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4 OUR LIFE • June 2024 A Conversation with the Past From the Our Life Archives: The 1970s Each issue throughout this 80th anniversary year of Our Life will feature an article from one of the magazine’s eight decades. This month, Our Life editor Romana Labrosse shines the spotlight on the 1970s. The January 1975 issue of the magazine included a report on the XVII Convention – the Jubilee Convention – and a centerspread of photos from the event. In the mid-1970s, the UNWLA was gearing up for several prominent celebra- tions: the bicentennial of the United States in 1976, International Women’s Year in 1975, and – most important – the organization’s 50th anniversary, also in 1975. The UNWLA would begin celebrating its golden anniversary with a Jubilee Convention (the XVII Convention) on November 29-30 and Decem- ber 1, 1974, at the Statler Hilton Hotel in New York City (on Seventh Avenue across from Penn Station and Madison Square Garden, later known as the Hotel Pennsylvania for many years). The cover of the November 1974 issue of Nashe Zhyttia/Our Life replicated the front cover of the Convention Book, which was designed by Tania Krawciw. A “UNWLA 1974 Report to the National Council of Women of the U.S.” in the same issue clearly stated the organization’s objectives and summarized its work: “When ... Ukrainian immigrant women came together to form the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America their aims were; to preserve their na- tional culture, provide mutual aid, and assist THEIR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN Ukraine in their struggle for basic human rights. In the ensuing years, the U.N.W.L.A. through its III branches has given countless exhibits and demonstra- tions of Ukrainian folk arts and customs, all over the United States, has provided material aid for hundreds of widows, orphans and aged, and in a special pro- gram, following World War II, sponsored and relocated ‘new’ immigrants coming from displaced persons camps in Germany. From the day of its inception, the Ukrainian National Wom- en’s League has continu - ally endorsed and joined in actions opposing com- munism and supporting the rights of all peoples to freedom of speech, religion and self determination.”
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