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In Toronto on December 5, 1998, the Ukrainian World Congress recognized the UNWLA Scholarship Program for its 30 successful years (l-r): Scholarship Chair Luba Bilowchtchuk, UNWLA President Anna Krawczuk, UWC President Dmytro Cipywnyk, UWC General Secretary Jaroslaw Sokolyk. to this day. In 1994, Nadia Nynka became UNWLA representative in Kyiv. I was elected UNWLA National President in 1993 and re-elected in 1996. Luba Bilow - chtchuk became Scholarship Program Chair until 2002, when Maria Polanskyj took over. Maria held that position until her passing in 2015. I volunteered to stand in for her for the last two years of her tenure but stayed until 2021 when COVID-19 restrictions were lifted. The next four years were very difficult due to COVID-19, but our work continued, and our students in Brazil and Ukraine con - tinued to receive their scholarships. My thanks to Scholarship Program Committee members: UNWLA President Marianna Za - jac (ex officio), M. Orysia Jacus, Luba Bilow - chtchuk, Dr. Daria Nowakiwsky Lissy, PhD, Nadia Jaworiw, who wrote the very helpful Manual of Procedures , Zoriana Haftkowycz, and Victoria Mischenko, our office adminis - trator for 25 years. Luba Bilowchtchuk 1993–2002 “Enhance and create opportunities through education and pre - serve Ukrainian cultural heritage within and outside of the Unit - ed States of America” I was elected Scholarship Program Chair at the UNWLA Conven - tion in 1993 and held this position until 2002. Immediately after I accepted this role, a scholarship committee comprising Anna Krawczuk, M. Orysia Jacus, Maria Polanskyj, Odarka Polanskyj Stockert, and Maria Pazuniak was formed. Due to the actions taken by former Scholarship Program chair Anna Krawczuk, I was able to expand the program exponentially in Ukraine, and it was thus that the Soyuz Ukrainok of Ukraine Scholarship Commission was created in Kyiv in 1993, headed by SUU FVP Iryna Kravchuk. This commission comprises the presidents of all SUU Oblast Councils, who receive recommendations for scholarships from their respective branches. I traveled to Ukraine numerous times (Lviv, Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, Poltava, Crimea) to meet with scholarship recipients and with the people who recommended students and assumed responsibility for them. Since the Scholarship Program moved to its current office in Matawan, NJ, in 1997, the program has been recognized and supported by many individuals and organizations. In 1998, cel - ebrating the Scholarship Program’s 30th anniversary, the World Congress of Ukrainians bestowed its highest award, the Medal of St. Volodymyr the Great, upon all Scholarship Chairs – the first time in WCU’s history that an organization was honored in this manner. Scholarship Program leaders have also received many certificates of gratitude from Ukraine, Brazil, and other coun - tries. In August 2000, UNWLA president Iryna Kurowyckyj, M. Orysia Jacus, and I visited Ukrainian Brazilian communities, schools, seminaries, and colonies. We were met at the airport by former UNWLA scholarship recipient, now Archbishop, Jeremias Ferens of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, as well as by other religious and lay leaders of Ukrainian communities. With the approval of Ukrainian Brazilian leadership, including Ukrainian Catholic Bishop Efraim D. Krevey, my proposal to establish the UNWLA Scholarship Alumni Association in Brazil was accepted. Olga Korczagin, former Director of the Institute of the Catechists of the Sacred Heart (which included Colegio Santa Olga) and the very first University of Curitiba graduate of our program in 1973, agreed to head this association. During my tenure, I credited the success and expansion of the Scholarship Program to the generosity of sponsors and benefac - tors who cared for “their” children. Many of these benefactors sponsored the same students for more than a decade or until they graduated. The 2008 UNWLA Scholarship Committee (l-r): Luba Bilowchtchuk (Scholarship Chair, 1993–2002), Victoria Mischenko, Daria Lissy, PhD, UNWLA President Marianna Zajac, UNWLA Honorary President Anna Krawczuk, Maria Polanskyj (Scholarship Chair, 2002–2015), M. Orysia Jacus. With students in Sevastopol, Crimea, in 2001. Seated second from left: Scholarship Chair Luba Bilowchtchuk; standing behind her: Oryna Sokulska, SUU; standing second from right: Scholarship Committee Finance Officer M. Orysia Jacus. 10 OUR LIFE • December 2022
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