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mentary film “Champions of Change.” The Mistress of Ceremonies, the Honorable Debbie Stabenow, State Senator, made the introductory remarks. The Very Rev. Anna Kay Baker, Pastor of the First Presb yterian Church in Lansing led the invocational prayer. The Hon. Terry J. McKane, Mayor of Lansing, offered the official greetings before the awards began. With Mary Beck, there were six other awardees: Jan Ben Dor, a founder mother of the Rape Crisis Center Movement in Michigan; Janet Good, feminist and civil rights activist, who undrscored the sentorial bashing of Anita Hill; Jo Jacobs, fighter of sex dis crimination in the educational structure; Virginia Nordby, longtime advocate of the rights of women nationwide; Dorothy Comstock Riley, Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court; Rachel Anderson, a global outreach leader who founded and guided Youth for Understanding, an exchange program for high school students; and Edith Mays Swanson, a posthumous awardee, an activist in the teachers’ union. Her efforts led to the creation of the Michigan Education Associaton’s Department on Human and Civil Rights. Mary Beck was presented by Dr. Clara Raven, M.D., herself a 1987 Contemporary Honoree. It is noteworthy to share that more than fifteen speeches were given during the evening, each ex pertly presented. When Mary Beck’s turn came, she, in her profound sense of oratorial dynamics, mes merized her audience with her brilliant speaking skills. She was clearly the star of the evening. Approximately thirty Ukrainians from the Greater Detroit area, with whom Mary was closely associated, went to Lansing to share in the highest award which can be bestowed on a Michigan woman. Her close friend Sophie Anderson; a former official of the former Branch 37 of the Ukrainian National Womens League of America spearheaded the assembly of Detroit delegates. Ms. Anderson said “we are especially proud that Mary Beck, a leading and dynamic member of our community, has been chosen as an inductee to Michigan’s Hall of Fame.” After all ceremonies were completed at the hotel, the Ukrainian guests enjoyed an afterglow at the home of Assistant Attorney General Harry Iwasko and his wife Joanie. A special celebration was held to honor Mary Beck’s forthcoming twenty-first Leap Year birthday next February 29, 1992. The Michigan’s Women’s Historical Center and Hall of Fame was dedicated on June 10, 1987, the date of Michigan’s ratification of the 19th Amend ment (Woman Suffrage). The exhibits portrays the lives, achievements, and history of Michigan women. This beautiful renovated facility, also known as the Cooley-Haze House, is on the Michigan Historical Registry, and features a women artists’ gallery. Into this elite frame of documentation, to be forever recorded in Michigan’s history, entered Mary V. Beck, LL.D, Jur. D, Esquire. The Ukrainian Com munity in Metropolitan Detroit congratulates Ms. Beck on becoming the first Ukrainian woman to receive such a high tribute. The ethnic community, espe cially the Ukrainian, is forever indebted to this lady for advancing the cause of freedom in the land of her forebears. A job well done, indeed. STEPHEN M. WICHAR Sr. MAKE A DIFFERENCE Now that the attention of the world is focused on Ukraine, here is a suggestion for an activity which we Ukrainian Americans and Ukrainian Canadians should undertake expeditiously. Please visit your local library and find out what books, if any, they have available under the subject “Ukraine”. Do not be surprised if you do not find any. Speak to the procurement librarian and request that books on Ukrainian history and an Ukrainian Encyc lopedia be obtained for the library. Timing is every thing and now is a very appropriate time to ask for this, as people will be interested to learn more about a country they have known so little about to date and which now is enjoying such a high profile in the media. Because of this interest, you may find a librar ian who will be most cooperative. This is a great opportunity to make a significant contribution for a better understanding of Ukraine. Let’s not pass it up! Children can be involved in this activity as well. Requests made by youngsters are taken very seriously by librarians. The following are important reference books which the library could purchase: 1. Subtelny, Orest: UKRAINE — A HISTORY. University of Toronto Press, 1988 2. UKRAINE A Concise Encyclopedia, (2 volumes) — University of Toronto Press. Vol. 1-1963; Vol. 11-1971. Conquest, Robert: The Harvest of Sorrow. Oxford University Press, 1986. This would be a good beginning for any library which has no books on Ukraine. Let us show that we can make a difference by acting now!. CHRYSTIA SONEVYTSKY “НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, БЕРЕЗЕНЬ 1992 23
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