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S ince G lo ria is M ichigan’s firs t w om an p a rk in te rp re te r, a w o m an ’s u n i form h ad to be designed fo r h er. C onducting to u rs seem s to be a very n atu ra l occurence for M ichigan’s firs t year-round wom an S tate P a rk O fficer. L ast sum m er Gloria P a tricia F edyk tru e of o th er celebrated R ussian figures. W here are th e sh rin es dedicated to U k rain ian g re a ts? T here is Shevchenko’s grave, and recently th e hom e of K otlarev- skyj was opened as a m useum . T here m ay be a few m ore, none well advertized. It would also be in tere stin g to see w h at p ercent age of th e shows and operas playing in U krainian th e a tre s w ere U krainian or a t least in th e U krainian language. B ut, of course, try in g to com pile such d ata would m erit, a t best, expul sion from th e co u ntry fo r “tr y ing to discredit th e achieve m ents of th e people.” All th e v isito rs see of U krain ian culture are folk dance perform ances and song-fests. As b eau tifu l as th ey are, th e y leave a casual observer w ith th e im pression th a t U k ra in ian a r t never rose above a p rim i tive folk level. T h a t is exactly th e im pression R u ssia is try in g to create — and th a t h as little to do w ith Com m unism , or th e stan d ard of living. A nyone who would show th e w orld th e tru e g re a t scope and depth of U k rain ian culture is condem ned as a bourgeois nationalist, be he even th e m ost dedicated com m unist. These are some aspects of So v iet life, w hich are not ap p aren t a t firs t glance, b u t w hich any trav eller can see if he keeps his eyes open. MZO GLORIA SCORES F IR ST FOR M ICHIGAN chaperoned a group of college stu d en ts on a trip th ro u g h G er m any and in October she began looking fo rw ard to leading n a tu re hikes and giving slide-talks to w eek-end cam pers in h er new job as P a rk In te rp re te r a t th e B ay C ity S ta te P ark . D au g h ter of M r. and M rs. P e te r Fedyk of D etroit, Mich., Glo ria w as born in 1947 and w as reared in th e D etro it M etropoli ta n area. N ot only is she a v iv a cious, personable young lady, and is th e only lady w orking as a full tim e p ark n a tu ra list in th e entire s ta te ! Gloria received h er B.A. d e gree, sum m a cum laude, from th e U niversity of D etro it w ith a m a jo r in geography and m inors in G erm an and philosophy. P re se n t ly she is a t th e th esis stag e of h er M aster’s D egree a t W ayne S tate U niversity, D etroit, Mich., specializing in physical g eo g ra phy, aerial p h o to -in terp retatio n fo r rem ote sensing of th e envi ronm ent, and n a tu ra l resources. Securing a position in an area of em ploym ent previously opened only to m an w as no t easy. A fte r m uch le tte r w ritin g and som e qualifying exam inations, last sum m er she w as inform ed th a t th e job of p ark in te rp re te r w ith th e D epartm en t of N a tu ral R e sources of th e S tate of M ichigan w as hers. She is th e firs t wom an to be a uniform ed s ta te p ark officer on a year-round basis in M ichigan although th e N ational P ark Service h as h ad wom en w orking fo r m any years. Since Gloria is M ichigan’s firs t wom an p ark in terp re ter, a wom an ’s uniform had to be designed fo r her. Aided by h er m oth er Stella Fedyk, who is a p a st p res ident of C hapter 37 and is a p ro fessional seam stress, th e y de signed a w in ter and a sum m er uniform . T heir creation w as a p proved by th e D epartm en t of N a tu ral R esources and shall be used as th e official uniform fo r th e ir wom en s ta te p ark officers. B ay C ity S ta te P a rk will be G loria’s m ain base of operations. She will give aid in developing in terp re tativ e pro gram s fo r th e R ifle R iver R ecreation A rea, Taw as S tate P a rk and W ilson S tate P a rk w hich are in h er dis tric t. R ecently Gloria said she w ished to teach college stu d en ts one day, b u t before she did she hoped to w ork in th e field and to g et first-h a n d experience in h er areas of in tere st. H er p ersev er ance won h er th e job to fulfill h er am bition. In answ er to th e q u estio n : W hat is th e aim of th e In te rp re ta tiv e Services of a S ta te P a rk ?, Gloria said, “A s an in te rp re te r fo r an organization like th e UN w orks to tra n sla te one language into an o th er so th a t people can b e tte r un derstan d each other, an in te rp re te r in th e p ark s system w orks to tra n sla te th e out-of- doors and th e environm ent into term s th a t people can u n d er stan d and appreciate. We w ork to help m en relate to th e environ m ent and to see th a t he m u st live in it and w ith it and m u st not exploit it. T herein lies th e en tire idea behind E nvironm ental Q ua lity. M an m u st co-exist w ith th e oth er creatu res th a t sh are th e surface of th e earth , or end up killing th em and him self.” G loria’s w ork schedule in cludes th e u p d atin g of displays in th e Jennison T railside M u seum a t th e p ark by cre atin g new exhibits to utilize m ore th a n th re e hundred m o u n t ed specim ens. She will w rite and p resen t num erous slide-talks concerning ev ery th in g from wild flow ers, Indian legends, geologic form ations of M ichigan, to th e lum bering era of th e Saginaw Valley. These talk s will be given to school children from grades G loria is distrib utin g food for birds НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ — ЧЕРВЕНЬ, 1970 п
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