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12 ХХХI Конвенція СУА ords of the Scholarship Program were computerized and transferred to a borrowed Apple II E computer. Still a high school student at the time, Myron Krawczuk prepared the data base pro bono. Currently, while working as a senior IT consultant, he continues to serve as our computer consultant, for which we are very grateful. In time, we obtained a used Apple Macintosh whose operating system included the Ukrainian al- phabet and thus allowed us to compose documents in two languages. The Scholarship Standing Commit- tee grew. In addition to the above-mentioned persons, new volunteers came on board: Dr. Teodozia Sawyckyj, Sophia Andrushkiw, Ksenia Hapij, Marie Hywel, Vera Mycio, Taissa Turiansky, Maria Polan- skyj and Odarka Polanskyj. In 1988 M. Orysia Jacus took over the financial responsibility of the Scholar- ship Program from Taissa Turiansky. That year, the UNWLA Scholarship Program presented 1,000 scholarships to students in 17 countries! In 1989, Anna Krawczuk and Vera Mycio, who took over the responsibilities of Sophia Andrush- kiw, visited Ukrainian schools and families in Poland, Yugoslavia, and Croatia. In 1992 Anna Krawczuk, accompanied by M. Orysia Jacus, made the first trip to a now independent Ukraine, and initial steps were taken to establish and develop our activities on Ukrainian soil. These trips reinforced our belief that aid to pupils and students is absolutely necessary, and that direction and coordination are unquestionably essen- tial. The political and economic situation in Ukraine had not changed much and had, in fact, become no- tably worse in the first years of independence. In 1993 Soyuz Ukrainok Ukrainy (SUU) gladly agreed to work with us. Ending her tenure as Chair of the UNWLA Scholarship Standing Committee and de facto head of the Scholarship Program, Anna Krawczuk turned over to Luba Bilowchtchuk 500 files of active scholar- ship recipients and two Scholarship report booklets covering the years 1981 to 1986 and 1987 to 1992, which contained detailed lists of all donors and graduates of various faculties, master and doctoral de- grees, as well as financial reports prepared by M. Orysia Jacus. Luba Bilowchtchuk (1993–2002) Mission statement: "Enhance and create opportunities through education and preserve Ukrainian cultural heritage within and outside of the United States of America." In 1993 Luba Bilowchtchuk was elected UNWLA Scholarship Standing Committee Chair. She held this position until 2002. As Scholarship Program Chair, she became responsible for the development of scholarship activity in Ukraine and worked with SUU, then under the leadership of Athena Pashko, and other trustworthy persons, including Tamara Melnyk in Kyiv, who not only recommended students but also assumed responsibility for them. It was during Luba’s tenure as Scholarship Program Chair that the fifth report booklet was published for the years 1993–2001. In 1993 an SUU Scholarship Commission was created in Kyiv. The commission comprised presi- dents of all Oblast Councils of SUU, who receive recommendations for scholarships from their branches. The first president of the commission was First Vice President of SUU Iryna Kravchuk (1993–1996); the second was Alla Debeluk, who served in this capacity from 1996 to 2014. Both were very dedicated and responsible women. It was during this time that the SUU Commission became partners of the UNWLA Scholarship Program. During her tenure as Scholarship Program Chair, Luba Bilowchtchuk visited Ukraine many times. In 2001 Luba visited Zaporizhzhia, Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk (now Dnipro), and some cities in Crimea, where we also had students. Accompanied by M. Orysia Jacus and Lidia Czernyk, she had the opportunity to meet not only with the students but also with the persons who recommended them. In 1997 the office of the Scholarship Program moved from the private home of the Krawczuks to a rented office in Matawan, New Jersey. The administration of the new office was carried out by Victoria Mischenko. The number of Program members, scholarships, and volunteers increased. M. Orysia Jacus, Maria Polanskyj, Christine Izak, Olga Trytyak, then president of the UNWLA Anna Krawczuk (as con- sultant), and volunteers from Branch 98 worked tirelessly and without financial compensation. All of these women, moreover, themselves became sponsors of scholarship students.
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