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whatever cultural, societal, historical, or natural boun daries and even despite artificially constructed barriers. With that goal in sight the Ukrainian Women’s League of America invited women active in various aspects of the Cleveland scene to address issues which are of concern to us. We have no intention of discovering new verities, or of solving old problems. In fact, we are wary of solutions, for they are often the problem. Our goal tonight is to call attention to our work and to keep the channels of communication open. Perhaps we will even open up new lines of communication. It is for this purpose that we have, as you see, gathered this illustrious group of people. Mareyjoyce Green, as Coordinator of the Women’s Comprehensive Program at Cleveland State University has been in the forefront of bringing academia closer to the community. Not only has Professor Green initiated programs responsive to the changing needs of the community, but she has been bringing together differ ent communities to enhance their understanding of each other. She has played an important role in bringing Cleveland’s ethnic women together, a role which brings her to Washington so others can learn from her exper tise. She is also visible in initiatives to foster interna tional cooperation and understanding, as witnessed by her recently being part of the official US delegation to China and West Germany. All this, because her interest in sociology, especially of gender, education and social stratification led her to develop more effective ways of encouraging non-traditional learners to enter college, and especially of helping women take full advantage of the educational opportunities available to our communi ties. Through the development of a project on the oral history of ethnic women in Cleveland, Dr. Green has become even yet better known in our community. Denise Knecht, a distinguished lawyer with a special interest in questions of discrimmination, employment law issues, common law practice and fair labor legisla tion, as President of the very influential Women’s City Club of Cleveland, has continued the tradition of res ponsible involvement in community work of women who are conventionally not considered part of the “working politicians.” Yet the work of the volunteer organizations is often the critical element in the success or failure of major political and social movements. Mrs. Knecht is a true power broker, mobilizing the community and edu cating it. A moving force in the revitalization of the city, she is also the author of The Pocket Guide to Cleveland. As Director of one of the largest public urban libraries with experience and service on the national scale, Dr. Marilyn Mason serves both as a keeper of the varied her itage of Cleveland groups and as a disseminator of key information beyond the whole Cleveland community with stress on the role of the Federal government in library information service. The power over the past and over the present, hence the influence over the future is vested in Dr. Mason as she supervises, and plans the work of the major national resource, the city library, and develops key programs using advanced modern tech nology to preserve the past. Karen Hiatt's career intersect educational and profes sional training; journalism, including cutting-edge video tape recording of family history; ecological and health concerns. As President of the League of Women Voters of the greater Cleveland Area, she personifies an organ ization that gently but forcefully and persistently revolu tionized American society, broadened the electoral base and directly influenced the course of political develop ment of our country. The League of Women Voters helps ensure that the right to vote, for which our prede cessors struggled hard and persistently, is not only a right but a wide practice. Only an effective constituency can make a dream, a plan, a hope, into effective policy. Karen Hiatt knows how to make that happen and her experience can serve as a model for many of us. Clare Rosacco, despite her youth, has already had a varied and illustrious career and is obviously a young woman going places. She helped prepare the ground for Presidential debates and now she not only speaks for the Mayor, she advises him and is a key member of the political power that fuels the whole life of the United States, its cities. It is the functioning of the local government, responsive to the genuine needs and wishes of the people, and responsible to them, that makes the United States so different from other countries, and so democratic. Zina Vishnevsky, a representative of the fourth estate, an excellent example of the new visibility of women, is not only a reporter of the news. She molds public opin ion, fashions it and educates it by keeping it informed of current events. She is a producer and program host on Cleveland’s Public Radio station, where much of her news coverage is devoted to racial and ethnic under standing. Her documentary on the Ukrainian famine won the Press Club/Sigma Delta Chi Award for Excel lence in Journalism and an award from the Radio- Television Council of Cleveland. Last year, in prepara tion for the trial of John Demjanjuk, she traveled to Isreal with funds provided by the American Jewish Committee and the Ukrainian National Association. Zina calls herself the product of a mixed marriage — her Russian father was a doctor who worked for the British Red Cross in the DP camps in post-World War II Ger many. Her mother is Lithuanian and Zina herself grew up in a racially mixed community in Ohio. Her topic reflects her life — Ovecoming Stereotypes in the News Media. The experiences and the work of these women illus trate the broad range of interest of our own members, and the packed audience, peppered with so many men, shows that our focus is not just women, but women as a force in the community. We had a chance to listen to six different speakers, each illustrating a facet of the same issue: the integration of women into community life and the recognition of the similarities among the different organizations and com 28 ’’НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ЧЕРВЕНЬ 1987 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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