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BRANCH 32, IRVINGTON, NEW JERSEY CONGRATULATIONS & BEST WISHES FOR A SUCCESSFUL CONVENTION Our new year opens with installation of new officers at a Candlelight Ceremony during which our officers hold a lighted candle and repeat a pledge to fulfill the duties of their office. As our branch membership ranges between 20 or 25 members, most of our chairladies and officers fill more than one position. Although our branch is consistently small and the work load heavy on the members, we find that we can work more effectively and with better teamwork with a small group. Visits to various Ukrainian church groups in the surrounding area have brought us a few new members. Our Public Relations chairlady usually gives a lecture on the programs and work of our organization. We find many American-Ukrainian women are not acquainted with Soyuz Ukrainok. The first activity of the new year is our traditional signing of the Proclamation of Ukrainian Independence by the mayor of Union Township, New Jersey. Our members and fellow constituents are present in full force to witness the signing at the January town meeting. The following Sunday Ukrainians of the surrounding community and our branch members gather around Union’s flagpole in front of the Town Hall to join in the Ukrainian flagraising and to sing our country’s national anthems. Our flag will fly for the following month in the cold breeze to celebrate and bring to the attention of the American community Ukrainian Independence Day. Our members always look forward to the dinner sponsored by Ukruzna Rada every year. We feel a friendly kinship with our other sister branches. Last year, our branch sponsored an evening “Let’s Get Acquainted.” We supplied a showing of a historical film of our city and the surrounding area and a delicious varied buffet to which all branch members from our Ukruzna Rada were invited. We spent the remainder of the evening getting acquainted with one another and passed out booklets containing the biographical background of our branch members that had been compiled and printed by our Public Relations chairlady. When Moroz visited New York in 1979, we sent a contingent of members to the rally in Bryant Park, New York, carrying a large placard welcoming him to the U. S. A. despite the crowds and the rain. Each year we try to help to make the Ukrainian Festival at the New Jersey Garden State Center, New Jersey, a complete success by selling tickets to the stage performance and increasing our sales from the previous year. We do not stop there. You can always find our table selling the best homemade pampushky & coffee, and hot dogs with homemade kapusta at reasonable prices. One or two of our members also display their oil paintings under the big tent. In giving moral support and in keeping friendly relations with our Ukrainian community, we join in the St. John’s Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Newark, N.J., with selling goods at their church bazaar, and donating the proceeds to their funds. Believe it or not, one of our fun days is the long day of packing packages of used clothing to be sent to orphanages in Brazil and Poland. Our senior honorary member, Mrs. Mary Wislocky, always puts out a hearty spread of food for us to devour when our work is completed. Maybe that’s why most of our members turned out this year to help us pack our eight packages and help to get them mailed. We are members of U. C. C. A. and try to participate, whenever possible, with our Ukruzna Rada at their affairs, especially Ukrainian Women’s Day at which our talented members display their oil paintings and artwork. 117 www.unwla.org
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