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While mourning the loss of these three women, members of Branch 58 continue to work on numerous programs and activities. In June, the branch hosted a “God Bless America Independence Day Party” for senior residents of the Ukrainian Village in Warren, Michigan. Branch member Olya Solovey, director of the Zoloty Dzvony Choir at the Ukrainian Village, arranged a medley of patriotic American and Ukrainian songs for the event. Ms. Solovey, who serves as Branch 58’s Secretary and Cultural Chair, is also director of the singing group “Soloveyky.” In 2005, the group produced a CD of their songs, donating a share of the proceeds from CDs sold to charitable causes. Other branch members continue to promote Ukrainian culture in the Detroit area. Nadya Sepell has held pysanky exhibits at the Henry Ford Cen tennial Library for the past 31 years. Iryne Torrance exhibits pysanky at Detroit’s Riverview Library, and Janis Basian recently arranged a Ukrainian Exhibit at the Padzieski Gallery, located in the Ford Performing Arts Center in Dearborn, Michigan. From September through May, branch members visit Ukrainian residents of the Abbey Nursing Home and attend the Ukrainian Catholic Liturgy celebrated for residents the first Thursday of every month. Branch 58 members, who are eagerly anti cipating the 2008 UNWLA Convention, are cur rently involved in the Detroit Regional Council’s convention planning activities and have volunteered to be in charge of convention transportation. Mar- cilene Chomiak, who serves as co-president of Branch 58 with Julia Stoiko, is in charge of the transportation committee. Material for this article was compiled and submitted by Ann Sedorak and Julia Stoiko. Branch 58’s donation (in the amount of $50) and a donation from the Stoiko Family Trust (in the mount of $25), both designated for Our Life Press Fund, are gratefully acknowledged. Helena Kolody (1912-2004): A Ukrainian Woman’s Voice From Brazil by Helene Turkew icz-Sanko Brazil, a country as vast as the United States of America or Canada, is home to about 200,000 Ukrainians of which about 92.5% are Brazilian bom. Although they can be found in major cities such as Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Salvador, and in the federal capital city Brasilia, most of these Ukrainians (about 75%) are concentrated in one of the 23 states of Brazil, the state of Parana, and mainly around Curitiba and Prudentopolis. Accord ing to the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, the first Ukrainian immigrant probably arrived in 1872, from the Zolochiv region in Eastern Galicia. In the 1870s, Parana was an area of un cleared forest. It must have been a great disappoint ment for the people who had crossed the Atlantic Ocean, lured by Italian shipping companies whose agents had promised vast farmland. Nevertheless, a Ukrainian community was bom and the churches attest to the fact that the settlers were mostly Byzantine Catholics. Some twenty years later, a mass immigra tion took place between 1895 and 1897. In 1897, the first Ukrainian chapel was built in the town of Silva, and the first Ukrainian monks of the Basilian order arrived. Most of the new settlers came from Galicia and Bukovyna. and then from Volhynia. Ukrainian immigrants of the time were seldom classified as Ukrainians but rather as Austrians or Poles. The average number of newcomers was somewhere be tween 700 and 1,000 per year; by 1902, in Curitiba, the first secular organization, Prosvita, appeared. Between 1907 and 1914 the Brazilian go vernment needed workers for its railroads. The Sao Paulo-Rio Grande do Sul junction in the state of Parana attracted a great number of immigrants; among the newcomers were the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate, who arrived in 1911. Between the two world wars, this flow of immigrants continued, historically labeled “the second wave of immigration to Brazil.” These immigrants were
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