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PHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY MARKS TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF CHORNOBYL NUCLEAR DISASTER The Manor Junior College Chours. On Saturday, March 30, 1996, a benefit concert for the Children of Chornobyl was held at Manor Junior College in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. Co-sponsored by the college and by UNWLA Branch 88, the concert was organized by Chrystyna Prokopovych, curator of the Manor’s Ukrainian Heritage Studies Center. Numbering well over 300, members of the audience were greeted by Master of Ceremonies Roman Dubenko who opened the evening’s program with the grim reminder that world, ten years after the nuclear accident at Chornobyl, is only now beginning to recognize the worst effects of the radiation and its cumulative results. He requested that everyone stand and observe a moment of silence to honor the victims of the disaster. The audience continued standing as the Manor Jun ior College Chorus, composed of Ukrainian and Ameri can students, sang Mykola Lysenko’s solemn “Bozhe Velekiy Yedeniy”. In keeping with the somber theme of the program, the chorus also sang W. A. Mozart’s “Lacry- mosa,” and M. Donnelly’s “ I Have A Dream.” They were followed by Manor’s Ukrainian Quartet who sang a Ukrainian prayer. Following this musical tribute to Chomobyl’s vic tims, UNWLA Branch 88 member Olena Karpynich pro vided a bilingual historical summary of the Chornobyl accident, emphasizing the increase in environmental and medical problems resulting from the tragedy, espe cially the effects on the children of Chornobyl. Ms. Kar pynich then read a letter from Yuri Shcherbak, the Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States, who was unable to attend the concert due to other commitments: D ear Brothers and Sisters: It is with profound gratitude that I received your invitation to visit Jenkintown for the com m em oration o f a tragic date, not only in the lives of the U krainian nation, but for all m ankind — the tenth anniversary of the C hornobyl catastrophe. The closer we come to the 26th of April, the clearer the m em ory of the beautiful spring days of 1986, when due to the culpable negligence o f both the designers of the ill-fa te d reactor and the employees at the atomic station, the worst techno logical disaster in the history o f the world occurred. The understanding of the global scale of this dis aster came only after some time. 20 НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ЧЕРВЕНЬ 1996 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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