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environment made me feel a fish out of water. A trip to Munich where I spent a week or so with members of the Ukrainian Germany community was a bittersweet expe rience. The encounter, which made me feel at home among my own kind, highlighted the absence of any thing and anyone Ukrainian in my daily life. And with the approach of the Christmas season, this lack became even more pronounced and more instense for it would be the first Christmas I would ever spend away from my family and away from the Ukrainian Christmas tradi tions that had been a constant in my life since child hood. The thought of not participating in the rituals of Sviat Vechir was made even more difficult by the knowl edge that our German neighbors, some of them now friends, were all going home for the holidays. We would be spending Christmas Eve with the other strangers in this strange land, Sang Jin and her Korean friends. And wallowing in this un-Christmasi spirit, I was almost annoyed at the brown paper wrapped package that arrived from America a few days before Sviat Vechir. I have often wondered what long distance telepathic insight motivated my mother to send that package, but never before or since have I received a more loving or more special Christmas gift. My mother, with some mys tic intuition, had understood everything there was to understand and had sent me a shoe box crammed with all the necessary ingredients for making kutya. It was a Christmas gift that was shared that year with five non-Christian Koreans at a “Christmas Feast” of kelp wrapped rice, kim chee, kutya and gluhwein. And on that Sviat Vechir in Tubingen, the Koreans learned to say “дякую” and a Ukrainian American learned to say “Komsa Hamnida.” So Komsa Hamnida, mamo, for a Sehr Frohliche Weinachten and an enduring and cherished Sviat Vechir memory. NEWS FROM UNWLA HEADQUARTERS On September 14, 1995, Anatoly Zlenko, Ukraine’s permanent representative to the United Nations, met with representatives of Ukrainian organizations and edi tors of Ukrainian publications in order to present detailed and important information on the topic of “Ukraine’s Participation in the 50th General Assembly of the Uni ted Nations”. Ambassador Zlenko informed those assem bled that under the direction of Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers, a national organizational committee to com memorate the UN’s 50th anniversary had been estab lished. He presented the agenda of the Ukrainian dele gation which would participate in a special plenary session to be held in New York on October 22, 1995 at which Ukraine’s President Leonid Kuchma would speak. The UNWLA was represented by Barbara Bachynsky, the National Board’s corresponding secretary, and by Irena Chaban, editor-in-chief of Our Life. The World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Organ izations held its annual meeting in Toronto, Canada on October 27—29, 1995. UNWLA delegates attending the meeting were A. Krawczuk (President), O. Trytyak (Vice-President), I. Kurowyckyj (4th Vice-President), J. Rubel (Press) and Maria Kramarczuk. Also present were N. Danylen.ko, C. Nawrocka, I. Rusnak and M. Prociuk. At the meeting of the National Council of Women of the USA which took place on November 6, 1995 the UNWLA was represented by O. Trytyak (VicePresident) and J. Rubel (Press). Also present were I. Kurowyckyj, immediate past president of the NCW-USA, and Maria Tomorug, member of the NCW-USA’s executive board and auditing committee. On the occasion of the 24th UNWLA convention which will take place in May 1996 Branch 119 is donat ing $500.00 to the press fund of Our Life. The National Board of the UNWLA and the editors of Our Life wish to express their sincere thanks for this gesture. On September 25, 1995, Anatoly Zlenko, Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Nations, invited representa tives of Ukrainian American community organizations to meet with Ukraine’s Foreign Minister O. Udovenko. For eign Minister Udovenko spoke about current relations between Ukraine and the United States and about for eign relations and diplomatic ties with other nations of the world. He urged those present to lobby the Ameri can government and American businesses to support Ukrainian economic ventures. The UNWLA was repres ented at this function by president Anna Krawczuk and by Iryna Kurowycky, the WFUWO’s representative to the U.N. On November 3,1995, UNWLA president Anna Kraw czuk attended a meeting hosted by Dr. Juri Shcherbak, Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States in Washing ton, D.C. It was the second in a series of meetings on the subject of plans for the commemoration of the 10 year anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, the world’s greatest environmental accident. The Chornobyl Challenge ’96 Committee was formed during the meeting. 14 ’’НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ГРУДЕНЬ 1995 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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