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In Anticipation of the Next UNW LA Convention: Notes from a Picnic by M arie Zarycky-C herviovskiy Background: Ihor Iwanycky and Bohdan Kazewych. Middle row (left to right): Kwitka Iwanycky, who has served three terms as president of Detroit Regional Council; Vitia Hruszkewych-Moll; Larysa Cisaruk; Detroit Regional Council education chair Katrusia Kizyma; Danylko Rakowsky; author Marusia Zarycky-Cherviovskiy; and Gary Gudz. Foreground: Myrosia Stefaniuk and Convention Committee Chair Anna (Nusia) Macielinski. At the end of July, UNWLA Branch 96 held its annual picnic on the grounds of the Dibrova Estate in Brighton, near Detroit, where the Ukrain ian community has gathered since 1954 to enjoy the lush natural beauty of Michigan and the estate’s private lake. Each year, we bring together our members, who are scattered over the many suburbs of Detroit, as well as their families, including those visiting from other Ukrainian American communi ties in Cleveland, Chicago, and elsewhere. At this event, we host our sons, daughters, and grandchildren hoping to foster a cross- generational camaraderie as well11 as to remember and relive youthful Plast or SUM experiences and traditions. We take this opportunity to share the members’ small joys and their large successes— new babies, graduations, recent health challenges, etc. Good company and good food revive strength and, with a staunch determination, branch members pass around pictures of their children and grand children or recipes for healthy organic meals. Some sing nostalgic Plast or SUM songs; others discuss what they experienced during recent visits to Ukraine or in some romantic vacation spot. They also look forward to another event—the May 2008 UNWLA Convention—where they will share simi lar nostalgic moments with girlfriends whom life has scattered across this vast country. There were many Soyuzianky enjoying the summer afternoon at Dibrova that day, among them women who had worked diligently while organizing previous conventions as well as women involved in organizing the convention to come. There were women who had organized lectures on Ukrainian women-achievers and exhibits of Ukrainian art and customs in local libraries and city halls. There were women who created costumes, dolls, and manne quins for local festivities and plays, and women who gathered to make varenyky and pasky, not just to raise funds but to keep Ukrainian traditions alive. I spotted a former Our Life editor, as well as a pair of ladies seated under an oak tree reading the 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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