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In closing, I would like to share some news about Branch 1 of the Regional Council of New York. Much has been said and written about the UNWLA’s efforts to recruit new members. During the Annual Meeting of Regional Council New York, members of Branch 1 responded to this ongoing issue with a wonderful gesture that is worthy of admiration and emulation. They signed up their daughters, grand daughters, and daughters-in-law as UNWLA members at large. Today, I proudly welcome Lidia Semuschak, Vira Semuschak Kosowych, Orysia Dmytryk-Buzzetta, Christina Hevryk, Marusia L. Goy, Laryssa Magun- Huryn, Lesia Magun, Yaroslawa Brunscheda, and Lida Borysiuk to the UNWLA. May your days among us enrich your spirit and your knowledge; may you serve the organization with as much passion and joy as those who led the way have served it. The More Things Change . . . This month’s message from UNWLA President Iryna Kurowyckyj ends with a note reprising the orga nization’s ongoing concern with membership issues and a hearty welcome to new UNWLA members, who were recruited by their mothers, grandmothers, and mothers-in-law. Archival materials show that UNWLA leaders throughout the decades were also concerned about membership. The following article by Anastasia Volker, published in the November 1966 issue o f Our Life, provides some interesting insights on the subject. The generally accepted theory is that man is a gregarious being and is not meant to live alone. Also, that no man is an island, and that most people like to be with others. This perhaps is the reason that America is the land of volunteer organizations and the country of “joiners.” And, in this respect, the Ukrainian community is a conformist, for where would one find more organizations than among Ukrainians? The reason people join clubs and organizations are many, but for a Ukrainian woman, there is no better reason to join the ranks of the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America (Soyuz Ukrainok) than to be with people from the same cultural background and people who share the same interests. But there are other reasons women from all walks of life have joined the UNWLA, the only independent Ukrainian women’s organization built by courageous pioneer immigrants that has endured for forty years: • To associate with women of similar interests, ideals, and aspirations • To study social problems and to work for their solution • To work for and support an ideal: a free world and a free Ukraine • To promote and to carry out civic, educational, and charitable project (e.g., building a home for the elderly and a museum) • To be useful and to contribute to the betterment of people, particularly the youth of our com munity and of our country • To develop a feeling of confidence, importance, or pride and to satisfy the need to belong • To make new friends and enjoy old ones • To build one’s self up by belonging to a re spected organization • To learn something new and improve • To satisfy social needs • To just get away from home and family for a little while. The UNWLA’s door is always open to all women of Ukrainian birth or descent; it is based on Christian moral principles, religious tolerance, and political non-partisanship. It is truly a federated women’s organization. The scope of its programs encompasses every facet of community life and offers cultural enrichment in all things Ukrainian— history, literature, music, folk arts and crafts, traditions and customs. The League offers limitless opportunities to members for self-expression, indi vidual growth, leadership, development, and organi zational know-how.
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