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The Ukrainian Museum has been a monumental undertaking by the UNWLA. Ms. Rozankovkyj was especially instrumental in its founding. To her, the preservation of Ukrainian identity and cultural heritage was necessary at all costs. Unfortunately, she did not live to see the Museum in its new premises - a goal she worked so hard to realize. During her tenure as President of the UNWLA, there were many demonstrations regarding human rights, the victims of the famine of 1933, and the catastrophe in Chomobyl, Ukraine, and she made certain that the UNWLA participated in these demonstrations and voiced its support for Ukraine. Iwanna Rosankowskyj saw the need to bring young members into the organization. To this end she organized two conferences on “The Ukrainian Women in Two Worlds”. She adopted positive elements of organization, which she applied to the work of the UNWLA. For example, she began the “Young Women Achievers Award” for unusual professional achievements. She also initiated turning the UNWLA into an officially registered non-profit organization. Today we bow our heads in recognition of all her achievements for our organization and vow to adhere to her ideals. Farewell, our Honorary President Iryna Kurowyckyj Iwanna Rozankowskyj A Tribute and Farewell by Martha Bohachevsky Chomiak Iwanna Rozankowskyj knew how to mobilize people. It was a surprising quality, because Mrs. Rozankowskyj could not be characterized as being charming or very outgoing, qualities we seem to consider essential for this task. Always elegant, neatly coifed, and well dressed, she had a good sense of very wry humor, enjoying empty verbiage as much as she loved her cigarettes. Athletic in her youth, she kept the slim figure and mainly the nervous energy coiled within her. She was an effective leader and an exceptional organizer. By training she was a lawyer. By necessity, as an emigre to the United States, she became a librarian. By vocation, she became a facilitator of information about Ukraine. Because it hurt her personally that only a small handful of people knew about Ukraine, its culture, and its fate, she did everything in her power to remedy that ignorance and to ensure that the image of Ukraine and Ukrainians reflected the true wealth of their culture. She was instrumental in moving the headquarters of the UNWLA from Philadelphia to New York, mainly because New York offered the UNWLA greater visibility. As the seat of the UN and the headquarters of the National Council of Women of the United States, the city offered more opportunities to bring to fore the cause of Ukraine and its women. She worked tirelessly to make the presence of the UNWLA in the National Council real, and paved the way for UNWLA members to be elected to the highest posts in the NCW/USA, including the presidency. It was thanks to the active presence of UNWLA members at the April 1986 International Council of Women in London that we were able to push through the first international resolution about the tragedy of Chomobyl. It was also largely through Mrs. Rozan- kowsky’s efforts that the creation and expansion and now the building of the Ukrainian Museum in New York became a reality. The Museum and its outreach programs have become a fixture in the American art scene. The folkarts no longer just preserve Ukrainian cultural heritage, but use it as a means of telling the Ukrainian story. Mrs. Rozankowskyj was very conscious of the importance of the written word. Under her tenure as President and then as Honorary President, the UNWLA journal, Our Life, expanded its coverage, the Convention Books became even more substantive, and the Kovaliv prizes for literature and scholarly work received wider recognition. Along with others, but more insistently, Mrs. Rozankowskyj also helped in the publication, translation, and dissemination of a book on the history of the Ukrainian women’s movement, and three years later, in the publication of the works of Milena Rudnytska, a major figure in Ukrainian political life before the second World War. 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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