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No. 22
30th UNA Convention opens in Rochester
Flis, Kuropas win primaries; Sochan,
Diachuk are re-elected by acclamation
by Room Sochan Hadzewycz
ROCHESTER, N.Y. - The Ukrai­
nian National Association's 30th Regu­
lar Convention got under way here at
the Genesee Plaza/Holiday Inn on
Monday morning, May 24, with 396
delegates, 26 Supreme Assembly mem­
bers and seven honorary members of
the Supreme Assembly in attendance.
The quadrennial convention, which is
the UNA'S highest authority, will conti­
nue through Saturday, May 29, and the
entire week has been proclaimed Ukrai­
nian National Association Week by
Rochester Mayor Thomas P. Ryan.
The convention is charged with the
tasks of reviewing and appraising the
work of the UNA officers elected at the
previous conclave, formulating plans
for the succeeding four years, and
electing supreme executive officers,
supreme advisors and supreme auditors.
The deliberations are being con­
Plakhotniuk gets four years
on phony homosexuality charge
NEW YORK - Ukrainian human-
rights activist Mykola Plakhotniuk,
who was framed last fall on a phony
charge of "homosexuality,'' has recently
been sentenced to four years in a labor
camp, reported the External Represen­
tation of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group.
It was first feared that Dr. Plakhot­
niuk, 46, who spent over eight years in a
Soviet psychiatric hospital until his
release in 1980, had been recommitted
to a mental institution. Homosexuality
is considered a form of mental deviance
in the Soviet Union.
The external representation has
learned, however, that Dr. Plakhotniuk
was judged mentally competent by
doctors after his arrest, first in Ukraine
and then at the notorious Serbsky
Institute in Moscow.
In a sense, the camp term can be
viewed as less harsh than incarceration
in a mental institution, where authori­
ties can keep a prisoner confined as long
as they feel "treatment" is necessary.
The homosexuality charge stems
from a bizarre incident involving Dr.
Plakhotniuk and a former inmate of a
psychiatric hospital which took place in
Cherkask.
Dr. Plakhotniuk, who was' barred
after his release from living in Kiev and
was in Cherkask to take courses to
upgrade his medical skills, had a chance
meeting at the city library with a former
THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY
ducted by a presidium consisting of
Leonid Fil (Branch 432, Toronto),
chairman; and Walter Boyd-Boryske-
wich (Branch 94, Hamtramck, Mich.),
and Nestor Olesnycky (Branch 27,
Newark, N.J.), vice chairmen. Maria
Savchak (Branch 25, Jersey City, N.J.)
and Melanie Milanowicz (Branch 287,
Jersey City, N.J.) are serving as Цкгаі–
іап– and English-language secretaries,
respectively.
Opening ceremonies
The convention was officially opened
on Monday morning at 9 JO with the
singing of the U.S. and Canadian
national anthems by Halyna Sochan-
Gridley. All present then sang the
Ukrainian national anthem.
The invocation was offered by Arch­
bishop Mark of the Ukrainian Ortho­
dox Church of the U.S.A., who was
Metropolitan Mstyslav's official герге–
psychiatric hospital inmate, a Mr. V.I.
Sokolov. Both had been confined in a
psychiatric hospital in Smila.
Mr. Sokolov, who said he was in
Cherkask doing forced labor as punish­
ment for a criminal offense, was to play
a key role in the entrapment scheme that
led to Dr. Plakhotniuk's arrest.
When Dr. Plakhotniuk returned
from a trip to visit his fiancee, Valentyna
Chornovil,on the evening of September
6, he found Mr. Sokolov in his dormi­
tory room. At 11 p.m., a group of
builders who were staying across the
hall — and who were probably police
agents — called the militia and burst
through Dr. Plakhotniuk's door.
By this time, Mr. Sokolov was lying
in bed in a suggestive manner, and the
militia arrested Dr. Plakhotniuk. He
was later charged with homosexuality.
In addition, he was later indicted on a
charge of corrupting the character of
minors by serving them liquor. The
charge was based on testimony pro­
vided by a Mr. E.V. Zekynov, who also
met the defendant in a psychiatric
hospital.
Dr. Plakhotniuk's arrest on trump­
ed-up criminal charges rather tnan
overtly political ones is indicative of a
relatively recent pattern in the. Soviet
government's persecution of dissidents.
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SUNDAY, MAY 30, 1982 25 cents
і Sochan H(dzmya
ie President John FUs delivers welcoming address at convention. The
text of his remarks appears on page 3.
sentative at the convention. Lord: "Do not allow our Soyuz to be
The hierarch asked God "to bless torn apart by divisiveness and intole­
with peace and brotherly love the rance," and he reminded all "that in
deliberations of this convention of the unity there is strength, that harmony
Ukrainian National Association, our builds, and divisiveness destroys."
first fraternal institution on free Ameri­ "And if there is no harmony among
can soil." us, then, Lord, forgive us this original
"Let the participants of this conclave sin that we inherited from our fore­
conduct themselves in a spirit of bro­
therly love and with the desire that .this
fathers," Archbishop Mark prayed.
(Continued on page 5)
institution continue its constructive
work in the service of its members and
As The Weekly was going to press,
our unfortunate homeland which is torn
by a fierce enemy and chained into the primary elections were held. For
bitter slavery," he continued. details see page 16.
Archbishop Mark went on to ask the
Obituary
Roman Slobodian, U N A activist
JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Roman
Slobodian, one of the oldest and
most honored pioneers among U-
krainian Americans, a long-time
supreme treasurer of the UNA and,
most recently, an honorary member
of the UNA Supreme Assembly, died
on Thursday, May 20 at 9 p.m. at the
home of his son Gregory, in Staats-
burg near Poughkeepsie, N.Y. He
was 92.
According to his daughter, Halyna
Sydorowych, Mr. Slobodian was
conscious up to the time of his death,
and aware of what has going on in the
Ukrainian community, placing special
emphasis on the recently concluded
30th Regular UNA Convention in
Rochester, N.Y.
Mr. Slobodian was born in the
Roman Slobodian
village of Nastasiv (near Ternopil) in
western Ukraine on October K7, before immigrating to the United
1889. He attended grammar school States in 1909.
and then the gymnasium in Ternopil (Continued on page 3)
 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 30, 1982 No. 22

Lithuanians protest persecution of youthWall Street Journal says А Р А

BROOKLYN, NY. - A statement Official efforts to repress religious should expel Soviet psychiatrist
to the Tint secretary of the Lithuanian revival are especially apparent in at­
SSR Communist Party, Petras Griskevi-
cius, protesting persecution of young
people for religion in that predominant­
ly Roman Catholic republic, was signed
by 18,341 believers, according to the
Lithuanian Information Center here.
The statement on government en­
croachment on believers' rights appears
in the 51st issue of the Chronicle of the
Catholic Church in Lithuania, dated
March 19 —the 10th anniversary of the
Chronicle, Soviet Lithuania's oldest and
most authoritative underground publi­
cation. The latest issue has just reached
the West.
"We, the youth and believers of
Lithuania, wish to draw the party's
attention to the vulgar and unethical
attacks against believing youth by
Soviet authorities," the statement
began.
Authorities have resorted to direct
assaults against the faithful as evi­
denced by incidents cited in the state­
ment.
Vacationing youngsters, practicing
Catholics, were detained by drunken
militiamen on August 10, 1981 outside
of Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania.
Some of the girls were threatened with
rape.
Two students — Alfonsas Vinclovas
and Audrone Ginkute — were expelled
from the University of Vilnius as a result
of the incident.
Ten days later, security agents inter­
rupted a camping trip of another group
of high school students from Kybartai.
The campers were herded into buses
and taken into custody. Bernadeta
Maliskaite and Onute Sarakauskaite
were charged with catechizing children
and as a result detained for three days
and then fined 50 rubles apiece, the
statement said.
Petition asks for release of Rumanian five
WASHINGTON - A petition ask­
ing for the release of five Rumanian
activists and signed by 15,804 American
Christians was accepted by the Ru­
manian Embassy here on May 13,
reported East/West News.
The appeal was delivered by John
Croteau, president of Christian Soli­
darity International (USA); James
Glazier, vice president of the group; and
Dr. Curtis Nims, executive board
member of Evangelism Center Interna­
tional.
Named in the petition were Klaus
Wagner, Fibia Delapeta, Maria Dela-
peta, Dr. Silviu Cioata and Costel
Georgescu, all Christian activists cur­
rently imprisoned for their work in a
clandestine Bible-printing operation.
Mr. Wagner was arrested last Octo­
tempts to obstruct visits to popular
shrines in Lithuania. On October 25,
1981, Albinas Chscenavicius was en-
route with family and friends to Siluva,
a famous Marian shrine.
His car was stopped by the militia and
forbidden to go further. When the
younger passengers threatened to go to
Siluva on foot, they were dragged to the
militia car by force.
Mr. and Mrs. Chscenavicius tried to
stop the car and were injured in the
process. One of the youngsters appre­
hended by the militia, Rimantas Ja-
sinskas, was kicked and beaten. Mr.
Chscenavicius was placed in jail for
seven days and his wife was fined.
Security police also raided the Kel-
melis apartment in Vilkaviskis on
November 14, 1981. Some classmates
had gathered there for a birthday
celebration. They were taken into police
custody, but released a few hours later,
when one of the detainees required
emergency medical assistance.
In addition to direct assaults on
believers in Lithuania, the state favors
official pressures and discrimination
against believers. Zita Vizbergaite,
Ramune Butkeviciute and Dalia Dam-
brauskaite were denied their diplomas
on account of their religious beliefs.
"These are only a few examples," say
the signatories. "Reality forces us to
raise the question: where do we live? We
are told that we are the citizens of the
most democratic nation on earth, but
thus far democracy is seen only on
paper... On what grounds is believing
youth denied the right to leisure or to
strengthen its beliefs?"
The statement was circulated through­
out Lithuania and signed by representa­
tives of 49 different localities, according
to the Chronicle.
ber following the confiscation of 13,000
Bibles in Turnu Severin. He was
accused of leading a network which
distributed 600,000 Bibles during a six-
year period, and sentenced in December
to six years in prison.
The Delapetas, arrested and tried
with Mr. Wagner, were sentenced to
five years each.
One month earlier, in November,
Rumanian police arrested Messrs.
Cioata and Georgescu in connection
with the printing operation. Mr. Cioata
drew a five-year term, while Mr.
Georgescu was sentenced to six years.
The five mentioned in the petition
were not arrested specifically for being
Christians, but rather for transporting
Bibles, which the Rumanian govern­
ment consider contraband.
NEW YORK - In a recent editorial, Snezhnevsky is an influential bureau­
The Wall Street Journal called for the crat who, as a consultant to the Ministry
American Psychiatric Association to of Health, controls funding for all of the
expel Andrei Vladimirovich Snezhnev- Soviet Union's psychiatric institutions.
sky, a leading Soviet psychiatrist and The few centers that opposed him in the
the man largely responsible for the past, the paper said, paid the price in
systematic growth of psychiatric mal­ their budget allocations.
treatment of Soviet political prisoners. In addition, Soviet psychiatrists who
Dr. Snezhnevsky, 80, is a "Distin­ have spoken out against Mr. Snezhnev-
guished Fellow" of the АРА. The group sky's dubious diagnosis, or the abuse of
was scheduled to meet in Toronto last their profession by authorities, have
week but, the Journal reported, the themselves ended up in mental hospitals
Snezhnevsky case was not expected to or prisons.
be raised because of strong opposition The Journal cited the case of Dr.
from the body's leadership. Semyon Gluzman, a Soviet psychiatrist
who defended the sanity of Ukrainian
It was Dr. Snezhnevsky who first
dissident Leonid Plyusch (now in the
patented the diagnosis of "sluggish
schizophrenia," whose broad symptoms West), and who was subsequently
include "paranoid delusions of reform­ sentenced to prison.
ing society" and "personality overesti- There is also the case of Alexander
Podrabinek, whose book, "Punitive
mation."
The diagnosis has repeatedly been Medicine," documented Soviet abuses
used by Soviet psychiatrists to commit of psychiatry, and who also was sen­
to mental hospitals healthy dissidents tenced to a harsh prison term.
and social reformers whose illness is "American psychiatry can't ignore
speaking out against the regime. The this record without damaging its own
"treatment" of "sluggish schizophrenia" integrity," said the editorial. "With­
includes unneccessary drug therapy drawing the honor it has conferred on
which often has horrifying side effects the dubious figure of Dr. Snezhevsky is
on healthy patients. a thoroughly appropriate place to
The Journal also noted that Dr. confront the issue."
Al chapters launch separate campaigns
on behalf of two Ukrainian dissidents
WASHINGTON - Two European After his release, he continued to
chapters of Amnesty International have express his views in conversations with
recently taken separate actions on fellow workers and in leaflets which he
behalf of two Ukrainian political priso­ displayed in public places around the
ners, Dmytro Kvetsko and Mykola Ukrainian capital of Kiev, including
Pohyba, according to Smoloskyp U- one on a statue of Lenin which led to his
krainian Information Service. second arrest.
In Sweden, an Amnesty chapter
recently organized a campaign to send An ardent advocate of free trade
postcards to the Soviets urging the
release of Mr. Kvetsko, who was sen­
unions, Mr. Pohyba has written several
open letters to the U.N. Human Rights
tenced in 1967 to 15 years in prison to be Commission complaining about the
followed by five years' internal exile for lack of worker's rights in the Soviet
participating in the Ukrainian National Union.
Front. He also favors the abolition of the
The 47-year-old teacher is serving his state-run official trade unions, which he
sentence in Perm labor camp no. 35. says serve the Communist Party rather
A similar letter-writing campaign was than the workers, and the establishment
initiated on behalf of Mr. Pohyba by of truly free labor unions similar to
AI's Reading Group based in England. Solidarity in Poland.
Mr. Pohyba, Smoloskyp reports, is a
Ukrainian worker who in 1979 was In mounting the campaigns on behalf
sentenced to five years' imprisonment of the Ukrainian dissidents, Amnesty
on a charge of "malicious hooliganism." International has called on all human-
A labor activist, Mr. Pohyba has rights advocates to write the Soviet
already served a three-year sentence for leadership demanding the release of
anti-Soviet slander. He was released in Messrs. Kvetsko and Pohyba, and all
1978. Soviet prisoners of conscience.

Plakhotniuk...
(Continued from pap 1)
ties to frame him.
Dr. Plakhotniuk, who began his
medical studies in 1960 at a medical
Ukrainian WeelclY
school in Kiev, was first arrested on
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Mr. Horbal provided a detailed descrip­ was attacked by unknown assailants on Assistant editor Harta Kolomayets , .
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NQ-2? - THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. MAY 30, 1982 3

Flis to delegates: uphold the spirit of unity and fraternalism

The following is the welcoming
address of UNA Supreme President
John O. FUs delivered at the opening of
the 30th Regular UNA Convention in
Rochester on Monday, May 24.
Honorable and dear delegates:
On behalf of the Supreme Executive
Committee and myself, I welcome you
to this 30th Regular Convention of the
Ukrainian National Association. Vita-
yemol
Our conventions are subject to the
laws of the states of the union and the
provinces of Canada in which our
Ukrainian National Association con-
ducts its activity; and these conventions
are the highest body in all matters
concerning our association, its status
and its activity.
We have gathered here at this 30th
Convention in accordance with our
Constitution and By-Laws and with our
principal tasks in mind: to review and
appraise the work of the executive
organs elected for a four-year term at
the previous convention; to formulate
those plans and make those decisions
which are, in our opinion, the most
needed by our Soyuz and its members;
and to elect to the UNA'S executive
organs those persons whom we consider
the most qualified to work toward the
realization of the adopted goals and
decisions.
We are fortunate that in our debates
and our decisions we do not need to
wander blindfolded as did Orion on his
journey to the sun. In two years our
Joyuz will be 90 years old, and we will
celebrate those long years of its coura-
geous and creative journey toward our
sun — toward a better fate for our-
selves in the new world and our Ukrai-
nian nation in our still enslaved old
country.
But, knowing our past and remem-
bering it, we should realistically and
fully comprehend our present; and take
note of each new situation, new possibi-
lities and new hardships, as well as new
challenges and new needs.
Much has changed during the four
years of our term, though the problem
of problems of our century has not. The
world remains a dichotomy in which
there are two camps that continually
oppose and exclude each other.
In Ukraine, the genocide, which
began as a futile attempt at physical
extermination, continues — albeit in
new forms. We will never forget the
artifical famine of 1933 in Ukraine —
perhaps the most brutal example in
history of the genocide of a nation -
and next year the entire Ukrainian
community in the diaspora will observe
the 50th anniversary of this tragedy.
This genocide continues today under
the guise of the fusion of nations, that is
the physical and spiritual-cultural
fusion of Ukrainians and other non-
Russian nations into one synthethic
Soviet entity.
Our Ukrainian nation and other
freedom-loving nations struggle va-
lianty against this genocidal act of the
Soviet Russian enslavers; they make
great sacrifices in this fight; and they
await our aid and our intervention on
their behalf before the free world.
In America, in the past four years,
economic instability has come to the
fore, and this has had its affect also,on
the situation within our Soyuz.
At this time of crisis throughout the
world, in Ukraine and in America, our
own internal disunity has grown to
grave proportions.
Our reports will inform you about the
status and growth of the Ukrainian
National Association during the past
four years, and these reports will serve
as the basis for our convention delibera-
tions as well as the tasks we set for
ourselves for the next four years. My
primary wish for this convention is that
we, in our debates and decisions,
remember the great and illustrious past
of our Soyuz, give thought to its future,
and conduct our deliberations in the
spirit of fraternalism that was and
continues to be the foundation of our
organization — the fraternalism that is
at present our most pressing need.
Let us also remember that our deli-
berations, which are taking place as our
community prepares to celebrate the
millennium of Christianity in Ukraine,
are being watched with utmost concern
— though with differing hopes - by
our supporters and enemies alike, but
most of all by our members and our
great community. Let us do everything
within our power to live up to the hopes
and expectations of our members and
supporters, especially as regards their
hopes for unity in our quest for a better
tomorrow for ourselves and our heirs.
as well as in our efforts to help our
Ukrainian nation in its struggle for
freedom and independence. This would
be the greatest blow to our enemies.
In conclusion, let us also honor with a
moment of silence and prayer those
2,837 members who passed away into
eternity during the last four-year period,
among them many prominent Soyuz,
community and national activists such
as: long-time Supreme Treasurer Ro-
man Slobodian, long-time Supreme
Auditor Dr. Wolodymyr Gallan, long-
time Supreme Advisor and Supreme
Auditor John Evanchuk, long-time
Supreme Advisor Walter Didyk, all
honorary members of the Supreme
Assembly of the Ukrainian National
Association, and Hussar.
I would also like to commend the
local Convention Committee which,
under the leadership of Chairman
Walter Hawrylak, has devoted much
knowledge, time and effort to ensure
that this 30th convention has all the
necessary facilities for our delegates and
our deliberations, an appropriate cul-
tural program and convention banquet,
a souvenir convention book, and to see
to it that we all enjoy a pleasant stay in
Rochester. To this committee we owe
our respect, admiration and gratitude.
With these words, in accordance with
the UNA By-Laws, I officially convene
the 30th Regular Convention of the
Ukrainian National Association. And,
with all my heart and soul, I wish it
complete success.
So help us, God.

Committee for Law and Order UIA appoints Andrij Dobriansky

finalizes plans for convention new administrative director
NEW YORK - The executive board executive board has decided to appeal NEW YORK - In a move to restruc- studies conducted by Mr. Dobriansky.
of the Committee for Law and Order in to branches, individual members and ture its administrative organization, the In addition to his appointment to the
the UCCA, meeting here at the Ukrai- the community to send their donations Ukrainian Institute of America ap- UIA, Mr. Dobriansky continues his
nian National Home on May 10, fo- to: Committee for Law and Order in the pointed Metropolitan Opera bass- 14th season with the Metropolitan
cused its attention on setting up a fund- UCCA, c/o Ukrainian National Home, baritone Andrij Dpbriansky as admi- Opera in New York, where he will be
raising drive for financing the proposed 140 Second Ave., New York, N.Y. nistrative director, it was disclosed on appearing in Moussorgsky's "Boris
convention to establish a new national 10003. Checks should be made out to May 18. Godunov" and "Parade" in a new series
federation encompassing Ukrainian the Ukrainian American Community of dance and opera during the 1982-
organizations and communities in the Fund, No. 1830. In announcing the appointment, 1983 season.
United States. The board also revealed that the site effective May 1, Vice President Walter Since 1969, Mr. Dobriansky has
After the official opening at 7 p.m., of the convention will probably be Nazarewicz explained that the scope of performed more than 50 roles in 850
participants accepted the proposed Philadelphia. The date of the conven- the position has been expanded to performances with that opera company.
agenda for the meeting, and accepted tion will be decided at the next plenary include responsibilities for participating He records for the Echo label.
the minutes of the April 5 meeting meeting of the executive board, and in the planning functions of the insti- Mr. Dobriansky replaces Prof. John
without changes. confirmed at the preconvention confe- tute, and for helping to organize the Samilenko, who served as administra-
Following a discussion, participants rence. various and expanded institute pro- tive director for two years. The board of
accepted a temporary book of rules for The executive board is scheduled to grams. This includes recently intro- directors of the institute has expressed
branches, which outlines guidelines and meet again on June 28. duced music master classes in vocal its deep sense of gratitude for the
procedures for branch meetings. dedication, reliability and time that
In reference to preparations for the his retirement in 1966, after over 40 both Prof, and Mrs. Samilenko offered
national convention, the board decided Roman Slobodian... years of work as a member of the in administering the various aspects of
to call a preconvention conference for (Continued from page I) UNA Supreme Executive Committee. the institute's activities, especially
October 2 which would include repre- Services for Mr. Slobodian were during its recent difficult period. The
That same year he joined the institute is looking forward to conti-
sentatives from Ukrainian organiza- Ukrainian National Association and held at Krowicki McCracken Fu-
tions as well as members of the Com- neral Home, 2124 St. Georges Ave. nuing its association with Prof. Sami-
soon became one of its most active lenko in the areas of education and
mittee for Law and Order and its and influential members. He contri- East, Linden, N.J. on Friday night,
branches. May 21. The funeral was on Satur- cooperative programs with other East
buted much to the development of European nationalities.
The conference would discuss the the UNA and the Ukrainian commu- day, May 22 at 9:30 a.m. at St.
convention program, the formulation nity. Vladimir's Ukrainian Catholic Mr. Dobriansky's appointment
of by-laws, a convention rule book and For his service and duty to the Church in Elizabeth, N.J. comes at a particularly critical time for
other matters. UNA and the Ukrainian American Burial was at Evergreen Cemetery, the organization, especially in view of
Preparations will be made by several community, the 14th Regular UNA where the deceased was laid the present effort to retain a tax-exempt
committees, including by-laws, pro- Convention, which took place in to rest next to his wife status.
gram, organizing and financial. Further Harrisburg, Pa. in October 1917, and .not far from his long- T o this end it remains critical to the
details will be provided to the press. elected him supreme advisor, and at time companion and co-worker in survival of the institute that we continue
The discussion then shifted to the the 15 th Regular UNA Convention the UNA, one-time editor of Svo- to develop and expand our programs of
fund-raising campaign. It was revealed in Philadelphia in 1920, he was noda, Luka Myshuha. academic courses, lectures and sympo-
that letters have already been sent to elected a member of the Supreme Mr. Slobodian leaves a daughter sia, workshops and performing arts
branches and individuals asking them Executive Committee, serving as Halyna and her husband, Myron classes," said Mr. Nazarewicz. "In view
to organize regional campaigns. financial secretary. Sydorowich; son Danylo and his of this formidable task we encourage
Because convention costs are ex- In 1933, the office merged with the wife, Anna, with their children the Ukrainian community to support
pected to be substantial, preparations post of supreme treasurer. Mr. Slo- Olenka and Roma; and son Gregory Mr. Dobriansky's appointment through
will depend largely on the success of bodian worked in this capacity until with his wife, Anna. a long-term commitment to institute
fund-raising"efforts. In this regard, the ; activities;" he added.
4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 30, 1982 No. 22

Dr. Magocsi hails Subtelny appointment Jewish group praises life-saving efforts
to Ukrainian Chair at York University of Ukrainian humorist during Holocaust
TORONTO - Dr. Paul R. Magocsi, Italian history are taught at most PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - Iwanna Litauer and her brother, Chai Tzeeler,
associate professor of the Chair of Canadian universities, then Ukrainian Klymowsky, who was honored by the who were her neighbors at the time."
Ukrainian Studies at the University of history should be taught as well. Israeli government last winter for Mrs. Litauer and Mr. Tzeeler are
Toronto - the first Ukrainian studies "Warmest congratulations must go to sheltering Jews from the Nazis in her presently residents of Israel.
chair in Canada - hailed the institution the Ontario Council of the Ukrainian native Ukraine, passed away recently,
of Ukrainian history courses at York Canadian Committee, the Canadian but her memory was honored by the "By her deeds of kindness, Iwanna
University and commended the appoint- Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the Jewish Community Relations Council Klymowsky embodied the central tenet
ment of Dr. Orest Subtelny as the University of Alberta, and the authori- in a letter to the Olney Times, a local of the Judeo-Christian tradition, the
professor who will inaugurate the ties at York University who have had newspaper. Golden Rule, and exemplified the
teaching of the courses this fall. Last December, Mrs. Klymowsky highest standard of intergroup coopera-
the foresight to make this position in
Dr. Magocsi, made the following Ukrainian history a reality," said Dr. was awarded the Medal of the Righte- tion," wrote Mr. Smukler.
observations on the occasion of the Magocsi. ous by Pinchas Gonen, consul general Mrs. Klymowsky, a well-known
inaugural meeting for the new position "Finally, it is a pleasure to know that of Israel, for risking her life to save her Ukrainian actress and humorist who
at York. "Well over a year ago, in the the search committee at York chose as neighbors. The medal is awarded by the used the stage and pen name of Yazy-
conclusion to the inaugural lecture of its first professor for a three-year Israeli government to non-Jews who chynska, died here of a heart attack on
the Chair of Ukrainian Studies, 1 stated period, Dr. Orest Subtelny, a former helped Jews during the Holocaust. March 22. Born in Sambir, western
that the 'Toronto Chair is simply the collegue of mine from Harvard, who is a Writing for the JCRC, Joseph Smuk- Ukraine, she was an active member of
latest, though probably not the last, in a noted specialist in Ukrainian history," ler said of Mrs. Klymowsky: "Active in underground Plast, and was imprisoned
line of Ukrainian university chairs continued Dr. Magocsi. "Dr. Subtelny's the Ukrainian resistance against the under the Polish government during the
whose complex geneology has led us record as a teacher and scholar make Nazis, Mrs. Klymowsky was credited wave of arrests in Galicia in connection
from Lviv and several other European him a most appropriate choice to with saving the lives of Luta Tzeeler with events in Carpatho-Ukraine.
cities to Cambridge, Massachusetts and inaugurate the teaching of Ukrainian
Toronto.' " history at York University.
"Although the position at York
University is not a chair, it is nonethe- "On behalf of the Chair of Ukrainian
UAVets to dedicate monument
less very important because it will make Studies at the University of Toronto, IRVINGTON, N.J. - Dedication conducted by Harold Zelder. Among
possible the study of Ukrainian history may I wish both Dr. Subtelny and York ceremonies of a veterans' monument by the dignitaries speaking during the
at a major Canadian university. If University the best of luck in their the Ukrainian American Veterans Post program are the Revs. Kuchmiak and
English, or German, or Spanish, or important undertaking," he said. No. 6 of Irvington will take place on Nakonachny, Union Mayor James
Memorial Day, May 30, at Hollywood Conlon, Irvington Mayor-elect An-
Cemetery in Union, N.J. thony Blasi, and UAV National Com-
St. Basil's holds commencement Post members, clergy and dignitaries
will take part in the unveiling and
mander Michael Chaika of New Bri-
tain, Conn.
STAMFORD, Conn. - St. Basil's Society. He is a fourth degree Knight of blessing ceremonies beginning at 1:30
College here held its 40th commence- Columbus and a member of the Provi- p.m. Michael Gwiazda was elected as the
ment exercises on May 15. Bishop Basil dence Association and the Ukrainian The proceedings will be opened by first post commander, followed by Leon
H. Losten presided at the ceremony National Association. Post Commander Walter Bodnar with Koropatnick, James Melnychuk, Victor
and, assisted' by Msgr. Stephen J. Pope Paul VI bestowed the honor of Post Chaplain John Dragon offering Romanyshyn, Michael Zalepsky, Mi-
Chrepta, dean of the college, conferred papal chaplain on Msgr. Chrepta in prayers during the ceremonies. chael Lytwyn, Michael Popaca, Peter
the degree bachelor of arts on Andrew 1968, and Pope John Paul II elevated The actual blessing will be per- Struck, Peter Grentus, Dr. J.B. Bemko,
N. Dydyk. him to the rank of prelate of honor in formed by the Rev. Michael Kuchmiak, Joseph Kalba, Michael Skiro, Leo
Mr. Dydyk, is the son of Mr. and 1980. pastor of St. John's Ukrainian Catholic Zolto, Nicholas Scheskowsky and John
Mrs. Peter Dydyk of Toronto. He "It has been a marvelous privilege Church in Newark, and by the Rev. Dragon.
received his elementary and secondary and pleasure to work these many years John Nakonachny, pastor of the Ukrai- Following the ceremonies, a recep-
education in parochial schools in To- with my wonderful brother priests and nian Orthodox Church of Holy Ascen- tion will take place at the Ukrainian
ronto. In 1978 he applied to St. Basil's esteemed faculty," said Msgr. Chrepta sion in Maplewood, N.J. Community Center in Irvington, which
College to study for the priesthood in "I thank all ot you for making my job Following the traditional Memorial also serves as UAV Post No. 6 head-
Stamford. At the commencement cere- so pleasant. Likewise, I am very grate- Day ceremonies by the post, with the quarters. Chairman of the veterans'
monies Mr. Dydyk also received the ful to our secretaries whose unselfish, placing of the American flag and wreath monument committee is Victor Ro-
Fedorchuck Memorial Award and the skilled and professional work made me at the foot of the monument, a brief manyshyn, and chairman of the recep-
Michael and Ann Nagurney Scholar- look so good in my job." program with guest speakers will be tion is Dr. J. Bemko.
ship Award which are given to a Stam-
ford Diocesan seminarian. In Septem-
ber, he will enroll in St. Josaphat's
Seminary in Washington, D.C., to UNA executives attend Mstyslav anniversary banquet
continue his studies in theology at the
Catholic University of America.

The commencement divine liturgy

was concelebrated by Msgr. Emil Ma-
nastersky, vicar general; Msgr. Peter
Skrincosky, chancellor of the diocese
^nd professor of theology and psycho-
logy at the college; and the Msgr. Leon
Mosko, rector of St. Basil's College.
Archimandrite Clement Englert,
preached the graduation homily. Msgr.
John Squiller, rector of St. Basil's Prep,
was master of ceremonies.
Following the graduation ceremo-
nies, a luncheon was served in the
college dining room. At the luncheon,
an emotional note was sounded when
Msgr. Chrepta, who recently suffered a
heart attack, gave his farewell speech.
Besides teaching for 37 years at St.
Basil's and being dean of the college for
30 years, he also concurrently fulfills the
positions of vicar judicial of the tri-
bunal, director of the Stamford Dioce-
san Charities Fund campaign, director
of the Ukrainian Catholic Mission
Society for South America, and pastor
of St. Vladimir's Cathedral in Stam-
ford.
Msgr. Chrepta is a member of the UNA Supreme President John Flis greets Metropolitan warmest wishes to the leader of the Ukrainian Orthodox
American Association for the Advance- Mstyslav at the jubilee banquet on the occassion of the 40th Church of the U.S.A. were Ivan Oleksyn, president of the
ment of Science, The American Chemi- anniversary of the hierarch's episcopal ordination, held at Ukrainian Fraternal Association and Prof. Petro Stercho (to
cal Society, the New York Academy of Sooth Bound Brook, N J . on Sunday, May 16, and featured the left of Mr. FHs), and UNA Supreme Vice President Mary
Science, the Canon Law Society of in the Sunday, May 23 Weekly. Abo on hand to extend their Dushnyck and Walter Dushnyck. Archbishop Mark
America, the Shevchenko Scientific Hundiak stands next to the metropolitan
No. 22
UNA, UFA leaders
UNA officers meet with leaden of the Ukrainian Fraternal Association.
JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Members of
the Supreme Executive Committee of
the Ukrainian National Association
hosted a six-member delegation from
the executive committee of the Ukrai­
nian Fraternal Association to discuss
different aspects of the planned merger
of the two associations.
The meeting took place on Monday,
May 10 in the UNA main office.
The merger is scheduled to be one of
the main topics of both the UNA and
UFA conventions, thus this final meet­
ing before the UNA convention was
UNA/UIA drama workshop planned
JERSEY CITY, N.J. - The Ukrai­
nian National Association/ Ukrainian
Institute of America Contemporary
Artists Group will present two even­
ings of a drama workshop directed by
actress Laryssa Lauret.
The workshops, scheduled to take
place two consecutive Monday evenings
- June 14 and 21 - at 7:30 p.m. are
designed for individuals interested in
theater arts.
Ms. Lauret, who may be familiar to
fans of the daytime dramas "The Doc­
tors" and "Guiding Light" for her roles
as Dr. Laren Warner and Simone
Bauer, will work with workshop partici­
UNA district committee meets
Buffalo
BUFFALO, N.Y. - The Buffalo
UNA District Committee held its or­
ganizing meeting here at the Ukrainian
National Home on May I. The meeting
was attended by branch secretaries and
district delegates to the 30th Regular
UNA Convention, which concluded last
week.
The meeting was opened and chaired
by Roman Konotopsky, district chair­
man. Osyp Hawryliuk acted as secre­
tary.
Among those in attendance was
Wasyl Orichowsky, UNA supreme
organizer, who discussed the UNA's
organizing campaign as well as the
association's overall status.
In addition, Mr. Orichowsky pre­
sented a.plaque to Mr. Konotopsky for
the district's outstanding organizing
efforts in 1981.
THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY
discuss merger
vital to discuss certain details about the
proposed consolidation.
The UFA was represented at the
meeting by: Ivan Oleksyn, president;
Stephen Wichar Sr., first vice-presi­
dent; Jaroslav Pronko, second
vice-president; Roman Rychok,
secretary; Edward Popil, financial
secretary-treasurer and Joseph Charyna,
assistant financial secretary - treasurer.
The UNA was represented by John
Flis, supreme president; Walter Sochan,
supreme secretary; Ulana Diachuk,
supreme treasurer and Wasyl Orichow-
sky, supreme organizer.
pants on scenes and specific exercises
designed to master the physical and
psychological aspects of acting.
The UNA/UIA Contemporary Per­
forming Artists Group is a newly
formed body, whose primary objective
is to explore contemporary art forms
derived from Ukrainian themes, within
the framework of a repertory ensemble.
The group meets on Wednesdays at 7
p.m. at the Ukrainian Institute of
America, 2 E. 79th St., New York.
For more information, call Marta
Korduba, UNA fraternal activities
coordinator at (201) 451-2200 or (212)
227-5250.
Following the supreme organizer's
remarks, participants discussed a variety
of matters related to the growth and
future of the UNA.
Participants agreed that receiving the
plaque from Mr. Orichowsky was
indeed an honor because it marked the
first time the Buffalo UNA District was
cited for its organizing achievements.
Mr. Orichowsky answered all the
questions put to him by the partici­
pants, who expressed their hope that the
30th Regular UNA Convention in
Rochester would deliberate in relative
order and harmony.
Resolutions adopted at the meeting
called for district delegates to the UNA
convention to safeguard and defend the
interests of the UNA, to oppose those
delegates who wish to speak against the
UNA's role in the Ukrainian commu­
nity, and to stand united in support of
Ukraine.
SUNDAY, MAY ЗО. 1982 5
Business session
30th UNA Convention.
(Continued from page t) The official business of the conven­
UNA Supreme President John O. tion began with the approval of the
Flis then delivered an opening address convention program as announced.
in both the Ukrainian and English
languages. Next, Mr. Flis asked Stephen Коїо–
After welcoming the delegates on drub (Branch 137, W. Easton, Pa.),
behalf of the Supreme Executive Com­ John Pryhoda (Branch 200, Ozone
mittee, Mr. Flis spoke briefly about the Park, N.Y.) and John Chomko(Branch
Soviet Union's genocidal policies in 42, Passaic, N.J.), to serve as sergeants`
Ukraine, and he noted that our Ukrai­ at-arms.
nian brethren "awiat our aid and our The first of many greetings to come
intervention on their behalf before the was addressed to the convention parti­
free world." cipants by Rochester Vice Mayor Jerry
Pointing out that the internal dis­ Curran, who was introduced by a
unity of the Ukrainian community had Rochester Convention Committee
grown to "grave proportions," Mr. Flis member, William Andrushinn.
said: "My primary wish for this conven­ The report of the Credentials Com­
tion is that we, in our debates and mittee was next on the agenda, and
decisions, remember the great and speaking on its behalf were Bernard
illustrious past of our Soyuz, give Korchinski, chairman and English-
thought to its future, and conduct our language secretary, and John Hawry`
deliberations in the spirit of fraterna- luk, Ukrainian-language secretary.
lism that was and continues to be the
foundation of our organization." They stated that the committee had
affirmed the decisions of the Supreme
He reminded all present that the Executive Committee in regard to the
convention is being watched "with protests concerning delegate elections
utmost concern" by UNA supporters meetings, approved the number of
and enemies alike, and most of all by the delegates and the delegates of combined
UNA'S members and the entire Ukrai­ branches, and finally reported that 429
nian community.
votes were present - 396 delegates, 26
"Let us do everything within our Supreme Assembly members and seven
power to live up to the hopes and honorary members of the assembly.
expectations of our members and sup­
porters, especially as regards their Convention presidium
hopes for unity in our quest for a better
tomorrow for ourselves and our heirs,
The election of a convention presi­
as well as in our efforts to help our
dium followed. For chairman, Andrew
Ukrainian nation in its struggle for
Keybida (Branch 322, Newark, N.J.),
freedom and independence," the su­
proposed Leonid Fil, who had served as
preme president said.
vice chairman of the 29th Convention;
Mr. Flis then called for a moment of while Joseph Lesawyer (Branch 325,
prayer and silence in memory of the Brooklyn, N.Y.) nominated Julian
2,837 UNA members who had died Kulas (Branch 136, Palatine, 111.), the
during the past four years, including lawyer known for his defense of young
long-time officers Supreme Treasurer Walter Polovchak.
Roman Slobodian, Supreme Auditor The results of the secret-ballot voting
Dr. Wolodymyr Gallan, Supreme Advi­ were: Mr. Fil - 239 votes and Mr.
sor and Supreme Auditor John Evan- Kulas - 180 (in addition, there were six
chuk, Supreme Advisor Walter Didyk ruined ballots and four abstentions).
and Supreme Advisor William Hussar.
The ballots were counted by the
He went on to the commend the local Credentials Committee, and two per­
Convention Committee under the chair­ sons, Messrs. Keybida and Lesawyer,
manship of Walter Hawrylak for its were appointed to observe the tabula­
exemplary work in seeing to it that all tion.
convention needs were met. The nominees for vice chairmen,
Mr. Hawrylak then addressed the Walter Boyd-Boryskewich and Nestor
delegates, welcoming them on behalf of Olesnycky, and secretaries, Maria
the Convention Committee. He thanked Savchak and Melanie Milanowicz, ran
the UNA on behalf of the Rochester unopposed.
community for honoring the area's Voting was then conducted for mem­
Ukrainians by holding the 30th Con­ bers of the elections and petitions
vention in Rochester. committees. A total of 37 persons was
After thanking the Convention Com­ nominated for the 11-member Elections
mittee's some 25 members for their Committee; 20 persons were proposed
cooperation, Mr. Hawrylak expressed to serve on the five-member Petitions
his hope that the convention would be Committee.
conducted in a spirit of tolerance and The results of the voting for members
fraternalism. (Continued on page 16)
Delegates listen intently during opening sessions.
 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 30, 1982
In Philadelphia
St. Basil's Academy: doing fine
Ukrainian Weerlу by Dior Osakivvsky
PHILADELPHIA - Despite the
tough economic times some private
schools are facing in this recessionary
Reopen the Kiev consulate period, St. Basil Academy is not only
healthy, but is doing well and looking
forward to a bright future.
When President Jimmy Carter closed the American consulate in
The all-girls Ukrainian Catholic high
Kiev as a symbolic protest against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, school, which this year is celebrating the
many Ukrainians threw up their hands at what they perceived as 50th anniversary of its founding, is
another misstep in a badly muddled foreign policy. If Ronald Reagan deliberately keeping its student enroll­
was president, the prevalent wisdom went, things would be righted, ment down to about 100 girls per class
notwithstanding the Republicans' peculiar penchant for talking tough year.
to the Soviets while smiling broadly, peace pipe and trade agreements Although the academy could easily
in hand. boost its student body and thereby
Well, President Reagan has held the reins of power for almost 16 realize a welcomed increase in income,
months and, like his predecessor, he appears mired, at least in the it chooses not to even though it has a
sphere of Soviet relations, in the often oxymoronic world of political surplus of well-qualified applicants
seeking admission to the school.
symbols and political realities. For example, he lifted the U.S. grain
"If we would increase enrollment, I
embargo while, at the same time, urging America's European allies not
think we would destroy our character,"
to sell high-tech equipment to the Soviets. His response to the says Sister Dorothy Ann Busowski,
declaration of martial law in Poland was, in the main, nothing more
principal of the academy.
than hollow rhetoric. Barring LOT flights to the United States, "I would like (the school) to remain a
cancelling Poland's fishing rights in U.S. waters, and keeping a candle
small academy with personalized atten­
lit in the White House window didn4 seem to faze the Jaruzelski junta tion."
or the men who pull its strings in Moscow. During an interview, Sister Dorothy
We strongly suspect that the Reagan administration's failure to Ann explained that this is one of the
address the issue of reopening the Kiev consulate stems from the fact it, reasons she prefers not to let any of the
class years go beyond what is con­
too, views the initial closing as a reasonable symbol of U.S.
sidered the ideal number of students.
indignation.
The academy now has approximately
Despite all of President Reagan's blustery anti-Soviet rhetoric, it 350 students attending the four-year
appears to us that he is still groping for a coherent policy vis-a-vis the program. About 50 of the students are
Soviet Union, ping-ponging between putting the screws to the Soviets of Ukrainian background.
for their international hooliganism, or donning a statesman's cap and Sister Dorothy Ann says that appli­
giving the tired concept of detente, albeit in hybrid form, another go. cants come from SO different parishes in
There is a way out of the quandry. There are those in the Reagan Philadelphia. The incoming freshman
administration who are searching for fresh and workable approaches class will be paying a tuition fee of
to this country's policies toward the USSR, options that have little to 51,400 per student for the 1982-83
do with benign do-nothingness or the yellowing concept of detente. academic year.
Led by Security Council advisor, Prof. Richard Pipes and others, Asked if she found it surprising that
the academy, which had its own begin­
these hardliners want to see the Reagan administration strike the
nings during the Great Depression, has
Soviet leadership at its most vulnerable point — the nationalities issue.
They are aware that the Soviet Union's non-Russian nations,
colonized and often denigrated to second-class status, provide the soft Letters to the editor
underbelly of the Soviet empire. An aggressive policy to nurture and
exploit the discontent of the non-Russians through the Voice of Irked by music review of Philly concert
America and Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty, they argue, will be
more effective in the long run than trade embargos and tough talk. Dear Editor:
We suggest that President Reagan listen to these advisors. A move I would like to reply to the review of
the Philadelphia concert held in tribute
in the right direction would be to reopen the U.S. consulate in Kiev. In to Patriarch Josyf on the occasion of his
addition, by staffing it with personnel who understand the Ukrainian
90th birthday. In his review (The
cause and, perhaps, insist that business be carried on in Ukrainian, the Weekly, March 14), Andrij V. Szul
United States would be sending the Soviets a meaningful policy asserts that the Bortniansky selections
message. It would underscore that this country seriously recognizes performed by the Metropolitan Chorus
Ukraine as a nation, welcome news to nationalists, dissidents and the "demand a capella performance"and he
Ukrainian people. Furthermore, it could preface a new approach to accuses the chorus's director, this
U.S.-Soviet relations. For these reasons, we urge the Reagan writer, of "inexcusable tampering" and
administration to reopen the consulate in Kiev as expeditiously as of changing the composer's music
possible. "beyond repair" by utilizing a piano
accompaniment.
To set the record straight, I must note
that accompaniment has been used for
Bortniansky's works and that this was,
in fact, sanctioned by the composer
To our contributors: himself.
Before his death, the late Dr. Antin
V a greatly appreciate the materials - feature articles, news stories, press Rudnycky and the Kobzar choir in
clippings, letters to the editor, and the like — we receive from our readers. ` Philadelphia, sang the Concerto No. 1
In order to facilitate preparation of The Ukrainian Weekly, we ask that the "Vospoyte Hospodevy Pian" with a
guidelines listed below be followed. symphony orchestra or accompanied by
0 News stories should be sent in not later than 10 days after the occurrence of a
a piano, and other choirs — including
given event. the United Choir of Metropolitan
0 Information about upcoming events must be received by noon of the Monday
Philadelphia — included in their reper­
before the date The Weekly edition in which the information it to be published.
toire the songs of Bortniansky accom­
0 All materials must be typed and double spaced.
panied by piano.
0 Newspaper ana1 magazine dippings must be accompanied by the name of We know from the history of music
the publication and the date of the edition. that the editor P. Yurgensen requested
0 Photographs submitted for publication must bo black and white (or color with that Peter I. Tchaikovsky edit the reli­
good contrast). They will be returned only when so requested and accompanied by gious musical work of Bortniansky and
a stamped, addressed envelope. transcribe them to the piano.
0 Correct English-language spellings of names must be provided. In another part of the letter we find:
0 MATERIALS MUST M SENT MMCTIY TO: THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY, 30 "It was decided to publish the works of
D. Bortniansky, and Tchaikovsky went
MONTGOMERY ST., JERSEY CITY, N.J. 07302.
ahead with overseeing the material as
Thank you for your interest and cooperation. Editor well as composing the piano accom­
paniment to them."
The full edition of the religious
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lasted this long, Sister Dorothy Ann
replied:
"Today I find it surprising because
many academies are closing. I find us to
be young and vibrant. I don't foresee us
closing for a long, long time. The
students are there," she says.
Principal of the academy for the last
seven years, and an associate of the
school for about 15 years, Sister
Dorothy Ann is a former American
history teacher and hoids a master's
degree.
The academy has two general objec­
tives as an educational institution. Its
first objective is to provide a high-
calibre, well-rounded American high-
school education based on solid Chris­
tian principles.
The Academy is preparing the stu­
dents for their future, says Sister
Dorothy Ann. "It is preparing them to
be young women, young Christian
women whether they marry, whether
they go on to become professional
people, whatever. But we have trained
them to be young Christian women who
will share themselves with others."
The academy aims at producing fine
Christian graduates who will make a
definite contribution to society, who
possess the moral standards needed and
have the decency of what Christianity
calls for.
"I think that's what we are aiming for
more than academics, that's what
makes us different from the public
schools, and I think that has to be our
main objective," notes Sister Dorothy
Ann.
The academy's second general objec­
tive is to share Ukrainian culture with
the non-Ukrainian student body.
(Continued on pate U)
musical compositions of Bortniansky
published by Yurgensen (in the original:
"Polnoye sobraniye dukhovno-muzy-
kalnykh sochynieniy D. Bortnianskoho,
pod redaktsiyey P.I. Chaikovskoho z
perelozheniyem dla fortepiana ili fy-
sharmoniye" - "Complete collection of
religious musical works of D. Bort­
niansky, edited by P.I. Tchaikovsky,
transcribed for the piano") came out in
parts, the sixth part being the concertos
for four voices, 35 numbers.
(Continued oa pap 12)
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Dear Editor:
For several years now, my daughter
has had a copy of The Ukrainian
Weekly delivered every week to the
Matawan Public Library. I have seen
people reading the paper.
Several years ago, a Jewish family
arrived in Matawan, N.J., from Odessa,
Ukraine. The older son, Leonid, who is
planning to attend МГТ in September,
told my daughter this week that he goes
to the library every week specifically to
read The Weekly. Incidentally, his
parents, both engineers, read every issue
of Svoboda that my daughter delivers to
their home.
I would like to encourage other
Ukrainians to do likewise. The Ukrai­
nian Weekly is a great fountain of
information on Ukrainian culture,
religion and political concerns. Circu­
lating this paper is the least we can do.
Marion Burbella
Matawan, N.J.
No. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 30, 1982 7

A great actor remembers: an evening with Joseph Hirniak

NEW YORK. - An evening dedi­
cated to the publication of Joseph
Hirniak's book "Memoirs" was hosted
by Suchasnist on Saturday, May 22, at
the Ukrainian Institute of America,
where the 87-year-old actor was honored
by a capacity audience.
Marta Skorupsky, editor of Suchas­
nist, which published the Hirniak work,
opened and emceed the event, devoted
to the premier of the Ukrainian theater.
Laryssa Kukrytsky began the evening
by reading an excerpt from the book,
the essay titled "My Meanderings in the
Theater," which illustrates the author's
first experiences with the theater and
recalls his childhood days.
Bohdan Boychuk, the editor of "Me­
moirs," underlined the importance of
the release of the book, at a time when,
in his opinion, the release of any
Ukrainian book is quite difficult. Thus,
the release of "Memoirs," he said, is a
small miracle which would not be
possible, without the help of Suchasnist
and a handful of enthusiasts who helped
with the editing of the material.
The evening's program continued
with Valerian Revutsky's reminiscences
about the Berezil Theater and the
immortal Les Kurbas, to whom the
book is dedicated. Mr. Revutsky, a
theater historian, critic and educator,
brought to light the role Mr. Hirniak, as
a young actor of the Ukrainian theater,
played in the lives of Ukrainian youth of
that day.
These memories he regards as solid
documents of the history of Ukrainian
theater in the 20th century.
This was followed by a recorded
excerpt of Mr. Hirniak performing
from the first act of "Narodniy Маїа–
chiy," which premiered on the Berezil
stage in the fall of 1927, under the
direction of Mr. Kurbas.
Yuriy Lawrynenko recalled the pre­
miere of Mykola Kulish's "Maklena
Grasa," the last play to make its debut
on the Berezil stage. Volodymyr Ly-
sniak then proceeded to read a review of
the play from the opening night.
Vasyl Sokil, a writer who recently
arrived in the United States from
Kharkiv, stressed that the Hirniak book
is a capital contribution to Ukrainian
culture, for books such as this one are
not written in Ukraine.
Then Mr. Hirniak made his way to
the poduim. The aging actor and stage
director was born on April 14, 1895 in
Strusiv, western Ukraine. Upon com­
pleting his schooling, he volunteered for
service with the Ukrainian Sich Rifle­
men, and it was during this time that he
developed his acting talents.
A professional actor since 1915, he
worked with the Besida theater in Lviv
until 1919, and with the Ivan Franko
Theater in Kiev from 1920-22.
In the years 1923-33, he worked
closely with Mr. Kurbas and the Berezil
Theater and Theater School in Kharkiv,
where he gained a reputation as a
foremost actor, starring in a variety of
roles, in diverse plays, ranging from
tragedies to musical comedies and
revues. Mr. Hirniak acted in such plays
as: "Macbeth," "Mashynobortsi"
"Mikado," "Maklena Grasa," "Hayda-
maky," "King Oedipus," "Hass,"
"Dyktatyra," "97," to name only a few.
The following year, 1934, both men
were arrested and exiled to a concen­
tration camp in Chibe, northern Russia,
where Mr. Kurbas died.
Yet, even in Chibe Mr. Hirniak's
creative and artistic juices did not stop
flowing. Here, he had a company of
actors who regarded him, as he calls it
an authoritative theater figure, ` some­
where between a father and grand­
father.
Mr. Hirniak was no; the only creative
talent that fate had brought to Chibe.
At that time, the humorist-satirist
Ostap Vyshnia (Pavlo Hubenko), also
made his home in the camps of the Ucht
Pechorsky region. Mr. Hirniak writes in
"Memoirs," that Mr. Vyshnia's friend­
ship during those difficult times was
irreplaceable.
Upon his return from exile, Mr.
Hirniak acted and directed at the Lviv
Theater and School (1942-44) where at
its height, all the best Ukrainian stage
talent was united.
After the war, Mr. Hirniak continued
his stage work in Austria and Germany.
Upon his arrival in the United States, he
and his wife, actress Olympia Do-
brovolska, founded a school of acting in
New York.
At the culmination of 'he evening,
Mr. Hirniak departed from routine
words of thanks for the evening dedi­
cated to him. Instead, he asked his
audience to open Shevchenko's "Kobzar."
He then proceeded, in his artistic
dramatic manner to read a work of
Shevchenko's written right before the
bard's death. Indeed this was the high­
light of the evening.
At the close of the event, Nina
Ilnytskyj thanked Suchasnist publishers
and the author, for whom the audience
sang Mnohaya l.ita to mark his recent
birthday and the appearance of such a
valuable book.

The endpaper montage which appears in Mr. Hirniak's "Memoirs" edited by of the Berezil Theater and a major influence on Mr. Hirniak 3. a scene from
Bohdan Boychuk and published by Suchasnist in 1982, was compiled by Orest "Mashynobortsi," 4.-5. LesKurbas,6. Mr. Hirniak 7. Maestro Hirniak in the role of
Stapchynsky; the photo reproduction was done by Volodymyr Hrycyn. The Myna Mazaylo, a comedy by Mykola Kulish, winch debuted in 1929, 8. A.
montage features various scenes from the life of Joseph Hirniak. Among them are: Buchma, V. Bzbeska and the Hlrniaks near the Shevchenko monument in Poltava,
1. a scene from the musicalrevue;"Allo na chvyU 477," 2. Les Kurbas, the director 9. The Berezil Theater in Kharkiv, on SumskaStjrpei, JO. Husband and. wife^ Joseph
Hirniak and Olympla`.tibmWolska; by 1922 before Joining the Berezil Theater

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Post Office Box 134

MEDIA ACTION COALITION Whippony, New Jersey 07981

Dr. James E. Mace states bis case

COMBAT CORRESPONDENCE Ш "...In my original letter, I pointed out that
Ш "Lucy S. Dawidowicz's article on 'Babi Yar's Khmelnytsky or Ukrainians. As to the events of 1648- Dawidowicz's article can only serve to foster Soviet
Legacy' is unfortunate and does a distinct disservice to 49, perhaps Ms. Dawidowicz should have considered anti-Semitism because it erroneously portrays
all victims of the Holocaust by demagogically such works as Rabbi Chaim Potok's 'Wanderings — Ukrainian history from the seventeenth century to the
heightening tensions between Jews and Ukrainians History of the Jews' who, while bemoaning the terrible present as one continuous orgy of hating Jews.
with her insidious rewriting of history. slaughter of Jews, analyzes the Khmelnytsky period Anyone familiar with the Soviet press can well imagine
"Dawidowicz, for example, charges that 'anti- from a more intellectual perspective. He observes: an article called 'Latest Zionist Falsification of the
Semitism has tainted Ukrainian history for centuries. " 'Polish rule over the Ukraine was oppressive — History of the Ukrainian People'because such articles
In Ukrainian history Bohdan Chmielnicki, who led an Ukrainian Byzantine culture was contemptible in the are not at all uncommon, and her article contains real
uprising against the Poles in 1648, is a national hero, eyes of Polish Catholics. The peasants were exploited falsifications.
but in Jewish history he is remembered for inspiring economically and taxed mercilessly by the Polish "It is unfortunately quite true that Ukrainians havea
the blood bath of pogroms that decimated the Jews in nobility. Jews collected the taxes. They moved into the long and unsavory history of anti-Semitism, but so do
1648-49.' wilderness of the Ukraine, settled in its villages, and virtually all Central and East European nations. In
"Prof. Solomon Grayzel in his 'A History Of The served as middlemen for Polish nobles. There were any case, many of the pogroms committed in Ukraine
Jews,' which incidentally carries the imprimatur of occasional Cossack uprisings. Rabbis warned of the were carried out by non-Ukrainians. The first
The Jewish Publication Society of America, describes danger of tax farming in the Ukraine. In 1648 a pogroms of this century were in fact organized by the
Ukraine in 1648: 'The Polish noble, immersed in cossack chief, or hetman, named Bogdan Chmielnicki Russian Black Hundred movement, and the Beilis trial
politics or pleasure, would go to Warsaw or Paris, led a mass uprising against the Poles. His possessions was a travesty of the Russian judicial system. Many
living on the money squeezed out of the peasant by had been confiscated by a Polish noble, possibly at the pogroms of the civil war period were committed by the.
means of the Jewish overseer.' Chmielnicki's actions instigation of a Jew. Several thousand cossacks
against the hated oppressors, according to Prof. Russian followers of Denikin, and the Poles were quite
ravaged the countryside, burning towns and villages,
Grayzel, `was usually indiscriminate of Poles'and slaughtering Poles and Jews. For the Ukrainians it was as ferocious in their attacks on Jews in Eastern Galicia
Jews' (pp. 441-2). a war of liberation. For the Poles it was a rebellion. as were their Ukrainian counterparts. In fact, there is
For the Jews it was the calamitous end to a world they quite a number of notable examples of Ukrainian-
"Two points need to be made here. Jews were not Jewish cooperation. Beilis's defense lawyer, Arnold
`usually' singled out as Jews in 1648-49. Also, like so had helped pioneer and exploit under the authority of
Polish noblesand kings.' Margolin, was a prominent Jewish activist in the
much of Dawidowicz's tracts of Nazi Holocaust Ukrainian national liberation movement and even
victimization, Dawidowicz ignores the Polish victims "It should be added that the wrath of Khmelnytsky attempted to present Petliura's case to the allies at
of Chmielnicki." - John W. Gotsch, Bloomsburg, included even Ukrainian Catholics (Uniates), whom Versailles. Jewish socialist parties from the Bund to
N.J., in a letter to the editor of The New York Times he also considered his enemies. Furthermore, while the Poalei Zion participated in the Ukrainian national
Magazine. era of Jewish collaboration with the Polish nobles in council, the Central Rada, which granted the Jews and
exploiting Ukrainians extended for nearly a century, other national minorities a form of national cultural
the reign of Khmelnytsky lasted less than nine years. autonomy which could have served as a model for the
"By aligning themselves with the conquerors and ethnically mixed lands of East Europe had it been
Ш "Today, anti-Semitism as a form of ethnic preju­ oppressors, it was inevitable that the Jewish popula­
dice is universally discredited among all but the most tion of Ukraine was to suffer the consequences of such given a chance to function in peacetime.
benighted. Sadly and ironically, Jewish Ukraine- a collaboration when the oppressed decided to fight "More importantly, Dawidowicz writes that
phobia (and frequently Polonophobia) continues to for their `right to exist.' Consequently, as the Jews historians believe Stalin's postwar anti-Semitic
pass for dispassionate historical description. Still, it is have no cause to abandon Menacbem Begin and his campaign against 'cosmopolitans' was an attempt to
simply astonishing that a historian with the habits of Irgun Zavi Leumi as their national heroes, so win over Ukrainians who collaborated with the Nazis
meticulous analysis and the stature of a Lucy Ukrainians have no reason to apologize for Khmelnyt­ by convincing them that he hated Jews as much as they
Dawidowicz ('Babi Yar's Legacy,' September 27) sky. did. No historian who has done any research on Soviet
should fall into the same trap when she claims in her nationalities policy during this period would ever say
"I do believe, however, that when the Jewish anything so foolish. First, Stalin did not try to placate
gloss of Ukrainian-Jewish relations that Ukrainians community in Ukraine decides to identify itself with
have traditionally been superstitious anti-Semites. known collaborators; he sent them to the Gulag.
the Ukrainians and not with their oppressors, they will Second, this same period was a period of repression
"Was the Chmielnicki rebellion truly a manifesta­ find themselves a welcome friend and not a fierce
against Ukrainian cultural figures such as Maksym
tion of Ukrainian prejudice, i.e., anti-Semitism, enemy." — Media Action Coalition in a letter to the
Rylsky and Volodymyr Sosiura; one hardly tries to
toward Jews? Was it a Ukrainian tsarist police which editor of The New York Times Magazine.
win people over by attempting to suppress their
prompted, organized and legitimated the pogroms of
national culture. Third, this was the same time that
1881 and 1905? Was it a Ukrainian tsarist government
Stalin had Lazar Kaganovich appointed head of the
which instituted pale of settlement restrictions against
Ш "Ms. Dawidowicz is justly outraged about the Communist Party of Ukraine; it seems highly unlikely
Jewish settlement in Russia proper, thereby insuring
official Soviet silence concerning the slaughter of that Stalin was much concerned to appease Ukrainian
that whatever anti-Semitic pogroms would occur
some 90,006 Jews at Babi Yar. Regrettably, she only anti-Semites if he sent the only Jew on his Politburo to
would do so in Ukraine and other non-Russian lands
rule over them. Such a statement by Ms. Dawidowicz
of the empire since that is where the Jews had been mentions in passing that some other people perished
shows not only complete ignorance of her topic but
made to live? Was it a Ukrainian judicial apparatus there. Closer scrutiny will show that the lew others'
real malice.
that brought Beilis to trial? (Incidentally, it was a jury amounted to some 100,000 non- Jewish victims, who
of Ukrainian peasants that acquitted him.) And then, were murdered there by the Nazis in pretty much the "But what can one expect from a writer so careless
was it a few, some or many Ukrainians who betrayed same bestial manner. One of the prime sources of that she calls both Khrushchev and Brezhnev `native
Jews to the Nazis? information on the subject, D. Kuznetzov's book 'Babi Ukrainians' when they were both Russians from
Ukraine? Did she simply decide that the Ukrainians
A denial of any Ukrainian anti-Semitism would be a Yar,' makes that point quite clear.
"So, while deploring the Soviet Union's efforts to are an easy target and she could pad her article and her
lie. The frequent stereotyping of Ukrainians as anti-
remuneration for it with slurs against an entire
Semites is a canard." - Bohdan Wytwycky, Ph.D., in erase the memory of the Jewish victims of Babi Yar,
oppressed nation?..." - James E. Mace, Harvard
a letter to the editor of The New York Times Ms. Dawidowicz herself makes a valiant attempt at
forgetting about the few others' who perished there. Ukrainian Research Institute in a letter to the Media
Magazine.
Frankly, such selective outrage borders on hypocrisy. Action Coalition.
I find the attitudes of the Soviet government and Ms.
Ш "To rationalize every tragedy that has befallen the Dawidowicz equally deplorable." — Dr. Ivan Pelech,
Jews as simply a by-product of Ukrainian anti- president, Ukrainian Congress Committee of Morris Ш "I em a poet, a Ukrainian by nationality ('Babi
Semitism (L. S. Dawidowicz 'Babi Yar's Legacy,' County, in a letter to Max Frankel, editor, The New Yar's Legacy,' by Lucy S. Dawidowicz, September
September 27) is akin to insisting on the authenticity York Times. 27). I was horn and grew up in Kiev. I studied and
of the 'Protocol of the Elders of Zion.' wrote all my books there.
"There is no denying a historical antagonism "Not long ago, I completed a film about the lessons
between the native and the Jewish population of Ш "Lucy Dawidowicz's article can only provide grist of Babi Yar, at the Kiev Film Studio. When I was
Ukraine. And Ms. Dawidowicz masterfully docu­ for the mill of the Soviet anti-Semitism she so rightly looking through wartime and late prewar documen­
ments many of its effects. Unfortunately, what she condemns. taries, I was struck by one of them.
either does not know or does not care to corisider is its "It is unfortunately quite true that Ukrainians have "It shows Kiev as it was some weeks before the war.
cause. a long and unsavory history of anti-Semitism, but so Girls strolled down the streets wearing the latest
"To illustrate this point one might consider the case do virtually all Central and East Europeans. As a fashions — silk dresses with high shoulders. Children
of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, whom Ms. Dawidowicz matter of fact, Jewish Socialist parties from the Bund were swinging on the swings. I have no idea about the
characterizes as: 'In Ukrainian history, Bogdan to the Poalei Zion did participate in the Ukrainian ethnic origin of any of them — they were all our Soviet
Chmielnicki, who led an uprising against the Poles in national council, the Central Rada, which granted the people. None of them knew that a month later the
1648, is a national hero, but in Jewish history he is Jews and other national minorities in the Ukraine a most dreadful war of all time would break out. And
remembered for inspiring the blood bath of pogroms that form of national cultural autonomy which could have Kiev, so beautiful in time of peace, would lose more
decimated the Jews in 1648-49. Two centuries later, served as a model for the ethnically mixed lands of of its inhabitants than the United States lost during the
the fury of anti-Semitism recurred in the pogroms of East Europe had it been given the chance to function in same war. One should not boast of the dead —it is a
1881 and then again in those of 1905.' peacetime." - James E. Mace, Ukrainian Research horrifying toll. But it is necessary to remember each of
"No one, even witha minimal knowledge of history, Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., in a them.
attributes the pogroms of 1881 or 1905 to either letter published in The New York Times Magazine. "The publication of Lucy Dawidowicz's article
No. 22
coincided with the television premiere of my movie,
'Babi Yar - Lesson of History,' in Kiev. The article
carries some notions I can agree with, but many more
that I disagree with.
"It is true that during the first several days of Babi
Yar mostly Jews were gunned down, but later the
massacre was indiscriminate. More than 750 days of
Kiev's occupation were still ahead and down the ravine
went all those killed by the Nazis during that period.
"Any Soviet man or woman mourns the Jews who
lie buried at Babi Yar not because (or not only
because) they were Jews, but because all these people
had died for their motherland and lie shoulder to
shoulder with their brothers and sisters of different
nationalities. They died for this motherland, and,
together with 20 million of their compatroits, have
become its memory. We erected many monuments to
them; we continue to erect them, and indeed, this is to
the memory of the suffering of mankind as a whole.
"I was a child when the war broke out, and if I
learned anything from my city's death and resurrec­
tion, it was that there is no impunity for contraposi-
tioning one people to the other, doing evil and causing
death." - Vitaly Korotych, editor-in-chief, Vsesvit,
Kiev, USSR, in a letter published in The New York
Times Magazine.
Ш "We fully realize that Lucy Dawidowicz has the
credentials to write articles on the suffering and
persecution of the Jewish people ('Babi Yar's Legacy,'
September 27). However, in her article, we feel she
implicated the Ukrainians in the Babi Yar massacre.
We believe that your readers should know that no
Ukrainians, whether in police uniform or not, took
part in the Babi Yar massacre, which was committed
by special Nazi liquidation units. Moreover, the Jews
were not alone in that tragic massacre, because many
thousands of Ukrainians were also killed by the
Nazis." - Lev E. Dorbiansky, president, Ukrainian
Congress Committee of America Inc., New York
City, in a letter published in The New York Times
Magazine.
"Enclosed is a copy of a letter to the editor of Stars
and Stripes, the U.S. Army newspaper in Europe,
concerning a published article by a New York Times
writer, Serge Schmemann. It is hoped that this type
of deficient reporting will one day cease." — B.
Korolyshyn, US M CAD, APO New York, in a letter to
the Media Action Coalition.
Ш "That last line in the subject article, really burns
up Americans of Ukrainian descent. The Ukrainian
people lost about 10 million lives fighting Soviet
Russian communism in this century but some
American periodicals like The New York Times
exhibit a Ukrainophobia that borders on clinical
paranoia. It seems that the only time these people can
even admit to the existence of Ukraine and Ukrainians
is when it has to do with anti-Semitism. ...
"The American government add past presidents
have done much to help Ukrainian political prisoners;
if only the American press would inform the public
what they are fighting for and desist from their subtle
practice of disinformation, ix. continually using the
terms Russian and Soviet as synonyms, and either
downplaying or completely ignoring the efforts of the
non-Russian people's struggle for liberty and inde­
pendence. - B. Korolyshyn, in a letter to the editor of
Stars and Stripes.
Я "Lucy S. Dawidowicz, in her article 'Babi Yar's
Legacy,' which appeared in the September 27, 1981,
issue of The New York Times Magazine, exemplifies
stereotyping and gross oversimplification. On page 60,
for example, she castigates the entire population of the
Soviet Union for being culpable for the death of Jews
by the Nazis. Ms. Dawidowicz further insinuates that
the inmates of the Soviet gulag are especially guilty
and, therefore,-continualry suffer for their collective
collaboration.
"Collaboration with the Nazis occurred throughout
Europe, as well as by Jews themselves. However, the
condemnation of entire countries and nationalities of
Eastern Europe is absurd. This will only serve to
further protect those guilty of collaboration.
"Such oversimplification does not do justice to the
victims of the Holocaust" Roman Zabihach, Morris
THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. MAY 30, 1982
Plains, N.J., in a letter to the editor of The New York
Times Magazine.
Ш "The editorial in Svoboda of October 2, 1981,
("The Holocaust and Babyn Yar") correctly examines
the need to correct inaccuracies about Ukraine and
Ukrainians. It emphasizes also the burning need for
continuous action in this regard. But..the article, for
some reason, does not raise the question of the role of
the Ukrainian press, Ukrainian editors and journalists
in this matter. Because, no matter how much and how
correctly we bemoan the chaotic contemporary state
of our Ukrainian community, this does not clarify the
absence of Ukrainian press as a leader in this, one of
the primary missions of the free Ukrainian commu­
nity in the diaspora.
"The fact remains that with the exception of The
Ukrainian Weekly, no other Ukrainian press organ, -
the Svoboda daily newspaper included — places
continuous and systematic emphasis on this
important matter.
"For example, let us take the article headlined
'American Congressmen Recall Babyn Yar,' which
appeared in the same issue as the aforementioned
editorial. It does not mention that in the Star-Ledger,
Kiev was referred to as a Russian city, and that the
tens, or even hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian
victims at Babyn Yar were referred to as Soviet
citizens.
"If this article from the Star-Ledger had been
Summary of the Reportage of The New York Times (NYT) and the Chronicle of Current
Events (ССЕ) (Moscow, samizdat), 1970-80
TOTALS JEWS
Type of event NYTCCE 9b NYT ССЕ 9o
Dissident acts 745 1219 61.1 260 142 183.1
Group dissident acts 182 529 34.4 111 77 144.2
Arrests 207 668 31.0 106 128 82.8
Trials 157 595 26.4 64 95 67.4
Source:
"The Soviet Dissident Movement as Reported By The New York Times"by Dr. Thomas
Oleszczuk, Rutgers University, delivered on April29 at the symposium on "The USSR and
Eastern Europe as Reflected in American Education: Facts and Fallacies."
ACTION ITEMS
Re: The New York Times, Babyn Yar
and those evfl "Russian" Ukrainians
As seen from the preceding materials, The New
York Times appears to have adopted a deliberately
anti-Ukrainian policy. How can we conclude other­
wise? Letters concerning inaccuracies are ignored or
edited beyond recognition, misinformation is not
corrected, and the myth of those "Russian" Ukrai­
nians and "Russian" Ukraine continues.
Is it too much to ask for a correction in the Times?
Certainly not, especially when one considers the fact
that a recent error was corrected on the front page and
in an editorial.
Thefollowing editorial, titled "A Lie in the Times"
appeared on February 23.
When a newspaper uses precious front-page space,
as the Times did yesterday, to expose a lie in its own
columns, it is trying to do much more than confess a
procedural lapse. The point is to reaffirm a compact
with the reader: that what is printed has been honestly
gathered and labeled; that any credible challenge will
be rigorously examined, and that serious error will get
prompt and conspicuous notice.
In this case, it was not merely an error but a hoax, a
shameless beaut, by a 24-year-old American free­
lancer, Christopher Jones. With laborious research, he
wrote a false and partly plagiarized tale about an
action-filled four-week journey with Khmer Rouge
guerrillas in Cambodia last year.
Having established some credentials for knowledge
of the area, he combined old interviews with many
fake new ones in an articlefor the Times Magazine last
December 20. And he did it so well that no Cambodian
experts challenged the account until the plagiarism of
an Andre Malraux novel was discovered. It took
weeks to track him to Spain, and three days of
questioning by Times editors and reporters before he
admitted thefabrication, including even theforgery of
related expense accounts.
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translated into Ukrainian and published in Svoboda,
alongside an appeal to the Ukrainian community for
reaction, it could have led to a massive protest - the
lack of which worries the Svoboda editorial offices.
"Indisputably, we must aspire to the formation of a
general community-oriented organization to react to
such inaccuracies. But, in the meantime, the answer to
the question posed in the October 2 Svoboda editorial
"Who will organize the reaction to this new attack?"
can be found by each one of us — by just looking in the
mirror." - The Media Action Coalition, in a letter to
Svoboda.
In allfairness and with great pleasure we must stand
corrected. Of late, America has made a good beginning
in combatting misinformation about Ukraine -
MAC.)
Ш "A very unfortunate article appeared in The New
York Times Magazine of September 27,1981, by Lucy
S. Dawidowicz under the heading 'Babi Yar's
Legacy.'
"Ms. Dawidowicz calls Ukrainians anti-Semites
without paying attention that all she wrote in her
article could not but make anti-Semites out of most
docile Ukrainians. Right through her article she uses
emotions and accusations instead of facts. It is an
outright crime for a writer like Ms. Dawidowicz, with
aspirations to be a historian, to doctor the documents
(Continued on |M|t 14)
CRIMEAN
LITHUANIANS UKRAINIANS TATARS
NYT ССЕ 96 NYT ССЕ 9b NYTCCE 9b
10 50 20 14 82 17.1 2 60 3.3
9 74 12.2 0 4 0.0 1 111 0.9
9 75 12.0 10 64 15.6 3 56 5.4
8 41 19.5 12 50 24.0 6 74 8.1
We leave exploring the psychology of such adven­
turers to others. The Times's responsibility is keenly
felt. As we have previously observed, the lie — the
fabricated event, the made-up quote, the fictitious
source - is the nightmare of the newsroom. It is
intolerable not only because it discredits publications
but because it debases communication. It may not be
too much to say that, ultimately, it debases demo­
cracy.
As Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal said of this
particular case:" We do not feel that thefact the writer
was a liar and hoaxer removes our responsibility. It is
our job to uncover any falsehood or errors. ...I regret
this whole sad episode and the lapse in our procedures
that made it possible."
As if the Times`s inaccuracies were not enough,
adding injury to insult are the disinformational and
even, slanderous attacks on Ukrainians by Lucy S.
Dawidowicz, whose writings, preceived by many as
sheer bigotry, seem to be officially condoned by The
New York Times.
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Write to the publisher of The New York Times and
demand an explanation as to why the Times appears to
consider anti-Ukrainianism an accepted form of
journalistic practice. Ask him to delineate the
distinction between the story on Babyn Yar by Lucy S.
Dawidiowicz and the story on Cambodia by Chris­
topher Jones. Also ask him why the Times persists in
denying Ukraine and Ukrainians the right to exist by
deliberately persisting in mislabeling them as "Russia"
and "Russians."
Write to: Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, publisher, The
New York Times, 229 W. 43rd St., New York, N.Y.
10036.
Send copies to: Edward Klein, The New York Times
Magazine editor; A.M. Rosenthal, NYT executive
editor; Seymour Topping, NYT managing editor.
 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 30, 1982 No. 22
10

Panorama of Ukrainian culture in the Big Apple

by Helen Perozak Smindak

So much news has accumulated in the guests to take large helpings of appeti­ rendition from the musical "Rex" balletmaster of the New York City
Panorama hold in recent weeks, while I zers, stuffed chicken breasts, zucchini brought long applause from the Royal Ballet.
was away in Canada or giving my quiche, spare ribs, ham, gulyas, bigos, Box." Instruction will include folk dances
attention to other stories, that it's and (oh joy of joys) rich Napoleon tone Mr. Evanko was among the per­ and steps and movements typical of the
difficult to know where to begin. Ill and chocolate mousse. All of these formers who were presented to Queen Poltava, Hutsul, Lemko, Volyn and
jr take the easiest route. You know the one dishes, I'm told, were prepared by the Elizabeth at a reception following the Transcarpathian regions of Ukraine.
- from A to В, В to C, and so on. doctors, who had donned aprons and performance at the National Arts Students of the Advanced Dance
tall chef's hats for the occasion. For Theatre. Workshop willreceiveinstruction from
Artists' group show sipping and savoring, there were 30 The 90-minute concert, produced by Mrs. Bohachevsky, an internationally
varieties of wine. Norman Campbell, included a segment known dancer, choreographer and
An exhibition of work by seven Serving guests at buffet tables were by Edmonton's Shumka Dancers, des­ teacher; Roxolana Babiuk, Juilliard
outstanding artists, which opened on Drs. Eugene Hrabarchuk, Stepan Wo­ cribed by Mr. Cobb as "one of the more School graduate who is a principal
May 9 at the Ukrainian Artists Asso­ men, George Kushnir, George Kihi- energetic and busier performances of dancer of the Hsueh-Tung Dance Com­
ciation gallery, will continue through chak, Bohdar Woroch, Ostap Ter- the show." pany; Tares Kalba, soloist with the New
June 27 due to popular request. shakovets, George Demydovich, Lu­ the show was broadcast live by CBC York City Opera's ballet company, and
The exhibit includes oils and acrylics bomyr Kuzmak, Roman Trochlmchuk, Television and rebroadcast the next Lubov Wolynetz, lecturer of The Ukrai­
by master woodcut artist Jacques Roman Kysllevsky, Tares Shegedyn, day. nian Museum in New York. For the
Hnizdovsky, bright Parisian scenes by Bohdan Chudio, Adrian Baranetsky, To appear in the Ottawa concert, Advanced Workshop, students must be
Luboslav Hutsaliuk, and works by Roman Alyskewysz, Andre Kaczala, which took place the day before the over 16 years of age, know basic ballet
Vladimir Bachynsky, Lubomyr Kuzma, Roman Kernitsky and Lubomyr Wo­ official signing of the Canadian Consti­ techniques and have at least two years'
Zenovij Onyshkewycfa, Bohdan Saw- roch, who also served as chairman of tution by the Queen, Mr. Evanko took a performing experience.
czuk and Petro Choiodny Jr. the benefit committee. short break in his five-week appearance The dance camp for juniors (ages 8 to
With a dozen pieces from each artist, with the Kansas City Lyric Opera. 16) will be held from August I to 14.
the show offers a bounty of fine art by Easter eggs Apparently he was quite a hit in Instructors include Mrs. Bohachevsky,
Ukrainian talents and I recommend Kansas City, Mo., as well as in Ottawa. Mr. Kalba, Ms. Babiuk and Jerry Юші
that you hop over to Second Avenue The New York Times, The Daily He has been signed to appear in a June of Hamilton, Ont.
and take a look. The gallery is located News, the East Side Weekly, the Pan 26 concert with the Kansas City Phil­ Deadline for applications is June 1.
on the fourth floor of the Ukrainian Am Clipper have one thing in common harmonic. Anyone interested in attending the
Liberation Front building at 136 Second - all have carried stories on the breath- camp or the workshop should contact
Ave., and is open weekdays from 6 to 8 takingly beautiful Easter eggs displayed Ethnographers' delight Mrs. Bohachevsky at (212) 677-7187.
p.m., and on Saturday and Sunday at The Ukrainian Museum.
from 1 to 8 p.m. Now a neighborhood fixture on the Ukrainian dance will be the main
Lower East Side, the museum mounted thing — but not everything — at this Festival on 7th Street
Bossy is NHL star a display of 350 pysanky for the Easter summer's Ukrainian Dance Camp and
season. The display and its attendant Workshop in Glen Spey, N.Y., directed East Seventh Street in the East
The New York Islanders' winger workshops and demonstrations attract­ by Roma Pryma Bohachevsky. There'll Village is always a busy thoroughfare,
Mike Bossy has won the Conn Smythe ed hundreds of visitors and egg-decorat­ be lectures on the origin and ethno­ what with St. George's Church and
Trophy as the Most Valuable Player in ing students. graphical history of Ukrainian customs rectory, two Ukrainian book stores
the National Hockey League. Bossy's The Daily News ran a story by and costumes, instruction in saber and (Arka and Surma), two art galleries
prodigious goal-scoring had a great part Madeline Rogers in its April IS scimitar dueling, and special attention (Mayana and Norm Enamel), the Kiev
in helping the 10-year-old Islanders Home/ Living section titled "A colorful from such prominent guests as prima Restaurant and the Roxolana Leather
team win their third consecutive rite of spring." Accompanied by photos, ballerina Valentino Pereyaslavec, a gift shop.
Stanley Cup. Like Wayne Gretzky, the feature was about Ruth Annunziaio member of the faculty of The American During the May 14-16 weekend, the
Bossy was coached by his Ukrainian of New Jersey, who was "hooked on Ballet Theater School, and John Tares, (Continued on page 12)
father on a backyard rink during his Ukrainian Easter eggs" after just one
early boyhood years. look during a demonstration at her
public library. After four years of
Dobriansky's new role courses, practice and reading, she now
teaches egg decorating at the Oakland
Though he will continue to sing roles Public Library and the Pompton Lakes
at the Metropolitan Opera and to make (N.J.) Adult Education Program.
guest appearances, bass-baritone Andrly According to The Daily News'writer,
Dobriansky has accepted another posi­ Ms. Annunziato is one of the few non-
tion, that of administrative director of Ukrainians who has developed a high
the Ukrainian Institute of America (see level of skill in this art form. The story
story on page 4). pointed to Manhattan's Ukrainian
Mr. Dobriansky made his debut as Museum for "an excellent opportunity
administrative director on May 8 at the to see 350 examples of pysanky by other
opening reception of the Surmach artists."
family exhibit "Collections and Re­ I hope that Daily News' readers
collections," which he termed a "great followed Ms. Rogers' suggestion
first success" in his new role. promptly, otherwise they will have to
An energetic man with a warm per­ wait for next year's display. Now that
sonality, Mr. Dobriansky has a bound­ the Easter season is well behind us,
less enthusiasm and love for Ukrainian museum staffers last week tackled the
music and culture. He co,.jeived and job of packing up their Easter eggs (you
coordinated the Ukrainian Composers can rest assured they're not all in one
Series, an extremely popular group of basket). Museum director Maria Shusf
concerts which will mark its third reports that preparations are now
annual presentation in the 1982-83 underway for the opening of the exhibit
season. an the Kiev Legacy, which will run from
May 29 through July 27.
Hats off to doctors
Evanko sings for Queen
Like good wine, good news keeps
well. So the following tidbit left over Canadian-born tenor Edward Evanko
from the April 18 Panorama column is was among the artists who gave a
still in good taste. `command performance in Ottawa on
For one night - March 2 7 — 1 7 April 16 for Her Royal Highness,
Ukrainian doctors refrained from writ­ Queen Elizabeth II of England. Mr.
ing prescriptions or cautioning patients Evanko crooned the Merry Widow
to restrict their intake of food and waltz and the lullaby which he per­
alcohol. formed in the Broadway musical "Rex"
It was the second annual wine tasting a few years ago. Kotomayeb
at the Ukrainian Institute of America, a Wrote Chris Cobb of The Ottawa
benefit held by the New York chapter of Citizen on April 17: "The royal visitors Waiting to take their torn on stage during the opening program of the Ukrainian
the Ukrainian Medical Association of were equally taken with the perfor­ .Festival'on May 14, youngsters from St. George`s School are lined up;,;,in the front;
North America, and the doctors urged mance of singer Edward Evanko, whose л t. Л- - --ranks of fairgoers who took in the flrft day's ЬШЖУ–' '`^ ;
vwwwwwwv.
 No. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 30, 1982 11

Technology Division. During his ser­

Mazuryk talks art
SASKATOON, Sask. - Ukrainian
Notes on people vice in that division he directed the
preparation of machine-indexed ab­
stracts of Soviet scientific literature. He
artist Omelian Mazuryk who resides in provides services o f m a n y kinds to has also published several bibliographies
Paris and who is now exhibiting his
works throughout Canada says three
foreign-born people and their descen­ Artist down under on Soviet nuclear and plasma physics.
dants. It has played a great part in the Mr. Yasinsky was born in Ivano-
influences affect his art, reported the resettlement of refugees from many NEW YORK - "Apples," a still-life
Frankivske; he attended the University
Saskatoon Star-Phoenix in its Tuesday, countries of the world since the end of acrylic by Jacques Hnizdovsky, was of Munich and in 1949 emigrated to the
May 4, issue. They are his Ukrainian World War II. exhibited at the Audubon Artists 40th
heritage, the French culture and his own The institute also sponsors the na­
Annual Exhibition at the National Arts United States. In 1962 he received a
religious faith. tionally known Holiday hoik Fair, the
Club in April. The award-winning bachelor of science degree from George­
Under the auspices of the French largest and oldest annual ethnic festival
painting was later shown for two weeks town University.
at the Lotos Club, 5 East 66th Street. He is a member of the American
ministry of culture and various Ukrai­ in the United States, with participation
nian organizations throughout Canada, by more than SO nationality groups. In While "Apples" is on display in New Library Association, the American
Association for the Advancement of
Mr. Mazuryk is visiting such Canadian 1975 the Ukrainians were'specially York, Mr. Hnizdovsky's woodcuts of
cities as Toronto, Winnipeg, Montreal, honored at the fair. sheep and trees, motifs he is most Slavic Studies, the Ukrainian Library
famous for, will be exhibited in the Association of America (whose bulletin
Saskatoon, Edmonton, Calgary and Mr. Doroshenko was born in U- he edits) and the Shevchenko Scientific
Vancouver with his art show. kraine and lived in Brazil and Chicago Chapman Gallery in Canberra, Australia.
Society, and he is the director of the
In Saskatoon, for his exhibit which is before coming t o Milwaukee 10 years School of Ukrainian Studies of Greater
part of the Vesna Festival (May 13-16), ago. He joined the International Insti­ Washington.
be was interviewed by Sheila Robertson tute board of directors in 1980. Since
of the Star-Phoenix and he described then he has served on the board's budget
the influences on his art, which he calls
neo-Byzantine expressionism. He said
and finance committee and personnel
committee, and he has been the board's Receives studies grant
that many of his works are inspired by representative t o the Holiday Folk Fair VERONA, N.J. - Larissa Hordyn-
the seasons of the year and the religious executive committee. sky, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G.S.
calendar. He incorporates personal Hordynsky, has been awarded a Sachar
symbolism and his own energetic style
into the iconography traditional to the Profiled in magazine Interhational Fellowship to pursue
advanced archaeological research in
Eastern Orthodox Church, the article CLEVELAND - Lydia Bazarko, a
said. Cyprus, reported the Verona Cedar-
4
senior business analyst for Sherwin- Grove Times.
"І сапЧ separate art from faith," Mr.
Williams, was interviewed in the April Ms. Hordynsky, a graduate student
Mazuryk said. "When I paint I commu­ Hnizdovsky Woodcut
1982 issue of the Northern Ohio Busi­ in classical and oriental studies at
nicate with God; I am closer to God ness Journal. The Australian exhibit opened last Brandeis University, was awarded the
myself." In an article titled "Making it in a Sunday, May 23. It is the first time the Sachar Fellowship for demonstrating
Mr. Mazuryk, who creates his own 'man's world,' " Lynn Wasnak, the artist has exhibited in Australia, al­ high scholastic, achievement, financial
egg tempera pigments, and uses gold regional editor, contacted five large though he has had over 100 one-man need and outstanding intellectual or
leaf for adornment in his religious art,
corporations and asked them for names shows in America and abroad. His creative potential.
attended the Academy of Art in Kra­ of women who held positions of respon­ woodcuts are in numerous collections,
kow, Poland. sibility. Ms. Bazarko was one of the including the Museum of Fine Arts,
In 1968, the artist who was born in the
seven women chosen for the sketches of Boston; the Cleveland Museum of Fine S l S t e T ШЇКЬ ІІЬІІЄЄ
Carpathian Mountains (Brezawa), qualified women who have earned the Arts; the Philadelphia MuseumІ іof Art; '
moved to France and studied at L`Ecolerespect of their peers in the corporate the New York Public Library; the White
des Beautarts in Paris. world. House, and the Winnipeg Art Gallery. A N S O N I A , Conn. - Over 120 pa­
Since that time he has exhibited rishioners attended a reception to honor
Ms. Bazarko has been employed by Sister Charlotte S M I , on her silver
throughout North America and Europe Sherwin-Williams since 1964. She
on various occasions. graduated from Columbia where she Gets library post jubilee, on April 25, at Ss. Peter and
Paul school auditorium.
Mr. Mazuryk said that he is enjoying
qualified for Phi Beta Kappa as a
his tour of Canada, but has been busy W A S H I N G T O N - Bohdan Yasin­ Sister Charlotte, who belongs to the
chemistry major. During her first 13
tending the exhibit to explore the cities sky was named preservation microfilm­ order of the Sister Servants of Mary
years with Sherwin-Williams she work­
along the way. He added that next year ing officer at the Library of Congress, Immaculate, is the principal of Ss. Peter
ed for the chemical research depart­
he will be able to do this when he returns effective April 19, reported the Library and Paul Ukrainian Catholic School.
ment, but in 1977 she transferred to
to Canada with his wife, a professional
market research. of Congress Information Bulletin. She first came to Ansonia in 1965 and
singer, who will be touring the country. An assistant preservation microfilm­ taught for four years. Afterwards she
She says that her job includes prepa­ ing officer since 1970, Mr. Yasinsky has spent six years in Detroit, first as a
ration of a strategy, financial analysis, teacher then as principal. This past year
been employed by the Library of Con­
management planning and computer she returned to Ss. Peter and Paul in the
Named board VP techniques. "We in corporate planning
assist top management in its evaluation,
gress since 1959, when he joined the
staff as a bibliographer in the Aerospace capacity of principal.

MILWAUKEE - Anatole Doro- by playing the role of an intelligent

shenko, a supreme advisor of the devil's advocate," she said.
Ukrainian National Association as well Ms. Bazarko works with a talented
as president of the Milwaukee branch, and creative group of people and TRIDENT FEDERAL SAVINGS
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Irked...
(Continued from page 6)
During the lifetime of Bortniansky,
P. Turchaninov began to prepare -
under Bortniansky's direction — the
publication of his religious musical
works composed for the piano, but he
finished only 20 concertos. With Bort­
niansky's death in 1825, publication
stopped.
M. Findeysen mentions in his bio­
graphy of Bortniansky, "History of
Music in Russia", (Vol. II, pp. 260-277),
the Concerto No. 3 "Through God's
Power" ("Hospody syloyu Tvoyeyu,"
accompanied by two orchestras: sym­
phonic and brass. (Dr. Fedir Stoshko:
To the history of the publication of
"Complete Collection" of the religious
musical compositions of D. Bortnian­
sky.)
The above-mentioned data can be
confirmed through the work of V.
J v a n o v " D . B o r t n i a n s k y " (Kiev
Musical Ukraine, 1980, p. 77): "Bort­
niansky numbered each new work. It is
not excluded, that similar work was
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taking place, when the question of
publishing his complete works arose.
The first person to know this confiden­
tially was P. Turchaninov who was the
first to receive the composer's consent
to transcribe his works for the piano."
Ivanov also writes: (p. 78): "...the
concerto for four voices by D. Bortnian­
sky 'Through God's Power' was accom­
panied by two orchestras, symphonic
and brass. The use of two orchestras
was an original phenomenon in the
musical practice of Russian."
I believe that these examples from the
history of music pertaining to the
concertos of Bortniansky with piano
accompaniment will help Andrij V.
Szul deepen his knowledge of church
music. I personally would like to see Dr.
Szul write that, in his opinion, the piano
does not reflect the clarity of classical
works as presented by the choir, but
that it is orchestration that elevates the
prestige of concertos which would place
Bortniansky among composers of
world fame.
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SUNDAY, MAY 30, 1982 ЖЖ
PREVIEW OF EVENTS
Friday, June 4 'Pogrom' to the Formation of the
Ukrainian Helsinki Group."
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The seventh
j annual meeting of the Permanent
| Conference in Ukrainian Studies will NEWARK, NJ.: St. John's U-
krainian Catholic Church will hold
be held at Pound Hall, Rm. 107, Law
School, Harvard University. its annual bazaar and raffle from 3
It will run through Sunday, June 6. p.m. to 10 p.m. All church organiza­
tions will sell a variety of unique
Ukrainian articles, Ukrainian
Saturday, June 5 pastries and bread. The school chil­
dren will display their special pro­
NEW YORK: The Slavic Heritage jects and participate in an amateur
Council of America, Inc. will present talent show.
a spring concert to be held at 8:30
p.m. at Carnegie Recital Hall, 154 W.
57th Street.
Such renowned artists as Metro­ KERHONKSON, N.Y.: The fifth
politan Opera singer Andriy Do- conference of Stanislavtsi will be
briansky, together with Bohdan held today and tomorrow at Soyu-
Andrusyshyn, Eduard Bakic, Mila zivka. Reservations for rooms should
de Costa, Karina Eberl, Thomas be made as soon as possible by
Hrynkiw, Jana Kasperova, Lidja contacting: Soyuzivka, Ukrainian
L.ukic, Tadeja Perkovec and the National Association Estate, Ker-
Slavic Arts Ensemble composed of honkson, N.Y. 12446; (914) 626-
the following artists:, Walter Lego-
5641.
wiec, Mieczyslaw Gubernat, Janusz
Kubiak and Jan Josef Wnek, will
perform.
The program will consist of works HOLMDEL, NJ . : The eighth annual
of Byelorussian, Czech, Polish, Rus­ Ukrainian Festival will be held here
sian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian and at the Garden State Arts Center, on
Ukrainian composers. Saturday June 19.
For ticket information call (212)- Expected to surpass last year's
461-7789 or 535-3691. record-breaking attendance of 13,000
people, this year's festival will once
again include an afternoon program
and athletic events.
ABINGTON, Pa.: The Plast unit, During the day cultural exhibits
Kniahyni, is sponsoring the first art will include pysanky, embroideries

A REMINDER
auction at the Ukrainian Cultural and paintings. There will also be
Center, 700 Cedar Road. The pre­ samplings of tasty Ukrainian dishes.
view of all works of art will begin at 4 In the evening, the stage program will
p.m. The auction starts at 5:15 p.m. delight audiences with the speed and
admission is S3. versatility of Ukrainian song and
dance.
TO OUR READERS Sponsored by the Garden State
NEW YORK: The Ukrainian In­ Arts Center, the Ukrainian Festival
stitute of America presents the third is one in a series of events organized
session of its Harvard Ukrainian to raise funds for New Jersey ve­
Research Institute Lecture Series at 4 terans, children and disabled. For
p.m. The lecture will feature Bohdan tickets, please write to: Walter Yur"
Nahaylo, research fellow at HURI, cheniuk, 283 Brook Ave., Passaic,
who will discuss "Dissent in Ukraine N.J. 07055; or call (201) 470-0035
after Shelest: From the General between 6 and 9 p.m.

Panorama...
(Continued from page 10)
directed by Oleh Genza, the Young
Verkhovyntsi Dancers and St. George's
Ukrainian Dancers taught by Daria
It's that time of the year again - RENEWAL TIME. Many of you have already street was thronged with visitors and Genza, and the Ukrainian Folk Ballet
received expiration notices which were sent at the end of April. To decrease the neighborhood residents as the section of Studio directed by Liana Kunynska
administrative cost of sending і second notice, we are giving you this gentle 7th Street between Second and Third Shmerykowsky.
reminder. avenues was transformed into a veri­
If you mail your renewal today, you'll be sure to receive The Weekly - your table Ukrainian ; yarmarok for St. Performances were given by tenor
Ukrainian perspective on the news - without interruption. George's annual Ukrainian Festival. Evhen Tytla, the SUM-A Zhaivoronky
We're counting on you to remit today. So please send your renewal, along with a Hulubtsi, varenyky, delicious pas­ Chorus directed by Lev Struhatsky, the
check or money order, (S5 for UNA members, S8 for non-members) to: The tries, embroidered blouses and a variety SUM-A Cheremshyna trio and a sextet
Ukrainian Weekly. Subscription Department, 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J: of souvenirs were sold at kiosks spon­ of singers directed by Brigida Zajac. An
07302. sored by St. George's Academy and the outstanding group was the Homin
parents' committee, Plast, the Ukrai­ Bandurist Male Chorus of Newark
nian National Women's League of directed by Volodymyr Yurkevich.
America and the women's organization Serving as masters' of ceremonies
of the Organization for the Defense of were Ulana KeMsh, Daria Genza Jr.,
Four Freedoms of Ukraine. Mary Dushnyck and Bohdan Harhay.
Other booths were manned by repre­ On Sunday, parish president Roman
IN THE FOOTSTEPS sentatives of the New York School of Huhlewych introduced to the public
Bandura and the Kobasniuk Travel pioneer East-Side settler and book store
OF THE PIONEERS agency. owner, Myron Surmach Sr.
As in past years, a program of Ukrai­ Among visitors to the festival was
A SAGA OF UKRAINIAN AMERICA nian songs, music and dance was pre­ Natalka Polovchak of Chicago whose
sented at intervals from a stage located young brother Walter has become a
By Ulas Samchuk
at the corner of Seventh Street and cause celebre, for his refusal to return to
A 268 page hardcover novel about the Ukrainian settlement in the United States, spanning some Shevchenko Place. the Soviet Union with his parents. She
100 vear`; of history Cover design by B0HDAN TYTIA Performing groups included the was shown on the Sunday evening news
Price S1500 (including postage and handlingl Promin ensemble directed by Boh- broadcast of WABC-TV, channel 7,
"In the Footsteps ol the Pioneprs is now available at the Svoboda BooMntf Please send danna Wolansky, the Ukrainian Ban- which televised scenes of the street
a check or cash !or pach order (New jersey residents add 5 ' i ' i durist Ensemble under the direction of festival.
Julian Kytasty and the Syzokryli Dan­ The Rev. Lavrentiy Lavrenluk co­
SVOBODA BOOKSTORE cers directed by Roma Pryrna Bohachev- ordinated arrangements for the fairjand
sky. '`' " Edward Kaminskyj was chairmanbf the
Also, the Verkhovyntsi Dancers stage program.
No. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 30, 1982 13

"If you are talented in math, well you

St. Basil's...
(Continued from page 6)
"I view us as a Ukrainian institution
that no longer is totally Ukrainian,"
explains Sister Dorothy Ann. "I see us
as sharing our culture with other ethnic
groups.''
The academy's 50th anniversary
benefit concert which was held on April
24 was a good example of this cultural
sharing.
The majority of the St. Basil Aca­
demy Jubilee Choir, which performed
the cantata "In The Cathedral of Saint
George," consisted of non-Ukrainians.
Different races were also represented in
the choir.
The cantata was based on a poem by
Ukrainian poet Bohdan Lepky and was
set to music by Sister Laura Palka.
Under Sister Dorothy Ann's ad­
ministration, the standards of the
academy have been increasing over the
years.
This is i m p o r t a n t , says Sister
Dorothy Ann, because high academic
standards make the academy different
from other schools.
"Why pay the extra money and say
that you are going to a private academy
if you are going to receive the same type
of education you could receive at a
public or a diocesan school?" asks
sister.
In May 1978, St. Basil Academy was
fully accredited by the Middle States
Association of Colleges and Schools for
a 10-year period. The accreditation was
a prestigious step for the academy and a
realization of a 50-year-long dream.
What this accreditation means is that
colleges looking at applications from
SBA graduates know that the academy
is properly preparing its students for
further education, and that the aca­
demy's standards have met the rigorous
evaluation of the Middle States Asso­
ciation.
Over the last 10 years an increasing
number of academy graduates have
been accepted as freshmen students to
the more prestigious colleges in the
country. Some have gone to Philadel­
phia's Chestnut Hill College, while
others have secured spots at St. Joseph's
University and Villanova University
among others. A recent academy stu­
dent was awarded a four-year Merit
Scholarship at Lafayette.
Sister Dorothy Ann says that it is
important for the academy that colleges
and universities with good reputations
are accepting SBA graduates.
These colleges have certain academic
standards which have to be met. "When
you know that they are accepting our
students, our students must be special,"
says Sister Dorothy Ann.
"We've had girls go on to become
doctors, lawyers ... in music, in the
languages exceptional students... and it
is, I guess you could say, an acknow­
ledgement of us that these schools are
taking them."
What makes St. Basil Academy
students special, says Sister Dorothy
Ann, is that they are people who really
care about other people. They appre­
ciate the attention that has been given to
them over the four years, the persona­
lized attention that they have received.
The students also appreciate the
compassion offered by the staff of
sisters and lay faculty and their attempts
at bringing out the best in the students.
are going to get that extra attention,"
says Sister Dorothy Ann. "If you are
talented in art, the opportunity is there
for you to develop that potential. I think
that the students realize that and when
they leave us, they just continue to build
on what we started."
There is a definite change that takes
place in the girls during their four-year
stay at the academy, notes Sister
Dorothy Ann,
"They come in afraid and then I think
a relationship is built where they could
see that the demands upon them are not
way out, that these demands are de­
mands that want to bring the best of
what they have out.
"If you could give us a masterpiece,
we are not satisfied with you just going
half-way but we are going to demand
that masterpiece," says Sister Dorothy
Ann.
"Eventually they realize that we are
not harming them, that we are not
having these demands upon them that
they are not able to reach, but that we
only demand what we know they can
give."
The academy is staffed with 30
teachers of whom only eight are sisters.
Most of the teachers have master's
degrees in the subject area that they
teach. They are also fully qualified.
The lay teachers earn a lower salary
than they would be making elsewhere,
but prefer to teach at the academy
because of the working conditions that
exist there.
Sister Dorothy Ann explains that the
students who are at the academy want
to be there and want to learn. In
addition the teachers have academic
freedom within certain norms, and the
discipline problems which plague many
public schools are not present at the
academy.
The teachers like it at SBA because of
the general atmosphere of Christianity
that exists at the school, says Sister
Dorothy Ann.
The teachers have feelings of respect
towards each other, the administration
respects the teachers, and the students
also respect the teachers.
To keep in step with modern techno­
logical developments and meet new
academic demands, the academy is
planning to introduce computers into
its curriculum and administration.
"I want to continue the high academic
standards and I think that some
changes are going to have to be made in
some of the equipment that we have,"
says Sister Dorothy Ann.
"For example, computers are in, we
know that, so I am going to have to find
money some way that we can com­
puterize the office, the business depart­
ment as well as the science and math
departments."
"Definitely, that seems to be my aim
for next year," says Sister Dorothy
Ann, "to modernize some of the depart­
ments in terms of computers and com­
puter knowledge."

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(Continuedfrompage 9)
in such a manner as to show the Ukrainians as German
collaborators in execution of Jews in Kiev.
"The document NO-3140 of the Nueremberg Military
Tribunal states: 'Consequently all Jews of Kiev were
requested, in agreement with city commander, to
appear on Monday, 29 September by 8 o'clock at a
designated place. These announcements were posted
by members of the Ukrainian militia in the entire city.'
Why is this a sign of collaboration in executions? The
same document further says: 'In collaboration with the
group staff and two Kommandos of the police
regiment South, the Sonderkommando 4a executed
on 29 and 30 September, 33,771 Jews.' Why then did
Ms. Dawidowicz refer to this report and then insert
her own addendum: 'and the Ukrainian militia' —
'executed a total of...'
"Is this her way to write history?
"And the document No.-3155, a report from Oct
12, 1941, of the same Tribunal, clearly says: 'Sonder­
kommando 4a new has reached the total number of
more than 51,000 executions. Apart from the special
action in Kiev of 28 and 29 September for which two
Kommandos of the - Police Regiment South were
detached, all executions carried out so far were made
by that special Kommando without any assistance
from outside.'
"Nowhere, unless in some novel, it is stated that
Ukrainian militia in Kiev forced the Jews to undress,
helped Germans to kill the Jews, and bury the dead.
"Even the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia states the
following: 'In the course of these massacres, which
were reported to have begun as early as the month of
August 1941, more than 50,000 Jewish men, women
and children were murdered in Kiev alone. Nazi troops
and agents spread anti-Jewish reports among the
Ukrainian population which, however, remained
sympathetic toward Jews, refusing to participate in the
massacres and in many instances giving shelter to
refugee Jews from the Ukraine, Poland and other
parts of Eastern Europe.'
"We know that the Communist regime directed by
Moscow uses all possible methods to discredit
Ukrainians in the eyes of the Western world and
thereby destroy the credibility of the living witnesses of
the Soviet atrocities. But why is Ms. Dawidowicz
using the same tactics? What's in it for her and other
Jewish people who naturally should have compassion
toward Ukrainians instead of hate?
"Of course, Ukrainians were happy to see the
German army liberating them from under two decades
of Communist oppression. There was hardly a single
family in Ukraine which was not in some manner
affected by the horrors of the system. In winter of
1932-33 alone 7.5 million Ukrainians perished from
the famine imposed by the regime. Millions of others
died in prisons or in Siberian concentration camps.
The population hated anything and anyone connected
with communism. And there is no wonder that anti-
Semitism was creeping in when people began to get;, л
impression that Jews were interested in propagation of
the Soviet system. In 1917, right from the beginning of
the Bolshevik Revolution, out of seven members of
the Politburo three, namely Trotsky, Kamenev and
Zinoviev, were Jews. Soon thereafter Sverdlov and
Kaganovich also became members of this highest of
the governing bodies of the Soviet Union.
"In her article Ms. Dawidowicz writes about
schools:... 'anti-semitism at the grass roots became
loudmouthed and ugly.' Somehow and for some
reason she doesn't elaborate on the subject and doesn't
give us the cause which is easily explained if one looks
into 'Fact Sheet on Soviet Jewry' published by
National Conference on Soviet Jewry in New York. In
it is stated that '...In 1935 Jews represented 13 percent
of all university students,...' at the time when Jewish
population comprised 1.5 percent of the total
population of the Soviet Union. This abnormally high
percentage of Jewish students was not due to some
higher genetic level of intelligence of the Jews, but
solely because sons and daughters of local Ukrainian
people were banned from schools for their class origin.
"Ms. Dawidowicz also reaches into Ukrainian
history, searching for Ukrainian anti-Semitism of 16th
and 17th centuries, bringing the example of Bogdan
Chmelnitsky uprising against the Poles in 1648, telling
us that a great number of Jews fell victims to anti-
Semitism.
"Why doesn't she tell the truth?
"Poles were Ukrainian oppressors by occupying
Ukraine west of the Dniper River. Jews in this war of
Ukrainian libertation took the side of Poles against
Ukrainians and Ukraine, the country where they lived.
THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. MAY 30. 1982
What did they expect?
"It is too bad that Ms. Dawidowicz at this time
chose to take a whack at the Ukrainians and wrote an
article full of hatred toward the people who basically
were as unfortunate as the Jews under the Czars as well
as now under the Soviets. Instead of having com­
passion she brews hate not only in choice of words but
also in doctoring the facts. Just like the Soviets, giving
the number of only non-Jewish victims of 100,000
people, are ignoring the Jewish victims at Babi Yar, so
does Ms. Dawidowicz give only a figure of 90,000 Jews
and 10,000 others, forgetting that in the first three
weeks of the occupation all Jews in Kiev were
executed. According to Kiev City Hall estimates the
exact number is 72,600 Jews. After that throughout
the occupation which lasted for 778 days, on each and
every Wednesday and Saturday several truckloads of
people were brought from Gestapo Headquarters, on
Korolenko 33, and shot Also, about 100 people each
day were brought from the concentration camp at
Syretz and dumped together with the rest of the
unfortunates. According to the opinion of the
Nueremberg's International Military Tribunal: i n
Kiev they killed over 195,000 persons.'
"She is also accusing Ukrainians for turning in the
fugitive Jews. I wonder if Ms. Dawidowicz ever heard
of the German decree about shooting anyone har­
boring a fugitive? And even then many Ukrainians put
their lives on the line and helped many a Jew to hide. In
some instances they hid Jews at their homes un­
detected for over two years until the return of the Red
Army. For our interrelations it would be much better
to mention those happy occasions instead of some
unhappy incidents forced by the Nazis upon all of us.
"And then what about our 'collaboration?' Stalin
called anyone who was taken as a prisoner of war or
stayed behind the lines willingly or unwillingly by not
retreating in the depth of Russia, a 'traitor and
German collaborator.' The whole of Ukraine was
occupied by the German army in the first year of the
war. Ukrainians in the East formed about 50 percent
of all those in the German hands. Right then in that
first year 5 million officers and soldiers of the Red
Army were made prisoners. By 1942, when Germans
decided to take these prisoners to Germany for work,
only 900,000 still remained alive. In 1942-43, SS and
SD rounded up people in churches, cinemas, market­
places, took them to Germany, put them behind
barbed wires and made them work as "Eastern
Workers' wearing an armband with 'Ost' on it.
"About 2.8 million of them were taken from Eastern
Territories, 2 million of them Ukrainians. By the time
Allied Troops took over Germany, 48 to 80 percent of
those workers died from malnutrition and overwork.
Those who remained alive, according to the Yalta
agreement, together with the prisoners of war, were
repatriated by force. They never made it home but
were taken straight to Siberia as'German collaborators.'
"A number of young men, to escape the deportation
to Germany, were forced into Ukrainian militia, just
like Jewish men were forced into Jewish police in the
ghettos. Those who refused tojoin,militia escaped into
the woods and entered the formations of the Ukrai­
nian Partisan Army to fight against Germans. Their
number stood at 250,000 men. When the Red Army
returned to Ukraine, members of Ukrainian militia
and Ukrainian Partisan Army were caught, the
majority executed and the rest with their families sent
to Siberia for 10, 15 or 25 years of hard labor.
"A small part of the Ukrainian population escaped to
the West, and after the war had to appear before
screening committees comprised of Soviet officers and
the representatives of Western powers, depending of
the occupational zone, and prove that they were
simple refugees from western Ukraine. All those who
were from the east, from Soviet territories from before
1939, or in any manner were connected with the Nazis,
were turned over to the Soviets. They mostly paid with
their lives.
"In this case Ms. Dawidiowicz`s accusations against
the Ukrainians are outright insensitive. We do not
need any more hate.
"Ukrainians never call Jews, including Lucy S.
Dawidowicz, anti-Ukrainian. Why should she call all
Ukrainians anti-Semites and fabricate the evidence to
prove that Ukrainians are basically evil? Even those
born in Ukraine, for Ms. Dawidowicz,are some kinds
of ogres. Well, Golda Meir was born in Ukraine, too.
"Somehow facts speak differently. After the total,
extermination of the Jews in Ukraine by the Nazis
during World War II, today, that is 1981, we find
about 800,000 Jews inhabiting Ukraine. They must be
very brave to move in next door to those awful
Ukrainians Ms. Dawidowicz tries to present.
"We can only advise her to apply herself in a more
objective manner toward Ukrainian people and their
NoJ2
history, and by it earn respect as a historian and
compassion as a human being."- George Moshinsky,
Denver, in a letter to the editor of The New York
Times Magazine.
Ш "...The book ends with a little homily on history
as a discipline dedicated to the objective pursuit of
truth, but the author does not wholly avoid lapses
from that admirable standard. Her understandable ire
at the English writer David living's contention that
Hitler neither desired nor knew of the 'Final Solution'
is so great that she also attacks Mr. living's book 'The
Destruction of Dresden' in ways that are grossly
inaccurate, and she justifies the Allied air raid on
Dresden because it was 'in retaliation for the launching
of German V-2 rockets against London.'Since the V-2
bombardment began in September 1944, while
Dresden was not attacked until five months later, the
explanation is implausible on its face. ...
"For the most part, however, Prof. Dawidowicz`s
work embodies high standards of scholarship. The
analysis is shrewd and generally fair, and the
comparisons often brilliantly perceptive. ..." —
Telford Taylor, in a review of "The Holocaust and
Historians," by Lucy S. Dawidowicz, published in The
New York Times Book Review.
U "...My letter of October 14 included material
regarding a September 27 story by Lucy Dawidowicz
about Babi Yar. There were a number of questionable
statements in her article. One thing stands out: her
figure of 10,000 non-Jewish victims is very wrong. The
best estimates available today are that 100,000 Jews
and 70,000 Ukrainians perished at Babi Yar....
Jews and 70,000 Ukrainians perished at Babi Yar....
"Nearly 3 million Ukrainians died in Nazi death
camps, at slave labor, or in German atrocities plus an
additional 2 million Ukrainians died in combat with
German forces in 1941-45. You would never know this
by reading the Times. But there has never been a lack
of inaccurate or bigoted writing about Ukrainians
although this prejudice doesn't seem to extend to
Americans of Ukrainian descent. It would be interest­
ing to find out why this distinction is made. But this is
not a pressing or important problem. What is
important is the revision of history practiced in the
Times via inaccurate statements, selective inattention
to historical facts, or outright prejudicial statements."
— Walter J. Lesiuk, public relations director,
Ukrainian Culture Center, Los Angeles, in a letter to
the editor of The New York Times Magazine.
Ш "Mr/Sulzberger has passed along to me your
letter to him. I have looked into the situation and have
reread the article on Babi Yar and I certainly do not
believe it was in any way inaccurate.
"I appreciate your concern and regret that you were
disturbed by the article. It was certainly not intended
to reflect anti-Ukrainian feeling, but rather to take
note of the anniversary of the events that took place at
Babi Yar...." - Edward Klein, editor, The New York
Times Magazine, in a letter to Walter J. Lesiuk,
Ukrainian Culture Center, Los Angeles.
Ш "In your article of Monday, September 14,1981,
"The U.N. and Afghanistan,' you interchangeably use
the terms 'Russia' and 'Soviet Union.'
"It is incorrect and unacceptable to use the name of
a constituent part (Russia) to label the totality
(USSR). The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is
composed of at least 15 republics, only one of which is
Russia. The use of the term 'Russia' to identify the
USSR results in the American public perceiving the
USSR as an ethnically Russian society, when in fact,
Russians make up barely 50 percent of the population.
"Reference to the USSR as 'Russia' greatly
distresses millions of Americans whose ethnic
background is not Russian, but whose country
happens to be linked with Russia today in the USSR.
The use of 'Russia' or 'Russian' denies their very
identity.... - Media Action Coalition, in a letter to
Fred Halliday, The New York Times.
U "While I found your article in the December 11
issue of the New York Times ('Bulgaria: a Russian
Look-Alike? Well, Look Again') to have been.
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COMBAT... U "The Times editorial of January 6 is very "Since the senior Polovchaks did obtain a Soviet
distressing. It is shocking to think that despite so much exit visa (granted only to a few Ukrainians) and were
14)
information about repression, indeed persecution, then admitted back to the Soviet Union (an ever rarer
interesting, I do believe it contained a few errors which within the Soviet Union, your editorial writer can event), they could have only pretended to be practicing
bear some correction. promote the point of view that Walter Polovchak Ukrainian Catholics upset by their son's American
T h e Cyrillic alphabet was not invented or attri­ should be reunited with his parents. Baptist friends. Just as they, presumably, pretended to
buted as such to Ss. Cyril and Methodious but rather "To humanize Soviet bestiality with respect to want to emigrate for permanent residency in the
to St. Cyril's disciples, who named it in his memory. family law is not befitting The New York Times, United States, not just to provide an example for
While it is true that St. Cyril developed an alphabet, regardless of what specific motive the editorial writer Soviet propaganda on 'how bad life is in America.'
this alphabet is called the Glagolithic, not Cyrillic may have with respect to the Walter Polovchak case. Unfortunately, the well laid plans were upset when
alphabet Furthermore, the two saints were Greek, not "Your editorial viewpoint suggests that freedom of their two oldest children did not play out the charade
Bulgarians, as your article erroneously indicated. the individual is a secondary concern, as-long as and refused to return to the 'Socialist Paradise.'" —
"Likewise, Kiev and Kharkiv are cities of Ukraine, judicial court procedure is preserved. Apparently, it George M J. Slusarczuk, in a letter to Max Frankel,
not Russia. The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist makes no difference to The New York Times that the editor, The New York Times.
Republic, as it is formally known, and Ukraine are two Soviet judiciary system (shall we say the KGB?) could
of the 15 constituent republics of the USSR. Unfortu­ well end Walter's existence, or make him a prisoner for
nately, although it is common practice to refer to the life in some labor concentration camp, as has been
USSR as 'Russia,' this practice tends to obscure the done with so many human-rights activists. Given the Ш "I found your article 'Russia: Shadow and
geopolitical realities of the USSR, as well as perpetrate record of The New York Times in reporting only the Substance' quite interesting and enlightening.
a very subtle chauvinism." - Media Action Coali­ most celebrated cases of Soviet repression, the "What puzzles me, however, is your admission to
jaundiced observer might conclude the aim of this knowing so very little about the non-Russian
tion, in a letter to R.W. Apple, The New York Times.
editorial to be a subtle coverup of Soviet persecution. „. republics and nationalities of the USSR.
"Your editorial states that Walter Polovchak's "Considering that our perception of the USSR is to
parents are Catholics, but in religious preference, they a great extent formulated by news reports from
Ш "I am enclosing a photostat ic copy of a correction were defied by their son, who became a Baptist. The correspondents such as yourself, your statement has
that appeared in The Times on January 13. As you will New York Times knows very well, but fails in its frightening implications: our access to information
see, it sets the record straight on the Cyrillic and editorial responsiblity by not reporting the fact that about 14 of the IS union republics and half of the
Glagolithic alphabets, as well as the nationality of St. the Catholic Church in Ukraine has, for all practical population in the USSR may be virtually non­
Cyril and St. Methodius. Thank you for calling the purposes, been dissolved. The historical record shows existent.
errors to our attention." — William W. Humbach, that most clerics, along with millions of believers, were "The Media Action Coalition is involved with issues
assistant to the executive editor, The New York Times, arrested and deported to the concentration camps. ... related to our nation's awareness of Eastern Europe
in a letter to the MAC. "In this matter, you accuse the Reagan administra­ and the USSR. One of our major concerns is the lack
tion cf shallow chauvinism. Do you suggest the same of factual information about the non-Russian
for the actions of the Carter administration? Apparent­ nationalities of the USSR.
ly, it is more expedient journalistically to castigate "I would be extremely interested in your own
Reagan than to consider the higher moral issue facing assessment of the reasons for such a disparate
the U.S. government in this unusual situation — to understanding of the USSR and also in your sugges­
Ш "An article about Bulgaria on December 11 gave protect the life of an individual who seeks to be free, to tions as to what could be done to improve this
incorrect nationalities for the developers of the Cyrillic protect his right to choose his own future — to situation." - The Media Action Coalition, in a letter
alphabet. St. Cyril and his brother, St Methodius, continue to live in the democratic West...." — Myron to A. Austin, The New York Times Magazine.
were Greek missionaries who developed an alphabet Leskiw, in a letter to, The New York Times.
while serving in what is now Bulgaria. That alphabet,
known as Glagolithic, was refined by their followers
into Cyrillic." - Correction published in The New
York-Thaw. D "I am in receipt of your letter of September 5,
Ш "Your editorial position for the return of Walter 1981, in regard to my article on Russia in the August
Polovchak to the Soviet Union (editorial page, 30 issue of The New York Times Magazine. You say
January 6) does not surprise me. After ail, it seems to you are puzzled by my saying I know little about the
be in the tradition of American liberalism. Before non-Russian republics of the Soviet Union.
U "Thank you for the letter of January 21 and a World War II, during a liberal Democratic administra­ "Put it to excessive modesty. I think I do know
copy of The New York Times correction regarding the tion, a shipload of Jewish children was returned to the something about the other Soviet republics, and have
Cyrillic alphabet and the nationality of Ss. Cyril tender mercies of Adolf ('Work Makes You Free^ reported on some of them during my recent Moscow
and Methodius. I appreciate you taking the time to Hitler, no doubt to be reunited with their families in assignment.
write. Auschwitz or Sachsenhausen. "I can't agree with your assertion that press
"I am, nevertheless, quite disappointed that this "What does surprise me, however, is the sloppy information on the non-Soviet republics is "virtually
notice did not correct the erroneous reference to the research, done — calling, with emphasis, the Polovchak non-existent.' Correspondents of The New York
Ukrainian- cities of Kiev and Kharkiv as cities of parents Ukrainian Catholics. The Ukrainian Catholic Times stationed in Moscow make frequent visits to
Russia, which obviously they are not. This type of Church in the USSR was officially dissolved and other parts of the Soviet Union, and their reports on
error is of no lesser magnitude than of referring to the banned in 1946 and all its communicants forcibly those areas appear in our paper. The same is true of
above saints as Bulgarians or in attributing the integrated into the Russian Orthodox Church. Those Moscow correspondents for other major American
development of the Cyrillic alphabet to Saint Cyril." resisting were sent to Siberia. There is not a single newspapers. ..." - Anthony Austin, The New York
- Media Action Coalition, in a letter to William M. Ukrainian Catholic priest openly practicing his Times Magazine, in a letter to the Media Action
Humback, The New Yor,k Times. ministry in Ukraine. Coalition.

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Results from Wednesday's primary elections

As The Weakly was going to press, the results of the primary elections for John Hewryk 209' Roman Prypchan 116'
supreme officers, auditors and advisors were announced at the convention. Rev. Stephan Bilak (92' Roman Kuropas 113'
The results follow. Those candidates who received less than five votes are Bohdan Hnatiuk iw V^asyl Sharvan 107'
not listed. Asterisks^) indicate that these candidates agreed to run in the John Vynnyk 138' Michael Snihurowycz 107'
final election. JohnTeluk 128' Ivan Skoczylas 100'
NOTE: Only three candidates are allowed to run for each available position. Rev. Waszczuk Ц5' Walter Kurchynsky 97'
Thus, three candidates could tun for each of the supreme officers'positions; John Skalczuk 106' Roman Krupka 94'
five candidates could run for the five auditors positions; and 4 2 candidates Bohdan Futey 93' Eugene Rep eta 91
could run for the 14 advisors' positions. Cyril Beskorowajny 65' Osyp Wynnyckyj 89'
It should also be noted that Supreme Secretary Walter Sochan and Wasyl Liscynesky ` 62' John Hvozda 88'
Supreme Treasurer Ulana Diachuk were re-elected as the chairman cast a Peter Gadek ` 54' Rev. Taras Chubenko 76'
Walter Boyd Boryskewich 50 Myron Siryj 74'
vote on behalf of the entire convention so that they would be elected
Walter Korchynsky 9 Roman Tatarskyj 66'
unanimously by acclamation.
Wasyl Papiz 7 Walter Hetmansky 63'
Tekla Moroz 6 John Chomko 59'
Supreme president: Rev. Myron Stasiw John Hvozda 5 Edwin Blidy 51'
Walter Sochan Tymko Butrej 48'
John Flis 261' Supreme advisors: Osypa Olinkewycz 48'
Supreme secretary: Petro Tarnawsky 43'
Joseph Lesawyer 167'
Walter Sochan Helen Olek 230' Augustine Rudnyk 42'
368' Taras Szmagala 238' Michael Karachewsky
Stefan Hawrysz 41'
Supreme vice president: 6
Andrew Jula 221' Nestor Olesnycky 38
John Odezynsky 185' Ivan Knihnycky 34'
Myron Kuropas 263' Supreme treasurer: Walter Kwas 184' S. Levytsky 34
Bohdan Futey 91'
Ulana Diachuk Walter Hawrylak 177' John Pryhoda 31'
365'
John Hvozda 45'
Stefan Hawrysz Eugene Iwanciw 164' Gloria Paschen 24
5
Walter Boyd-Boryskewich 23'
Walter Sochan 4 Andrew Keybida 163' Levytsky 23
Tekla Moroz 159' Wasyl Luchkiw 21'
Supreme director of Canada: William Pastuszek 159' Paul Shewchuk
Supreme organizer: 21
Sen. Paul Yuzyk 279' Anna Haras 152' Wasyl Papiz 19
Rev. Myron Stasiw 109' Wasyl Didiuk 138' Roman Tarnawsky 18
Stefan Hawrysz 203'
Gloria Paschen 10 Askold Lozynskyj 135' Lev Blanarovych 12
Wasyl Orichowsky 185' Taras Maksymowich 134^ Luchkiw 9
Yasinsky
Supreme vice presidentess: Supreme auditors: Petro Diakiw 128і 9
Yasinsky
Ivan Chomanczuk 127' 8
John Hewryk
Gloria Paschen 203' Nestor Olesnycky 256' Michael Olshansky 122' Mykola Schpetko 5
189- Anatole Doroshenko 211' Michael Soroka 120' 5
Mary Dushnyck

Reports
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of the elections and petitions committee
were announced by the Credentials
Committee on Tuesday.
Elected to the Petitions Committee
were Taras Maksymowich (Branch 368,
Miami) - 154 votes; Antin Hayduk
(Branch 243, West Pullman, Ш . ) – 136;
Stefania Leheta (Branch 20, Ham-
tramck, Mich.) - 122; Kateryna
Onufryk (Branch 416, Hamilton, Ont.)
- 132; and Raisa Doroshenko (Branch
103, Milwaukee) - 113.
The following were voted to serve on
the Elections Committee: Nicholas
Bobeczko (Branch 102, Cleveland) -
191 votes; Mary Bednarchyk (Branch
178, Manchester, N . H . ) ' - 177; Anne
Remick (Branch 238, Boston) - 171;
Stepan Chuma (Branch 361, New York)
- 165; Bohdan Odezynskyj (Branch
216, Philadelphia) - 160; Walter
Wasylenko (Branch 277, Hartford,
Conn.) - 156; Mykola Pryshlak
(Branch 45, Philadelphia) - 148; Paul
Dubas (Branch 471, Montreal) - 142;
Jacob Buriy (Branch 402, Etobicoke,
Ont.) 135; Michael Marchuk (Branch
106, Chicago) - 134; Michael Chomyn
(Branch 389, Lehighton, Pa.) - 128.
The Monday afternoon session began
with the nomination of a press commit­
tee consisting of Zenon Snylyk, Svo-
boda editor-in-chief; Anthony Dragan.
editor emeritus; Roma Hadzewycz,The
Weekly editor; Helen Olek, supreme
advisor; Wasyl Sharvan (Branch 127,
Buffalo, N.Y.); Wolodymyr Lewenetz
(Branch 5, Astoria, N.Y.); Genevieve
Zerebniak, honorary Supreme As­
sembly member; Zenon Onufryk
(Branch 172, Whippany, N.J.) and
Wasyl Didiuk, supreme advisor. Ulana
Starosolsky (Branch 457, New York)
and Eugene Fedorenko (Branch 293,
Brooklyn, N.Y.) were added to the
Press Committee the next day. The
nomination of this committee is a
prerogative of the presidium chairman.
The afternoon session was devoted to media, and the voided Chicago district The day before the opening session of
brief reports — addenda to or summa­ committee meeting. the 30th Regular UNA convention, a
ries of the reports already published in At the conclusion of the responses, concert was held at the Genesee
the convention reports book — by the the chairman of the Supreme Auditing Plaza/ Holiday Inn. The program was
supreme executives and supreme audi­ Committee, John Hewryk, proposed prepared by the Rochester Convention
tors. that the reports be accepted. Only three Committee for the entertainment of the
Tuesday's sessions were highlighted delegates voted against acceptance. delegates and local community mem­
by the reports of supreme advisors and The convention was then greeted by bers. The featured performers were:
the Svoboda editor-in-chief, Zenon Ivan Oleksyn, UFA president, who soprano Laryssa Magun-Huryn, the
Snylyk. noted that the UNA and UFA face Surma Choir of Rochester directed by
The committee reported that the similar problems, and that the represen­ Yaroslaw Matkowsky,,theDunai dance
number of delegates had risen from the tatives of both fraternals could better troupe of the Rochester, SUM-A
original 396 on the opening day to 399 overcome these problems and serve branch, directed by Bohdan Lyko, the
- only one short of the 400 elected their members if a merger were a- Hanna Baryinok girls' Plast unit of
across North America. chieved. Mr. Oleksyn also informed the Rochester — Yara Kekish, artistic direc­
Greeting the convention during the delegates that he and his family are tor, the Namysto Ensemble of Washing­
second day of deliberations was Ray­ members of the UNA. ton, directed by Petro Krul and pianist
mond A. Klee, executive vice president On Wednesday afternoon, the pri­ Elena Borysenko.
of the National Fraternal Congress of mary elections of the supreme officers, Piano accompaniment was provided
America, who spoke about the ideals advisors and auditors were held by by Anna Sorokhtey and Ms. Bory­
embodied in fraternalism, and remind­ secret ballot. The results were expected senko. Eugene Kulyk was the concert
ed his audience that "we are our to be announced the next day. master of ceremonies.
brother's keeper."
Discussions and questions pertaining
to the reports occupied the remainder of
the day's sessions on Tuesday, and on
Wednesday the reporting officers had
the opportunity to reply to any ques­
tions directed to their respective re­
ports. Last to respond was Supreme
President Flis,who received a standing
ovation from the majority of the dele­
gates upon completing his remarks.
Among the topics discussed were the
Supreme Assembly 11 and its state­
ments, as well as the Supreme Execu­
tive Committee^ response, the chair­
manship of the Supreme Auditing
Committee, UNA affairs in Canada,the
contents of Svoboda, the quality of
reports submitted to the convention,
UNA. investments, the proposed UNA
senior citizens' project and the 13th
Congress of the UCCA.
Also touched upon were the pro­
posed UNA Cultural Foundation, the
UNA-Ukrainian Fraternal Association
merger, the new subscription system of
The Ukrainian Weekly, membership
losses and organizing activity, com­ ! Rochester Vice Mayor Jenry Curran greets