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OUR LIFE Monthly, published by Ukrainian National Women’s League of America VOL. XVI JULY-AUGUST 1984 Editor: Marta Baczynsky TO PRESERVE A HERITAGE Ukrainian Immigrants on Ellis Island, 1911 Прибуття європейських іміґрантів на Елліс Айленд, 1911. The photographic exhibition — “То Preserve a Her itage: The Story of the Ukrainian Immigration in the United States,” — which opened at The Ukrainian Museum on May 20, 1984, documents the history, con tributions, and heritage of the Ukrainian community in the United States. The exhibition also marks the cen tennial anniversary of the first organized Ukrainian community which began with the settlement of the first Ukrainian Catholic priest, the Reverend Ivan Volansky, in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania in 1884. Ukrainian emigration to America presents a differ ent picture at different times. The exhibition, which gives an overview of the four waves of Ukrainian emi gration to the United States, was conceived in the first instance as a tribute to the earlier immigrants — those who made their way to America around the late 1870’s- 1914, and then again, in the inter-war period. The earlier immigrants, the majority of whom left under pressure of economic necessity, preserved in working hard to improve their lot. While intent on estab lishing an economically secure existence, they came to the aid of their countrymen in the homeland. They sent ’’НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ЛИПЕНЬ-СЕРПЕНЬ 1984 27
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