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6 OUR LIFE • September-October 2025 school. That is where UNWLA president Olena Lo - totsky hosted the first-ever Congress of Ukrainian Women of North America. In the summer of 1933, the UNWLA took on a courageous project by installing a beautiful exhibit of Ukrainian culture at the Chicago World’s Fair. It became the foundation of our Ukrainian Museum. UNWLA president Olena Lototsky attended a con - Martha Kichorowska Kebalo signing copies of her book. ference run by the NCW of the U.S. during the fair and ran a “week of Ukrainian women” program at the fairgrounds. This was the UNWLA’s most sig- nificant cultural advocacy effort of the time. In the fall of that year, the UNWLA launched a remarkable campaign for international recognition of the Holo - domor. This was the UNWLA’s first significant polit - ical advocacy effort. Olena Lototsky was re-elected in 1943 and launched Our Life magazine. A Century of Commitment then migrates to the UNWLA’s efforts to protect Ukrainian refugees dis - placed by the war and threatened with repatria- tion, sending care to DP camps and helping with the resettlement of refugees in the U.S. These women immigrants were very resistant to assimilation, while American-born women were more readily inclined towards integration. Olena Lototsky suc- cessfully shepherded both groups of women into a working relationship. Together, they organized the Second Congress of Ukrainian Women in 1959. In between Martha’s introduction of her book, Nadia Nynka read a series of six excerpts from the book highlighting some of the UNWLA’s most no - table achievements: the First Ukrainian Women’s Congress in North America in 1932, the Coalition of Women Representing Captive Nations in 1968, the presentation of a collection of Ukrainian peri- od costumes initiated by Branch 64 in 1965–1967, the rise to the presidency of the National Council of Women in 1995, Mirtschuk Ratych’s discovery and publication of the Epistolary of Lesya Ukrainka in 1999, and the co-founding of the American Co- alition for Ukraine and Marianna Tretiak’s role as president. Martha concluded her presentation by thanking the sponsors of the book, the Orest and Lida Bil - ous Family Foundation, and everyone involved in making the book a reality. She was honored with a standing ovation and presented with flowers. To brighten the event even further, Marianna announced the winner of the UNWLA’s centennial Poetry Contest. Valentyna Shemchuk from Branch 64 received the honor and delighted the guests by reading her outstanding poem, “Час Історичний. Рік Той.” The afternoon concluded with a tour of the Mu- seum’s new exhibition, The Wreath: A Century of Ukrainian Women Beyond the Ocean , curated by Lil- ia Kudelia and dedicated to the UNWLA’s centennial. A Century of Commitment: The UNWLA Story, 1925-2025 is available for purchase on the UNWLA website at unwla.org/shop/
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