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and medical supplies that were sent to the Ukrainian Club on Franklin Street for packing and shipping to the Ukrainians in German and Austrian post war camps. Committees served included 1954 and 1976 Eucharistic Congresses, the Cardinal Slipyj Visitations, Manor Jun ior College, Ascension Manor and many others. She is a member of B.V.M. Sodality, Alumnae Assn of GNS, She helped raise funds for St. Basil’s Home in 1947— 48 and 1961. Over $31,000 was given to the Mother Superiors. When the UNWLA convention was held in Philadelphia in 1948, Stephanie served on the committee and was the Banquet Chairperson. She was married to Frank Wochok for over 53 years. They celebrated their 50th Anniver sary at the Cathedral, honored with a Pontifical Divine Liturgy and a dinner arranged by their sons. They were blessed with four sons; two are lawyers and the third is in business management and the fourth is bedridden, havina suffered brain damaae and is partially blind and CULTURE CORNER MARTHA BOHACHEVSKY CHOMIAK Thank you for your continued trust in re-electing me as your vice-president with responsibility for cultural affairs. I will again try do my best justify your trust in me. Cultural affairs is a broad category, and one that is not at all amenable to suggestions from above. At most I will continue to suggest types of activities that may be of interest to our members, and will continue doing it through this medium, our own magazine — Our life, rather than by sending you circular letters. The whole issue of circular letters became a factor during the last convention, and our members decided that there was indeed room for circular letters when the need arises for rapid communication. In the field of cultural relations the need for rapid communication is rare, although the need for communication is crucial for any type of cultu ral activity. One can easily argue that the very essence of culture is communication, regardless of whether we define culture in the anthropological sense as an accep ted pattern of behavior, or in the conventional meaning of creative endeavor that seeks to establish or portray some aspect of beauty or truth. In short, culture, according to conventional understanding, is anything that enriches our life. That enrichment seeks an outlet, it begs to be shared, and is itself enriched through the sharing. Indeed, it was the human need to convey thoughts to others that led to the first examples of human culture. And the desire to share one’s under standing of human value remains very much the basis of cultural endeavor. Communication is actually the key, and that is an does not speak. He lives at home. Some of the awards Ms. Wochok has received are the John Jordan Upchurch Award from the Pennsylvania Congress, (1980) the Layperson of the Year from the League of Ukrainian Catholics of America (1982), Certificate of Merit for helping humanity from the Chapel of the Four Cha plains in Philadelphia, Certificate from the Red Cross, but the most prestigious Award received was the Papal Award “Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice”. She gets great satis faction when she can help someone in need. Presently she is President of Branch 52 UNWLA. She has served this branch as President for over 20 years. Also when able, she attended the UNWLA Re gional Councils and Conventions. She believes young women should join this Organization that has done so much for our Ukrainian people! The chain of progress must be continued for future generations. area where our organization could do better, especially in using our journal. Our branches engage in a variety of interesting activities, but we seldom hear about them. Reporting is not a favorite activity for us, but I ask that you send me, or directly to Our Life, descriptions of some of your more interesting activities. I have two requests for you, and one suggestion. The request is to please collect and send on to me any information from any source, but especially directly connected with our branches, about the history of the UNWLA. The Convention passed a resolution encourag ing our branches to collect this information, and another resolution encouraging us to collect oral history testim ony about the UNWLA. I would like to expand that mandate and to urge you to pass on the me any relevant information dealing with women’s life in the Ukrainian American communities. Engage children, students, and senior citizens in this work, write down the stories grandma told you, give me whatever you can so that jointly we will be able to prepare a genuine history of our organization. My other request deals with that broad category of political culture. We have a very active public relations program, but it may be a good idea to use UNWLA as a forum for discussing issues of local and national inter est, especially in this election year. Finally, I would like to compile a list of those among us who would be interested in sharing either their exper tise or their experience with oher members. I envisage a type of little speaker’s bureau drawing upon our mem bers, or other interested parties (obviously, with a slight hope that the parties could consider joining the UNWLA). Many of us travel, and while most of our branches
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