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Continuation: MARY V. BECK... occasion by representatives of Ukrainian organizations, far and near. President Ronald Reagan, United States Senators from Michigan as well as Congressmen sent congratulatory messages. Testimonial Resolution were presented from the State Senate, the House of Repre sentatives, the Governor of Michigan and from Mayors of several cities as well as Detroit. The best proof of the high regard in which so many Ukrainians held "our Marusia” is the fact that more than $7,000 was contributed to the Mary V. Beck Literary Foundation, which will help Ms. Beck to carry on the “Ukrainica” Contest and other similar projects. Ms. Beck was always called the “Lady of Firsts” in Detroit because of the following: she was the first Ukrainian woman attorney in the United States; the first Ukrainian woman whose speeches were incorporated into the Congressional Record at the behest of several Congressmen; the first Ukrainian woman who has had a personal greeting and tribute inserted into the Congres sional Record by Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, who honored her thus on her golden anniversary; the first Ukrainian woman whose name is inscribed in marble on two public buildings in Detroit. Young Ukrainian Americans should identify with her and recognize in her a role model which they could emulate. It might even inspire them to a life of service and dedication which is not, as Ms. Beck said, without its frustrations and disappointments, but which ultimately is overwhelming in its sense of gratification and ful fillment. Natalia Kobrynska, had she lived to see what a bright flame has evolved from the spark that she created by founding the Ukrainian women’s movement in Sta- nyslaviv 100 years ago, would have been delighted that today there are such individual women of achievement as Mary V. Beck, who adorn the crown of Ukrainian womanhood. Sophie Anderson (Mrs. Anderson is an officer in Branch 37, UNWLA, Detroit. She is also secretary of the Ukrainian Community Banquet Com mittee for Mary V. Beck Jubilee.) WOMEN IN THE NEWS INDIRA GANDHI The leader of 746 million people in India, a nation claim ing to be the largest democracy in the world, Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi lost her life last month to an assasin’s bullet. For 20 years the dynamic Mrs. Gandhi, known to her people as “Amma” (mother) Madam or Madamji, provided a government for her ethnically and religiously diverse country, which though seeped in internal con troversy, strife and civil war, brought India into the nuclear age in 1974 with the detonation of its first atom bomb. Her housecleaning policies in the form of the ten-point program which nationalized commercial banks and cut off government subsidies to various mahara jahs, showed her toughness and no-nonsense rule. The advent of war in Pakistan brought Indian trops to settle the dispute and saw the emergence of the new nation of Bangladesh. In 1977 due to accusations of conviction in internal electoral wrongdoing, Mrs. Gandhi was ousted from power, arrested and released several times. In 1980 she reclaimed her office again through a public vote of confidence. Indira Gandhi was born in 1917. The only child of Jawaharlal Nehru, independent India’s enormously po pular first Prime Minister, her filial duties and obliga tions became the prime motivation of her existence. She married Feroze Gandhi, a student whom she met while in London, and bore two sons, Rajiv and Sanjay. Her marriage, in effect, lasted only five years, for she left her husband to become her father’s official hostess. She accompanied him everywhere, and at his side learned the rudiments of policy making and international polit ics. Shy and retireing, Indira Gandhi was almost forced into public office upon the death of her father. At the age of 50, with no practical government experience, but with a lifetime of memories of her father’s wisdom, prac tical and philosophical, Indira Gandhi assumed the leadership of her enormous nation. The latest strife in India’s internal turbulence took her life. She was gunned down by two trusted body guards whose religious beliefs differed from hers. Indira Gandhi’s killers were Sikhs, belonging to a religious group, though comprising only about 2% of India’s population, they nevertheless hold an important place in their country’s life and their aim is to create an inde pendent Sikh nation in the Punjab on the Pakistani border. Indira Gandhi was a woman of the 20th century. A fighter, attuned to the wants, needs and desires of her people, she took upon herslef the enormous task of governing a very diversified nation at a most difficult time, considering the state of our world today. ELEANOR ANNA ROOSEVELT Wife of the 32nd President of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt began her public career in the shadow and memory of her very popular husband Franklin Delano Roosevelt. During his lifetime she vigorously supported 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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