "organizers and leaders of the Ukraini­ the common man in the street. In any UNA, which will be presented to the assembly, and in the voting conducted an national front." He was sentenced case, the existing society will look upon UNA By-Laws Committee to report to by secret ballot, Dr. Tershakovec that year to 15 years imprisonment me as a foreigner who was disowned by the 30th Convention in 1982. received a majority of the votes. (including five years in the Vladimir everyone. This is understandable. All reports were approved by the Prison) and five years exile. "Being fully aware of such a possibi­ assembly members. Below are excerpts from Kvetsko's lity, I am thinking more and more about On Thursday evening a banquet for Concluding session letter. making use of the right to renounce the assembly members and their fami­ "...The ability of a person to adapt to one's citizenship. It is good that such a lies was held. Master of ceremonies of Following the election of the new conditions, to situations, helped me law was passed. After the completion of the program was Mr. S. Kuropas,who editor-in-chief, the members of the create in these abnormal conditions a my sentence, there will no doubt be an has traditionally conducted the humor­ Supreme Assembly offered suggestions psychological and moral microclimate opportunity to emigrate. This would be ous segment of the banquet. and proposals in the "pertinent matters" which makes life bearable and even entirely logical and just: I "betrayed" Discussion on the reports and the item of the agenda. interesting, regardless of its montony the fatherland, therefore, it would be adoption of the resolutions and recom­ Dr. Flis thanked the assembly mem­ and squalor. best to disown the fatherland as it has mendations were held on May 18. bers for contributing to the success of "Not only illusions, but also everyday disowned me. Such are my thoughts. Leading off the reports was Sen. the deliberations and called on everyone life fosters the hope for a better future, Time may bring with it various changes.