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“НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ЧЕРВЕНЬ 2014 WWW.UNWLA.ORG 15 SPEECH BY UNWLA PRESIDENT MARIANNA ZAJAC AT THE OPENING OF THE XXX UNWLA CONVENTION May 24, 2014 My sincere greetings to the Honorary UNWLA Presidents, Anna Krawczuk and Iryna Kurowyckyj! I would like to thank all of you for coming to take an active part in the XXX UNWLA Convention. Greetings to you, our dear delegates, Soyuzianky , and guests of the Convention! I would like to also welcome our esteemed guests from Ukraine and from Canada! Our membership has gathered for the XXX Convention—which means this is the thirtieth time when our delegates and members come together to examine our achievements of the past three years and to discuss our plans for the future. It has been thirty years since a convention took place in the city of New York—the actual birthplace of our beloved organization. In her report during the XX Convention, the then UNWLA President Ivanna Rozhankowsky stated: “[i]n comparison with women’s movements of other nations, emancipation was never the exclusive goal for the Ukrainian women; it was accompanied by these women’s efforts to deepen national consciousness, to raise the educational and economic stand- ards in villages and cities, and to fight for their nation’s liberation.” Our work in the UNWLA reflects this very statement. While this Convention is taking place in the year when we celebrate both the 70th anni- versary of Our Life and the 200th anniversary of the birth of the renowned Taras Shevchenko, the events currently taking place in Ukraine are constantly in our minds and souls. As Ukrainian-American women, we are deeply concerned about the future of our fatherland and we pray that tomorrow’s elections are allowed to happen in a democratic fashion in eastern Ukraine, and that the results are seen as legitimate by the world. For the past few months, we have been actively working to disseminate information, negate misinformation, and to aid the participants on the Maidan. These activities fit well with Ms. Rozhankow- sky’s description—they are “efforts to deepen the national consciousness”! May I ask you all to stand for a moment of silence for those who gave their lives for their belief in a truly democratic and free Ukraine, one which values the quality of life for each and every one of its citi- zens. Please remain standing—for as we begin our XXX Convention, let us also remember our beloved UNWLA members and Honorary members who have passed away since our last gathering in 2011 and who were an integral part of our almost 90-year long journey of dedicated work. I would like to thank our members for the honor and trust to lead our organization. I strove to work using the UNWLA Bylaws and Resolutions passed during the XXIX Convention in New Jersey as my guide. I was proud to represent the UNWLA at various Regional Council meetings, congresses, con- ferences and other events in the Ukrainian community, the US government in Washington, D.C., at the UN, and in Ukraine. Our National Board worked hard to move forward with our projects and these were regularly reported on in Our Life as well as in the latest Convention Book. Throughout this time, our on- going projects in social welfare, scholarship, educational, cultural, and archival programs continued to function, but at the same time we also looked into the future and sought out new approaches and initia- tives. I would like to share our organization’s three most significant achievements for the past three years. They emphatically underscore the importance of our organization’s work. The first one was the Lectureship in Women’s Studies at the Ukrainian Catholic University in L’viv . The second resolution passed at the XXIX UNWLA Convention gave the National Board the task to “[s]tudy the feasibility of funding a Lectureship in Women’s Studies at the Ukrainian Catholic Univer- sity in L’viv.” We completed this task and, at the National Board annual meeting held in October of 2011, we created a Women’s Studies Lectureship Endowment Fund. The National Board members voted unan- imously in support of this project. In creating this groundbreaking program in women’s studies, the UNWLA reaffirmed its belief that education is the key to a modern and viable Ukraine. The Lectureship gives the young women of Ukraine an opportunity to gain knowledge about the role of women in the past and present of Ukraine and the world and to find their own, important place in contemporary Ukrainian society.
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