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14 WWW. UNWLA.ORG “НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ВЕРЕСЕНЬ 2013 Organizational Board meetings are usually held annually right before the summer break b e- gins , as was the case with the Ukrainian Museum and the National Council of Women. The current President of the Ukrainian Museum Board of Trustees, Mykola Darmochwal, was not running for the post after two years at the Museum’s helm. Renata Holod, a member of the Museum Board since 2011, was nominated and elected to the position. The ou tgoing president of the Board of Trustees began the meeting and thanked Director Maria Shust and her staff as well as the Museum's volunteers for their work and dedication. He reported that during his tenure the Board continued to focus on organizational issues. Mr. Darmochwal emphasized the need to identify the future sources of members and donors and, more importantly, to reevaluate the Museum's goals and objectives. The incoming President, Pr o- fessor Renata Holod, is a member of the University of Pennsyl vania faculty and a respected researcher and academic. In her brief acceptance speech, Pr o- fessor Holod reminded members that “we are not only a folk art or fine art museum, but a museum of the history of Ukraine , ” and suggested that the Museum challenge it self in order to grow and i m- prove. An unexpected and heartwarming surprise for the Museum members attending the annual meeting was the conferring of the title “Honorary President ” on Olha Hnateyko, for her ten - year te n- ure as Museum President and her endl ess contr i- butions to the Museum’s development. A plaque from the Board of Trustees was presented to Mrs. Hnateyko by Mykola Darmochwal as he stated: “You have always been, and you will always be, the soul of the Museum.” The UNWLA congratulates Olha Hnatey ko as a dedicated member of UNWLA Branch 86; she has also been named “Honorary Member of the UNWLA” for her dedication to and tireless work in our organization. As President of the UNWLA, and therefore First Vice President of the Ukrainian Museum E x- ecutiv e Board, I thanked Mykola Darmo chwal for his two years of focus on all things administrative in the Museum, for strengthening the work of the Museum's committees and recording many r e- quired formal policies for its proper functioning. The UNWLA wishes Mr. Darmochwal good health and much success in his future endeavors. During the annual Board meeting of the National Council of Women, held on June 28th, plans for celebrating its 125th anniversary in Oct o- ber of 2013 were discussed. As is done annually, the UN WLA submitted its 2012 activities report, which was authored by Lidia Bilous, Vice President of Public Relations. Only when a summary of the UNWLA’s wide sphere of work is transferred to one document does it become clear how much is accomplished by our org anization! The NCW Board meeting also included an extremely interesting report about the recent and much anticipated (June 26th) opening of an old - fashioned safe in the organization's Manhattan office. The safe was linked to suffragette Susan B. Anthony, the founder of the NCW. As was reported by the Associated Press, “Officials at the University of Rochester's Susan B. Anthony Center for Wo m- en's Leadership had hired a locksmith to open it. A pioneering leader of the women's rights movement who fought hard for the right to vote, Anthony died in 1906. Yellowed tax documents were among the papers pulled from the safe, including a certificate of corporation from 1931 and a building lease from the 1990s. The safe also contained a box of phot o- graphs of suffragis t murals that were featured at the Chicago World's Fair in 1932. Wearing white gloves, Catherine Cerulli, director of the Anthony Center for Women's Leadership at the University of Rochester, pulled out a box containing a replica of the Susan B. Anthony ga vel that was given to Anthony at the First International Council of Women in 1888. The replica was made by the Smithsonian Collection.” An exciting page of NCW history has been uncovered! Turning now to the official UNWLA bus i- ness: during the June 22nd UNW LA Executive Committee Meeting, a decision was made to hold an inter - Regional Council conference on October 5th, 2013, at the UNWLA Headquarters. This co n- ference will include the New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Connecticut, and Central New York Regiona l Councils and their branches. The goal of the conference is to reinforce the importance of the Regional Council structural organizational level and its responsibilities, as well as to discuss various matters of organizational and financial functio n- ing, an d recording. A save - the - date for this confe r- ence was sent out in late July. Below you will find a listing of events a t- tended either by the President or the President and members of the Executive Committee of the UNWLA from mid - June to the end of July.
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