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WHO CARES? The National Council of Wom en of the U. S. will sponsor a Conference called “Who Cares?” on April 28-29, 1966 in New York. Under this slogan the re sponsibility of women and m others towards young people will be analyzed. The Conference should give us new insights into adult-youth relationships. Member organizations were invited to report about their ex periences. W hat were their a tti tudes toward the young, how did they go about creating good re lationships between the genera tions ? Did they initiate any new program s for this purpose? The U krainian National Wom en’s League reported about sev eral successful projects. The following is the paper which was forwarded to the NCW of US in January. Projects of the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America 1. Care of Children In 1953, UNWLA founded an educational departm ent with the intention of providing recrea tional program s and facilities for Ukrainian children. The program of the departm ent consisted of supervised, Sunday-afternoon get-togethers, theatrical presen tations, picnics and hikes. The m ost successful of these undertakings were the afternoon get-togethers, in which children of various ages engaged in pro fessionally-supervised play w ith the local branches of UNWLA providing refreshm ents. As an additive consequence of these afternoon get-togethers, day-centers were established for the care of pre-school children. These day-centers were located ries; M ary K rafton, treasurer; Jenny Borden, M ary Husak, au ditors ; A nastasia Volker, histor ian ; Donia Demray, Ann Stechi- son, crafts workshop. The Chap te r’s little m otto is “Let us as women put down self and work for a cause.” Stephania Fedyk, Pres. Soph i e Small, Sec’y in various Ukrainian-American communities in the United States (there are now 14 of these). They function two or three tim es per week, conducting th eir program s in accordance with the latest principles of ped agogy. UNWLA branches, having taken into account the children’s various interests, organized choir groups, dance ensembles, and sim ilar program s. For a bet ter understanding of Ukrainian folk art, the branches organized groups in which E aster-egg dec oration and embroidery are given prim ary emphasis. Other UNWLA projects next issue. MANOR COLLEGE RECEIVES DONATION JENKINTOW N, Pa. — Wil liam Swiderski, a Ford Motor Company employee who is cur rently living in Ohio, donated $500 to Manor Junior College in Jenkintown, Pa. The donation was m atched by a $1,000 contribution of the Ford Company AID Program . The program provides th a t all employees of the Ford Motor Co., or its subsidiaries, who donate $10 or more to educational and charitable causes will be m atched double by the company. Manor Junior College, an all girl school operated by the Sis ters of St. Basil the Great, opened its second sem ester of studies in the current academic year on January 31, 1966. WFUWO NAMED MEMBER OF GFWC In February of this year the WFUWO was named a member of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs. WFUWO be came a member of the Interna tional Division of the GFWC and will take p art in the Jubilee Con vention which will be held in Chicago, in June. UKRAINIAN SINGER GETS COVENT GARDEN CONTRACT Roxolana Roslak, chosen by “Our Life” as the young Uk rainian talent of 1965, recently scored a new success. Upon graduation from the Royal Con servatory and U niversity of To ronto in 1964, she was chosen w ith five other Canadian sing ers to compete for engagements w ith the great opera houses of Europe. Armed w ith Canadian Council grants, the six sailed for Europe last November. They were auditioned in Geneva, Mu nich, Dusseldorf and London. Two were chosen for the famed Covent Garden. One was Roxo lana. Roxolana Roslak is well known to the Canadian public from her many perform ances as a member of the Civic Opera Companies in Edmonton and To ronto, and her tour across Can ada w ith Tyrone Guthrie in “H. M. S. Pinafore.” She also spent two summers at Stratford perform ing in Shakespearian dram as and at the Banff School of Fine A rts. UNWLA REPRESENTED AT UCCA NATIONAL COUNCIL Mrs. Ivanna Rozankowska, Chairman of the Planning Com mission of the UNWLA, ad dressed a m eeting of the Nation al Council on February 19, 1966. Her topic was “F or a better planned civic life.” 10th ANNIVERSARY Olena Kysilewska, first presi dent of the World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Organiza tions (WFUWO) died 10 years ago on March 4. A prom inent civic leader in Ukraine, she was the editor of a woman’s news paper and a U krainian Senator to the parliam ent in W arsaw. In 1929 she toured Ukrainian communities in the U. S. and Canada. She was elected Presi dent of the WFUWO at the Uk rainian Women’s Congress held in Philadelphia in 1948. She died in Ottaw a in 1956. 18 НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ — БЕРЕЗЕНЬ, 1966 Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . C Ш A.
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