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НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ • Березень-Квітень 2024 25 ДІЯЛЬНІСТЬ ВІДДІЛІВ І ЧЛЕНКИНЬ • BRANCH & MEMBER NEWS Branch 56 Meets with Visiting Ukrainian Academicians Sarasota-area Ukrainian American organizations hosted a luncheon at the St. Andrews Ukrainian Cultural Center in North Port on February 2 to meet and share information with six visiting Ukrainian academicians: • Oksana Shabas – Head of the Peace Corps of Ukraine • Kseniia Semenova – Acting Vice-Rector for Sci - entific Work and Innovative Development, National Aviation University (Ukraine) • Inna Steparets – Vice-Rector for Scientific and Pedagogical Work (Humanitarian Issues), Taras Shevchenko National University (Kyiv, Ukraine) • Anatoli Melnychenko – Vice-Rector for Educa- tion, National Technical University of Ukraine (Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute) • Roman Tomashevskyi – Director of the Kharkiv Pol- ytechnic Institute (Renewable Energy and Prosthetics) • Anna Pavelieva – Associate Professor, Germanic Philology and Translation Department – Interna- tional Relations Coordinator, National University Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic. Officers and board members of UNWLA Branch 56 joined the Ukrainian American Club, the Ukrainian Pat Zalisko , Press Secretary, Branch 56, North Port, FL Branch 56 Soyuzianky and members of several other Ukrainian American organizations met with six acade - micians visiting from Ukraine. Award recipients (l-r) Lidia Bilous (Honored Member), Bohdana Puzyk (Honorary President), Halya Lisnyczyj (Honored Member). Branch 56 Annual Meeting Features Moving Presentation by Tania Vitvitsky At its annual meeting on January 16, Branch 56 in - stalled its new Uprava, led by incoming president Inia Tunstall, awarded outgoing president Bohdana Puzyk the title of Honorary President, and recog- nized Halya Lisnyczyj and Lidia Bilous, who con - sistently performed well beyond the call of their assigned duties over the past years, with Honored Member certificates. Reporters from the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and The Sun joined the meeting at the conclusion of its business portion to meet the incoming Uprava and attend the presentation by guest speaker Tania Vitvitsky. Ms. Vitvitsky, President of the Ukrainian Charita- ble Platform in Chicago, gave a moving PowerPoint presentation about her two-month visit to Ukraine in the fall of 2023. She discussed her travels through Lviv, Ternopil, Chortkiv, Izky, Zakarpaty, and Kyiv, and shared poignant photos of children attending school in a bunker, local efforts to provide crucially need- ed supplies to the front lines, a museum exhibit of American Veterans, the Ukrainian National Associa- tion, and members of the community at the event. The Rotary Club of Punta Gorda sponsored the Ukrainian visitors in the U.S., who are here to learn more about a wide range of topics in their respec - tive disciplines. These include aerodynamics, en- gineering, prosthetics, and veterans’ affairs. The academicians are particularly interested in learning how the U.S. treats its combat veterans. Pat Zalisko , Press Secretary, Branch 56, North Port, FL Maria Prymachenko’s works saved from russian de- struction or confiscation alongside precious Trypil- lian artifacts, and a society trying desperately to live a normal life during a war. The photos brought many of those in attendance to tears.
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