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Victoria Mischenko, administrator, UNWLA Scholarship office and member of Branch 98. sponsor of our program. With the help of UN WLA membership and branches, other sponsor ships followed. Students in seminaries also benefited from the Scholarship Program. Through the years, the tremendous success of our scholarship recipients increased many other parents’ awareness in these countries of the value of a good education. Because of the con cern, caring and financial support of our spon sors in the last 30 years, thousands of students have completed high school and college, among them Ukrainian Catholic and Orthodox priests, catechists and nuns, who today are serving Ukrainian parishes not only in Brazil, but also in the USA, Ukraine and other countries. Some have even become sponsors. Among those students who have com pleted their studies with the aid of the UNWLA INC. Scholarship Program was Rev. Pe. Jere- mias Ferens. He was a scholarship recipient of our program for 12 years. On September 19, 1993, he was elevated to Bishop of the Ukrain ian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. He was sponsored first by Dr. Stephan Stecura (Br. 33), then by Mr. & Mrs. Mykola & Valentyna Krawec (Br. 43) and Ms. Sonia Mielnik (Br. 121). Our first university graduate, Olga Korczagin, gradu ated from the University of Curitiba in 1973. Olga was sponsored by Mr. & Mrs. Jaroslaw & Daria Howytkowycz of Ohio and Mr. & Mrs. Mykola & Mae Bojczuk of NJ. From 1993-98 she was the Director of the Institute of Catechists of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and before that time she was the Director of the Colegio Santa Olga in Prudentopolis, Parana, Brazil for many years. The Catechists run boarding schools, called the Colegio Santa Olga, for girls of Ukrainian heri tage in Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay. Olga Korczagin has devoted her life to educating Ukrainian youth, most of them from remote colonies and villages. The main objective of the Colegio Santa Olga for the last 50 years was to educate young women and to instill in them the value of the Ukrainian language, culture, tradi tions, and religion. Many graduates of their schools are now leaders in Ukrainian-Brazilian communities, as well as powerful figures in the Brazilian government in the states of Parana and Santa Catarina. The greatest achievement of the Ukrainian-Brazilian educators and politicians was the establishment of the Ukrainian language as a mandatory subject in public schools in the states of Parana and Santa Catarina in 1991. For this we must be thankful to State Repre sentative Deputat Vera Viximicen Agelbert (a graduate of the Colegio Santa Olga in Pruden topolis) for proposing a bill making the Ukrainian language a required subject. With great pride and joy we learned of this accomplishment for the UNWLA Scholarship Program has always been concerned about preserving the language of our forefathers. For over 30 years, the most important prerequisite of a scholarship recipient is knowing and/or learning the Ukrainian lan guage. Students are required to correspond with their sponsors and with us in Ukrainian. The responsibility also fell on the teachers, rectors, and directors who recommended them for sti pends in their respective countries. This prereq uisite holds fast today and is applicable to all stipend recipients, including those in Ukraine. In 1991, Maria Magdalena Lozovei, also our former scholarship recipient, was named the Federal Students in the Internato Sta. Olga in Prudentopolis, Brazil. 159 www.unwla.org www.unwla.org
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