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Vol. LVII NOVEMBER 2000 Editor: TAMARA STADNYCHENKO FROM THE DESK OF THE PRESIDENT Dear Members of the UNWLA, Inc., readers of Our Life, generous patrons and supporters of our work! The UNWLA's 75th anniversary celebrations commemorated by the Regional Councils are coming to an end. The Presidents of the Regional Councils and the Chairs of the 75th Anniversary Celebration Committees worked hard to make the year long celebration festive and interesting. Today we thank them for all their efforts in making their respective events so successful. Members of the Ukrainian Community, with their attendance at the various Regional celebrations, showed the UNWLA that they hold us in high esteem and support our programs and projects, especially the "Milk and Roll" program we recently created for the youngest school children in Ukraine. The UNWLA National Board and all UNWLA members thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your generous contributions. At this time, we would like to invite you to our year end 75th Anniversary Gala Celebration Banquet and Conference which will take place in Washington, D.C. It is appropriate that the final celebration of this important anniversary be held in Washington, because it was in Washington that the spark was lit in Ukrainian women to form an independent organization here in the United States. The women who initiated this idea were delegates to the quinquennial meeting of the International Council of Women which was held in 1925. The National Council of Women of Ukraine had become a member of the ICW in 1920, the year the ICW conference was held in Oslo, Norway. In 1925, Ukrainian women could not leave their country because of foreign occupation of their homeland, and the delegation of NCW Ukraine was represented by women from Europe and the United States: Hanna Chekalenko Keller, Olena Lotocky and Julia Jarema. It was during this ICW conference held in Washington, D.C., that Ukrainian women were notified that the Ukrainian Council would lose its member ship status in the ICW because Ukraine no longer had a responsible government. The rules, laid down early in the history of the ICW, specified that all NCWs must be from independent countries. The decision to deny the NCW Ukraine membership status in the ICW pushed Ukrainian American women to form an organization of their own and in time, to join the NCW USA and through this organization to tell the world of the suffering of the Ukrainian people under foreign rule. The concept became a reality in 1925 in New York City when an organization of five women's groups from New York and surrounding areas was created and given the name "Ukrainian National Women's League of America". In Helsinki, Finland on July 2, 2000, the National Council of Ukraine once again took its historical place in the International Council of Women. Now Ukrainian women represent themselves in the ICW and on the inter national arena. One aspect of our work has been completed. We greet this momentous occasion with joy. Now the time has come for us to attend to the needs of our organization and our membership. HAPPY THANKSGIVING 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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