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In the previous issue of Our Life, we featured an article on seeking, finding, and keeping new UNWLA members In this month's issue, author Christina Kyj Pluta has contributed a companion article, which provides some valuable insights on keeping infirm and elderly branch members involved in UNWLA activities. Ms. Pluta is president o f UNWLA Branch 13 of Chester, PA. Winning by Going the Extra Mile by Christina Kyj Pluta UNWLA Branch 13 meeting at Fair Acres Nursing Home. Standing (left to right): Christine Matijkiw, Ruth Halko, Christina Pluta Anna Schlachtun, Nadia Bazan, Melania Kozak, Irena Nazarewycz. Seated (left to right): Lydia Kyj, Sophia Melnyk, Eugenia Korchynsky. During the XXVII UNWLA Convention, several UNWLA members expressed concerns about elderly UNWLA members whose active participation in the UNWLA is often marginalized by age, financial considerations, or illness. One question that was raised was the issue of members who are physically unable to attend meetings and are therefore considered "inactive." Many of these women have been members of the organization for years; throughout those years, their contributions to the UNWLA have been enormous. Loyalty and friendship and simple human kindness tells us it is not appropriate to simply "drop" these members from branch activities and forget them. Branch 13 of Chester, Pennsylvania has resolved this issue by going the extra mile, literally and figuratively. When members cannot come to the branch meeting, the branch meeting is taken to them. Our April branch meeting was held at Fair Acres Nursing Home where Sofia (Sonia) Melnyk has been a resident for one and a half years. In planning our visit, we first contacted Pani Sonia's nephew who, in turn, contacted the nursing home staff, asking them to provide a room large enough to accommodate all of us. Pani Sonia was thrilled by our visit, a reaction that made each of us realize we made the right choice. She is 91 years old and deaf but can still read without glasses, so we communicated in writing, by hand sig nals, and lip reading. I was a little abashed and much amused that our friend is still sharp enough to correct my Ukrainian grammar! She recognized most of her old friends and asked about the new faces, those belonging to people who had joined our branch during her absence. Then she repeated everyone's names as though trying to engrave them in her memory. 14 “НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ВЕРЕСЕНЬ 2005 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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