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D.C. honors He lsinki groupProtesters hold vigil

" / WASH INGTON - Approximately25 persons participated in a protest vigiloutside the Soviet Embassy here on

Tuesday, November 9, on the occasionof the Ukrainian Helsinki Group'ssixthanniversary.Led by m embers of the Philadelphia-based Ukrainian Human Rights Committee, the organizers of the demonstration, and former Soviet politicalprisoner and member of the UkrainianHels ink i Group Nina S t roka ta , theprotesters handed . passers-by leafletsexplaining the reason behind the demonstration as well as copies of thepresidential proclamation of a day into the Ukrainian Helsinki monitors.-During the course of the vigil, correspondents of the Voice of America andRadio Liberty interviewed Dr. Strokata.Later that afternoon, Dr. Strokata,members of the Ukrainian HumanRights Committee, including UlanaMazurkevich, Christine Senykand VeraAndreyczyk, and other demonstratorsmet for 45 m inutes with representativesof the State Department.The 12-member Ukrainian delegation met with Melvyn Levitsky, deputyassistant secretary of state for humanrights and humanitarian affairs; JudyBuncher, human-rights officer for

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G e n . G r ig o r e n k o a d d r e s s e ss p e c i a l c o n c e r t p r o g r a mWAS HINGTO N - Former Sovietpolitical prisoner Petro Grigorenko wasthe featured speaker at a special concert

program here on Monday evening,November 8, marking the sixth anniversary of the founding of the UkrainianHelsinki Group.The event was organized by an ad-hoc planning committee sponsored bythe three Ukrainian parishes of Metropolitan Washington.The commemorative program, heldat Kay Spiritual Center on the campus,of A merican University drew an audienceof over 2S0 people. Opening prayers,conducted in both English and Ukrainian by the local pastors, the Revs.Stephen Shawel and Mykola Churak,were preceeded'by the singing-of theU.S. and Ukrainian national anthems.In his welcoming remarks, Juri jDobczansky briefly reviewed the historyof the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. Heemphasized the s ignif icance of theNovember 9 proclamation by PresidentRonald Reagan and the congressionalconcurrent resolution.Mr. Dobczansky, who also served ast rans la to r , in t roduced Gen . Gr igorenko, founding member of both theMoscow and Ukrainian Helsinki groups.Gen. Grigorenko began by contrasting the situation today with that of 40years ago, when the Ukrainian peoplerose to struggle against both the Nazis

Petro Grigorenko addresses a special U krainian Helsinki group program; at leftis translator Jurij Dobczansky.and the Soviets and the world deniedthem recogni tion . Today; he theworld knows of that struggle and thecurrent struggle for human rights.

The sparks of the Ukrainian nationalstruggle have never died out, he added.Is it not significant, he asked, thatDanylo Shum uk, a former member ofthe Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA)and Mykola Rudenko, a former Sovietofficer find themselves in the same laborcamp?Turning his attention to the membersof the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, Gen.Grigorenko described them as a smallbut spiritually strong group of people.The group formed an external representa t ion abroad , someth ing no o the r

group was able to do, he said.After their arrests and incarcerationthe group's mem bers continued to studyand work for human rights - even inthe confines of Mordovian labor camps,he noted, adding that they have notrecanted. They now consider themselves corresponding members of thegroup.Gen. G rigorenko said that in contrastto the open activity of an earlier periodwhen he was directly involved with thegroup, members today must operateclandestinely. The outside world doesnot know of them, he added, becausethey must remain silent under the.constant threat of discovery and arrest.(Continued on p ap 5)

Participants of th e seventh conference of UN A district committee chairmen.

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KERHONKSON, NY . i - Repre- "sentatives of 18 UNA districts throug hout the United States and Canada metat the seventh conference of district":committee chairmen held here at Soyu^jzivka during the November 13-14 weeb-we n d - CI.ST h e c o n f e r e n c e , a t t e n d e d b y t 0 e jdistrict committee chairmen, one fWS-'chairman and one secretary, was conducted by Supreme Organizer StefanHawrysz. After the conference was opened wi^B'^i n t r o d u c to r y r e m a r ks b y U N A ^ e ^ "preme Pres iden t John O . F l i s ,3 (he^-d is trie t representatives p resent reported -on activity in their respective districts.Representatives of eight districts wereunable to attend.Wasyl Orichowsky, senior field organizer, also took part, repo rting on theproblems en countered by the districts inhis territory.(Continued on page 5)

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2 TH E U K R A IN IA N W E E KLY S U N D A Y , N O V EM B E R 2 1 , 19 82 No. 47

Dissident prof i leLev Lukianenko:

serving second 15-year termJERSEY CITY, N .J. - In 1961,imprisoned Ukrainian activist Lev,Lukianenko, then just 34, thought

his life was over. Convicted of treason, he was sentenced to face a firingsquad. His sentence was later commuted to 15 years' imprisonment.This time, autho rities tried to kill hisspirit, his dedication to the cause ofUkrainian independence and humanrights. They did not succeed.Today, Mr. Lukianenko is in thefourth year of a 10-year labor-campsentence, which will be followed by afive-ye ar exile term. On December12, 1977, just four months after herenounced his So viet citizenship, Mr.Lukianenko was arrested and chargedwith "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda." On July 20, 1978, he wassentenced to his second 15-year termin 17 years.Lev Hryhorovych Lukianenkowas born on August 24, 1927, in thevillage of Khripovka in the Cher-nihiv region in Ukraine. His parentswere peasants. In 1957 he graduatedfrom the law faculty of LomonosovState University in Moscow. Shortlyafter, he joined the Co mmunist Partyand began working as a staff propagandist in party district committeesin the Lviv region o f western Ukraine.While working in the Lviv region,he was to befriend several otheryoung Ukrainian lawyers, amongthem Ivan Kandyba and Josyf Bo-rovnytsky. They began to discuss theprospect of the eventual secession ofUkraine from the USS R, a rightguaranteed by Article 17 in theSoviet Constitution. So on they werejoined by others, men such as StepanVirun, then 27, a Communist Partypropagandist; Oleksander Libovych,a 24-year-old agricultural engineer;Vasyl Lutskiv, 24, a manager of avillage club; and Ivan Kipysh, a 36-year-old emplo yee o f militia agenciesin Lviv.

By 1959, these men were discussingthe possibility of forming a group torepresent their views, and drafted aprogram of principles on which thegroup would be based, among themthe democratization of life in Ukraineand the possibility of forming anindependent Ukrainian state.In November I960fivemembers ofthe group, which became known asthe Ukrainian Workers' and Peasants' Union, including Mr. Lukianenko , met to discuss the aims of theorganization. It was decided to revisethe objectives of the union. Instead ofthe secession of Ukraine, the newgoal was to achieve legal status forUkraine within the USSR throughofficial recognition.

The meeting was also attended bya KGB agent, later identified asMykola Vashchuk. On January 20,1961, the KGB arrested M essrs.Lukianenko, Kandyba, Virun andLutskiv. Within months, the otherthree members were rounded up andarrested.During the pre-trial investigation,the KGB put tremendous pressure o nthe defendants to confess . Mr.Lukianenko was placed in a cell witha KGB agent. In addition, he and Mr.Lutskiv were forcibly given a series ofdebilitating drugs. The defendantswere also physically abused.

Lev LukianenkoIn addition, Mr. Lukianenko wastold by the KGB that constitutionalguarantees of Ukrainian secessionwere "for foreign use," adding that ifmass demo nstrations were organizedin support o f secession they would becrushed by Soviet troops especiallyprepared for that purpose.The secret trial began in May 1961.All seven defendants were chargedwith treason and/or participation inan anti-Soviet organization. Becausehe had drafted the UWPU's program, Mr. Lukianenko was sentenced to death, which was latercomm uted to 15 years in a strict-regimen labor camp.Mr. Lutskiv, reportedly affectedby drugs, attempted to avoid punishment by suppo rting the prosecution'scontention that the UWPU advocated armed insurrection. He stilldrew a 10-year sentence. Mr. Kandyba got 15years, Mr. Virun, II, andthe others each go t 10-year terms.Throughout the trial the government maintained that the aim of theUWPU was struggle against theSoviet state and system. Mr. Lukia-nenko's indictment accused him ofhaving "an anti-Soviet disposition,"and recruiting "unstable individualsand former OUN (Organization o fUkrainian N ationalists) members"for the UWPU.Mr. Lukianenko countered that heenvisioned "an independent Ukrainewith- a broadly develo ped socialiststate system," noting that Article 14of the Constitution of the UkrainianSSR and Article 17 of the SovietConstitution clearly delineate arepublic's right to secede from theUSSR.Mr. Kandyba denied UWPU linksto the O UN , but called the groupmembers "true patriots of Ukraine."Because he was perceived as themastermind behind the UWPU, Mr.Lukianenko's imprisonment was par-ticularly harsh. In-19 67 he wasdeprived of family visits, and he wasfrequently imprisoned within the

labor camp for issuing numerousdemands and ap peals. In addition, hespent four and a half years in the no torious Vladimir Prison.In 1974, Mr. Lukianenko wastransferred to a psychiatric institution for co nvicted prisoners for twomo nths. A s a result of his imprisonment, Mr. Lukianenko developedsevere stomach ailments.(Continued on pap It)

Soviets continue to harassMoscow disarmament groupMOSCOW - Soviet authorities onN ovember I blocked attempts by abeleaguered pacifist group here to holda press conference, barring m embers ofthe Western press from the buildingwhere the meeting was to take place,reported The New York Times.The conference was to have been thefirst appearance by Sergei Batovrin, a25-year-old artist and the unofficialgroup's leader, since his release from apsychiatric hospital in early September.But, according to residents of theapartment where the news conferencewas scheduled, Mr. Batovrin and hiswife were prevented by security agentsfrom leaving their home.Two other members of the groupnever reached the conference site andwere presumed to have been intercepted, while two who did arrive werepushed back by plainclothesmen. Reporters arriving at the site were orderedto leave.The forcible breakup of the planned

meeting was typical of the repressive

measures authorities have taken since11 Soviet intellectuals announced theformation of the Group for the -Establishment of Mutual Trust between theUnited States and the USSR o n June 6.It. was the first pacifist organization tochallenge - the official Soviet "peace"apparatus.Members of the group have beensubjected to considerable harassment,evidently because Soviet authorities^perceive the grou p's existence aschallenging the officially projectedimage of a nation united behind President Leonid Brezhnev's peace initiatives and politics.Mr. Batovrin spent a month in apsychiatric hospital after his arrest onAugust 6, the day a group of Americanactivists was to visit him. Two othermembers were detained for 15 days inJuly to prevent any contact with 200Scandinavians who staged a closelycontrolled peace march though severalSoviet cities.(Continued on paje 13)

S o v i e t s a b u s e d B a p t i s t p r i s o n e rMUN ICH - A young Soviet Baptist,who was released from prison lastAugust, was so abused during herconfinement that she only weighed 88pounds when she was freed, accordingto Soviet sources.Galina Vilchinskaya, 24, who servedthree years for operating a religiouscamp for children, had been deniedfood for five days prior to her releasefrom a Siberian prison , reportedEast/ West News.Ten days before she was freed, Ms.Vilchinskaya was transferred to a Vladivostok prison. She was reported lyaccompanied by eight men armed withmachine guns.

During her two-day stay, she was notgiven any foo d, nor was she fed on a 14-hour flight to Moscow. From Moscow,she was flown to her hometown ofBrest, Byelorussia, where she wasbriefly placed in jail.During her three-year confinement,Ms. Vilchinskaya reportedly sufferedfrom scurvy and lost six teeth.Following her release, she returnedhome, but sources indicate that shecontinues -to be the subject of officialharassment. On October 15 policeconducted a search of her hom e, confiscating everything typewritten or printed.

D i s s i d e n t s e e k s m e d i c a l c a r e a b r o a dAM STE RDA M, the N etherlands -Former Sov iet po litical prisoner ValeriyMarchenko has asked authorities toallow him to travel to Italy for much-needed medical attention, reported theSmoloskyp Ukrainian InformationService.In a letter to the Ministry of theInterior, the 35-year-old p hilolo gist saidthat he suffers from glo merulon ephritis,an inflammation of capillaries in thekidneys, and that he has been unable to

find proper treatment in the USSR.In 1973 Mr. Marchenko beganserving a sentence o f six years in a laborcamp followed by two years' internalexi le for art ic les published in theunderground samvydav. He was freedin 1981 and now resides in Kiev.In the letter, Mr. Marchenko saidthat friends in Italy have told him thatthey have found doctors in that countrywho could treat his condition.

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N o . 4 7 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2 1, 198 2 3

D e r w i n s k i t a g g e df o r S t a t e D e p i p o s t

WASHINGTON - Rep. Ed Derwinski (R-II1.). who lost his bid for a12th term in the-Republican primarylast spring, has been nominated byPresident Ronald Reagan to be a StateDepartment counselor.In his new assignment, Rep. Derwinski will work directly with Secretary ofState George Shultz and act as atrouble-shooter for the department. Heis also expected to work with Congressin helping to obtain legislative supportfor. the administration's foreign policypositions.Senate confirmation of Rep. Derwinski is expected after Congress reconvenes on November 29."I am looking forward to this mostinteresting and challenging assignmen t," Rep. Derwinski said. "As a longtime proponent ofan aggressive foreignpolicy and recognizing the special threatto our freedoms and those of our free-world allies that a re pcsed by the SovietUnion, 1 am hopeful that I can make apositive contribution to the new direct ion in U.S. foreign policy that isdeveloping in the Reagan administration."In March, Rep. Derwinski lost theRepubl ican nomina t ion in the 4thDistrict to his long-time friend, Rep.George M. O'Brien. The two men wereforced to compete for the same seatbecause of a controversial reapportion-ment plan orchestrated by IllinoisDemocrats in 1980.During his long career in the House,Rep. Derwinski served on the ForeignAffairs Committee since 1963. He wasa member of the U.S. delegation to theUnited Nations in 1971, and a rankingmember of the International Organizations Subcommittee.First elected to Congress in 1958,Rep. Derwinski was an early supporterof the Shevchenko Monument in Washington, Captive Nations Week observances and numerous congressionalresolutions concerning the Ukrainiancause. -

H u m a n - r i g h t s g r o u p sl o b b y a t M a d r i dM A D R I D - Several human-rightsgroups from around the world heldpress conferenceson the eve of the

opening of the Madrid Conference toreview compliance "with the HelsinkiAccords on November 9, but no Ukrainian organizations were represented,according to the Smoloskyp UkrainianInformation Service.Among those present were membersof Scientists for Sakharov, Orlov andShcharansky.Soviet Baptists were represented byLidia Vins, the mother of pastor GeorgiVins who came to the United States in1979. He is head of the InternationalRepresen ta t ion for the Counc i l ofBaptist Churches of the Soviet Union.Also at Madrid were Jeri Laber of theU.S.-based Helsinki Watch and YuriKadalis of the World Federation ofFree Latvians. Representatives of thePolish free trade union Solidarity werealso scheduled to hold a press conference.According to Smoloskyp, the absence of Ukrainian groups was conspicuous, With several reporters inquiring about the lack of a press conference.Two years ago, when the conferencef i r s t convened , severa l Ukra in iangroups met with the press and individual delegations.

M i s i n f o r m a t i o n is ta rge t of M e d i a A c ti o n W o r ks h o pby George B. Zarycky

K E R H O N K S O N , N.Y. - Thi r typeople attended a Media Action Workshop here on Novemb er 13-14 to discussways of tackling the problem of misinformation on Ukraine and Ukrainiansin the Library of Congress and the U.S.Census Bureau.The weekend workshop was held atSoyuzivka, the UNA resort, and wassponsored by the UNA in collaborationwith the Media Action Coalition.The objective of the meeting was todevise a coordinated strategy to addresssuch problems as inaccurate cataloguing and subject headings in the Libraryof Congress, and misleading or improper language and ancestry categories inthe census.The workshop got under way onSaturday in the Kiev guest house withZenon Onufryk, head of the MediaAction Coalition, telling the participants mostly students and professionals that misinformation aboutUkrainians and Ukraine has a detrimental effect on Ukrainian identity andon non-Ukrainian perceptions.According to Mr. Onufryk, one suchinaccuracy is engendered in the decisionby the Library of Congress to retain thead jec t ive "Russ ian" in ca ta logu ingsubjects that refer to the USSR as awhole. Although the library has properly replaced the heading "Russia" withthe Soviet Union, it still maintains suchsubdivisions as Russian literature andhistory, which includes non-Russianmaterials, he said.

The problem with the Census Bureaucenters on its language and ancestryclassifications, Mr. Onufryk said, noting that there are eight entries underUkrainian language, including Ruthe-n ian , Carpa tho-Rusyn and Lemko.However, in the ancestry section, Ru-thenian is listed as a separate category,while Rusyn appears under Russianand Ukrainian remains alone, he said.

In addit ion to Mr. Onufryk, theworkshop panel included MAC stafferRoman Zabihach, a supervisory planne r for New Jersey's Morris Countywho has had extensive dealings with theCensus Bureau; Prof. Taras Hunczak ofRutgers University; and Jurij Dobczan-.sky from the Library of Congress.The moderator for the weekend wasMarta Korduba, UNA fraternal activities coordinator, who welcomed theparticipants, most of whom were fromthe East C oast. She said that the idea forthe workshop had evolved from a seriesof three UNA-sponsored conferencesduring which the issue of misinformation was mentioned as a critical problem.

Ms. Korduba added that the issue ofmisinformation was also brought up atlast summer's UNAconvention, whichadopted a resolution pledging to worktoward alleviating the problem. Theworkshop, she said, was an outgrowthof that concern, adding that she hopedsome type of infrastructure for coordinated effort would come out of thesessions.She reported that both the Library ofCongress and the Census Bureau senttheir greetings, and had indicated thatthey were eager to get cons t ruc t ivefeedback from the Ukrainian community. PresentationsThe first speaker was Mr. Dobczan-sky, who talked about "The Organizat iona l S t ruc tu re of the Libra ry ofCongress."Although he works at the library,Mr. Dobczansky noted that he was not

addressing the session as an officialspokeman.Stressing that the Ukrainian community must understand the structure ofgovernment agencies before it can hopeto effectively lobby for policy ch anges,Mr. Dobczansky noted that there are5,386 Library of Congress employeesspread out over 100 divisions andsubdivisions.After offering a structural breakdown of the library, Mr. Dobczanskynoted tha t Ukrainians would be best offaddressing their concerns to the SubjectCataloguing Division. Rather thanindividual efforts such as letter-writing,Mr. Dobczansky recommended that thecommunity devise a coordinated approach.In his presentation, "The Structureand Significance of the U.S. CensusBureau," Mr. Zabihach said that thebureau determines nationality figuresbased on information in the ancestrycategories. Although the 1980 censusha d a separate Ukrainian categoryunder ancestry, it beclouded the issue byproviding separate categories for Ukrai

nian territories within the borders ofother countries, he said.For example, Bessarabia, Bukovinaand Moldavia were listed under Rumanian, while Little Russian, Malo-Rus-sian, Carpathian and Ruthenian appeared under Ruthenian. Both Rusynand Crimean were listed under Russian,inexplicably, as were six non-Russianrepublics.What's more, Mr. Zabihach continued, many of these groups were lumpedtoge the r under one compute r codenumber, making it impossible to differentiate in the final tallies. Under Russian, for example, Rusyn, Russian andUSSR were all coded 140, and underRuthenian, Little Russian, Malo-Rus-sian and Ruthenian were coded 163.Carpa thian, m eanwhile, was coded 164,he said.Because of such structural confusion,the 1980 census reported that there wereonly 500,000 Ukrainians in the UnitedStates, a figure deemed far too low by

the Ukrainian American community.Because political clout is intimatelyrelated to the size of a given comm unity,Mr. Zabihach said that it is imperativethat the Ukrainian community pressurethe Census Bureau to alter its categorystructure.Because its function is to provideinformation, Mr. Zabihach suggestedthat Ukrainian organizations such asPlast and the UNA request populationfigures from the bureau before the 1990census. Once that information is givenin its present form, these organizationsshould then complain to the bureauand, more importantly, to congressiona l l eaders , tha t the g r o u p i n g s areinaccura te , p rompt ing Congress topressure the Census Bureau to changeits policies.

Like Mr. Dobczansky, Mr. Zabihachsaid that a coordinated and organizedapproach would more likely succeedthan individual efforts.Prof. Hunczak, who teaches history,then spoke on "The Perception ofUkrainians in America."Noting that nations without a government or statehood are usually perceived in terms of ethnici ty , Prof.Hunczak said that Ukrainian issues aremisunderstood not only in the UnitedStates, but throughout the world.The frequent and erroneous interchanging of the terms Russian, Ukrainian and Soviet presents, in the professor's view, a "terminological problemwith significant conceptual implicat ions" in political and academic circles.On the positive side, Prof. Hunczak'noted that Ukrainian issues have, oflate, been addressed by politicians, andthat m ore and m ore academic circles arebeginning to discuss Ukrainian topics.Thanks largely to Ukrainian studieschain and institutes at such leadingNorth American universities as Harvard and the University of Toronto,non-Ukra in ian academics are nowwilling to accept Ukrainian scholarship,he said.' The final presentation was delivered

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Rom an Zabihach (standing), addresses the Media Action Wo rkshop. Seated are(from left): Zenon Onufryk, Jurij Dobczansky and Marta Korduba.

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U N A B ra n ch 3 4 7 to c e l e b r a t e 7 0 t hMILLVILLE , N .j . - UkrainianNational Association Branch 347,also known as the Zaporozska SichSociety, will celebrate 70 years ofactivity and will honor its pioneermembers at an afternoon banquet onSunday, November 28.The banquet will be held at theUkrainian N ational Hom e on CarmelRoad in Millville beginning at 2 p.m.That morning, special memorialservices will be offered in memory ofBranch 347 pioneers following divineliturgies at the Ukrainian Orthodoxand Catholic churches.The banquet program, which willbe preceded by cocktails, will includea keynote address by UNA SupremePresident John O. Flis, readings of

excerpts from the minutes of the firstbranch meetings, and presentationsof certificates of merit to long-timebranch activists and pioneers.UNA Branch 347 was establishedDecember 9, 1912, with 20 foundingmembers - most of them southernNew Jersey fanners. Today, Branch347 members are no longer farmers

but professionals, and the branch hasgrown in recent years to encompassover 200 members.The present executive officers are:Teodor Suszczyk, president; DariaCapar, secretary; Geraldine Sesok,treasurer; Katherine Gordon, assistantsecretary; and Serhij Kowalchuk,chairman of the auditing committee.

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UNA district...(Cont inued from page 1)The afternoon session was devoted tobrief presentations by UNA supremeofficers. Mr. Flis spoke on the responsibilities of district committees; Supreme Secretary Walter Sochan coverednew developments in life insurance;Supreme Treasure r U lana Diachukdiscussed how the UNA is beneficial toits members and the Ukrainian community at large; and Mr. Hawrysz reportedon the organizing activity of the UNAfor the first 10 mo nths of 1982.

That evening, a dinner was held forall district committee representativesand their spouses. The evening began

G e n . G r i g o r e n k o . . .(Cont inued from page 1)Forced to work underground, thesemen and women are deprived of

the most precious elements of humandignity and self-respect. Gen. Grigorenko observed tearfully.The general encouraged the audienceto continue efforts to publicize theplight of Ukraine. Small efforts such aslet ter-wri t ing, he said, are of greatimportance to the U krainian cause. Thespirit of bravery and determination ofthe Ukrainian Helsinki monitors mustbe transmitted to the West, along withtheir writings.John Finery, staff member of theU.S. Commission on Securi ty andCooperation in Europe, conveyed atnessage of support and assurance fromthe U.S . delegation to the Mad ridConference. At one point, he asked for amoment of silence to honor a Lithuanian priest and Helsinki monitor, theRev. Bronius Laurinavicius, who wasrecently murdered, probably by theKGB.

The special program also featuredperformances by mezzo-soprano RenataBabak and bass-baritone Andriy Do-briansky, who were accompanied bypianist Thomas Hrynkiw.At the close of the concert , Mr.Dobczansky thanked the audience andthe performers for honoring the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, the ad hoc committee and American University fororganizing the progra m, and representat ives of Smoloskyp Publishers forsponsoring an extensive exhibi t ofsamvydav publications.The event was covered by locaHmedia, including The Washington Post(November 9) and The Eagle of theAmerican University (November 12).Wrote the Post of Gen. Grigorenko'semotional statement: "His message ofpride and determ ination w as a powerfulprelude to the music, and set the scenemore impressively than a clearly organized voice of protest could have."

with with greetings by Mr. Flis and aninvocation reci ted by the Rev. Dr.Bohdan Volosin. Mr. Hawrysz servedas emcee of the dinner program, whichincluded an address by Supreme Advisor Walter K was, the former managerof Soyuzivka; and brief remarks byMarta Korduba, fraternal act ivi t iescoordinator for the UNA, who reportedon her work and plans.The after-dinner program includedthe screening of two films produced bySlavko Nowytski for the UNA: Thefirst, "Helm of Destiny," is about thebeginnings of Ukrainian comm unity lifein America; the second, "UNA Insurance Plus," is a promotional filmabout the benefits of mem bership in theUNA.Early Sunday morning the districtcommittee representat ives met foranother business session at which UNAsupreme off icers repl ied to matterstouched upon in the district reports.Mr. Flis also pointed out tha t in 1983Svoboda will mark the 90th anniversaryof its establishment, while the UNAwould mark its 90th jubilee in 1984. Hecalled on the district committee representat ives to organize appropriateobservances on their respective territories.Speaking on behalf of the conferenceparticipants, Michael Snihurowycz ofthe New Haven District thanked theSupreme Executive Committee forpreparing such a worthwhile meeting.In turn, Mr. Hawrysz thanked thepart icipants for their interest andattendance, and explained what theUNA main office would like the districtcommittees to accomplish before theend of the year. - '

Alter a joint luncheon, the districtrepresentatives bid each other farewelland headed for home.The district-chairmen present were:Supreme Advisor Anna Haras, LehighValley, Pa.; Bohdan Jasinsky, Baltimore; Roman Konotopsky, Buffalo,N.Y.; Wolodymyr Hetmansky, Boston;Mychajlo Olshansky, Chicago; RomanTatarsky, Detroit; Walter Bilyk, JerseyCity, N.J .; Supreme Advisor TeklaMoroz, Montreal; Mychajlo Juzeniw(vice chairman), New York; Mr. Snihurowycz , New Haven , Conn . ; Pe te rTarnawsky and Iwan Dankiwsky (secretary), Philadelphia; Supreme Adv i so r Wal te r Hawry lak , Roches te r ,N.Y.; Tymko Butrey, Shamokin, Pa.;Wasyl Sharan, Toronto; Michael Saw-kiw, Troy, N.Y.; Wasyl Stefuryn,Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Supreme AuditorJohn Hewryk, Winnipeg; Leon Hardink,Woonsocket, R.I.In keeping with UNA tradition, thedistrict representatives brought withthem new membership applications 50 new membership applications forSI50,000 of insurance coverage werepresented to Mr. Hawrysz.

PITT SBU RGH - The first districtto meet after the 30th UN A Conventionwas the Pittsburgh UNA District, whichis headed by UNA Supreme AdvisorAndrew Jula. The district committeemet he re on Sunday , Oc tober 10 .Present were 23 representatives ofnine branches and convention delegates. After calling the meeting to o rder,Mr . Ju la immedia te ly de lved in toorganizin g matte rs . He stated thatPitts burg h ha s a quo ta of ISO newmem bers to fulfill in 1982. To date, hesaid, the district has organized 68 newmembers. Mr. Jula reminded the Pittsburgh District that last year it filled itsquota to the extent of 86.6 percent.He urged the d istrict to again meet itsquota , or at leastfill t to the extent of 75percent so that it would receive anorganizing award.John Flis, UNA supreme president,was then called upon to say a few words.He stated that as of September 30, theUNA had enrolled 1,434 new members.He congratulated Mr. Jula, who organized 17 new members; Mr. K ohut,who organized 12 new members; Mr. D.Holowaty, who organized eight newmembers; Mr. A. Reft, who organizedsix new members; and Mr. S. Evanttsky,who organized six new members.The district promised Mr. Flis that itwould fill at least 75 percent of its quota.Mr. Flis then gave an over-all reporton the accomplishments of UNA duringthis year. He thank ed, first of all, thosewho attended the convention held inMay of this year and who elected himsupreme'president of UNA.

He stated that the dues collectedduring the last e ight months were52,221,000 as compared to 52,160,000for a similar period last year. Hereported that UNA assetsnowamount to546,991,000 . He also reported thataccording to the UNA's last account,the convention expenses amounted to5353,223 with an additional S 10,000of expenses yet unpaid.Dividends of 5580,302 were paid inJune 1982, he said.Expenses have increased somewhatdue to the fact that 20 years ago was aconvention year and therefore a yearwhen many new members had signed upfor endowment policies. These policiesmatured in 1982 and therefore UNApayment of such policies amounted todate to 5675,449.Payment for death benefits amountedto 5525,000 , while cash surrendersamounted to 5326,000.Mr- Flis gave a report on the UNAbuilding and stated that during the firstnine months of this year the UNAcollected 51,637,784 in rents. The netprofit for the same period amounted to5289,868.He emphasized that the UNA is nowaccepting funds for promissory notesfrom members on which it is payinginterest at the ra te of 14 percent perannum. Promissory notes now amountto 54,164,000. He encouraged everyoneto inves t w i th UNA and wi th theUkrainian National Urban RenewalCorporation in order to take advantage of interest rates which are a littlehigher than can be obtained elsewhere.

The m embers expressed anxiety as towhat is being done in regard to themerger of the UNA and UkrainianFraternal Association. Mr. Flis assuredeveryone that no meetings have beenheld, but that fr iendly discussionstoward that end are continuing. The

first meeting for the purpose probablywill be held in latter part of October orbeginning of November, he added.Mr. Flis then stated to the members,that the UNA planned to commence onthe following day a new life insuranceprogram for the benefit of its members.The UNA will agree to accept insuranceapplications from all UNA m embers upto 65 years of age for additional insurance that would double a member'sinsurance with the UNA. No medicalinsurance will be required, except wherethe application shows the need forfurther medical examination. Manyquestions were posed relating to theinitiation of this new insurance program, which Mr. Flis stated, wouldterminate on December 31. Mr. Flissuggested that everyone watch Svobodaand The Ukrainian Weekly for furtherdevelopments on the program.

A q u e s t i o n - a n d - a n s w e r p e r i o dfollowed, and many secretaries anddelegates took" part. A most friendlydiscussion continued even after themeeting was adjourned so that thosepresent would partake of a receptionprepared by the Pittsburgh DistrictCommittee.Chicago

CHI CAG O - Forty-eight representatives from 16 branch es of the UNAChicago District and officers of theUNA Supreme Executive Committeeparticipated in the district's organizingmeeting held here at the UN A H ome onSaturday, September 25.Michael Olshansky, the district chairman, opened the meeting and welcomed participants and UNA SupremeVice President Myron Kuropas, Supreme Vice President Gloria Paschen,Supreme Auditor Anatole Doroshenko,Supreme Advisor Helen Olek andhono rary m ember of the SupremeAssembly Stephen Kuropas.

Presiding at the meeting was RomanJacenkiw, with Osyp Sharun serving assecretary. Minutes from the last meeting were read and accepted unanim ously-Next on the agenda was the readingof the annual reports. Mr. Olshanskygave an overview of the 32 branches inthe district, which have a total of 5,811members. The district work is slow, hereported, as only 119 members havebeen organized. The district was planning to organize 390 new members forthe UNA, he added.

Reports were a^adelivered by secretary Roman Pryjlcpn^and treasurerStefan Kasian. sbgJ sgiThe head of t be j p^ png committee,Jakiv Berestiansky, Told the participants of the meeting that the work of thedistrict committee board members wasall in order, and presented a motion togive the outgoing board a vote ofconfidence.On a motion by the nominatingcomm ittee, consisting of John Gawaluch,.Edwin Blidy and Mr. Jacenkiw, a newexecutive board was elected una nimously. The new board consists of Mr.Olshansky, chairman; Mr. Gawaluch,vice chairman; Levko Pankiw, vicechairman; Mr. Sharun, secretary; Mr.Blidy, treasurer; and Stefania Lisovych,Mr. Jacenkiw, Orest Horodysky, KarloKrajnyk, Ivan Siryk and Mr. Liash-chenko, members.The auditing committee consists ofMr . Beres t i ansky , cha i rman ; Pe t ro

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U k r a i n i a n W e e k l yU k r a i n i a n H e l s i n k i G r o u p is n o t d e a d

The U krainian Helsinki Group is not dead, a fact that seems particularlyirksome to two seemingly disparate groups that would relish claiming itsdemise. The first group, of course, is the Kremlin powermong ers, for whomthe very existence of the Helsinki group represents a defiant repudiation ofthe Soviet system and its brazen disregard for the national and human rightsof its citizens.Recently, judging by newspaper accounts, elements in our own communityhave surprisingly negated the existence of the Ukrainian Helsinki group. InaN ovember 14 Ukrainian-language article printed in The N ational Tribune, anew community newspaper published by the "Fr-eedom" Ukrainian-American House (under the auspices of the Liberation Front), the authorwrites that the Ukrainian Helsinki Group has disbanded.The argument is based on the totally erroneous premise that the Kiev-basedUkrainian group was nothing more than an arm of the Moscow HelsinkiGroup. Since the Moscow group has disbanded, the author argues, theUkrainian group, along with those in Georgia, Lithuania, Estonia andArmenia, no longer exists. This of course, is simply not true, given theindependent nature of the H elsinki group's structure. No one in theUkrainian Helsinki Group has ever announced its dissolution.(We should also note here that Petro Grigorenko, a founding member ofboth the Ukrainian and Moscow Helsinki monitoring groups, has disputedthe "self-dissolution" of the Moscow group, since, he points out, threemembers of the group cannot decide for the entire group. In a commentarypublished in both Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly he said: "Each(Moscow group) member could make recommendations for a document; itwould be considered the group's official paper only upon its being signed byan acceptable number of members.")But there's more. The Tribune author writes: "From now on, nobodyabroad, no t Gen. G rigorenko or anybody else, can speak in its (the UkrainianHelsinki group's) nam e. They can speak as private individuals, wherever andwhenever they wish. P. Grigorenko can consider himself a former member ofthe former Kiev Helsinki Group."Following this addle-brained and wholly specious line of reasoning to itsconclusion, we soon realize that President Ronald Reagan's proclamationhonorin g the Ukrainian Helsinki Group only the second suchproclamation d ealing with a specifically Ukrainian issue is worthlessbecause, the logic goes, the Ukrainian Helsinki Group has ceased to be.The po tential damage to the Ukrainian cause inherent in this ill-conceivednay saying cannot be o verstated. First,^t, implies that the .president of theUnited States was wrong in issuing the proclamation, a notion that coulddiscourage further government involv ement with a comm unity thatseemingly does not know what it wants.Secon d, this element in our commu nity, obsessed with its own narrow andparochial "political" purposes, appears willing to write off the sacrifices ofsuch Helsinki monitors as Shukhevych, Rudenko, Senyk and Svitlychna,sacrifices acknowledged not on ly by the president, but by Congress and mostWestern delegations at the Madrid Conference.We would be remiss in our analysis if we did not briefly touch on some ofthe reasons for this anti-Helsinki fervor.When six original members of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group were forciblyexiled from the USSR, several formed the External Representation of theUkrainian Helsinki Group. It is this representation that has been targeted forparticular vilification by the Liberation Front leadership, particularly Gen.Petro Grigorenko, who, it should be noted, was tormented in Soviet mentalhospitals for his beliefs.N ow, it is not our place to defend Gen. Grigorenko or explain his views.The m ain p oint here is that in their stated attempt to discredit the general, tomake his po sition less tenable when he travels the world pushing the cause ofnational and human rights in Ukraine, the Liberation Front, judging by itsnewspaper, has decided to kill the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, therebyrobbing him of any official capacity.The National Tribune writes:"P. Grigorenko, having understood that he no longer has any politicalplatform, besides perhaps his 'sotrudnichestvo' (collaboration) at N ovoyeRusskoye Slovo , hastened to publish in the UN A's Svoboda of O ctober 1 anarticle titled 'On the self-dissolution of the Moscow group.' He attempts toprove that 'no one of the group can decide for other members.'"B ut, what's done is done - as of September 1982, neither the Moscow ,nor the Kiev, the Tbilisi, or the Yerevan Helsinki groups exist in the SovietUnion."It would not be hyperbolic to say that this is indeed an elephantine exampleof cutting off the nose to spite the face. ^Horribly persecuted by the Soviets at hom e, itsrepresentativesand originalmembers defamed by elements in the Ukrainian community abroad, theentire Ukrainian Helsinki apparatus is fightin g a two-front war. But despitethe efforts of the Kremlin and those here, the group will survive. Althoughmost members are incarcerated, there are reliable reports that otherUkrainians have secretly taken up the work of the Ukrainian Helsinki G roup.Obviously, if their identities are made known, they would risk arrest andpersecution.We only hope, and fervently so , that our community will remain aware ofthe invaluable work and meaning of the Ukrainian H elsinki Group, continueto support U.S. politicians and international human-rights groups who areworking tirelessly on its behalf, and eschew the disinformation and half-truths propagated by a disgruntled and narrow-minded group hopelesslyincapable of seeing the big picture, a group that w ould seemingly like to seethe Ukrainian Helsinki Group dead and buried.

Letters to the editorR usyn issue: clearing the a ir

Dear Editor:The article, "Rusyns, Rusyny andUkrainians," published in Svoboda(August 24) generated some responseand I would appreciate an opportunityto clear up a few misunderstandings.A letter from the Carpatho-Rusyn Research Center (The Ukrainian Weekly,'October 10) described my article asclearly supporting the precept: "if youare not with us, you are against us." Forthe sake of fairness it should be pointedout that I did n ot m ention in my articleeither the Carpatho-Rusyn ResearchCenter or the Rusyn community. Myarguments were directed only at Dr.Magosci's interpretation of Rusynidentity.It is my understanding that Rusynsare Ukrainians, that they had theirnational state in 1939, and that it was notjust "an autonomous pro-Ukrainianstate." I am assuming that Dr. Magosciis familiar with such scholarly w orks onthe topic as two books by Prof. A.

Shtefan and a book by Dr. Stercho.There are no convincing historical,cultural or linguistic facts to suggestthat Rusyns are not Ukrainians.The letter from the Carpatho-RusynResearch Center further stated that The

Ukrainian Weekly has adapted a positive approach by publishing Dr. Sysyn'sreport, but that Svoboda is somehowguilty by implication in anti-Rusynattitudes foi publishing my article.To begin w ith, I do agree completelywith Dr. Sysyn's analysis, since as acareful reader will be able to tell, Dr.Sysyns' arguments and conclusion sdiffer substantially from Dr. Magosci's.It is also puzzling why Svobodashould be guilty by association. Svoboda did what every respected newspaper in a democratic society does. Itpublished an article expressing anopinion by a writer, who signed hisname to it.I do agree with Mr. Onufryk that:"our identity in the real world is indeeda sorry mess." It unfortunately willcontinue to be a sorry mess as long asattempts to be uncompromising on thequestion of our national identity arebeing interpreted as "emotional rudi-mentariness," or as being m otivated bythe fear of "contamination of Ukrainian national purity." It has beencontaminated enough as Mr. Onufrykhimself so eloquently argues.

Prof. Ivan Z. HolowinskyRutgers UniversityNew Brunswick, N .J.Praise for Pittsburgh testDear Editor.Now that the first Pittsburgh Ukrainian Festival, held September 20-26 tocommemorate the centennial of Ukrainian settlement in Pittsburgh andwestern Pennsylvania, is over, it is timeto appraise the accomplishments of thefestival. Under the chairmanship ofBohdan Konecky, the Festival Committee at itsfirstplanning meeting set as itsgoal the presentation of a festivalcomprising more than "dancers andpyrohy."Specific objectives were to:1) present to the general public thevariety and quality of Ukrainian culture and to educate the public aboutUkraine and Ukrainians;2) to show the western PennsylvaniaUkrainian community that there is astrong, organized Ukrainian community life around Pittsburgh and thatarea Ukrainians should reconsider theirown involvement, or lack thereof;3) through achievement of the firsttwo objectives, to bring to the attentionof governmental officers and publicleaders and the news media the plightof our brothers and sisters in Ukraine,and of the strong support of the Pittsburgh Ukrainian community for them;4) to raise funds towards the construction Ukrainian NationalityRoom at the University of Pittsburghwhich will serve as community gathering point and vibrant symbol of the pastand present presence of Ukrainians inwestern Pennsylvania.How well were the objectives met?Comments from festival visitors indicate that all the objectives and goalwere met and exceeded.The presentation of Ukrainian culture to the general public was accomplished foremostly through the festivalconcert which featured four local dancetroupes, two localregionalchoirs and avocal trio. In addition to the concert,there were displays o f traditional Ukrai-nian pysanky, embroidered i t ems ,woodcarvings and ceramics, as well as asuperb exhibition of church architecture, liturgical items and Ukrainiancostumes. Of course, delicious Ukrainian food specialties and baked goodswere also available, and the program

book featured a most interesting historyof the 100 years of Ukrainian settlementin western Pennsylvania.The fact that the festival workersrepresented many different Ukrainianchurches and organizations showed thevitality and cohesiveness of the Ukrainian community here.The weeklong series of lectures andmovies and the weekend festivities werean eye-opener to many governmentalofficials and p ublic leaders. The expertise, and high quality of educational exhibits by the organizations and the U-krainian students at. the University ofPittsburgh, and the dedication of thef e s t i va l w or ke r s m ade m anysit up and take notice of the Ukrainian community in Pittsburgh.H o w , t h e y w o n d e r e d , c o u l dsuch a quality festival be put on withoutpublic or governmental funding? Whenthey looked into the festival, they wereshown the support of the PittsburghUkrainian community for the plight oftheir brothers and sisters in Ukraine.This was accomplished through a lectureby Dr. Nina Strokata on the Ukrainiandissident movement and by boothsmanned by Amnesty International andAmericans for Human Rights in U-kraine.

The money-raising aspect of thefestival also was a success. A sumexceeding several thousand dollars willbe presented to the Ukrainian N ationality Room Committee under the chairmanship of Dr. George Kyshakevychupon completion of the final audit.The Pittsburgh Ukrainian FestivalCommittee is proud of its accomplishments and hopes that other Ukrainiancommunities that do not yet have afestival will follow the Pittsburgh lead.The first meeting about the secondPittsburgh Ukrainian Festival will beheld on December 12 at the UkrainianHome, Carson Street, Pittsburgh at 3p.m. Comments on thefirst estival andideas for the second festival are mostwelcome. Please send them to: Pittsburgh Ukrainian Festival Committee,P.O. Box 16242, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15242.N.C. Kotowfestival secretaryPittsburgh


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No . 47 THE UKRA INIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21 1 9 8 2 7A rt review ^Chrystya Olenska's art:conservative an d ec lectic

by Yuri MyskiwThe 1982-83 season at the UkrainianInstitute of Modern Art in Chicagoopened on September 10 with a retrospective exhibit of paintings and sculp

ture by Chrystya Olenska.Ms. Olenska died in 1979 at the age of38. Her creative life demonstrated aconstant search for individual expression within a variety of artistic media.Ms. Olenska studied art as a Regentsand N ational Arts Council scholar atNew York University. During the 1960sshe experimented with papier-mache,creating colorful and exuberant jewelry,which was displayed at the Museum ofModern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Crafts and Expo 6T. Thesepieces were also displayed inpublications such as Vogue, Harper'sBazaar, Avant Garde, Life and Look.During the last years of her life, Ms.

Olenska concentrated on sculptures(some life-size) and reliefs from papier-mache, as well as paintings that depicted landscapes and still life. Some ofthat work is on permanent display at theKennedy Cultural Center in Washington, and Pepsico World Headquartersin Purchase, N.Y.It is this phase of Ms. Olenska's art,more than SO pieces, that was d isplayedat the UIMA in Chicago until October10.Initially, it is difficult to objectify thecreative subject matter of Ms. Olenska'sart because very little recorded documentation is available her artisticcredo, or her attitude toward reality as itbecomes transmuted through the artist'spsyche, or her particular and peculiarselection of subject matter. Anyone wh ois sincerely interested in the personabehind the body of her work feelscheated or frustrated as if the onlysignposts in her creativity were birthand death, and her legacy - those fewsculptures and paintings.The only documentation that exists isbrief, idealized statements by JuriySolovij, Bohdan Pevnyj and BohdanBoychuk's short piece in the catalogue forthe exhibit. The point I wish to make isthat the audience many of whomhave no sophistication in art - deservessome sort of aesthetic key to fullycomprehend the world of Ms. Olenska'soutput, j

Most Viewers came away with a senseof shock, without fully understandingthe reasons for this type of reaction. Ms.Olenska's art can be better appreciatedif it is viewed twice, even several times.Such an approach unlocks the conundrum of her themes and the purposebehind the grot esqueness of her figures.Most people do not bother to do that,and for them a well-documented essayby a competent art historian or artistwould be that key to Ms, Olenska's art.It would have dispelled some of thesentiment attached' to the fact of anartist dying youngs the tragedy of it all,etc. Along this same line of reasoning, the

catalogue for the exhib it, (professionallydesigned by Zenon Holubec), lacks anykind of substance because Mr. Boychuk's well-written introductory essayis appallingly brief and too general. Butwhat is most disappointing, since theexhibit was called a "retrospective," isthat the list of titles printed at the end ofthe catalogue contain no dates, dimensions of the pieces, nor type of media inwhich each work was done. Such elements are mandatory for a catalogue and,

certainly, necessary for a retrospectiveexhibit.The obvious dichotomy o f this retrospective exhibit exists, between the oilsand the papier-mache figures. Ms.Olenska reveals herself to be both acraftsman and master of oil on canvas.Her landscapes and still lifes offer theviewer an opportunity to see how anartist experiments with color and styleof approach. This series of paintingsruns a gamut of tones and colors some darkly rich, others strikinglybright. Her approach to nature, if one- views it contemplatively, is almostreligious.

Mr. Solovij t . in his brief mem oirabou t Ms. Olenska in Suchasnist (October 1980), quotes her on this particulartopic: "Oh, once again to listen to thecrunch of fallen leaves under m y feet, tofeel refreshed by the cold, cold wind,which howls through the branches."N ature in Ms. O lenska's work is vividand revivifying. The muted tones of"Still Life with Flowers" and "Still Lifewith Marigolds" provide a progressivecontrast to the lively tones of "Still Lifewith Fruit" or "Patio View." Also in theexhibit were two p ortraits, each done ina different style: one of Lesia Ukrainka,the other of her own mother. Ms.Olenska had two interesting figurestudies, "N ymph I" and "N ymph II,"again revealing another stylistic approach. Taken as a whole, Ms. Olenska'soils offer nothing breathtakingly original, but nevertheless stand on theirown against all such other subject'matter in art, for they reveal an expertcraftsman with an individual style in thecycle of formulation of her own personain aesthetic evolution.

My reaction to Ms. Olenska's sculptures should be prefaced by a few of thefol lowing paral le l examples . Someyears ago, the Sw edish director IngmarBergman m ade a film titled "Cries andWhispers." Many of us who view filmasvisual art have become quite saturatedwith his constant ph ilosophical searchesfor the meaning of life, the presence orabsence of a divine being, or the agonyand ecstasy of love. Mr. Bergman'sfilms have always been deeply intellectual and symbolically rich. When I saw"Cries and Whispers," I noticed achange in Mr. Bergman's approach to aplot about three sisters - with theirown plethora of problems one ofwhom is dying of cancer. Mr. Bergmanenclosed them -in a mansion, whereinthe action revolves. The film became

oppressively difficult to view becauseMr. Bergman made the dying and deathof the sister graphically explicit arealism beyond the realm and yetpainfully true to life.I left the cinema toward the end ofthat film feeling that M r. Bergman hadoverstepped a certain invisible limit orthreshold in his relationship to a universal audience. Many of us do not wantthe agonies of life, the inevitability ofdeath so explicitly p ortrayed by a masterartist, who can create on such anelevated level in his other films.Here I must state that my taste for thearts is in no way squeamishly prurient. Iaccept themes of violence, or death, orsex in as liberal a manner as possible.But there is that line - invisible as i tseems of decorum that no artistshould cross. "The Wild Bunch" treatsviolence clinically, yet manages to staywithin the boundary; "Texas ChainsawMassacre" does not...Another example of that same pointwould be the television coverage of theVietnam war. Bloo dy, gory and graphic,it came into our private homes with

uncanny realism. But again it was areality hyped-up by the network editors- not as artistic video, but as a segmented, timed, transmuted message tofit into the 6 o'clock news. The reality ofthe war was in itself a tragic and brutalevent in history, yet on television, it hadundergone a transmutation and becomemore specific and personal. One can citeexamples from the press, adding something to us on a daily basis, which aptlyremind us of the emptiness and absurdity of life, the abuse of human beingsand the certainty of (possibly gruesome)death.Having cited the above examples, letme now get to Ms. Olenska's sculpture.It is enigmatic; it is puzzling; it isunexplainable, if we consider it againstthe fabric of her brief life.We do not have Chrystya Olenskaaround anymore to explain herself. Wehave a list of titles on a page, we haveher family and friends, who can perhaps,at a later date (in the light of the recentlyestablished -museum in her name nearGlen Spey, N .Y.), fit the pieces of the(Continued on page 12)

"Still Life with Flowers," an oil by Chrystya Olenska.

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"Dreams," a bas-relief by Chrystya Olenska. Chrystya Olenska's papier-machesculpture "Flasher."


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Mykola Lysenko in foreign sourcesPart II - dictionaries, encyclopedias

Myk ola Lysenk o , c i rca 1900.Articles on Lysenko are entered inmany reference works, especially thosepublished in the West. This survey ismeant to be an introduction to thoseworks and is subdivided by country. Asin thrfir st part of this article, I will notdiscuss Russian materials; they are too

numerous and require a separate study.1 will dem onstrate cases where encyclopedias are compiled not only byoriginal research but to some extent bycopying preceding works including theerrors.Lysenko's nationality designationwil l be al lot ted more than averagespace, since this is an important andsensitive issue in a survey of this scope.Page numbers are not indicatedbecause most w orks follow a dictionaryformat and Lysenko may be easi lylocated in the appropriate places of thevolumes or may be found in the concluding indexes.Poland

I have logged only one work th at hasan article on Lysenko (there must havebeen more), namely, "Mala Encyklo-pedia M uzy ki" (Lit t le Music Encyclopedia) edited by Stefan Sledzinski(Warsaw , 1968). In this work L ysenko isidentif ied as Ukrainian (along withVasyl Barvinsky and Salomea Kru-shelnytska) and his works are describedas belonging to the romantic tradition.In this edi t ion one notices also aseparate article on Ukrainian music,where Lysenko is additionally mentioned.Italy

This musical country has producedmany encyclopedias of music. Probablythe first work that mentioned Lysenkowas "Dizionario Universaledeimusicisti"edited by Carlo Schmidl (Milan, 1926),a leading two-volume edition of thet ime. Many decades passed until Lys e n k o a p p e a r e d a g a i n . ,D i z i o n a r i oRicordi della musica e dei musicisti(The Ricordi D ictionar ry of Music andMusicians, Milan, 1959) wrote thatLysenko was born in Ukraine and

otherwise gives a satisfactory account ofhis activities.The huge nine-volume work, "Enci-clopedia dello Spettacolo" (Rome,1959), in a medium-sized entry, callsLysenko a Ukrainian composer, mentions his teachers, among them NicolaiRimsky-Korsakov. The art icle alsoexplains Lysenko's s ignif icance andimportance in Ukrainian music, catalogues his main works and logs a briefbibliography."Encyclopedia della Musica," fourvolumes (Milan, 1963-64), has Lysenkoborn in Ukraine, mentions his chiefworks briefly and the fact that in hisresearch Lysenko concluded Ukrainianfolk songs were based on ancient Greekmodes.The latest Italian work to speak ofLysenko is the general encyclopedia"Dizionario Enciclopedico Italiano," 12volumes (Rome, 1970). The entry is verybrief. Lysenko is designated a "Ukrainian composer" who studied the folkmusic of his country and composed forvoice and piano.Germany

Probably the first work to list Lysenko's compositions was the monumenta l "Universa l -Han dbuch de rMusikliteratur aller Zeiten and Volkef"(Universal Handbook of Music Literature of all Times and Peoples) compiledin 34 volumes by Franz Pazdirek(Vienna, 1904-10) . This ambit ious' undertaking is an enormous index ofpublished musical works and it wasreprinted in 1967 in a "me re" I2volumes.We now come to the several editionsof the famous "Musik Lexikon"authoredby the eminent German music lexicographer Hugo Riemann. After Rim-. mann's demise his "lexikon" was editedby others but the influential name ofRiemann remained on the title page.The ninth edition of the "Musik L exikon"as edited by Alfred Einstein (Berlin,1919) has a few Ukrainian entries suchas "bandura" and "kolomyika" andidentifies them as Ukrainian or at leastRuthenian; Lysenko .is listed, too, buthe is depicted as "Little Russian."

The 11th edition of this encyclopedia,again edited by Alfred Einstein, invitedUkrainian contributors in the personsof musicologists Philaret Kolessa andOsyp Zalesky. The 11th edition was put

Lysenko ' s wife, Olha.

out in Berlin, 1929. The "Little Russian "designation was dropped and the correctone substituted. However, a curiouslittle mistake crept into the Lysenkoentry: Lysenko's research paper "FolkMusic Instruments of Ukraine" wasdated 1909 when in reality the work sawprinter's ink in Lviv, 1894. (This oversight was to be copied later by otherencyclopedias, as we shall see).The Riemann work was not revisedunti l 1959-61, when it appeared inMainz in its 12th edition and the recentsupplement, the entry on Lysenkoreceived considerable expansion: mostnotably in the supplement "NikolaiLissenko" was adjusted to "MykolaLyssenko," more space was allotted tohis writings on Uk raine's folk music (the1909 date still remained in force, however ) , and a more extensive bibl iography of sources was appended including works of the 1960s and 1970s.

Other German sourcesBesides the dominating Riemannthere were, through the years, manyother works which wrote of Lysenko.The general encyclopedic handbook

"Mey ers Le xiko n" (Leipzig, 1925)carried a detailed description of U-kraine, i ts society, geography, language, history and literature. Whilepoetess Lesia Ukrainka was calledUkrainian, Lysenko, however, was stilldesignated as Russian. The same designation befell Lysenko in "Das NeueMusiklexikon" (Berlin, 1926), whichwas Alfred Einstein's translation of anEnglish work by A. Eaglefield Hull oftwo years before (see English sources).As we have seen the Riemann workcalled Lysenko Ukrainian as far back as1929. However, Paul Frank's "Kurzge-fasstes Tonkunstler-Lexikon" (ConciseDictionary of Musicians, Regensburg,

1936) re-edited and expanded by Wil-helm Altmann, still referred to Lysenkoas a "Little Russian," but called him apopular composer.Many more year's passed until Lysenko was to be satisfactorily listed inGerman sources.The country that gave us the world'sgreatest composers would be incomplete without the world's greatest musicencyclopedia. "Die Musik in Geschichteand Gegenwart" (Music in the Past and

The com poser in 1903.Present, Kassel-Basel, 1949-68), editedby the ambitious Friedrich Blume in 14huge volumes, was in its time theworld 's largest and greatest musicreference tool of biography and otheraspects of music, until it was finallyovershadowed in 1980 by the English"New Grove." The Blume work calledLysenko the greatest Ukrainian composer of his time, listed his chief works,included a dicussion as to his significance and. presented a good bibliography of sources.The mammoth encyclopedia alsoinc luded a separ a te a r t i c le t i t l ed"Ukraine," which being a survey ofUkrainian music, a lso included anadditional mention of Lysenko. Thisarticle and the main entry on Lysenkowas contr ib uted by Myroslaw An-tonowycz , con tempora ry Ukra in ianmusicologist, conductor of the celebrated Byzantine Choir in Utrecht ,Holland. (It must be noted that he alsowrote other Ukrainian entries in thisencyclopedia.)

The latest German encyclopedias tospeak of Lysenko are not music encyclopedias but general ones, the famousBrockhaus line, which could be calledthe German Britannica. "Der GrosseBrockh aus" (Wiesbaden, 1953-58) in 13volumes, describes Lysenko as a Ukrai-(Conttnned on page II)

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600 a t t end bene f i t conce r tfo r New Yo rk ' s Uk ra in i an Museum

by Helen Perozak SmindakNEW YORK - Over 600 personsthronged to the Eisnerand Lubin Auditorium at New York University's LoebStudent Center last Sunday for aconcert held to benefit The UkrainianMuseum.The occasion was a gala afternoonthat featured leading Ukrainian artistsin performances of chamber music,operatic arias, piano solos, a recitationof a Shevchenko poem, historic ban-dura "dumy," modern dances andballet.Some 200 concert-goers stayed onafter the conceit for a reception andmeetings with som e of the artists in thecenter's Top of the Park room.Although Metropolitan Opera bassPaul Plishka, who had been scheduledto appear in the concert, came downwith laryngitis and could not take part,the concert was termed a definitesuccess by the audience and museum

officials.A beautiful beginning for the afternoon was the Hutsul-themed finale"Kolomyika" from Barvinsky's Trio inA minor, skillfully rendered by the trioof pianist Thomas Hrynkiw, violinistHalyna Strilec and cellist Nestor Cy-briwsky.Edward Evanko , who recently signeda contract with the New York CityOpera, showed off his tenor voice togreat advantage in Andriy's aria fromLysenko's opera "Tares Bulba" and inthe aria "Amor ti vieta" from Giordano's opera "Fedora."The modern dance team of NushaMartynuk-and Carter Mc Ada ms, in all-white outfits of short-sleeved shirts andknee-length leotards, stretched, rolled,curled and slid aroun d the stage as theyinterpreted "Dark Form s," which theychoreographed in collaboration with O.Rodriguez. Later, with Miss Martynukin a black skirt and Mr. McAdams inblack pants to set off their Ukrainianshirts, the couple performed Miss

Martynuk's "Hrytsiu,"a medley ofUkrainian dance steps and movementsset to lyrical and lively melodies.Mezzo-soprano Christine Lypeckyj,in Ukrainian songs and in the aria"Faites-lui mes aveux" from Gounod's"Faust," revealed an appealing voicecapable of a wide range of notes.Andrij Dobriansky, a bass-baritonefor many years with the MetropolitanOpera, remained true to style in hisdelivery of the doctor's aria fromBortniansky's opera "Syn Supernyk"and Ostap's aria from "Taras Bulba."Tongue-in-cheekishly, he imitated anold woman's raspy voice in portions ofthe song "Old Woman in Church," byY. Stepovy and S. Rudansky.Mr. Hrynkiw was the piano accompanist for Messrs. Dobriansky andEvanko, while Ms. Osinchuk accompanied Ms. Lypeckyj.Following intermission, Julian Ky-tasty sang a "Kozak Lament" patterned

after a Shtokalko composition and ahaunting "duma" or epic ballad about"The Widow and Her Three Sons,"asheaccompanied himself on his bandura.Stravinsky's "Three Easy Pieces"were danced w ith grace and precision byballerina Motria Slupchynskyj.A dramatic recitation of Taras Shev-chenko's poem "Sova" (The Owl) wasgiven by actress Lydia Krushelnytsky.She was attired in a stylized Poltavacostume that included a lustrous white"korsetka" and apron and a, longpaneled skirt of geometric-patterned,gold-threaded orange and green fabric.Liszt 's "Ukra ine" bal la d, whichrepeats variations of the folk song "Oy,ne khody, Hrytsiu," was given anappeal-ing performance by pianist JulianaOsinchuk. She also played a piece fromShtoharenko's "Etudes" and broughther appearance to a close with Revut-sky's beautiful Prelude in E-Flat Major.Television-screen actress LaryssaKukrycky Lysniak, as master of ceremonies, gave bilingual backgrounds of

Violinist Halyna Strilec, pianist Thomas Hrynkiw and cellist Nestor Cybriwskyperform as a trio.

Sochan HidwwyciC a r te r M c A d a m s a n d Nu s h a M a r t y n u k d a n c e " D a r k F o r m s . "the artists before their appearances.Address ing the audience a t the c loseof the concert , Dr. Boh dan C ymbal i s ty ,cha irman o f the museum's board o fdirectors , thanked the performers for

dona t ing their t ime, e f fort and ta l entsfor the benef i t o f h e museum and notedthat the Ukra inian comm uni ty i s intensifying its efforts to raise funds for them u s e u m .

Concert notesU N A - U IA p l a y e r s : p o l i s h e d p e r f o r m e r s

by Oles KuzyszynEvery performerrequiresa stage andan audience to showcase his achievements in his chosen field. For a youngperformer, the door to success is notalways w ide open. Stage experience is asnecessary to achieving success as thearduous years of practice and preparation. For a performing artist, opportunity means access to the stage and theaudience.With this in mind, the UkrainianN ational Association/ Ukrainian Institute of America Performing ArtistsGroup was formed in M arch. The groupincludes young Ukrainian performingartists in the fields of d ance, drama andmusic , as wel l as enthusiasts , notdirectly inv olved in the performing arts.

The goal: to showcase the talents ofyoung Ukrainian performing artists,and to give them the opportunity towork together in developing theirunique skills.The first of two concerts scheduled bythe group for the 1982-83 season tookplace on Sunday, October 31, at theUkrainian Institute of America. Theprogram, coordinated and emceed byLidia Hawryluk, featured three Ukrainian performers well-known to the

Ukrainian community from many previous appearances: Laryssa Krupa pianist, Laryssa Magun-Huryn soprano, and Stefka Nazarkewycz actress.Miss Krupa holds an M.A. in pianoperformance from the Peabody Conservatory. Her program includedSchubert's "Impromptu" Op. 142,Liszt's "Sonetto 123 Del Petrarcs"andPaganini-Liszt's "La Campanella."Miss Magun-Huryn is a formersoloist with the Verdi Opera Companyin New York. She performed the aria"Un Bel D i" from Pu ccini's opera"Madame Butterfly", Lysenko's "Asters"(text by Oleksander Oles), Liudkevych's"111 Escape" (text by Oleksander Oles),Liudkevych^ "111 Escape"(text by Oles)and Stepovyj's "Away with You, DarkThoughts" (text by Lesia Ukrainka)Marichka Sochan-Shmorhay providedthe piano accompaniment for MissMagun-Huryn.

Miss Nazarkewycz was featured inthe leading roles of several productionsof Lydia Krushelnytsky's Drama Studioin New York. She recited Taras Shev-chenko's " Kateryna."Closing remarks were provided byMiss Hawryluk and Marta Korduba,who thanked the Ukrainian National

Concert performers (from left): Laryssa. Krupa, Laryssa Magun-Huryn, StefkaN azarkewycz, Lidia Hawryluk arid Marichka Socha n-Shm orhay.Association and the Ukrainian Instituteof America for their sponsorship of theconcert. Miss Korduba, representingthe U N A Fraternal Activities Office, isthe initiator of the performing artistsgroup.One can only be optimistic as to thisfirst effort of the UN A-U IA PerformingArtists Group. First and foremost, theperformers themselves exhibited apraiseworthy blend of enthusiasm andprofessional polish.From an organization point of view,efficiency and class were the order of theday. And at S5 admission, which

included champagne during intermissionand a reception following the concert,the event had to be the bargain of themonth. The only sour note w as the factthat the Institute's h all was n ot filled tocapacity.

With more extensive support fromthe Ukrainian community, there is noreason the efforts of the UNA-UIAPerforming Artists Group should notbe realized to their full potential. F or togive a performer the stage is an investment which yields unlimited returns -the priceless gift of his artistry.


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l a L y s e n k o . . .(Cont inued from page t)nian composer and the creator of theUkrainian opera. This encyclopedia'smost recent edition, "Broackhaus En-zyklopadie" (Wiesbaden, 1966-74) ,enlarged to 20 volumes, contains only abrief entry stating that Lysenko was aUkrainian musician who studied at theLeipzig Conservatory, founded aMusico-Dramatic School in Kiev andwas also founder of the Ukrainian

national opera.Holland

This picturesque country of windmills produced, as far as I know, onlyone encyclopedia with information onLysenko. The work is "Encyclopediavan de Muziek," compiled by severaleditors into two large volumes (Amsterdam, 1956-57). This is a biographicaldictionary of musicians, international

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in scope, characterized by short biographies including names of teachers,types of musical compositions, Dutchtext. T he entry on Lysenko and severaladditional 20th century Ukrainianmusicians was contributed also bymusicologist Myroslaw Antonowycz.France

Great source of culture, fatherland ofRavel and Debussy, produced an important line of Larousse encyclopediassome of which we shall examine here."Larousse de la mu sique"in two volumes(Paris, 1957) carried a separate entry onLysenko and considered him a Ukrainian composer. 1 must, note that thissource wrote also about many otherUkrainians, especially those of the 20thcentury. Ukrainian musicologist andviolinist Aristide Wirsta contributedmuch here; incidentally he authored aseparate article on the history of Ukrainian music in this encyclopedia w hich isentered under "Ukraine" and againmentions Lysenko.

Another valuable work in threevolum es, "Encyclopedia de la musique"(Paris, 1958-61), carried a medium-sized, well-edited entry on Lysenkonaming him a Ukrainian composer.According to this source, Lysenkostudied orchestration with Rimsky-Korsakov, in 1904 founded his ownmusic school and composed to texts ofShevchenko. There is also a very briefbibliography. Lysenko is additionallymentioned in a separate article "Ukrai-nienne musique" contributed again byAristide Wirsta, who authored manyentries on 20th century Ukrainianmusicians in this encyclopedia.We now come to France's generalencyclopedia of the Larousse line. Ihave logged two latest editions andfound out that in them everyone whoshould be is correctly labeled as Ukrainian. "Grand Larousse Encyclopedi-que" in 10 volumes (Paris, 1960-64),includes many Ukrainians such as IvanKotl iarevsky, Mykola Kostomariv,Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, AlexanderKorniychuk (all non-musicians, ofcourse). In addition to these there is abrief entry on Lysenko, who is likewisedefined as Ukrainian. A genuine surprise here is the fact that composer-conductor Dmytro Bortniansky andLysenko and correctly defines theirnationality. Lysenko's listing is verybrief; he is spelled "Nikolai Lyssenko"and isdescribed as a creator of operas,cantatas and piano works.

SpainEven from the land of the flamencocome brief additions to our survey. Thehuge 70-volume "Enciclopedia Universal Ilustrada" (Madrid, 1908-30) statedthat Lysenko displayed prodigiousactivity, but called him Russian and acol lector of Russian folk songs. Incomparatively recent sources Lysenko'snationality becomes corrected. "Dic-cionario de la musica labor" (Barcelona, 1954) and "Diccionario bio-graphico de la musica" by C.J. RicartMatas (Barcelona, 1956) finally consider our musician a Ukrainian.

Misinformation...(Cont inued from page 3)by Mr. Onufryk, wh o outlined the goalsand strategy of the Media ActionWorkshop.

He said that the community shouldpressure the Library of Congress toreverse its position regarding the use ofthe adjective "Russian" to classify non-Russian subjects, a practice, he said,that has resulted in Kievan Rus' beinglisted under Russian History.As to the Census Bureau, Mr. Onufryk stressed the need for an organizedeffort urging the agency to change itsclassification system and computercode number assignment.

Afternoon sessionsFollowing a brief lunch break, theworkshop reconvened, with participants choosing between three discussion groups. Prof. Hunczak's groupworked on drafting a position paperoutl ining the workshop's concernsregarding the two federal agencies.He said that the workshop plans tosend finished copies of the positionpaper to Ukrainian academic institu

tions and the U N A, and it will ultimately be presented to federal legislators aswell as the library and the CensusBureau.Mr. Onufryk's group, meanwhile,drafted a letter to be signed by theUN A regarding the library'sclassification and cataloguing system.Copies are scheduled to be sent to allmembers of Congress.The third group, moderated by Mr.Zabihach, discussed overall strategy,such as the need formobilizing resources, forging community contacts, networking and the need for establishingsome type of central coordinating bodyas a means of gathering individualcomplaints, and then communicatingthem to the, proper channels.During dinner, workshop participants were welcomed by John Flis,UNA supreme president, and WalterKwas, former Soyuzivka manager and

L e v L u k i a n e n k o . . .(Continued rom page 2)Released in 1976, Mr. Lukianenkobecame a founding member of theUkrainian Helsinki Group formedthat November in Kiev to monitorSoviet compliance with the 1975Helsinki Accords on human rightsand European security. Deprived ofthe right to work as an attorney, Mr.

Lukianenko found a job as an electrician. He was the subject of continuous police surveillance.As a member of the Helsinkigroup, he signed numerous appealsand memoranda, including severalwhich asked for Ukrainian participation in the Helsinki review process.For his membership in the group,he was arrested in 1977, just one yearafter his release. Sentenced to 15years, Mr. Lukianenko, who ismarried with one child, is not scheduled for release until 1992 - whenhe will be 65.

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(Cont inued from page 8)solo bandura recordings everreleased. Mr. M i s h a l o w , 22, aSydney native, began studying thebandura when he was 11. In 1974 hebecame a student of Hryhory Bashul, aformer student of Hnat Khotkevych. In1979 he received an Australian ArtsCouncil grant that enabled him to travelto North America, where he studiedwith Petro Kytasty and Petro Hon-charenko of the Taras ShevchenkoBandurist Chorus of Detroit.For a two-year period beginning in

1979 M r. Mishalow was a student at theTchaikovsky Conservatory in Kiev,where he worked with Mr. Bashtan, arenowned bandurist. He also studied withHryhory T kachenko, who is thought tobe the last living authentic kobzar inUkraine.Mr. Mishalow has performed inEurope, Australia and North America.He teaches bandura playing and hasauthored many articles for variouspublications on this classical Ukrainian instrument.The cover of "Bandura," designed byBohdan Tymyc, includes trilingual(English, Ukrainian, French) notes onthe bandura and Mr. Mishalow.The album will be available afterThanksgiving in major Ukrainian shopsthroughout the United States, Canada,England and Australia or by mailorder (S8.98 plus SI postage) fromYevshan Communications, 3207 Beau-bien E., Montreal, Quebec H1Y IH6.Chicago

(Cont inued from page 5)Wrubliwskyj and Zenon Dziadyk, members.Mr. Olshansky thanked the participants for their faith in his work andpresented some ideas for the fall organizing campaign. The Supreme Executive Com mittee members also offeredtheir ideas for this campaign, as didmembers present at the meeting. Supreme Advisor Mrs. Olek askedthe supreme executives about the po ssibility of building another Soyuzivka-type resort near Chicago and Detroit,which would help in recruiting youthfor the UNA.After over two hours of discussions,the meeting was adjourned. Refreshments were served, during which informal discussions on UNA matters wereheld.


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Perozak named provincial judgeHAM ILTON , Ont. - Morris JohnPerozak, Q.C., who was recently appointed prov incial court judge (criminaldivision) in the Hamilton-Wentworthdistrict, has begun presiding over casesin Hamilton provincial court.Judge--Perozak, 49, who spent hislega l ca ree r in p r iva te p rac t i ce inHamilton, was sworn in during ceremonies on October 1.Some 350 people packed a courtroo mand th e hallway at the M ain Street Eastcourthou se as he swore an oath of officeand one of al legiance to the queenbefore donning the red-trimmed robesof office. The assembly included familymembers, friends, fellow judges fromvar ious cour t s and munic ipa l andprovincial politicians.Judge Perozak took his place on thebench beside Chief Justice Frederick C.Hayes to hear words of praise and takesome good-natured ribbing from friendsand former colleagues.Attorney General Roy McMurtry,who went to school with Judge Perozakand played hockey with him on theOsgoode Hall Owls in Toronto, spoke

of his dedication and commitment tojustice as he welcomed him to the bench.Assis tant Crown Attorney DeanPaquette praised the new judge for hisrespect and concern for the rights of theaccused as well as his concern for therights of the members of the community.Judge Peroz ak, formerly seniorpartner in the firm of Perozak, Winchieand Lennon, told the assembly he was"really overwh elmed" by the whole day.He thanked his wife, Stephanie, andchildren, Michael, 21, Stephan, 18, an dRE A L E S TA TE

Ivanna, 13, for their years of love andsupport.For his parents, Anastasia and MichaelPerozak, he had nothin g but praise. Mr.and M rs. Perozak came to Canada fromUkraine in the 1920s and now live in rant ord."They 've spent the past 60 yearsworking as hard as they can to ensurethat in the new land their children areeducated properly and make theircontribution to society," he said.Born in Thunder Bay, Ont., JudgePerozak spent his early boyhood in thetown of Geraldton in the mining country north of Lake Superior. The familymoved to the Hamilton area in 1942. Hegraduated from McMaster Universityin 19S4, studied law at Osgoode Hall inToronto and was called to the bar in1958.He has served on the Ontario Advisory Council on Multiculturalism, theCitizens Committee of the Hamilton-Wentworth Regional Detention Centreand the Hamilton Housing Authority.He was a trustee of the Hamilton LawAssociation for several years, specialcounsel in 1979 to the minister ofjustice, and crown counsel in 1980 to thecommissioner of the Canada ElectionsAct.Judge Perozak has also been active

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