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MARTHA BOHACHEVSKY CHOMIAK VICE PRESIDENT, CULTURE Much as I want to summon the requisite expression o f hum jlity about the achievem ents o f the UNWLA in the last three years in the sphere o f promotion o f the culture and history o f Ukraine, I cannot do so. I am bursting with pride a t the path our organization has trod since those d iffic u lt firs t decades when it was necessary to tell the few who even wanted to listen what Ukraine is and where it is. “W e’ve come a long w ay/ baby.” We who stand on shoulders o f o ur predecessors. That conviction is especially real fo r me now, since I have been rooting in the minutes and documents of the UNWLA as I prepared the history o f the UNWLA. That manuscript, some three hundred pages of it, constitutes a significant aspect of my work during these last three years o f my office. The preparation and publication o f the works o f M ilena Rudnytska, a political a ctivist in the inter-w ar era and one of the chief architects of Soyuz Ukraiinok in Western Ukraine, is another aspect of my work. Since the UNWLA from its very beginnings considered the spread of inform ation on Ukraine and its history one of its m ajor goals, this publication o f original documents marks another m ilestone in the long history o f UNWLA support of scholarship. The UNW LA's support o f the publication o f the Ukrainian translation of F e m in is ts D e sp ite T h e m se lve s contributed greatly toward the creation of a clim ate that made at least the introduction of some courses on the history of women possible in Ukraine. My own scholarly and lecturing work in Ukraine was so closely intertw ined with my identity as a member o f the UNWLA that much of it can be credited to the organization. C opies of UNWLA archival materials, especially copies of the m inutes of the meetings o f the executive comm ittee tha t I used in preparing the history of the UNWLA are deposited at the Ukrainian State Archives in L ’viv. That is the repository fo r whatever prim ary documentation survived on the Soyuz U kraiinok o f the inter-w ar period. The UNWLA docum entation rounds o ff the story fo r the inter-w ar years. There are scholars in Ukraine who are working on the history o f women and o f the im m igration and this useful m aterial w ill provide them w ith the tools to study Ukrainian history more fully. It w ill also form another lin k binding the story o f the old w ith the new. Awards from the Lesia and Petro Ko- valiv Fund, which had been instituted by that q uietly dedicated couple to promote the culture of Ukraine, have been increasingly promoting the achievem ents o f w rite rs and scholars in Ukraine. That is what Lesia and Petro Kovaliv hoped for. The Kovaliv Fund ju ry is currently composed o f Professor George Luckyj, Emeritus o f University of Toronto, Professor Natalia Kononenko o f the University of V irginia, and Professor Tam ara Hundurova of Kyiv University, currently visiting professor a t Columbia University. Recipients o f Lesia and Petro Kovaliv awards fo r literary and/or historic publications were: Ju rij Andrukhowycz, S ofia Majdanska, Oksana Zabuzhko and Ludmyla Smoliar. Finally, it had been my distinct privilege to help the First Lady, H illary Rodham Clinton, draft the speeches she made in Ukraine in November, 1997. It was very d iffic u lt not to w rite about it in my monthly contributions to O ur Life. The women of Ukraine cheered Mrs. C linton’s stress on the historical achievements o f Ukrainian women, and her mention of the sym bolic role the reburial o f M ilena Rudnytska played. And thus the UNWLA made it to the W hite House, on both sides o f the ocean. Hence, it is with pride tha t I thank you fo r your support of my work. And it is with deep hum ility that I realize it would not have been possible w ithout the work of those pioneers who laid the groundwork fo r our easier tasks. And that my life would have been less fu lfillin g w ithout the support of our members. I thank you fo r that opportunity. 114 www.unwla.org www.unwla.org
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