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OUTSTANDING GIRL OF THE MONTH W ith pride, “Our L ife” points to G enevieve Zepko Zerebniak о i A kron, Ohio. L ong know n for her zealousness^ and her ability to organize, G enevieve is not only highly respected, but great ly liked in A m erican-U krainian circles as well as in society g en erally. H er patience and her ready sm ile under the m ost try ing' circum stances have helped m any a U krainian cause. In the m idst of a heated discussion, you can alw ays count on G enevieve to say, “L et’s rem em ber, there’s a solution to every problem .” G enevieve is a busy individual w ho som ehow m anages--to find tim e to take on. a little m ore. She w as instrum ental in organizing the Junior L eague in A kron, and von acclaim w hen she w as elect ed as a national officer of U N .A . W ith the distinction of being the youngest national officer ever to be elected in the history of the UN A, she has rem ained in office for the past nine years and is n o w serving on the advisory board. Few , if any, have failed to hear the praises sung loudly and profusely over the Ukrainian Y outh L e a r ie of N orth A m er ica C onvention held in A kron, O., last Labor D ay W eek End. Such phrases as “w ell-organiz ed” ; “this is the best Convention I’ve ever attended” ; and “how did the A kron Convention C om m ittee not fail to m iss a trick” ? w ere heard during the C onven tion and long after. A s Chair m an of the A kron Convention C om m ittee, the success of that •confab can be acknow ledged as belonging in large m easure to 'G enevieve’s uncanny ability to do a job and to do it well. But to w rite only of G ene vieve’s active participation in Ukrainian affairs w ould give a partial portrait of G enevieve. United Air Lines m ust also enter the picture for G enevieve has proven her capabilities as m an ager of P assenger Service at the A kron Airport. H er w ork is va ried and unique. From public re lation work, she m ay be called aw ay in an em ergency to serve as a stew ardess.e Or she m ay be given a special assignm ent such as the one she w as given last Mrs. Genevieve Zepko Zerebniak year. It w as her duty to accom pany and to return a three-year old boy to his m other in H on o lulu. Hurried trips to N ew York, Chicago., or California as a trou ble shooter are hot surprising or uncom m on to her. A very im portant ingredient in the m ake Vip of G enevieve up to this point has not been m ention ed, how ever. L ast to be m en tioned, btit first in im portance, is the title of M rs. w hich w'as af fixed to G enevieve’s nam e 4last year by H arry Zerebniak of Chicago, 111. T hough M rs. Ze rebniak is Iv-ept spinning w ith her Ukrainian organizations and her w ork w ith U nited Air Lines, she finds am ple tim e to be an attentive wife, im m aculate housekeeper of a lovely apart m ent, and above all, a good cook. T hey w ho have nothing to trouble them , w ill be trouled at nothing. Poor Richardb. n em pty bag cannot stand upright. Poor Richard. BO OK ON UKRAINIAN GRAMMAR MINNEAPOLIS—The first work of its kind in -English, “A Modern Ukrainian Grammar” has just been published by the University of Min nesota Press. Authors of the volume, which pro vides an introduction to the Uk rainian language and which is ex pected to be an aid to students of all Slavic languages, are G. Luckyj of the University of Saskatchewan and Dr. J. B. Rudnyckyj of the Uni versity of Manitoba. The lithoprinted manual was pub lished with the support of the Hu manities Research Council of Cana da. It contains a brief history of the Ukrainian language, pronounciation of Ukrainian, lessons with Ukrain ian reading texts, grammar, conver sation, idioms and vocabularies, grammatical tables, a map showing the territory of Ukrainian speech and a Ukrainian-English vocabulary of more than 2,000 words. The authors point out that Uk rainian is spoken by more than 40 million people in Europe and that there are more than 1,200,000 per sons of Ukrainian descent in the U. S. and Canada. ALL ROADS LEAD TO SYRACUSE LABOR DAY WEEK END The 1949 C onvention of the Ukr. Y outh’s L eague of No. A m erica to be held in Syracuse, N. Y., Septem ber 3rd, 4th, and 5th, will have for its headquarters, the beautiful H otel Syracuse. This tw elfth annual -gathering' will begin its three-day program* U n o ffic ia lly on' F rid a y , Septem ber 2nd wit\ an inform al “Caba ret N igh t” 'at Syracuse U krain ian N ational H om e. Significant and m om entous sessions includ ing reports from district leaders representing cross section of Ukrainian youth in the U nited States, discussions of m em ber club- program s, plus a distin guished g u e st' speaker will of ficially open the C onvention on Saturday afternoon follow ed by the W elcom e Dance. H ighlight ing the U Y L -N A Convention, as alw ays, will be the “M usic and D ance F estival” this year under the direction of Stephanie A nd- rnsew icz H om e nick, D etroit, bringing together the best in UlvXiOllian^JtLaient from all over the country. The Banquet and D ance in the Grand Ballroom of the hotel will take place in the evening'. Concluding' business sessions and election of officers on M onday, and a Farew ell Par ty will ring the Convention to a close. h C L E V E L A N D , Ohio. The fis cal year, 1948-1949, of the Junior L eague, Branch 60, w as brought to a close by a com bined social ancl business m eeting, June 21, at the hom e of Estelle Gnot. Af ter an appetizing steak roast, our group settled dow n to an evening of long discussion per taining to the preceding year’s activities and plans for our forth com ing year. Our organization unanim ously voted to contribute sixty dollars to the fund for the publishing in English of the po em s of L essya Ukrainka., The raffling of an em broidered lun cheon set w as the event that brought about the realization w hich enabled us to donate this m oney T w o delegates, M eg Hu- sel and Estelle Gnot, w ere ap pointed to represent Branch 60 at the U Y L -N A at the Syracuse Convention. The election of new officers for the com ing year w as also on the jagenda for the eve ning. Irene T rem bly w as elected president. Irene is a graduate of K ent State, U niversity and w as enrolled in the College of Educa tion. She is present secretary of the Y outh L eague of Ohio, and form er secretary of the C leve land C ontention C om m ittee of the Ukrainian O rthodox League, of U .S.A . which recently spon sored the O rthodox Convention, in Cleveland. The organization chose as its •vice-president, M eg H usel, and as its secretary, Stel la Popow icz. R ose Alice K olodiy w as appointed treasurer. A pic nic social is being planned for the sum m er. Culture — not without politics (C onclusion) In W estern Europe, Africa, A sia, South A m erica and N orth A m erica are today Ukrainians and their descendants w ho are re solute in their endeavor to .preserve their heritage, not only for its intrinsic beauty and richness, but also, indeed, from their stand point I w ould say, m ore so for the further enrichm ent of the vari ous national cultures in w hich they are presently participating. U k rainian culture today is in. astate of dispersion. The priceless ar chives of stranded U krainian scholars in the D P cam ps of W estern Europe, the sm all Ukrainian com m unities in A frica and Asia, w ith their undying songs of U kraine, their narratives of U kraine’s past, and the large U krainian com ponents in Latin A m erica, the U nited States and Canada, interweaving' their preserved heritage w ith their respective national cultures in these areas, all of these repre sent this state of (Dispersion. But in each of these areas it is be com in g increasingly evident that the conviction of a free U kraine, necessitating the collapse of the Soviet U nion, for the peace of Europe and thus of the world has seized the m inds of official lead ers w ho well appreciate the m enace of w orld com m unist am bitions. The tim e has at last com e w hen an A m erican of U krainian de scent or birth, still cherishing the purity and рсцуег and beauty of Ukrainian culture w hich he seeks to interm ingle w ith the A m er ican, sees clearly his o rher task in A m erica’s life-or-death effort to stem the cancerous spread of world com m unism . H is or her k now ledge of Eastern Europe, of-it s' history, its peoples, its strug gles and conflicts, stand to serve A m erica'n ow m ore than at any other tim e. W hat in essence has happened is that U kraine’s strug gle against R ussian com m unism has, as m any astute students fore saw , becom e the w orld’s struggle; and particularly that- of the U nited States. And of vital im portance is the grow in g recognition of our leaders of this com m on ground, as w itnessed in the estab lishm ent of a Ukrainian, section in the V oice of Am erica, the point ed interest show n by our num erous official departm ents at W ash ington in the “Ukrainian Q uarterly,” published by the U krainian C ongress C om m ittee of Am erica, and in the w arm er reception, giv en to our representatives by our officials on m atters concerning Eastern Europe. This recognition, I have said, is grow ing— and .growing rapidly. It is this grow th that w ill determ ine the scope of Ukrainian action in A m erica’s struggle against R ussian com m un ism. It wiill be w ithin that scope that wTe, as w om en, will play our role in safeguarding A m erica against this m enace and coterm in- ously aid our Ukrainian relatives and friends in w eakening the po lice state of the Soviet Union.. A t functions such as this, in the V oice of A m erica, on the concert stage, in m eetings w ith our of ficials and in other diverse w ays, A m erican women of U krainian birth or descent now have their opportunity to serve A m erica best: by actually dem onstrating the values of their cultural heritage w hich are at one w ith those of their A m erica. Culture is thus not w ithout politics. T o the m axim um exten t that w e aid the U krainian causey in the righting of its political ex istence w ith its cultural level and dignity, to that extent w e serve the strength and pow er of Am erica. To the degree that w e support the subjugated Balts, W h ite Ruthenians, G eorgians, H ungarians and the m any other Eastern and Central European peoples whose; plight is the sam e, to that degree w e serve the interest of A m er ican friendship tow ard these peoples. In the w ay that w e acquaint our felow A m ericans w ith th e cultural and- political realities of Eastern Europe, and in particular U kraine, in that луау w e pre pare ourselves to m eet the opportunities that will unavoidably arise in the near future. One can truly say that in these respects the world is really one w here an identity of interest, purpose and action binds the num erous peoples of one part of the w orld w ith those of another. Ви: this, m y friends, is just another w ay of say ing that “C ulture'is N ot W ithout Politics !”
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