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Our Life Now, Out • Life Then I’ve always been a big believer in learning from the past, but, like many people, I also find it easier to live comfortably with this concept with some detachment: It’s easier to apply philosophi cally than personally. Nevertheless, I sometimes put myself through a personal-professional review that involves perusing issues of Our Life published by my predecessors. It is an interesting exercise, which sometimes pleases me (“Hey, I publish things like this too”) and sometimes fills me with envy (“Now why didn’t I think of that?”) or nostalgia. In connection with this, I recently perused a few bound volumes dating from the last 1960s and early 1970s, both the Ukrainian and English- language sections. Our Life was published in Philadelphia in those days, under the direction of Lydia Burachynska, and to some extent, my perusal is a trip down memory lane. I recognize the names of people I knew (or still know) and smile at 30- year old photographs of people I grew up with. I even found an article signed with my name—an account of a summer trip to Ukrainian villages in eastern Romania that was written by Mrs. Bura chynska and based on an interview that I remember participating in rather grudgingly, an attitude that I most humbly regret and can ascribe only to the folly of youth. Most of the articles in those days were shorter than the ones currently published in Our Life, but there are familiar themes that appear on pages with those familiar names and faces. The September issue of 1969, for example includes some poems, a note to branch presidents about their post-summer vacation responsibilities, an article about UNWLA pre-schools, and an article about Roma Prima Bohachevska. There are book reviews in English and Ukrainian and a children’s page. The back cover of the issue, like the back cover of today’s issues, is a full-page, color illustration of a Ukrainian embroidery pattern. Oddly enough, the back covers for 1971 and 1972 have illustrations of traditional Ukrainian ceramics, a tribute we no longer seem to pay to the rich variety of our Ukrainian folk are. A few of the pages in the 1969 issue are printed on pink paper. This pink section includes branch news, news from UNWLA headquarters, an obituary, and a respectably long list (I counted 67) of new UNWLA members, listed by regional council and branch. In the Ukrainian-language section is a list of 23 recent graduates, daughters, nieces, or granddaughters of UNWLA members. The juxtaposition makes me wonder if there is a valid statistical correlation between the two numbers—specifically, does the letter affect the former and can the UNWLA do something similar to ameliorate its membership concerns. The 1970 issue is fairly similar, but the pink pages have been replaced with golden yellow, and the article about UNWLA pre-schools has been replaced with an article about Ukrainian Catholic parochial schools. (As I write about these school- centered articles, I regret that the English-language pages for September 2007 include nothing similar.) In this 1970 issue is an article about young singer, and again I experience a feeling of regret because Our Life does not currently feature a monthly article about some Ukrainian American woman and her achievements. There is no freestanding September issue for 1971 but a combined issue that spans July through September. This makes me wonder whether Our Life was experiencing a financial crunch simi lar to that which plagues our publication today. The issue begins with a word from Lydia Burachynska, newly elected president of the UNWLA, the colored pages have been omitted, and there is a page with recipes about something called “lakomynky” (it took me three telephone calls to learn this loosely translates to “treats”). In the 1972 issue, the colored pages have been reinstated, and there is an article about a young woman working on a Ph.D. in Environmental Toxi cology, a subject that, in retrospect, seems to be geared to far more current events, the most obvious of which include Chomobyl and, more recently, chemical terrorism. We live, we learn, and hope fully the lessons learned—no matter how they are learned—make us a little wiser. -Tamara Stadnychenko 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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