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STAYING ACTIVE IN CHICAGO Your Ukrainian may not be great, perhaps your parents hardly spoke the language, you may be married to a non-Ukrainian or being new in town you may want to meet other Ukrainians. Helping out in the community would be fun too, provided you were not overwhelmed with obligations. Why not join the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America (the Soyuz Ukrainok )? The Soyuz Ukrainok welcomes all of above. Can you imagine writing a report in English instead of Ukrainian? No complaints. The meetings may be held in Ukrainian but lots of English is spoken, at least in the younger groups. Best of all, you can be as involved as you want to be. In Chicago, a new branch was formed last year for women in their twenties and early thirties. Branch 85 now has 19 members and, besides holding meetings just to get to know one another better, this branch participated in the Ukrainian community’s Christmas bazaars and the UNWLA annual picnic, better known as Den' Soyuzianky, at the Round Lake resort. The 48 members of Branch 6 are in their thirties and forties. For the past six years, this group has run an ambitious Ukrainian language nursery school, which now takes credit for hundreds of bilingual graduates. Receipts from a jewelry fashion show held last fall benefited the planned senior citizens home in the Ukrainian village. A Christmas party and and spring “Girl’s Night Out” helped the new members get acqu ainted with the founders of the branch. This year Branch 6 plans to adopt an orphanage in Ukraine. Have you seen the television films of how bad the orphanages are in Rumania? We hear they are worse in Ukraine. Branch 101 boasts an active membership of women in their forties. Enormously successful in its fundraising efforts, Branch 101 raised over $10,000 on two events alone — an evening cabaret benefit and afternoon fashion show staged by Saks Fifth Avenue. Branch 101’s organizational skills also proved indispensable in helping to host the Ukrainian boys choir Dudaryk. As is true in the other younger branches in Chicago, many of this branch’s members are professionals with full-time ca reers, making the Soyuz Ukrainok image of “housewives only” completely outdated. The branches in Milwaukee, Minneapolis and Hammond-Munster, Indiana welcome new members of all ages. Include them with the nine Chicago-based branches and you have 428 women members in Soyuz Ukrainok of greater Chicago. The more established branches set the example for the younger groups. For example, Branch 36 was found ed in Chicago in 1932, at the time Al Capone ruled the city. Almost sixty years later these brave ladies are still active. They raise funds to help children injured in Chornobyl nuclear disaster, support the Ukrainian Mu seum in New York, send books to Ukraine, co-sponsored a picnic and took part in community bazaars to raise additional funds for other charitable causes. Nationally honored Branch 22, the largest branch in Chicago, celebrated its fortieth anniversary. Ukraine was beautifully represented with a special program and a Christmas tree decorated Ukrainian-style at the Museum of Science and Industry’s "Christmas Around the World”, both carefully prepared by Branch 22. Literary evenings are another of Branch 22’s specialties. This very active branch even has a weekly ten-minute spot on the radio program of one of its members. The branch also has its own library with almost 500 books. Branch 29 enjoyed its thirtieth anniversary at its popular annual holiday party. This group keeps extreme ly busy by collecting and sending parcels of all kinds to Ukrainian in different parts of the world. These care packages contained food to orphanages in Ukraine, books and camping equipment to young Ukrainians, and used clothing to families in Brazil. They strongly support UNWLA’s Scholarship Fund, providing stipends to Ukrainians studying in Eastern Europe and Brazil. Suburban Branch 74 organized and sponsored noteworthy exhibitions of Ukrainian art in Elmwood Park and Maywood. They also keep a changing display of Ukrainian art at a bank near St. Joseph’s church in north Chicago. The ladies of Branch 74 contribute generously to numerous Ukrainian charities. A significant fundraising effort for Chornobyl relief was made by Branch 77. The ladies of this branch actively participate in the community bazaars at Christ mas and Easter as well. The Ukrainian Museum in New York also benefited from their donations. Branch 84, combined with Branches 22, 74, and 102, helped Branch 29 to provide almost $15,000 in scholarships to Ukrainians all over the world. An infor mative evening on Chornobyl was hosted by this group, at which a physician from Kiev spoke to the community about the medical problems resulting from the Chornobyl disaster. A major drive by Branch 84 collected medicine, hospital care products, and money for Chornobyl relief. Outside of Chicago, Branch 51 took part in Milwau kee’s Folkfare, held every year in the fall. These women welcomed and assisted a six-year old boy from Kiev to get medical treatment for leukemia. Because the mem bers of this Branch informed the Milwaukee Journal of this young Chornobyl victim’s plight, he and his father were given important public support. In addition to holding an annual summer picnic, the Wisconsin branch continues to maintain the Ukrainian showcase house as part of the Milwaukee Museum. Indiana Branch 102 took part in the Munster festival, 20 ’НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, КВІТЕНЬ 1992 Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . 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