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ADDRESS BY NANCY BARKER, NCW PRESIDENT, AT 50TH ANNIVERSARY LUNCHEON Ladies and gentlemen of the dais, honored guests. My official duty is a very pleasant one today — to bring you greetings from the National Council of Women of the United States. This is, I am happy to tell you, my first official act. I came from Michigan just yesterday, where I live. Our offices are, of course, here in New York. I know that there are some official things that I should say from the National Council of Women of the U. S. and I will later very briefly but now I would rather, if it is all right with you, give you just a couple of personal impressions. When I first became a part of the National Council of Women about 12 years ago, my college, the Norwood Institute, where I am presently a Vice President, had sent me to New York to listen to a program that NCW was sponsoring on the future of education into the 1970’s. It was really a program that I was very enthused about because sometimes the people who live in New York don’t realize there are the rest of us out there in hinterlands, and I really made use of that particular conference. It’s indicative of the source of programs that NCW and, I know, that the Ukrainian Na tional Women’s League had sponsored for years and years. But as I became more involved with NCW, I was invited to attend various events and the very first thing, I think, that I attended that truly struck me more than the educational conference was the opening of the Ukrainian Museum here in New York. That was a signifi cant afternoon in my life and several of you who are here today were with me. The artistry of the needlework, the beautiful works of art, the beautiful symbolism in all that was surveyed, the bread, the bread really struck me. It was wonderful. The beautiful display of the Easter eggs, all of it captured somehow the warmth and the creativity and the spirit, that is expressed so very well by those of you who have become my friends here in the Ukrainian League. I am sure that you and the Museum are indicative of the entire spirit. Later I learned of the more serious efforts of the Ukrainian people, the efforts I can only term valiant in a world where unfortunately it is still necessary for valour and courage to be called upon to fight the forces that oppress us. I learned too of the plans for the Ukrainian Wo- Cont.: LOOKING BACK... Today we live in unprecedented comfort, with all the benefits of education, and in a country which res pects our ethnic heritage. We face few of the obstacles, whether financial or spiritual, of the women of the 1930’s. In looking back at the First Ukrainian Women’s Congress of 1932, let us take inspiration from these women’s strength, optimism and devotion to the U- krainian women’s movement and apply these qualities to our work for UNWLA and for the community. This article is adapted from a talk given June 13, 1982 at UNWLA luncheon at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City, com m em orating the 50th anniversary of the First Congress of Ukrainian Women. Lydia Hladky is a vice president of UNWLA. men’s Conference upcoming here in New York State and the study of the role of Ukrainian women in pre serving the ethic and culture that has meant so much, the role of the family, the role of the children. All of us are concerned about these things. I continue to be very personally impressed by all of your efforts and I want you only to know that it has been a very special part of my life on a personal basis. From the National Council of Women then I must tell you that to me and the National Council you have brought a very special meaning. I hope that the National Council can bring to you something of great importance because we do, as has been so beautifully explained, re present many dozens of member organizations all across the country. We represent a membership of some 18 million women. Therefore, I suspect that we could bring to you one very special thing. We come from great areas of diversi ty. We have at National Council of Women marvelous and sophisticated professional women who live in the City of New York and we have at the National Council of Women marvelous women from the rural regions of the United States who may never get to New York but their representatives do. We have women who feel very strongly about issues that you and I would find contro versial, whatever our reasons might be, and even though these organizations take very strong stances in very controversial ways somehow we come together, as you do with us now. We come together and we find a common meeting ground and we fight for what we believe in and those common meeting grounds are im portant. So what are we and what is the National Council of Women to the Ukrainian National Women’s League? It is 50 years since we first met together at a Congress such as this and at a gathering such as this. We are perhaps your extended family in the U. S. and the U. S. has learned a lot about the extended family, the role of young people and their parents and their grandparents and all that has changed. So that at this occasion, on this 50th Anniversary may I then bring greetings from your extended family at the National Council. We look forward very much to our celebrations in the near fu ture. N. Barker — President of the N ational C ouncil of Women of America, speaking. — Ненсі Баркер — президент Н аціональної Ж ін очої Ради Америки — промовляє.
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