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friends. It is over all too quickly and almost all of them have no real desire to leave Ukraine. ”1 could easily stay here another three weeks... I’m definitely coming back. I know what to expect now. I’ll be able to deal with it bet ter next time.” During the last train ride, the one that will take us to Chop and out to Hungary, cards are unpacked in one or two of the coupes and euchre alleviates boredom and soothes the raw edges of anti-climax. Some sleep, exhausted by too many emotions, too few vitamins, too many disruptions to bodies unaccustomed to the local food and lifestyle. In the coupe I share with Vera Andrushkiv, a small group hesitantly and quietly as sembles. These are a few who have been wounded by the experience and who need to talk it through and seek reassurances. For me, there is a sense of deja vu; I see in them the same sense of frustration and helplessness I felt after my first trip to Ukraine, the same despair that nagged at me months after I had returned to my life in America, the same questions and soul-searching about an identity that has been unexpectedly and permanently singed and even scorched by this strange world. In these few, I see the already germinating seeds of a real and concrete need to become involved and to work to change what they have seen. They are hurting because they are not yet capable of seeing how much of an impact their brief visit to Ukraine has made on those people they have met, nor can they truly believe that anything they do can make a real difference here. There is very little that can be done to comfort them except to tell them how similar my own reactions were, to tell them how many things have changed since last year, to try to impart to them some small bit of my own certainty that there is no road back for Ukraine, that everything here can only move forward. Each of them will probably come to this realization sooner or later; for some it will be harder than for others, but in all of them, Orest Vlokh’s prediction has been fulfilled. They will never be the same. SPOTLIGHT ON: THE UKRAINIAN-NATIONAL WOMEN’S LEAGUE OF AMERICA MARKS ITS 65TH ANNIVERSARY AT XXII CONVENTION by Myrosia Stefaniuk Continued from last issue IRYNA SENYK — HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST AND FORMER POLITICAL PRISONER IN THE SOVIET GU LAG, POET, AND UKRAINIAN EMBROIDERY ARTIST — SPEAKS AT LUNCHEON. With the quiet dignity characteristic of her written works, Ms. Senyk extended greetings from Ukraine and expressed gratitude for the diaspora’s support during her many years of prison and exile. She then addressed the decisive role of Ukrainian women in determining the future of our nation. As nur- turers of children, as activists in the community, as equal participants in Ukraine’s current rebirth, it is the women who must deal with the more-embracing tragedy of Chornobyl, namely, the destruction not only of the body, but that of the soul. Women must raise conscien tious and informed generations who will understand that in today’s world “every large and small Chornobyl is a symptom of its state and status.” In a surprise addi tion to the program, Ms. Senyk was presented with copies of the newly-published collection of her poetry and embroidery designs, entitled Linen Scroll. PANEL ON CULTURAL PROBLEMS EXAMINED THE DIASPORA’S ROLE IN FINDING SOLUTIONS. Dr. Ulana Klymyshyn, Professor of Archeology at Central Michigan University and Director of the Multicultural Center, exam ined the role of archeology in preserving national heritage, pointing to the parallel rebirths of national consciousness and interests in past history and culture. The diaspora is vital not only in preserving written and unwritten records, she emphasized, but in disseminating this information to the non-Ukrainian world. Mrs. Vera Andrushkiw, who teaches Ukrainian language and literature at Wayne State University, provided a series of very specific prac tical proposals on how this can be accomplished. Her comprehensive list included suggestions on manage- Mark Stefaniuk with Mykola Horbal in Kiev
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