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• Contact was made with editors of several New York publications, including Woman's Day Magazine, Guitar Review and 1, 001 Decorating Ideas. • The Queens Branch of the American Association of Univetaty Women chose Ukrainian Christmas traditions for the theme of their December meeting and, after obtaining cook books and illustrations from the press committee, spotlighted Ukrainian Yuletide customs and foods and the popular "Carol of the Bells" for their members' enjoyment. • The Association of Lower East Side Settlements directed a proposal to the New York regional executive board setting forth plans to establish an ethnic Heritage Museum on Manhattan's Lower East Side. • Calls were received from New York City's Department of Cultural Affairs (We want to include a bandura group and Ukrainian dancers in the Fifth Avenue Holiday Festival on three Sunday afternoons in December), the New York Bicentennial Corporation (Join us at a January 15 meeting to discuss ethnic participation in the city's bicentennial celebration), and the United Nations Women's Guild (Can you present a program of Ukrainian songs and dances at one of our meetings?). • The prestigious American Museum of Natural History scheduled a series of Ukrainian arts and crafts workshops during March and April. • A very good possibility for a later date this year: a showing of Ukrainian costumes and embroidered ensembles at Lord & Taylor's fashionable Fifth Avenue store, tied in with a designer's collection. • New York's Mayor Beame, vacationing in Florida, sent a message indicating he was sorry he couldn't attend, as did Met Opera star Robert Merrill, whose wife Marion is of Ukrainian descent. These people and others now know of the existence and work of the UNWLA. • Several women's and crafts publications (among them American Home, Woman's Day Needlework Ideas, Hand- weaver & Craftsman, and 1001 Fashion and Needlecraft Ideas) indicated interest in the press reception. Their editors will be visited by a UNWLA officer and supplied with further informa tion on Ukrainian foods and crafts. Conceived just three months before the conven tion, Gallery Ukraine was brought into being through the labor of Branch 83 members working with Branch 82 and assisted by more than 30 individuals — daughters, husbands and friends. Cooperation and help came from all directions — for example, Myron Surmach Jr. contributed Easter egg design cards for the press kits, Mrs. Alexandra Krupa of Hartford, Conn., cheerfully permitted the use of six regional costumes from her private collection, Miss Anna Kobrynska of the Shevchenko Scientific Society gave advice on the selection of a map of Ukraine, and Dr. Volodymyr Sawczak and Arka and Surma book stores loaned books for the literature display. Credit for the attractive displays and clever room layout goes to Slava Gerulak who, as UNWLA arts and museum convener, supervised the artistic arrangement of Gallery Ukraine. The committee which planned and executed the THE KIEV TREASURE — 1906 In Kiev, in the summer of 1906, city workers were digging up Trjochsvjatytelna street, laying down new water pipes. In front of the ruins of gold domed Saint Michaels monastery, brought to its destructive state by the Soviets in 1934-36, the workers unearthed an un expected treasure, silver and gold jewelry, dating to the XI and XII century, a glorious age in the history of Russ- Ukraine. Archeologists have thus given a name to this find, calling it The Kiev Treasure o f 1906. And so began a strange history of this treasure. After a dormant 800 years, these beautiful artifacts played a game of hide and seek, passing through many hands, crossing continents to find their way to most un suspecting places. Silver earring in Kiev style, so-called because they were made only by Kiev jewelers with three fine openwork ornaments. Filigree, granulation. press reception included these Branch 83 members: Helen Smindak (chairman), Marta Danyluk (Branch 83 president), Iryna Kurowyckyj, Olimpia Rohowsky, Emilia Rohozha, Katria Czerwoniak and Genia Ivashkiw (secretary); and those Branch 82 members, who handled all shopping, cooking and decorating in connection with the food tables: Ivanna Klym (Branch 82 president), Sophia Rakowsky, Myroslawa Sawczak, Nadia Popel and Maria Vashkiw. Gallery Ukraine was open in a modified form (sans food displays and live demonstrations) during the three days of the convention and was visited by many delegates and observers. Ha|yna Mykhay|iwna See pictures on p. 18 НАШЕ ЖИИТТЯ, ЛЮТИЙ 1975 25
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