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filled the back. One of the changes we have wrought (“we” meaning me and Lida and all the people who send us articles) is eliminating this discriminatory tradition and restructuring the content by theme rather than by language. And in the process, the number of pages in each language is not the static 28-8 mix but a fluid and flexible “it is what it is” mix that is guided by content rather than numbers. As I am writing this report, the February 2011 issue is expected back from the printer, the March issue is “in the works,” and we continue receiving a respectable volume of new materials from various sources, including numerous articles and features by our “regulars” as well as articles and features from new authors. It is because of these authors that the magazine continues to offer a great variety of articles and features, including articles about contemporary women’s issues here and in Ukraine), features on distinguished women (in UNWLA, in Ukraine, in the Ukrainian diaspora), book reviews, poetry, art, history, humor, medical, culinary, organizational news, branch news, regional council news, home & garden, travel, the UM, archival material, and assorted features on life in the diaspora. Items we would love to publish but don’t see much of include letters to the editor and articles dealing with ecology/environment. Both editors write articles, collaborate with established writers, encourage novice writers, and welcome “newbies.” Lida’s report lists some of her specific contributions; below is a short list of my own: 2008. “Sculptor Petro Kapschutschenko: An Intimate Tribute” (about an exhibit featuring the late sculptor and his work) and “A Voice from the Choir” (about Prof. Yuriy Oransky and the choirs for children and girls that he established and directed in Philadelphia). 2009. Interviews with Ilona Sochynsky, Natalie Karpinich, Roxolana Wynar, and Halyna Zyblikewycz. Done by telephone or email, these interviews were fun and interesting and so were each of the four women who graciously answered my questions and reviewed the articles that evolved from their responses. 2010. “Branch 10 Rebirth and Renaissance” (write-up of an extraordinary event during which elderly members of a branch created more than 50 years ago transferred “ownership” of the branch and its proud legacy to young women who were born in Ukraine, now reside in this country, and pledged to honor and build upon that legacy. 2011. “Writing and Submitting Articles to Our Life ” and “Photography 101: Submitting Photos to Our Life "—two articles that appeared in the February issue and will hopefully clarify some of the common pitfalls of sending stuff for publications, It is also hoped these articles will help take the fear out of flying and encourage aspiring writers and photographers to spread their wings and share their creativity with us and with readers. C andle in R emembrance Aside from my work as Our Life editor, I was editor of a translation of Professor Valentyna Borysenko’s Ukrainian-language book on the Holodomor, Svicha Pamiati. Editing Candle was a long and sometimes arduous journey, which was assisted and enabled by several people whose cooperation and collaboration were indispensable: Olha Rudakevych, who translated the book into English; Dennis Rozanski, our affable and diligent “Martian” reader, who flagged any and all items in the text that might require explanatory notes for clarity; and UNWLA VP Ulana Zinych for her work as project manager and her willingness to read and comment on drafts in progress. A special note of thanks must be accorded, of course, to the author of the original. As I noted on the dust jacket of the translation, “In giving heretofore nameless and faceless farmers and peasants who survived this genocide a voice, Valentyna Borysenko’s book has become a monument to the victims who perished, an indictment of those who designed and implemented acts of barbaric cruelty against the Ukrainian people, and a prayer that the atrocities Ukraine suffered are never again perpetrated. It is hoped that the English translation of Professor Borysenko’s work does justice to the author and to those whose lives and deaths she memorialized.” 146 XXIX Конвенція СУА www.unwla.org
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