Funders

Dr. I. Andrusiak was born on October 14, 1909 in Bukovina. He finished his university studies at the University of Chernivtsi, at the Faculty of Law. He received his doctorate in jurisprudence at the Ukrainian Free University in Munich, Germany. Along with thousands of Ukrainians, he emigrated from Germany to America, where he graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in librarianship. He worked here until his retirement.

Dr. Ilya's wife Maria (from the Kushnir family) was born in Drohobych, a teacher by profession. A characteristic feature of this noble woman is self-sacrifice. Active in the 72nd Department of the Union of Ukrainian Women. With her characteristic sense of responsibility and spiritual warmth, she takes care of the elderly, the sick, sponsors scholarship students in Ukraine, helps orphans. One of the generous patrons of ZUADK.

Volodymyr Balaban was born on February 21, 1913 in the village of Boykivtsi, Ternopil Oblast, in a peasant family. Of the six sons in the Balaban family, four later left for America. In his youth, Volodymyr interrupted his studies at the state gymnasium to help his father in farming, later graduated from the agricultural lyceum, and in 1932 the family moved to Berezhan region, where the land is more fertile. Here he uses an old quarry and has an income from it. In the fall of 1936, he was late with his future wife Galina, who at that time had come from America to take over the farm after her father's death. They got married in 1937.

However, with the change in the political situation, all American citizens had to leave Poland, and in 1940, Halyna left for America.

Volodymyr, having passed the path of a Ukrainian war fugitive, arrived in America in 1947, after seven years of separation from his wife. Here he started a farm - first in the state of New Jersey, then - in Glen Spey, state of New York. As he himself wrote in his autobiography, his love for the land and constant deepening of agronomic knowledge and enrichment of practical experience allowed him to "be a role model for others in farming."

He was active in the Native School in Passaic, where he taught geography and history in the upper grades. Organized the library in Passeig, which today bears his name. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Maria Bakalets was born on August 27, 1927 in the village of Lishchantsi, near Buchacha. She graduated from the public school in Buchach, and in 1944 - two classes of the trade school. She left for the West before the advancing Soviet front and in 1948 graduated from the gymnasium in Landek, Austria. Here she became an active plasterer. After getting married, Volodymyr and Maria came to America and settled in Passeig, N.J. There she was active in Plast, SUA, Samopomocha, and Ukrainian Central. For her activities in Plast, Mrs. Maria was awarded the Order of St. Yuri in gold.

Dmytro Bobeliak was born in 1913 in Rudky. Having moved to America after the war, he settled in Newark, Essex County, N.J. He had a brother, Stepan, who died on December 28, 1989. Our founder, St. Mr. Dmytro, passed away on July 9, 1999, at his place of residence.

St. Mr. Dmytro Bobeliak was a conscious religious and patriotic person who understood the value of public, religious and scientific institutions and in his will left almost 100,000 dollars to such institutions as St. Sophia, Harvard, NTSh, UKKA, Ukrainian Free University, Ukrainian Headquarters in Irvington.

Although we do not know much about him, it is known that his donation caused the maintenance of the activities of these institutions, and that the memory of this donor will live forever in the grateful memories of those who will benefit from his donation, and in the annual celebrations for the late founders, patrons and benefactors of the UVU Foundation.

Bozhik Hryhoriy and Teresa

Hryhoriy Bozhik was born on January 1, 1907 in the village of Grebenne, Rava-Rusky district, in Halychyna, in the large family of Mykhailo and Agafia, from the Matvyishyn family. He graduated from primary school in his native village, graduated from grammar school in 1929 in Lviv, and in 1932 - from the Higher School of Foreign Trade. Until 1944, he worked in the area of trade in Warsaw. Here he married Teresa Kosinska, but the war blizzard forced the young couple to emigrate to Austria, to Vienna.

The couple came to America in 1949 and settled in New York. Grigory opened a shop with church paraphernalia, and Teresa worked in the laboratory of Sloven-Kettering Memorial Hospital. Both were generous to public Ukrainian causes, in particular, in her will from 1991, Ms. Teresa left a significant amount of money, about 85,000 dollars, to Ukrainian churches and institutions. She also bequeathed a considerable amount to the UVU Foundation.

Ms. Teresa passed away in 1992.

Boychuk Mykola and Maria

The Boychuks belong to those special and, unfortunately, few Ukrainian families who, thanks to their hard work and organizational skills, achieved a high level of well-being on American soil, becoming the owners of the Ramada Inn hotel and a building stone company in New Jersey. And at the same time, they showed extraordinary generosity, financially supporting important Ukrainian projects and goals. In addition to the Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation, Mykola and Maria Boichuky donated $220,000 through the UVU Foundation. for the construction of three orphanages for children of preschool and primary school age in Brazil. These houses were built in 1990 and are under the guardianship of the Bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, His Eminence Ephraim Kryvyi and the Servant Sisters. The couple donated 100,000 dollars to the House of the Union of Ukrainian Youth of America in Ellenville, and also invested large sums in the scholarship campaign of the Union of Ukrainian Women in Brazil, helping talented Ukrainian youth to get a higher education.

On August 31, 2001, after a short illness, at the age of 83, the patron's wife, approx. Mrs. Maria Boychuk, from the house of Slugotska, born in 1918.
Mykola Boychuk passed away on October 16, 2004, leaving behind a warm memory for everyone who benefited from his kind heart and those who watched his sacrifice for Ukrainian youth. The mortal remains of the late Mykola rest in the cemetery of St. Andrew the First-Called in South Baynd Brook, N.J.

Happy Olga

Olga Vesela, from the house of Ilnytsk, was born on December 8, 1911 in the village of Novoshichi, Sambirsky district, Drohobych region.
She graduated from the teacher's seminar of Vasylyanka in Drohobych. After the war, she left for Argentina, for Buenos Aires, where she lived until 1958. Mrs. Vesela worked in Ukrainian public institutions, tried to financially help her son Orest to finish his medical studies.
Mrs. Olga Vesela is one of those thousands of self-sacrificing Ukrainian women who had to work hard to earn money to support their family, but at the same time never forgot about public needs and important national goals.
Passed away on December 18, 2003, at the age of 93, in Stockton, California. She left her son Orestes with his wife Oriseya and grandsons — Dr. Andrii, Dr. Stefan, Yuri Vesely in sorrow.

Founders of the Permanent Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 12,230 dollars.

Ivan Vytvytskyi was born on March 19, 1903 in the village of Dobropole, Buchatsky District, Ternopil Oblast. He received his secondary and higher education in Vienna, after which he worked in the Consistory of the Cathedral of St. Yura in Lviv. In this cathedral, in August 1937, Fr. Myron Golovinskyi married Ivan with Paraskeva (from Pikasy), who was born in 1904 in the village of Poverchiv, Rudka district. Before the Soviet offensive in 1944, the Vytvytsky couple ended up in Germany, in the Di-Pi camps, where Ivan was active in the camp administration, and Paraskeviia organized a tailoring workshop, teaching young Ukrainian men and women this craft. In 1949, at the invitation of the Semkov family, the Vytvytskys moved to ZSA, first living in Conchester, Connecticut, and in 1955 they moved to New Haven, where Ivan began working at an iron factory, and Paraskeviya - at a women's clothing factory.

Both were very active in public life. Having no children, they generously donated to public Ukrainian causes, in particular to the Department of Ukrainian Studies at Harvard, the Ukrainian Free University, UKKA, the Golden Cross, the Sports Society, the Society of Bandurists, the Native School, the Ukrainian Museum in New York.

Ivan Vytvytskyi died on January 5, 1971, and Paraskeviia - on November 16, 1988.

St. Teodor Vytvytskyi - one of the most generous benefactors of the UVU Foundation - left 150,000 dollars for the purpose of the Foundation.

Vytvytskyi Teodor

T. Vytvytskyi was born on December 23, 1919 in the family of Vasyl and Maria, from the Leshchuk family. He graduated from high school, and then studied at Lviv University. In 1943, he became an assistant to Prof. Dr. M. Holevchuk, who under the Germans was the head of the department of animal husbandry and the head of the studio council of the Institute. He helped Theodore get a scholarship to study high-altitude animal husbandry, which enabled him to go to Vienna, but further war events destroyed his plans. After moving to Germany, he lived in Augsburg, enrolled in chemistry studies at the Technical University in Regensburg, continued his studies in Munich, graduating in 1950.

After coming to America, Theodore Wytvytskyi settled first in the Bronx, and later in the town of Wawarsing, and belonged to the parish of the Holy Trinity. He worked in various positions and conducted biotechnical experiments at Columbia University in New York. During his lifetime, he wanted his hard-earned money to go to a good cause, so in 1983 he donated 60,000 dollars to the UVU Foundation, where the Martyrology Fund was created. On June 28, 1984, at the age of 66, his life ended tragically in a car accident near his own house.

Since St. Mr. Theodore had no family, the UVU Foundation took upon himself the sad duty of arranging the appropriate funeral services and buried Theodore Vytvytskyi with honors at the cemetery of the Brotherhood of St. Volodymyr (Pine Bush semetary) in Kergonkson, and later erected a monument on the grave of this noble Ukrainian, who left his mark in publications about the martyrology of Ukraine.

Dr. Volyanyk Stepan and Emilia

Founders of the Permanent Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 100,000 dollars (jointly with the Shvabinskis).

See about them. "Volyanik-Shwabinsky Literary Fund".

The founders of the Permanent Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 30,805 dollars — in memory of their parents — Pylyp Haida (1882-1989) and Stanislava (1902-2004), Fr. Yaroslav (1903-1972) and Lyubov (1910-1984) Knyahynytskyi.

Dr. Hayda Igor and Roma

Professor Pylyp and Stanislav Hayda, from the house of Lys, originally from Ternopil, graduated from the gymnasium there. Pylyp Haida completed his higher studies in German and Slavic philosophy at the Ukrainian Free University during the "Prague" period. He nostrified his diploma at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. He taught in camps in Karlsfeld and Berchtesgaden, and after coming to America - in Detroit, where he died in 1989. During the most anti-Ukrainian period of the Polish government, Stanislava Hajda transferred the metric to the UGCC. She completed a teacher's seminar, taught in Lodz, Poland, and after the fall of Poland, taught in Ternopil.

at. Yaroslav Kniagynytskyi

Father Yaroslav Kniagynytsky is from Zalishchyki, and his wife Lyubov Kobrynska is from Kolomyia. Ordained by Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytskyi in 1927, Fr. Yaroslav worked as an employee and catechist in Pidgaiech region and Berezhany. In 1939, the Polish government imprisoned him in Bereza Kartuzka. In 1944, he emigrated and worked as a pastor in refugee camps. In the ZSA, he was a priest in Detroit, Rome and Utica, where he and his wife are buried in the cemetery of the UCC of St. Volodymyr.

Ihor Haida and Roma Kniagynytska got married in 1958 in Detroit, they have four sons (Borys, M.Sc., Marko, Dr. Roman, and Fr. Pavlo) and ten grandchildren.

Stanislav Haida

Stanislav Hajda at 100 years old.

Ihor Hajda was born in Ternopil in 1929, graduated from high school in Berchtesgaden in 1947, and university in Leuven, Belgium, in 1952, with two diplomas in the field of food industry. He received another diploma from ZSA, at Western Michigan University. After many years of work in the food industry (until 2001), teaches as an adjunct professor, the subject of nutrition at Norwalk Community College.

Lyubov Kniahynytska

Roma Hajda was born in 1937 in Pidgaitsy, her first years of education were spent in camp schools in Germany, she finished high school and higher studies in America, at the University of Washington, with a diploma in the field of arts.

Prof. Philip Haida

Following the example of their parents, the family of Igor and Roma Hayda is active in the community, in particular in Plast and the lay movement of the Patriarchal Society, in which Roma Hayda was a member of the Regional Board from 1976, and for two terms headed this Society. In 1992, Roma Haida, together with Lesya Krypyakevich, re-established the Obnova Society, an organization of lay intellectuals of the UGCC, in Lviv. Roma Hayda is an active member of the editorial board of the publication of the lay magazine "Patriarchat". In addition to the UVU Foundation, Ihor and Roma Haida are also the founders of the Ukrainian Museum in New York and the National University of Applied Sciences, Harvard and UCU.

The founder of the Scholarship fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 73,000 dollars.

Go ahead, Ivan

Ivan Galavai was born on June 8, 1904 in the family of Anton and Kateryna, from the Krytsun family (from Sokal). Relatives had eight children, but all died, except for Ivan. Little is known about the early years of Ivan Galavai. Ivan married Aniela Ostrovskaya in 1937, the couple had three sons: Roman, who died in 1980, Taras and Myroslav, who now live in Ukraine, in the city of Ivano-Frankivsk.

In 1944, Ivan Galavai was sentenced by the Germans to forced labor in Stanislavov (Ivano-Frankivsk). After some time, he was deported to Luckenberg in Austria, to work for Bavaria. He stayed there until liberation in March 1945. He had not heard from his wife and children since 1944, so he tried to find them through the Polish Red Cross and was unsuccessful. In 1949 he came to America and settled in New York, in Brooklyn. He ran a house buying and selling company.

His wife died in 1981 in Ukraine.

Having no close family in America, on February 14 he issued a will in which he distributed 52 percent of his property to five organizations closest to his heart: the church of St. Jura in New York, Scientific Society named after Shevchenko, Samopomich in New York, the Harvard Institute and the UVU Foundation.

St. Mr. Ivan Galavai died on February 22, 1985. His remains were laid to rest in the cemetery at Bound Brook, N.J.

The UVU Foundation will always remember its generous benefactor with gratitude.

The founder of the Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 17,000 dollars.

Hayevska Sofia

Sofiya Gaevska was born in Ukraine, completed first teacher's courses, and later higher economic studies in Prague with a master's degree. After coming to America in 1939, she worked as an announcer and translator for the Voice of America. She taught Slavic languages, in particular Russian, at the Berlitz School and gave courses for adults in Westchester County. She also studied Russian at Colorado College. Working for the Denver Free University, she prepared a textbook for an eight-week Russian language course.

Sofia Gaevska is the author of the English-language biographical work "Treasures of the Century", in which, in particular, she mentions her participation in the famous Ukrainian chapel of Oleksandr Koshyts in 1919-1921 and about her teacher, composer Mykola Leontovych. Actively supported the UVU Foundation, the Harvard Project, UVAN, financed the publication of works by Ukrainian writers and artists, generously donated to Kobzar art courses at the studio program of the UVU Foundation "In the Paths of Parents - Across Europe".

Ambassador of the good Ukrainian name and condemnation of the communist occupation of Ukraine, Sofiya Gaevska died on November 19, 1993, at the age of 98. Her mortal remains rest in the Ukrainian Orthodox cemetery in Denver, Colorado. She left behind her daughter, Dr. Oksana Bezruchko-Ros.

Founders of the Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 15,000 dollars.

Dr. Hyk Stefan and M.Sc. Maria (from the house of Veremchuk)

Dr. Stefan Hyk was born on December 25, 1912 in Dobromyla, Western Ukraine. Son of Philip and Maria (from the house of Lypynsk). He studied at the gymnasium in Przemyśl, where he passed his matriculation exam with honors in 1931, graduated from law studies at the Lviv University in 1935, and obtained a doctorate in law from the University of Munich in 1947. Even before the war, he began to study medicine in Lviv, and finished his studies after the war at Erlangen University in 1949. During the Polish occupation of Ukraine, he worked as a manager in Przemyśl and Bialystok in 1935-40s. During the German occupation, he was the director of the Ukrainian trade school in Przemyśl.

Forced to leave his native land with the arrival of the Soviet army, he emigrated to Germany. In 1947-50, he was a professor of criminal law at the University of Munich and at the Ukrainian Technical and Economic Institute in Regensburg. At the same time, he was the director of medical care in the vagrant camp in Erlangen.

The Hykis moved to America in 1950, where they lived until the end of their lives, being very self-sacrificing for Ukrainian public and scientific and educational purposes. Dr. S. Hick had a private practice in Juliet, IL, then in Griggsville and Meredosia, IL, where he worked as an administrator, director and owner of clinics as well as a consultant and specialist in forensic medicine. The author of four scientific works and textbooks in the field of criminology.

Maria Verenchuk-Hyk, MA, was born on September 22, 1922 in Lutsk, Ukraine. She was the daughter of Joseph and Maria (from Frolovy) Veremchuk. After matriculation in 1942, she enrolled in pharmacy studies in Lviv, which she then continued at the University of Erlangen, and graduated from the pharmaceutical faculty of the Technical University of Applied Sciences in Munich in 1848. After finishing her studies, she worked as a pharmacist in a camp for displaced persons in Erlangen (1949-50). Maria, M.Sc., ran a medical laboratory and a pharmacy for her husband. The couple has two daughters, Natalka and Sofiyka, who followed in their parents' footsteps and practice medicine.

Rev. Dr. S. Hyk died in a car accident on February 4, 1981. His wife, M.Sc. Maria, died on September 22, 1984.

Founders of the Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 15,000 dollars.

Golovko Ivan

Ivan Golovka was born on March 17, 1915 in the village of Verbiv, in Galicia. He was fond of theater from an early age. At the age of 15, in 1930, he entered the Kogutyak Theater, later worked in the Karabinovych and Komarovsky theaters. With the advent of the Soviets, he worked in the theater named after Ivan Franko in Ternopil. In Germany, immediately after the war, he entered the theater of Omelyan Urbansky, in which he played many leading roles. He had a wide range of artistic talent - from drama to comedy and operetta, he had a good baritone.

He married the actress Sofia. Since 1949, the Golovkis lived in Levittown, near Trenton, Ny Dzerzh. For many years, Ivan Golovka worked as a teacher and teacher at the church of St. Yosaphata, an educator at SUM, was an active member of UNSoyuz, belonged to the Society "Artists of the Ukrainian Stage" and was a generous donor for Ukrainian cultural and educational purposes. Died on November 25, 1999. The body of the deceased rests in the parish cemetery of St. Maria

Founders of the Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 10,000 dollars.

Founders of the Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 25,220 dollars.

Gornytskyi Adrian and Sofia

Both were born in the Galician town of Yavorov: Ms. Sofia in 1913, Mr. Adrian in 1914. A. Hornytskyi graduated from the gymnasium in Przemyśl, began chemical studies in Lviv, and finished them already after the war, in Philadelphia, at the University of St. Jehoshaphat. Sofia Hornytska graduated from the teaching seminar of the Basilian Sisters in Lviv and the music institute named after M. Lysenko. After coming to America, in Philadelphia, she gave piano lessons at the Ukrainian Music Institute, taught the Ukrainian language at the Academy of the Basilian Sisters in Fax Chase. The couple was very active in public life and generously donated to causes beneficial to the Ukrainian community.

The founder of the Permanent Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 10 thousand dollars.

Prof. Hrymalyak Emil

Emil Hrymalyak was born on September 7, 1908 in the village of Prusy, Sambir Oblast. He graduated from the Higher Teacher Training Course and the Pedagogical Institute, worked as a teacher and inspector of folk and secondary schools in Drohobych. During the Second World War, he was forcibly deported to Germany, where he became an organizer of Ukrainian schooling in the DP camps in Augsburg - Sommerkazarne, then in America, in Philadelphia, the founder of the magazine "Our School", a selfless educator of strata youth. Having an innate flair for pedagogical work, he graduated from La Salle College at an early age, after which he worked in American schools, consistently and boldly correcting the incorrect coverage of Ukrainian history in American textbooks.

Founders of the Permanent Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 10,000 dollars.

Founders of the Permanent Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of $15,357.

Prof. Dr. Goi Petro and Olena-Lesya

Petro Goy was born in the village of Mykhailivtsi, Pidhayetsky District, Ternopil Oblast. In pre-war Buchachi, he graduated from a teacher's seminar, after the war he studied at the gymnasium in Karlsfeld, near Munich, where he passed his matriculation. He finished his university studies at the Ukrainian Free University in Munich with a doctoral dissertation "Bohdan Khmelnytskyi's Diplomatic Relations with Moscow 1648-1651", receiving a doctorate. After coming to America in 1949, he continued his studies at the University of Chicago, and later earned a master's degree in library science at Columbia University in New York. He worked as a Slavic scholar at Columbia University, and later, until his retirement, he worked at the City University of New York. Professor, vice-rector and chancellor of UVU, long-time chairman of the UVU Foundation in New York. Active plastun, member of the "Forest Devils" group. For selfless work with Ukrainian youth, he was awarded the medal of St. Yury in gold, with a medal and an honorary certificate of Dobrodiya UVU.

Olena-Lesya (from Stanchaki) Goi was born in 1926 in the village of Bonarivtsi, Lemkiv region, a teacher by profession. The daughter of the builder Konstantin and Kateryna, from the Gole family. She received public education in her native village, and a teacher's seminar in the Munich-Freiman resettlement camp. She worked at the City College of New York for a quarter of a century, and also taught children for many years at the Saturday School of Ukrainian Studies of the Samopomich Society in New York at the Church of St. Yura, at the same time was active in the 1st department of the Union of Ukrainian Women of America. For her work at SUA, she was named the Honorary Chairman of the 1st Division of SUA, an Honorary Member of the SUA District in New York, and an Honorary Member of the Union of Ukrainian Women of America. She was a close employee of her husband Peter, worked as the director of the office of the UVU Foundation in New York for 39 years. She passed away on September 29, 2007.

The Goy couple raised two children and gave them higher education: son Yuriy is a doctor, daughter Marusya is an MBA in Business of Administration.

Petro Dosii, adopted son of St. Mr. Ilya and Anastasia Melnykiv, in memory and honor of their parents, created the Permanent Scholarship Fund of UVU in their name in the amount of 25,000 dollars.

Funders

Ilya and Anastasia Melnyky

Saint Ilya and Anastasia Melnyk come from the village of Derevach, in Stryi region. They got married in 1933 and lived in the village until the tumultuous events of the Second World War. They had no children of their own.

This is what Dmytro Dosii writes about himself and his adoptive parents: "After the unexpected death of my father Ilya Dosii, it was difficult and impossible for my mother to educate me and my brother Mykhailo and take care of us. At the time of my father's death, I was only four years old, and my brother was two years old. To ease my mother's life circumstances, Ilya and Anastasia Melnyk, who were a little more closely related to us, took me in. For many years, they took care of me, raised me, took care of me and treated me like a native son until the very death.

During the war, they had to leave their native lands and ended up with Dmytro in the city of Ansbach, Germany, near Nuremberg. They lived here until 1949, working in an American military camp. At the end of the same year, they left for America. They lived in New York for a short time, and then moved to the city of Flint, Michigan. They worked and lived here until their death.
Little Dmytro was taught by his adopted parents, Ilya and Anastasia, to be proud of his nationality and Ukrainian heritage and traditions. They belonged to various Ukrainian organizations both in their homeland and in the USSR, and always supported them financially.

Generous patrons who donated 42,325 dollars to the needs of the UVU Foundation and the Ukrainian Free University.

Dr. Duzhiy Yaroslav and Olya

Dr. Yaroslav Duzhy was born on November 26, 1923 in the large and patriotic family of Ivan and Anastasia Duzhy. After elementary school, he successfully graduated from the gymnasium in Przemyśl and began his studies at the Higher Veterinary School in Lviv. In 1944, the Gestapo arrested Yaroslav and sent him to concentration camps in Germany for his revolutionary activities in the ranks of the OUN. In April 1945, British troops liberated it. He spent three years in the resettlement camp in Mittenwald, about which he recently compiled a monumental book of memories "Mittenwald, 1946-51". In 1949, he came to Detroit, where he worked at the Ford automobile company. In 1956, he became a co-owner of the Slectron corporation, which produced precision parts for missiles and aircraft engines and received a high award from the Department of Defense for an important contribution to the defense of the state.

In 1992, Ya. Duzhiy founded the Evnotosystems corporation in independent Ukraine - a company of portable laboratories for monitoring radioactivity in the areas of nuclear power plants.

In 1995, he became a partner in the Crocus corporation, which owns a mechanical engineering plant in the town of Horoduk, near Lviv.

Outside of official work, he became involved in a wider range of social, community, church and political activities, headed the Parents' Committee at the school at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, was the head of the "Vatra" choir, and the conductor of the church choir.

For 18 years, Dr. Duzhiy has been leading the Harvard Project and has raised more than 275,000 dollars at the Thousand Dollar Banquet. He was a co-organizer of a mass demonstration during the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Great Famine in Ukraine in 1932-33. Dr. Duzhiy belongs to OOCHSU, UKKA and other public and church organizations, and is also active in American society. For 10 years he headed the Ukrainian-American Republican Association of Michigan, for many years he was a member of the Council of Leaders of America,
and also the organizer of the reception of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush at the Ukrainian Cultural Center. Together with his wife Olea, Dr. Ya. Duzhiy founded a $100,000 Foundation for the Ukrainian Department at Harvard University and the same for the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine.

For his public work, Dr. Duzhiy received recognition from the Ukrainian community, and in 2003 in Kyiv - the highest award of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy - the medal of Metropolitan Petro Mohyla.

On January 3, 2004, in the hall of the Ukrainian University Center in Warren, Professor Leonid Rudnytskyi, rector of the Ukrainian Free University in Munich, awarded the honorary patron of Ukrainian science and culture Ya.

Founders of the Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 50,000 dollars.

Ostap and Irena Zakharkiv

Ostap Zakharkiv was born on October 10, 1915 in Vyshnivchikov, near Pidgaets, Ternopil Oblast. He studied at the gymnasium in Lviv, Chortkiv and Rohatyn. During the Bolshevik occupation of 1939–41, he finished teaching studies, and with the beginning of the German occupation, he worked as a school director in Bogatkivtsi, then studied agronomy in Lviv. With the advance of the Soviet troops, he emigrated to Germany, finished his studies in Munich with a diploma of an agricultural engineer.

Mrs. Irena was born on January 1, 1926 in the village of Burkanov, near Pidgaets, in the family of the USS cornet Hryhoriy Stelmakh. Her mother Teodosia Bylo was a teacher. During the German occupation, Irena graduated from Pridental in Lviv, and in 1945 she studied dentistry in Munich. In 1946, she married Ostap Zakharkov.

Arriving in America in 1948, the couple immersed themselves in the active social and church life of the metropolis of Detroit, Michigan, where both became members of the parish of the Ukrainian Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception in Hemtremko. Both are honored members of the Ukrainian Congressional Committee of America and many Ukrainian cultural and educational societies, founders of the Ukrainian Museum in Warren, the Ukrainian Catholic University in Rome, Ukrainian Studies at the University of Urbana-Champaign, generous donors for church and cultural purposes. For several years, they paid annual tuition for poor children at the "Native School". Mrs. Irena, as an artist - painter, specializes in oil, also paints in watercolor. In addition, she is an artist of Ukrainian embroidery and ceramic decoration. In 1965, she donated her original painting as a prize during the UKKA festival to raise funds.

Until his retirement, Mr. Ostap worked as a "designer" in the Technical Department of Chrysler Corporation. Mrs. Irena, having graduated from the "Business Institute", worked for 27 years as a commercial analyst at the "New York Central" railway company. By vocation, she is a writer and artist, the author of the books "Collected Works" (1996) and "Memories of American Dahav" (2000).

Eng. Ostap Zakharkiv passed away on March 15, 1999.

Founders of the Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 68,694 dollars.

Zakharchuk Evstakhy and Anna

Eustachy Zakharchuk was born in 1902 in the village of Terpylivka, Zbarazhsky District, Ternopil Oblast, and his wife Anna was born on September 2, 1905 in the village of Roznoshintsi, Zbarazhsky District.

After the collapse of the Ukrainian National University, Eustachy emigrated to Czechoslovakia and became one of the first students of the Ukrainian Free University, where he graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy. In 1924, he got married and soon left for America with his wife Anna. Here the couple was active in church and public life and closely cooperated with the Ukrainian People's Union.

The first collection of poems by Eustace "On a Foreigner" was published in a small format by the printing house "Promin", Winnipeg, Canada. The short stories "Paradise on Earth", "Mother", "Three Brothers", "Two Sons" and "Foreigner" were also printed there. As we know, there were other works. It should be emphasized that the content of his work, both in poetry and in prose, is deep and patriotic, longing for the native land is felt through and through, fervent calls for the awakening of the people and the struggle for liberation. There are still some of his manuscripts that should be published.

In their will, the Zakharchuks left all their savings for the needs of UVU, while noting that 19,200 dollars will be given to the needs of UVU, and the 50,000 scholarship fund established by them should serve students of the Ukrainian Free University from the eastern diaspora.

Eustachy Zakharchuk died in 1996, and his wife Anna in 2001. Both are buried in Southsburg, Pennsylvania.

Founder of the Permanent Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 64,940 dollars.

Ivasyn Vasyl

Vasyl Ivasyn was born in the village of Stavchany, Lviv region. During the war, he was forced to stay in Germany, later, with many other "dipists", he came to America, first lived in Buffalo, then in New Jersey. He was a selfless member of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, an educator of the youth of Sumy, a member of the OOCHSU, a generous donor to the needs of UVU, the Scientific Society named after T. Shevchenko, and the Ukrainian Scientific Institute of Harvard University.

A few years before his death, namely in 1995, he made his last will and testament, in which he ordered to leave part of his property to the church and Ukrainian organizations in Rochester, where he lived, to the Volya Foundation and to veterans, NTSh. Vasyl's example is highly appreciated in the Ukrainian community and worthy of imitation.

Vasyl Ivasyn died in 1999.

Founders of the Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 23,000 dollars.

Ivaskevich Mykhailo and Maria

Mykhailo Ivaskevich was born on November 26, 1911 in Silka, near Pidgaets, Ternopil Oblast. After severe war wanderings, in 1950 he came with his wife Maria to America, settled in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was an active member of the organizations of the Liberation Front, and the leading slogan of his life was the words of Ivan the Golden-eared: "The rich is not the one who acquired a lot, but the one who gave away a lot." He had the golden hands of a carpenter and was very hardworking, which allowed him to found his own company and support not only his family with four children, but also provide work for other Ukrainian emigrants. He gave a significant part of his savings to the construction of Greek-Catholic churches in his native lands, an example of this is the church of Saints Peter and Paul in his native Siltka, Pidgaietsky District, to the restoration of the Cathedral of St. Yura in Lviv, for the maintenance of children's orphanages in Ukraine, at UVU, for the publication of valuable historical and artistic books in Ukraine.

Interested readers can find more information about Mykhailo and Maria Ivaskevich in the collection "Pydgaietska zemlya", as well as in the book "Pydgaiec region in the struggle for the freedom of Ukraine".

Mykhailo Ivaskevich passed away on November 27, 2002.

Founders of the Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 13,125 dollars.

Mykhailo Kalynych and Nadiya, M.Sc

Mykhailo Kalynych was born in 1917 in the village of Podgorod, near Mukachevo, Transcarpathia. He began studying at the Mukachevo Trade Academy, and finished it in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, where this educational institution was moved due to the Hungarian occupation of the region. During the war, he found himself in a camp in Mittenwald with his wife and used this time to study at the Ukrainian Free University, where he earned a diploma in economics. He founded his photographic studio in Mittenwald.

After the war, the family moved to America, to the town of Wyndat, near Detroit. There, M.Sc. Mykhailo Kalynych immediately began an active public life — he belonged to the Organizations of the State Front, in particular to SUMA, a branch of SUMA named after Kyiv, where the two daughters of the Kalynychy family - Zirka and Anna - were brought up. He was an active member of UNSoyuz. However, he did not leave his studies, and in 1955 he graduated from the Detroit University of Business with a bachelor's degree. Opened his own bookkeeping practice, which he conducted until 1982. He furthered his education in 1961 and 1963.

Nadiya Kalynych was born on September 29, 1919, in the family of a village teacher Yakov and Pelagia Bozhik. In 1939, she graduated from the public school in the city of Wolodawa, in the Kholm region, and from the gymnasium in Lublin (Poland) with a matriculation exam in 1938. In the same year, she began studying medicine at the university in Lviv. When the first Soviet occupation came, she worked as a teacher in a folk school in the village of Kryvorba, in the Kholm region, and from the fall of 1940 - as a librarian in the Union of Ukrainian Cooperatives in the city of Volodava. Two years later, she met Mykhailo Kalynycha, and in February 1942 they got married. Everything was a support for her husband, a good mother for her children. Rado supported the UVU Foundation.

Founders of the Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 10,035 dollars.

Makar and Mary with drops

Engineer-professor Makar Kaplystiy was born on January 19, 1896 in Nova Ivanovka, Ukraine. In 1936, he married Maria Kozak. By education, M. Kaplystiy is an agronomist. He studied at the Academy of Economics in Podjebrady, Czechoslovakia, and obtained a higher agronomic education. During the Liberation War, he served in the army, was a participant in the Winter Campaign of the Army of the Ukrainian People's Republic, was awarded the Knight of the Iron Cross, and finished the war with the rank of major. He worked as an agronomist in Zhovkva (1930-34), Drohobych (1934-39), Syanok (1940-43), and Munich (1943-44). Became an associate professor at the Ukrainian Technical and Economic Institute in Munich. In America, he belonged to the Philadelphia branch of the Society of Engineers. In addition, he was a co-author of the publication "Regional Farmers' Society of Rural Farmers in Lviv 1899-1944".

The Kilyk couple founded the Permanent Scholarship Fund in the amount of 10,000 dollars.

Established the Permanent Scholarship Fund in the amount of 10,389 dollars.

Mykola Kyzyma

He was born on May 30, 1919 in Rai-Berezhany, Ternopil region. He finished elementary school - the first four classes of the "Native School" in Berezhany and in 1930 he passed the exam for the state gymnasium, which he graduated with in 1938. He was admitted to the Theological Seminary in Lviv, where the chancellor was Fr. Dr. Joseph the Blind. But with the arrival of the Soviet army, the Theological Seminary was closed.

Mykola found himself due to a war blizzard in Germany, in the city of Hanover, where he began to study veterinary medicine. He did not finish his studies because he left for America in 1949.
He found a job in the special marine and government government department at Worthington-McGraw and worked there until his retirement.

Mykola gratefully remembers the fact that in his life he was able to meet such giants of the spirit as Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyi, Patriarch Joseph the Blind and the Holy Father Pope Ivan-Paul II.

Mr. Mykola became interested in supporting Ukrainian science and studying youth, and already in 1996 he began building his fund under the UVU Foundation, and in 2003 he opened the Permanent Scholarship Fund.

Founders of the Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of $14,750.

Kiy Vasyl and Lidia

Lydia is from the town of Radymno nad Syan, near Przemyśl, and Vasyl is from the village of Zherebky, Ternopil Region. Fate brought them together in 1941. Vasyl had to leave his native land in 1939, when the Moscow invasion came, and thus ended up in Germany. After the war, in 1949, they left for the USSR, where they settled in Chester, near Philadelphia. In 1954, they founded and ran a bakery. They have a son Myroslav and a daughter Khrystyna, as well as seven grandchildren.

Saint Vasyl Kiy passed away on April 4, 1990. He left a bright memory as a generous donor to the UVU Foundation, scientific and national goals. He was a good businessman and an active public figure.

Founders of the Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 10,000 dollars.

Dr. Kishakevich Yuriy and Tetiana (from Chopivskyi)

Yuriy Kishakevich was born on January 1, 1918 in Przemyśl, in the family of bank official Lev and teacher Tekla (from the Kostrevsky family) Kishakevich. After graduating from the local gymnasium in 1937, he studied pedagogical sciences, music, singing in Lviv. Having left for the West before the Soviet offensive, he began medical studies in Berlin and graduated in Erlangen with a diploma as a dentist. Together with his young wife, he moves to Argentina, where circumstances force him to again acquire the medical profession from the very beginning. After 11 years, Yu. Kishakevych moved to America and, after nostrifying his diploma for the third time, became a professor of dentistry at the University of Pittsburgh. Known to the entire Ukrainian community as the founder of the Ukrainian National Room in this educational institution. Together with his wife Tatiana, a doctor of philosophy, he actively supported the Harvard project to commemorate the Millennium of the Baptism of Ukraine-Russia. In 1980, the Ukrainian Professional Technological Society elected Dr. Y. Kishakevich "Ukrainian of the Year".

The Kishakevichs had a son, Roman, who was born in Argentina, and a daughter, Khrystyna, who lives in Switzerland, married to Kachalub. In 1991, the Kishakevich family visited their native Ukraine, which was a huge reward for them.

Dr. Kishakevich translated Vasyl Stefanyk's "Sons" and his other works into Spanish, and also contributed to Ukrainian and American newspapers.

Rev. Dr. Y. Kishakevich died in 1992 and is buried at the Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery in Carnegie, Pennsylvania.

The founder of the Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation, in memory of her husband Orest Gladky, in the amount of 10,117 dollars.

Kogutyak-Hladka Maria-Lyubomyra

Smooth Orest

Orest Gladky was born in Bucharest, in the family of Dr. Semen, a lawyer, and Anna (from Zhehovychy) Gladky. He graduated from gymnasium in Przemyśl, and studied architecture at the Lviv Polytechnic. Together with other architects and engineers, he founded the "KIR" engineering works cooperative, which worked for the good of the Ukrainian people during the Polish occupation. With the advent of Soviet power, he worked in the health department, and when the Germans came in 1941, he worked as an architect of the Lviv Opera. After the war, he settled in Munich, where he taught architecture and construction at the university. In early 1951, he moved to America. In 1964, he became the chief architect in the construction and architecture department of New York. Due to illness, he had to retire prematurely. He was also a gifted painter. He generously donated to Ukrainian cultural and educational goals.

Maria-Lyubomyra Kogutyak was born in Stanislavov, to parents Yury and Kateryna, from the Vynnychuk family. Maria Lubomyra studied at the Jagiellonian University and at the Sorbonne and in Toulouse, France. She ended up in Munich in 1944, and came to America in 1952. She worked as a private nurse. In New York, she finished a two-year drawing course, worked as a draftsman; in 1962, after passing the necessary exams, she switched to engineering, where she worked until 1979. Her last donation to the UVU Foundation came in 1996.

St. Mr. Orest Hladkyi passed away in 1990, buried in the Ukrainian cemetery of St. Andrew the First-Called in Bownd Brook, N.J.

The bright memory of the Hladky couple believed that the good deeds they started would not be stopped by the end of their physical existence, that their sacrifice and their patriotism would have an active continuation in the programs of Ukrainian studies, in the scientific success of the future scholars of the Foundation named after Smooth

The founder of the Scholarship Fund at UVU in the amount of 10,121 dollars.

Kateryna Koleniak-Khandoga

She was born in 1895, in the family of Yakym Khandoga, in Novy Strelysky, Bibrsky district, in Galicia. Before the First World War, at the age of 18, she came to America. In New York at that time, she was among the most active Ukrainian women, in particular in "Zaporizka Sich", the Union of Ukrainian Women of America, the Ukrainian Democratic Club, the Ukrainian Golden Cross, in which she was the head for some time. After the lost Liberation War of 1919-21, she constantly helped "Prosvita" in her native lands.

Since 1949, she lived with her husband Pavel in Kingston, creating a model "Ukrainian" flower garden in front of her house.

In 1950, her husband Pavlo died, and her son Mykhailo, already married, works for the government near Washington. She remained living in her house alone, but was interested in the life of her town, subscribed to the Ukrainian and American press while retired, and continued to help various Ukrainian and American institutions. She died on July 4, 1987, at the age of 93, having bequeathed part of her property to the UVU Foundation, SUA, the Ukrainian Museum and the Golden Cross. Her mortal remains rest at the Ukrainian Cemetery in Washington, D.C.

The founder of the Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation - in memory of his wife, Dr. Lyubomyra Zazuli-Kotsur - in the amount of 11,830 dollars.

Dr. Lubomyry Zazulya-Kotsur

Eng. Kotsur Ihor

Engineer Ihor Kotsur was born on August 12, 1922, in the family of Ivan and Anastasia (née Yurkevich) Kotsur, in Banyshyn, Zolochiv Oblast, Galicia.

He graduated from public school in Krakow, gymnasium in Warsaw, and matriculation at the Ukrainian Gymnasium in Krakow in 1940. He began his higher chemical education at the Polytechnic in Berlin, Germany, continued in Braslav, and graduated at the University of Erlangen in 1948. After arriving in America in 1949, he settled in the state of Michigan, worked for a Swiss company and the American Curtis-Wright and General Motors. He retired in 1983.

Dr. Lubomyra Zazulya-Kotsur was born on July 16, 1921, in the family of Volodymyr and Osypa (née Rybchuk) Zazuly, in the village of Hnilychki, in Zbarazhchyna. She received public and secondary education in Ternopil, and higher medical education in Lviv and Erlangen, Germany. In 1948, she married Eng. Igor Kotsur. She completed her medical studies in 1949 with a diploma of Doctor of Medicine, having defended her thesis. In the same year, the couple emigrated to America. After her diploma was nostrified, she worked as a doctor in a children's hospital in Lyapir. She retired in 1982. She passed away on February 8, 1998.

Active in the community and self-sacrificing for Ukrainian cultural goals, the couple raised two children. Son Yuriy is a doctor of technical sciences, daughter Zoya is an anthropologist.

Founders of the Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 17,000 dollars.

Kravchuk Ivan

Ivan Kravchuk was born in 1908 in the village of Oserdiv, Sokal Region, Galicia. In 1920, he graduated from the Agricultural and Horticultural School of the "Prosvita" Society. He belonged to the OUN and the Ukrainian Military Organization, for which the Polish occupation regime sentenced him to 5 years in prison. Before the war, the Polish authorities arrested him twice more for belonging to the OUN. During the years of the German occupation, the Gestapo sent I. Kravchuk to the Montelupych prison in Kraków. After the war, already in exile, he graduated from the Ukrainian Technical and Economic Institute. After coming to America, he became an active employee of the newspapers "Path of Victory", "Homin of Ukraine", "Svoboda", "Visnyk OOCHSU", the founder and first editor of the "Nadbuzka Zemlya" organization of the Association of Nadbuz residents.

I. Kravchuk died on August 3, 1986, buried in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Ivan's wife, Nadiya, obtained her teaching profession back in Ukraine. After emigrating, she taught at a Ukrainian school in Karlsfeld, near Munich.

Donated 13,006 dollars to the UVU Foundation.

Dr. Kulyas Yuliyan

Yulian Kulyas was born on June 5, 1936 in Ukraine. Married to Elizaveta, from the Bohdanovich family. They have three children: Yaroslav, Pavel and Lilya.

He received his higher education at the University of Illinois, received his bachelor's degree and doctorate in law from DePaul University, was admitted to practice law in the state of Illinois in 1958, and was admitted to the Supreme Court of the United States of America in 1960. In 1978, he graduated from the National Defense University in Washington, DC, and in 1979, he graduated from the Defense Intelligence School in Washington, DC.

In 1958, he opened his own law firm Kulyas & Kulyas.

President and Chief Executive Officer of the First Federal Charitable Bank "Pevnist" since 1964. In 2004, Pevnist Bank, which at that time had assets of 475 million dollars, merged with MBA, and now Dr. Yu. Kulyas is a member of the Board of Directors of the 5.5 billion dollar institution.

Dr. Julian Kulyas is a retired US intelligence colonel.

In the Ukrainian community, he was the chairman of the American Bicentennial Committee, the chairman of the committee to commemorate the Holodomor in 1983, the chairman of three world congresses of the World Congress of Free Ukrainians - in 1974, 1988 and 1993. Chairman of the committee to celebrate the millennium of Christianity in Ukraine.

Among the more important cases in the public interest, it is worth mentioning the victorious case in the defense of the minor Volodymyr Polovchak, who, against the will of the USSR, was granted political exile by the USSR. Chief counsel in the case "Medvid v. ZSA" in the New Orleans court in defense of the rights of a Ukrainian sailor who escaped from a Soviet ship.

From the political life of Dr. Yuliyan Kulyas, we will recall that in 1994-98 he headed the Kyiv-Chicago "sister bridge" program, was the chairman of the committee for the election of Bill Clinton in 1996 and the chairman of the committee of Ukrainian Americans for the election of Al Gore. Dr. Kulyas was a delegate of the American delegation to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe held in Vienna in 1988-1989.

Among Dr. Kulyas's many awards, the award from the Jewish Committee is a special recognition. In 1989, he was recognized by the Ukrainian Congress Committee as "Person of the Year", and in 1998 he received an award from President L. Kuchma.

Dr. Kulyas holds an Honorary Doctorate from UVU.

Founders of the Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 13,400 dollars.

Kushnirchuk Roman-Semen

Evdokia Kushnirchuk (from Gorganyuk)

The Kushnirchuks come from Kosmach in the Hutsul region. Roman Kushnirchuk was born in 1902, from a young age he was active in "Prosvit", "Native School", "Silsky Gospodar", "Revival", for which he was constantly persecuted by the Polish authorities. After the war, after coming to America, he worked in the automobile industry in Detroit, in the design office of "Ford", at the same time actively, together with his wife, acting in Ukrainian organizations, supporting them with constant donations. In particular, they were generous donors to the Chernobyl Foundation and the Fund for the Revival of Ukraine. They were the founders of the construction of a monument to Ivan Franko in his native Kosmachi.

Evdokia Kushnirchuk is one of the most talented Ukrainian pysankarkas. Her Easter egg masterpieces were exhibited in Vienna, Rome, and many American cities.

Evdokia was born in 1900, and passed away on May 5, 1983. Roman Kushnirchuk passed away on September 25, 1993. Both rest in the Ukrainian mausoleum in Washington, DC.

Founders of the Permanent Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of $19,000.

Kuhta Roman

We know little about these donors and funders. Roman Kukhta was born on April 2, 1909 in Pereginsk, Galicia. After the Second World War he was in the USA and settled in Union, N.J. He communicated this information in a letter to the Foundation, already in retirement, asking to supplement the Permanent Scholarship Fund with a donation of 2,000 dollars.
Roman Kukhta sent his first donation in 1979, and already in 1985 he made the appropriate amount to open the Scholarship Fund. His last donation was due in November 1997.

The Kukht couple supported Ukrainian free science and studying youth even after the declaration of Ukraine's independence, which is truly admirable. Their memory will live forever in their Permanent Scholarship Fund.

Founders of the Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 13,603 dollars.

Lozynsky Mykhailo and Erna

Mykhailo Lozynskyi was born in Novosilky, Lviv Oblast. From his youth he belonged to nationally active citizens, not giving in to his convictions during the years of "pacification". During the "first Soviets" he was taken to the Red Army, at the beginning of the war he was taken prisoner by the Germans, and miraculously escaped. After arriving in America in 1950, the Lozynskis settled in Gemtremka, Michigan, where Mr. Mykhailo worked in an automobile manufacturing company. In their senior summers, the couple moved to Arizona, but even in retirement, both remain active in the Ukrainian community of Sun City, generously donating to socially useful causes, in particular to schools of Ukrainian studies, to the important needs of Ukrainian science and culture, and financially helping Ukrainian students from Brazil.

The Lozynskyi family keeps letters of thanks and letters of commendation from the Ukrainian Scientific Institute at Harvard, ZUADK, and the Defense Fund of Ukraine; Mr. Mykhailo is a member-benevolent member of the UCCA, a long-time secretary of the United Nations Union in Arizona, and belongs to the OOCHSU.

Founders of the Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 90,635 dollars.

Ivan Lutsik

Ivan Lutsyk, pastor of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, was born in 1905 in the village of Lyubyntsi, Stryi region. His father, Oleksa Lutsyk, was an Austrian army officer who died on the Russian front in the First World War. In 1927-28, Ivan served in the Polish army, where he became a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Later he studied engineering in Kraków, after which he founded a private design company in Morszyn, Stryjszyn. In 1938, he emigrated to Germany, worked as an architect in the city administration of Munich. At the same time, he graduated from Bible school and became a preacher. In 1940, he married Olga Glanert, from the house of Hes, daughter of emigrants from Ukraine, from Morshyn.

Since 1950, the Lutsyks lived in America. In 1959, Olga Lutsyk passed away, and Pastor Ivan - in 1982, in New York. In his will, he ordered to transfer all family property to the creation of the Scholarship Fund at UVU.

Founders of the Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 26,820 dollars.

Ksenia Luchkanych

Luchkanych Ivan

Ivan Luchkanych was born in the family of Teodor and Khrystyna (from the house of Opryshko) on July 5, 1917 in Vyslok Dolishniy, Syanotsky District, Lemkiv Oblast. Before the war, in 1939, he served in the Polish army, during the war he was captured by the Soviets, worked in an iron ore mine in Kryvyi Rih, and later he was sent to the far north to build a railway. When Anders' army was being formed, he became its soldier and went with it all the way to Monte Cassino. In 1946, he left for England, later moved to France, where he worked in coal mines. Later he went to work at a textile factory.

Ksenia Luchkanych (from Kachmariky) was born in 1915 in the village of Radehivtsi, near Lviv. She was the daughter of Mykhailo and Maria (from the house of Pushkar). In 1955, she left for America and settled in Rochester, where she actively joined Ukrainian organized life.

The couple was active in UKKA, OOCHSU and other Ukrainian public organizations. Ivan Luchkanych is a member of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Rochester and North Port, Florida. In his will, he assigned one third of his property to the UVU Foundation.

Founders of the Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 10,400 dollars.

Maria Malashchuk

Malashchuk Roman

Dr. Roman Malashchuk was born in 1913 in Western Ukraine. From a young age, he was active in the national liberation movement, in 1932-37 he was in charge of the OUN District Branch, imprisoned during the SUSOP student congress in Lviv in 1939, a participant in the OUN Great Gathering in Krakow in 1941. During the war, he was a prisoner of the Gestapo and went to concentration camps in Kraków, Auschwitz, Mathavzen, and Ebensee. After the war, he was a member of the OUN Guard. Upon arrival in Canada, he became a leading member of the Liberation League of Ukraine, head of the research institute "Studyum", head of the Presidium of the World Ukrainian Liberation Front, an activist of many other Ukrainian social and cultural organizations and societies.

Maria Malashchuk (from Levytskyi) was born in 1913. She was the director of the native schools of the League of Ukraine for the Liberation of Ukraine and the Union of Ukrainian Youth in Toronto and Etobicoke, the founder of the SUM branch in Etobicoke and Toronto, a member of the Ukrainian Teachers' Association of Canada, a member of the Main Board of the Association of Ukrainian Culture Figures, the director of the Archives of the Museum named after Stepan Bandera at the OUVF in Toronto. As the wife of Dr. Roman, she was his faithful friend and assistant in serving the Ukrainian cause.

Maria Malashchuk passed away on September 9, 1979. Dr. Roman Malashchuk outlived his wife by 22 years, passing away in May 1991. Buried at the Lars Lavn cemetery. Daughter Khrystyna and her husband Roman were left in sorrow.

The founder of the Scholarship fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 16,830 dollars.

Mykytin Vasyl

Vasyl Mykytyn was born on June 1, 1921 in the village of Krasna, Nadvirnya District, Stanislaviv Oblast, now Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. Due to various circumstances, he did not finish primary education and therefore had to acquire knowledge on his own. From a young age, he was active in Prosvita, read and distributed patriotic literature, for which he was persecuted by the Polish authorities. With the arrival of the German occupation, Vasyl was taken to Germany for forced labor. After the war, he was in Bielefeld, Germany. Here he belonged to Plast, to the sanitary-charitable service, and to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. In 1949, he left for Canada and settled in the province of Manitoba. Here, in the Chatham area, he became the head of the Department of the Liberation League of Ukraine.

In 1974, he moved to Arizona, to the city of Sun City, where he joined public life: he was the secretary of the UCCA and a member and board member of various public and political organizations. He was a member of the 45th department of the Ukrainian National Security Service, supported the struggle of the UPA.

Since the declaration of independence of Ukraine, he has sent 45 packages of books with a payment of 2,235 dollars per shipment.

Constant donor whose donations so far amount to 13,300 dollars.

Yuriy Mytsak from New York began to support Ukrainian free science and Ukrainian studying youth even at the time when it was in colonial bonds.

Since the Foundation's two-year efforts to get in touch with Mr. Yuriy were unsuccessful, we can only say that he was a Master, and that his first donation was made to the Foundation in December 1981. From that time, twice a year, Mr. Yuriy donated larger sums, so that in 23 years his donations for the purposes of the Foundation amounted to such a respectable amount. Unfortunately, we lost contact with Mr. Yuri at the end of 2002, and we have no more information about this sincere patriot and donor. We only know that Yurii Mytsak, M.Sc., was interested in scientific studies, in Canada he belonged to the Institute of Medieval Studies, to excavation commissions.

The founder of the Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 19,442 dollars.

Moldavian Miroslava

Myroslava Moldovan was born in 1915, on the Slovak territory of ethnic Lemkivshchyna. She received her education in Przemyśl. After the Second World War, in 1951, she came to America. At first she lived in Philadelphia, and then in Williamstown, New Jersey.

Wife of Dmitry Moldovan. Belonged to the church of St. Peter and Paul in Cecil, NJ Passed away August 1, 1999.

M. Moldovan made the first donation to the UVU Foundation in 1997, and in her will she wrote 10 percent of her property to the UVU Foundation and 20 percent to ZUADK.

She was a good Ukrainian and supported national, social, scientific and charitable goals. Gladly supported young students.

Founders of the Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 20,240 dollars.

Julian and Stefania of Monastyr

Yuliyan Monastyrskyi was born on November 17, 1910 in the village of Kidaniv, Buchatsky District, Ternopil Oblast, Stephaniya village - in the village of Zaturyn, Pidhayetsky District. After long travels in Europe, caused by the horrors of the Second World War, in 1949 the couple came to America and settled in Cleveland, Ohio. Y. Monastyrskyi worked at a rubber factory in Baltimore, and later, until his retirement in 1976, at the Ford company in Cleveland. Both in Ukraine and on American soil, Yuliyan and Stefania Monastyrski constantly took care of the success of every Ukrainian cause, large and small, and were always generous to public, cultural and church needs. The lordship put together an appropriate sum to annually appoint one student who will study Ukrainian studies on a scholarship from the interest.

Julian of Monastyrsky passed away on April 15, 1997, buried at the cemetery of St. Peter and Paul in Parma, Ohio.

Founders of the Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 15,600 dollars.

Motsyuk Yaroslav and Irena

Dr. Yaroslav Motsyuk was born in the village of Myluvanny, in the Stanislaviv Region (now Ivano-Frankivsk Region), received his high school education in Stanislaviv and Strya, and higher education after the war in New York, which he completed with a doctoral thesis on the topic "The History of Cinematography in Ukraine and Beyond its limits". Founder and owner of Filmtreat International, with offices in Los Angeles and Toronto, Canada. In 1998, he was awarded the prestigious "Ammy" award for the invention for the technical restoration of film tapes. An authoritative member of American professional organizations, information about him and his inventions are included in many American bibliographic publications and directories. Long-term financial officer of the UVU Foundation.

Irena Motsyuk (nee Groh) was born in the village of Lezhakhiv, Yaroslavl Oblast, received her secondary education in Yaroslavl and Koszalin, and higher economic education in Szczecin, Poland. In Poland, she worked for the underground intelligence of the OUN, hiding members of the UPA who defected to the West. She left for America and settled in Yonkers, N.Y. She was the founder and head of the Yonkers Chapter of Part 119 of the USA. She studied at the college in the evenings and in 1973 received a diploma of "Bachelor of Science Education". She helped her husband in his business. She was cheerful, modest, pleasant, loved to travel, was interested in Ukraine, was a deeply religious Christian and read a lot. The disease prematurely took Irena on June 4, 2002, leaving behind a grieving husband and daughters Darka and Natalka with their families. Her remains rest in Holy Spirit Cemetery in Hamptonburgh, N.Y.

The founder of the Permanent Scholarship Fund in the amount of 20,000 dollars.

Arkady Mulyak-Yatskivskyy recently joined the creation of the Scholarship Fund, but his contribution is already significant. The last amount — 5,000 dollars — he donated in 2005.
Mr. A. Mulyak-Yatskivskyi lives in Los Angeles, California.

A scholarship fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 10,000 dollars was created in his name by his brother Pavlo Nemec from Manchester, New Hampshire.

German Myroslav

Myroslav Nemeets was born in 1923 in the village of Oparivka, Krosno district, Lemkiv region, in the family of Vasyl and Antonina (from Shuflyaty) Nemeets. In 1940, at the age of 17, he was taken to Germany for forced labor. In 1945, in Germany, he entered the American army. In 1949 he came to America, first lived in Manchester, New Hampshire, then moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where he founded his own company. He spent his last years in Chuga Vista, California, where he died in 1994. Buried in Manchester, New Hampshire.

A scholarship fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 10,000 dollars was created in his name by his brother Pavlo Nemec from Manchester, New Hampshire.

Mykola the German

Mykola Nemec was born in 1925 in the village of Oparivtsi, in Lemkiv region, in the family of Vasyl and Maria Nemeets (from Shuflyat house). He graduated from public school, studied agronomy. In 1943 he joined the "Halychyna" Division; took part in the battle near Brody, where his trace disappeared.

Founders of the Permanent Scholarship Fund in the amount of 37,000 dollars.

Pavlo and Matilda the German

Pavlo Nemec was born on October 27, 1920 in the village of Oparivtsi, district Krosno, in Lemkivshchyna. He was the eldest son in the family. He graduated from public school, in 1940 he left for Germany, where he worked as a housewife until 1945. After the end of the war, he married a girl of German origin, Matilda, from the Mayer family. He was a young man extremely devoted to Ukraine.

In 1945, he entered the American army, and a year later, knowing languages, he worked in the Central Intelligence Corporation. From there he left for America, to his uncle Mykola Shuflyat. In 1954, he started his own enterprise, which he ran until his retirement in 1982.
He was active in the church parish, led the UCKA department and was a member of the Ukrainian Museum, supported NTSH and Harvard. Donated half a ton of paper for the publication of Mykhailo Hrushevskyi's History of Ukraine.

Matilda Nemec was born on May 26, 1921 in Mannheim (Baden), Germany. Father — Richard Mayer, mother — Eliza Mayer (of Hertlein house). She had two sisters, Lina and Eliza, and a brother, Rudolph. She finished public school, gymnasium and bookkeeping courses in Mannheim, worked in an import and export company. Pavlo and Matilda were late in 1940, and got married in 1945. The couple had two children - daughter Gaini and son Zenon. She was a good mother and an exemplary life friend. She died on April 3, 1993.

A scholarship fund in memory of Martyn Novakivskyi was established at the UVU Foundation by his wife in the amount of 10,000 dollars.

Novakivska Irena and Martin

Martyn Novakivskyi was born on January 1, 1914 in the village of Otynia, in Stanislaviv region, now Ivano-Frankivsk region. In 1926, he enrolled in the gymnasium in Stanislavov, but due to financial difficulties, he had to leave the third grade of the gymnasium in 1929 and look for work. Even in his high school years, he began the path of liberation struggle. He worked at a dairy for five years, moved to work as an organizer of the "Prosvit" branch in Otynia, was a member of the OUN, led high school sports work at "Sokola", and belonged to the TUSK sports league in Stanislaviv. He was fond of the theater and in 1937 entered the theater under the artistic direction of Yuriy Kononev, but his interesting burlat life ended with the beginning of the war in 1939.

During the first occupation of Western Ukraine by the Soviets, he was imprisoned and exiled to Siberia. In the Urals, at the Nadiyev station, he was quarantined for two weeks, then he was sent to the Palkino camp in the work brigades, and later to the 10th OLP camp. By a happy coincidence, as a former Polish citizen, he joined the army of General Anders, with whom he went to Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Egypt. He was awarded a medal for bravery in the battle at Monte Cassino, in Italy.

He finished his military service in England, got married there, and in 1957 came to America with his wife Iryna, where he became one of the dedicated educators of Sumy youth. He died on October 1, 1989.

Irena Novakivska was born in Lviv. She graduated from gymnasium in Ternopil. During the Bolshevik and German occupations, Irena worked in a hospital, helping Polish nuns take care of the wounded. Before the offensive of the Soviet troops, she left for Vienna, and when England began to recruit recluses, she left for England, where she completed nursing courses and practice in three hospitals. She came to America with her relatives and sister in 1957 and began working at Henry Ford Hospital, where she retired.

Founders of the Permanent Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 12,300 dollars.

Kateryna Ozarkiv

Ozarkiv Hryhoriy

Hryhoriy Ozarkiv was born in the village of Kolokolin, in Galicia.
During the Second World War, fate threw Grigory, via Vienna in Austria, to Regensburg in Germany. Gifted with a good voice, during his one-year stay in Vienna he sang the Divine Liturgy in the church and continued this Christian duty in Regensburg, where he sang in the church choir under the artistic direction of Osip Lupany.

In 1949, when the opportunity to emigrate overseas opened up, he left for America and settled in Detroit. He immediately joined the choir of the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Hemtremko, Vatra and the Bandurist Chapel, with which he was able to visit his native Batkivshchyna in 1991, after almost half a century, visited his native village of Kolokolin, prayed at the graves of his parents and in the church where his baptized

Kateryna Okhotska-Vovk was born in Novy Strelychy in Ukraine, in the family of the blacksmith Ivan Vovk, had three brothers and a sister. They were orphaned early and grew up among people. Katrusya was only one and a half years old when her older sister Anna died of typhus at the age of 19. The eldest brother, Mykhailo Okhotsky, died in his parents' house in Ukraine, brother Bohdan survived the war and the Mavthavsen concentration camp in Dresden, brother Leonid went to Russia for 10 years of hard labor.

Kateryna was exiled with her husband Ivan and one-and-a-half-year-old son Arsen to Omsk, Siberia. The man died there at the age of 39. After being released from exile, Kateryna and her young son had nowhere to return, so she stayed to live in Omsk. In 1977, son Arsen died in a car accident on the Russian roads of Yaroslavl, at the tender age of 31. Brother Bohdan, after the Mavtgavsen camp, emigrated to America and, after much effort, brought sister Kateryna to visit him. In Omsk, she was close to the sister of Hryhoriy Ozarkov, whom she had already met in America and became his wife. The church marriage took place in the church of St. Josaphat in Warren, Michigan, May 19, 1979. She and her husband lived a good life. Hryhoriy Ozarkiv passed away on July 30, 2002, and his brother Bohdan on March 2, 2006. She remained alone on American soil.

Founders of the Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 15,380 dollars.

Oiler Anna

Fyodor the oilman

Fedir Oliynyk was born in 1901 in the village of Malky, in Volyn. From a young age, he associated himself with the struggle for the Ukrainian cause, was active in the "Prosvita" Society, organized nationally conscious youth in various circles, for which he was arrested by the Soviets and was under investigation in the Zhytomyr prison. He returned from prison suffering from typhus, and when he recovered, he fled to the Ukrainian lands near Poland, to Lutsk, where the family estate was located. In 1939, this territory was also occupied by the Soviets, and he fled again. In the new political and military circumstances of the German occupation, he saved Jews. In 1944, he reached Austria, and after some time - to Bavaria in Germany. In 1949, with the help of a Jewish woman, he obtained an affidavit and arrived in New York. Here he got a job in a scrap metal factory, a chocolate factory, and later got involved in electrical engineering. He was active in public and church life. He retired in 1966.

Founders of the Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 33,436 dollars.

Onuferko Bohdan and Evgenia

There is very little accurate information about this nationally conscious and self-sacrificing couple, because Mr. Bohdan and Ms. Yevgenia did not have time to fill out the formal papers for the UVU Foundation. We know that they were persecuted by the NKVD, so the Germans took them to forced labor. After the war, they emigrated to America, settled in Philadelphia, lived modestly, but generously supported Ukrainian cultural and public institutions.

Eng. Bohdan died in 1971.

Mrs. Yevgenia, from the house of Krokhmalyuk, was born in 1906. She worked in the ZSA community as a public activist, was a trustee. During her lifetime, realizing the role of free science, she decided to give half of her property to the UVU Foundation, and she herself lived only on her pension. This gesture was highly appreciated by the UVU Foundation. Since the 1982-83 academic year, one scholarship has been awarded annually to young needy students or teachers of schools of Ukrainian studies at the study of Ukrainian subjects at UVU.

On September 16, 1983, Evgenia died unexpectedly in a car accident.

Founders of the Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 25,000 dollars.

Mykhailo Pirsky

Anastasia of Pirsk

Mykhailo Pyrskyi was born in 1899 in Zhovkva, near Lviv. He met the establishment of the Ukrainian People's Republic in 1918 in the Kherson region, where he was a member of the Austrian army. As a conscious Ukrainian, together with a group of non-commissioned officers and senior officers, he joined the army of the Ukrainian People's Republic and became one of the organizers of the regiment named after Ivan Bohun. He served in the Fourth Kyiv Division, in the Fourth Artillery Regiment as a Bunchuzhny, and later as a lieutenant of the Ukrainian People's Republic. He was a participant in the Winter Campaign of the Army of the Ukrainian People's Republic. In the interwar period, he was active in cultural and educational societies in Lviv. Before the arrival of the Soviets, he went to the West, lived in Bavaria for a while, and in 1949 he left for America. Here he married Anastasia Kharachko, an acquaintance from his native land. In New York, on First Avenue, he opened his own children's clothing store.
On April 4, 1983, after a long illness, his wife, with whom he lived for 30 years, died.
Permanent Scholarship Fund named after Mykhailo and Anastasia Pirskikh at the UVU Foundation was created by the now deceased Mykhailo on December 27, 1985. In addition, he bequeathed to the UVU Foundation a bequest from which a certain amount is received each year, and today it is $166,122.

Founder of the Permanent Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 23,000 dollars.

Mykola Popovych

Mykola Popovych was born in Zbarazh in 1901, in a peasant family. He graduated from the sixth grade of the national school.

He came to Canada in 1924. He was sick with tuberculosis, so he stayed in a sanatorium from 1930 to 1933 and was cured.

Mykola Popovych was one of the first Ukrainians who felt the healthy direction of the UVU Foundation, and since 1979 he has donated considerable sums to liberal science two or three times a year. He never forgot his native land, he belonged to those conscientious Ukrainians who knew how to lead the youth, to arouse in them an interest in Ukraine, its struggle and the future.

He lived for 92 years, died on October 1, 1993. His remains were laid to rest in Edmonton, Canada.

Founders of the Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 100,000 dollars.

Thank you Stefania

Poraiko Osyp

Osyp Porayko was born in 1912 in Zabolotov, in the Carpathian region. Studied architecture in Krakow. Participated in the OUN Derivative Groups. Post-war circumstances led him to Germany, and from there to America. In Los Angeles, he married a Ukrainian woman who was as active in the community and church as he was.
Stefania Porayko was born in Komarno, Lviv region. She is a teacher by profession.
The victim couple actively supported Ukrainian cultural and educational institutions. In addition to the Scholarship Fund, the couple bequeathed a significant amount of their property to the UVU Foundation.

Founders of the Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 110,791.26 dollars.
Dr. Volodymyr and Olga are among the most generous funders of the UVU Foundation.

Dr. Prokopiv Volodymyr and Olga

Volodymyr Prokopiv was born in 1902 in Tovmachi, now Ivano-Frankivsk region. After graduating from the gymnasium, he studied at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Doctor of Medicine from 1929, in private practice in Tovmachi from 1932 to 1944.

Olga Stefanyuk-Prokopiv was born in 1907 in the village of Horodylovychy, Sokal district, Lviv region. After graduating from the gymnasium, she enrolled in mathematics studies at the Lviv University named after Jan Casimir in the late 1920s. Here she earned a master's degree and later taught at the women's seminary in Wadowice, near Krakow, and later at the Ursula women's gymnasium in Przemyśl.

After World War II, the couple came to America. They settled in New York. Here I had to work in a tailoring enterprise. Later, he successfully passed medical exams and in the 1950s opened a private medical practice in New York, which he soon moved to Dresden, Ohio. From 1960, the Prokops returned to New York State, the doctor had a practice in Unadilla, and later in the town of Weedsport, near Auburn, N.Y., where Dr. Prokop worked until he was 99 years old.

The couple had one son, Volodymyr, who died in 1989 after a long and serious illness.

The Prokops often donated aid for charitable purposes and financially supported Ukrainian institutions.

Olga Prokopiv died in 1999, and Dr. Volodymyr in 2001. Both lived long, fruitful lives. The same part of his legacy as the UVU Foundation was left to the Scientific Society named after Shevchenko, as well as a part for the Ukrainian Medical Association of North America. The UVU Foundation is very proud of such donors for Ukrainian purposes.

The founder of the Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 10,000 dollars.

Fuck Anastasia

Anastasia Psui was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1920, in the family of Ilya and Anna Wojczak. Her relatives returned to Ukraine with a nine-year-old child, and Anastasia spent her youth here, in the village of Slobidka, in Podilla.

In Ukraine, she married Volodymyr Psuy. But the happiness of young people did not last long, the war blizzard forced them to go to the West. Wandering life began in Germany, and in 1947 Vladimir and Anastasia arrived in America, settled in Newark, New Jersey. Adaptation to new circumstances and exhausting work had a bad effect on Anastasia's health. Paralysis confined her to bed for the rest of her life.

After the death of her friend, she led a solitary life. She was a member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and was interested in public affairs.

Before her death, she ordered in her will to transfer part of the property to Ukrainian public, church and scientific institutions in the amount of 90,000 dollars. UVU left 10,000 dollars for the scientific purposes of the Foundation.

Founders of the Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 16,025 dollars.

Dr. Rak Volodymyr and Anna

Volodymyr Rak was born in Ukraine, received a higher financial education at New York University. Working in responsible positions at "Chase Manhattan Bank" until his retirement, for 24 years he voluntarily performed the duties of the financial referent of NTSh in New York. An active member of Plast, for which he was awarded two orders of St. Yuri in silver. Active member of the National Academy of Sciences. As an active figure in the field of Ukrainian culture, the Ukrainian Free University awarded Volodymyr Raku with the honorary title of Doctor of Honoris Kavza.

Anna Shkoruta-Rak was born in Tysmenytsia, in the Carpathian region. She studied at the gymnasium in Germany. She moved to America with her family in 1949, where in 1950 she married Volodymyr Rak. An active member of the 83rd Department of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, in particular in the area of social care, for which she was twice awarded with "Certificates of Gratitude". Member of the Board of the Ukrainian Museum of New York.

Dr. Volodymyr and Anna Rak are generous donors to the Ukrainian Free University, the Ukrainian Museum in New York, Plast, the Church of St. Yura in New York. Both of their sons — Ihor, a doctor of medicine, and Andriy, a doctor of law — were also active supporters and now gladly support all valuable Ukrainian public projects.

The founder of the Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 13,525 dollars. in memory of his father, Professor Ivan Mirchuk - philosopher and ethnopsychologist of the European level, historian of Ukrainian culture, rector of the Ukrainian Free University; and his mother, Professor Maria Mirchuk, a writer and translator.

The founders

Prof. Ivan and Maria Mirchuks

Dr. Ivanna Mirchuk-Ratych was born in Austria, received her higher education in Berlin and Munich. After marrying Oleg Ratich, doctor of chemistry, she left for America. For thirty-five years, she taught German studies at Rutgers University, headed the American Association of German Language Teachers, took an active part in Ukrainian public life - in the International Women's League, the Union of Ukrainian Women of America, SFUZHO, and the World Organization of Mothers.

Founders of the Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 25,685 dollars.

Natalia Romanovska

Romanovsky Volodymyr

Volodymyr Romanovskyi was born on June 22, 1916 in a family of teachers, in the village of Chushkiv, in Bukovina. He received his high school education in Chernivtsi. After passing his matriculation exam in 1936, he enrolled at the Faculty of Law in Chernivtsi, and later in Bucharest. He graduated from the university with a bachelor's degree (master's degree) in legal sciences, but due to the war blizzard, he was unable to work as a lawyer.

During the Second World War, a young man, fascinated by patriotic ideals, plunged into the maelstrom of political events and joined the ranks of the Derivative groups. After the war, he ended up in a camp for displaced persons in Regensburg. There he worked in the International Relief Organization of the IRO. Here, in Regensburg, he married Natalya, from the house of Hnid, along with a wave of Dipists, he came to America and settled in the city of Baltimore, Maryland. Here, in 1950, he organized a Ukrainian cooperative at the Samopomich Society and was its first director. He was also the founder of a small rest house "Winter Water" in a picturesque part of northern Maryland, where he conducted the training of young people.

He passed away on September 1, 1986. Funeral services were held on September 4, in the chapel of the Ukrainian National Cemetery-Monument, where his mortal remains were buried.

Volodymyr Romanovsky was a kind, sociable person, he loved people, participated in community life and tried to be useful to everyone. Unfortunately, he did not live to see the independence of Ukraine. Even before his death, he made a will in which he bequeathed half of his property to his sister Maria in Chernivtsi, and the rest to four Ukrainian organizations: the Ukrainian Free University, the National Academy of Sciences, the Harvard Department of Ukrainian Studies, and the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, each with 25,000 dollars.

Two years after his death, his wife Natalia passed away. Both left behind a good memory as sincere Ukrainian patriots and donors.

Mrs. Myroslava Savchak, in honor of her husband Dr. Volodymyr Savchak, donated 10,110 dollars to the UVU Foundation.

Volodymyr Savchak

Volodymyr Savchak was born on February 18, 1910. He finished secondary education in Przemyśl, and law studies in Lviv. He firmly believed in the idea of Ukraine's independence and therefore was imprisoned in the Polish Bereza Kartuzyka camp and in a Soviet prison.

During the Second World War, he and his family decided to emigrate from Germany to the West and ended up in Tunisia, where in 1948 he founded a layer group that was active until 1953. In December 1953, Volodymyr Savchak moved to America with his family. Here he continued his activities in Plast: he was the chairman of the Station Council, the station manager of the station station in New York. He was active in the Society of Ukrainian Lawyers (he was a member of the board and chairman of the TUP) and was active in the NTSh, where he was a representative of the Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Studies.

Volodymyr Savchak was the author of a number of articles on legal topics that were published in various magazines and in the Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Studies.

Unfortunately, this sincere Ukrainian patriot did not live to see the declaration of Ukraine's independence, passing away on June 20, 1981.

The founder of the Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 10,000 dollars in memory of her husband Hryhori Salyuk.

Saluk Hryhoriy

Hryhoriy and Klavdia Salyuky were the first to contribute to the Scholarship Fund in 1979 in the spirit of the tasks of the UVU Foundation. After the death of Grigory, Mrs. Klavdia Salyuk assigned 10,000 dollars to the Permanent Scholarship Fund named after Grigory Salyuk. She continued the noble work of supporting the activities of the UVU Foundation.

The connection between Klavdia Salyuk and the UVU Foundation was interrupted in 1992, after the last donation from her for the needs of the student youth matured.

Founders of the Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 10,000 dollars.

Dmytro Sarakhman

Dmytro Sarakhman was born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, on July 29, 1922. He was interested in Ukrainian life, belonged to Zaporizhzhya Sich, a fraternal organization, to the Ukrainian People's Union. Soyuzivka was no stranger to him, he attended Ukrainian festivals in the Garden State. His wife, also of Italian descent, was born in Wounkoset, Rhode Island, on October 14, 1920. The couple had two children. Dmytro Sarakhman had no relatives in Ukraine. That is why I wanted to donate a significant amount of money to the UVU Foundation to give Ukrainian youth the opportunity to continue their education and receive appropriate education.

Dmytro belongs to that generation of American Ukrainians who were aware of themselves as Ukrainians. He had respect for Ukrainian traditions, he had a need to support his native nation, and for that he owes a lot of gratitude.

The founder of the Scholarship fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 10,000 dollars.

Synydyak Ivan

Ivan Synydyak was born in 1922 in Manchester, New Hampshire, in the family of Vasyl Synydyak and Anna (née Kunysiak), originally from the village of Ploske, Ukraine. Relatives emigrated to America in 1912. Ivan went through the entire American education system. During the Second World War, he served in the American armed forces.

He was not married. He belonged to the Ukrainian-American Club and the British-American Club.

After the end of World War II, he worked for many years at Wombeck Millm Inc., and retired from there.

He died on February 28, 1992, after a short illness. Buried in St. Joseph's Cemetery in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Ivan Synydyak remembered the Ukrainian community and therefore asked his brother Mykhailo to hand over a check for 10,000 dollars for the needs of the UVU Foundation after his death.

Founders of the Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 21,000 dollars.

Synydyak Mykhailo and Kateryna

Both were born in America. Mykhailo Synydyak was born in 1889 in the family of Vasyl Synydyak. The father was originally from Galicia, died in America in 1980, having lived for 91 years. The mother, Anna Kunysiak, was the daughter of Oleksiy Kunysiak and Efremia Pavelko, born in the village of Ploske in 1884, and died in 1975.

Mykhailo's relatives came from Galicia to Hamburg, Germany, and from there came to America on April 5, 1912. They settled in Manchester, New Hampshire, and were married there on June 8, 1914 in the church of St. Maria Mykhailo and his brother Ivan were born in Manchester.

Kateryna Synydyak was also born in Manchester, NG. Her father was born in 1877 and died in 1942. Mother - Ksenia Makara was born in 1894 and died at the age of 82.
Despite the fact that they were born in America, in the families of pre-war emigrants who arrived here even before the First World War, Mykhailo and Kateryna received a good religious and national upbringing, therefore they grew up interested in Ukrainian affairs, in particular church affairs, and were generous donors to cultural - educational goals.

Founder of the Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of $21,100.

The founder of the Scholarship fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 80,000 dollars.

Father Yaroslav Trostyanetsky was born on September 29, 1921 in the village of Manaiv, Zborivsky District, Ternopil Oblast. From a young age, he was a dedicated fighter for the liberation of his native people. With the arrival of the Bolsheviks in 1939, he went underground, for which the authorities deported his entire family to Siberia. After the war, he went to Germany and did political work in the camps. Immediately after moving to America in 1949, he co-founded the Ukrainian Catholic parish in Willimantic, Connecticut, and the SUMA cooperative in Hartford. Since 1960, he lived in Los Angeles, where he actively worked with Ukrainian youth, created a valuable library, and contributed to our newspapers. Having extensive experience in communicating with people, he decided to become a priest. In 1979, Bishop Yaroslav Gabro ordained Yaroslav as a deacon, and on June 17, 1984, Bishop Inokentiy Lototsky ordained him a priest.

On October 30, 1986, Fr. Yaroslav died unexpectedly. In a pre-written will, he left all his savings for Ukrainian cultural purposes. He truly belonged to those Ukrainian patriots whose heart was devoted to God and Ukraine.

Founders of the Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 51,600 dollars.

Petro Turchyn was born in 1911 in the village of Verbiv, near Berezhan, in the Ternopil region. He received his high school education in Rohatyn, and his higher economic education in Regensburg, Germany, at the Ukrainian Technical and Economic Institute. Fleeing from the onslaught of Soviet troops, Peter and Mary, who got married in 1942, arrived in Germany, in the city of Passau.

Maria Peresada-Turchyn was born in 1923 in Berezhany, Ternopil Oblast. In Germany, they had a daughter, Irena, with whom they came to America. They settled in Reno, Nevada, which has a good dry climate. However, there was no Ukrainian community here and the couple was very upset about their lonely life. They kept their Ukrainianness by reading Ukrainian newspapers.

In 1957, they had a second daughter, Marta, who later obtained a medical degree.

The couple supported public and cultural and educational projects. The couple gave both daughters a national upbringing.

Petro Turchyn died in 1979.

Being a Ukrainian patriot, Irena Khumilovska bequeathed all funds from her private business (estate) to be distributed to various Ukrainian public organizations, including the needs of the UVU Foundation in New York. After her death, the executors of the will transferred 35,950.52 dollars to the account of the UVU Foundation.

The scholarship fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 10,000 dollars, in memory of St. Mr. Anatoliya Tsapara, founded by his wife Iryna.

Tsapar Iryna

Tsapar Anatoly

Anatoly Tsapar came from Bakhla, Lisko county, Lemkiv region.

Iryna Tsapar, from the house of Kokhanovych, was born in the village of Turadyk, Zhydachiv district, during the Polish occupation.

During the war blizzard that covered all of Europe, she ended up in Munich, Germany. Here, Iryna met Anatoly and they got married on February 10, 1946. A year later, their daughter Sonya was born. The couple was able to leave for America thanks to the Catholic campaign sponsored by Mrs. Iryna's uncle. In 1949, they came to America and settled in New York, where they stayed for two years, and then moved to Passaic, New Jersey. In 1952, they had a second daughter, Marta. The Tsapars moved a third time to Garsfield, N.J. Both struggled to make ends meet, but gave their children a university education, making sure they also went to the School of Ukrainian Studies, Plast, and the Music Institute.

Anatoly Tsapar possessed great abilities as a carpenter-designer. His works were artistic and fascinated people. He built houses and finished them very well.

Anatoly Tsapar rested in God on November 30, 1988. People remember him fondly, because not only did he have golden hands, but he supported Ukrainian institutions with his donations, including the UVU Foundation. The fund in memory of Anatoliy Tsapar at the UVU Foundation is intended for scholarships for the training of teachers of Ukrainian studies.

Founders of the Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 86,165 dollars.

Tsebenko Vira

Volodymyr Tsebenko

Volodymyr Tsebenko was born in 1898 in the village of Kotivtsi, Kharkiv region. In 1921, at the age of 23, he enrolled in the Kharkiv Institute of Public Education, at the social-historical department, which he graduated in 1925 with the qualification of a teacher in mass schools in the subjects of social science, language and literature.

Volodymyr's wife, Vira Motuzova, was born on August 18, 1913 in Artemivsk, Ukraine. She graduated from the Kharkiv Conservatory of Music.

Volodymyr and Vira got married on April 13, 1939 in Kharkiv, and during the Second World War they emigrated to Germany. After the war, in 1951, they came to the USSR.

Volodymyr passed away in Los Angeles, California in 1988. Vera's wife outlived her husband by 14 years and passed away on February 26, 2003.

The founder of the Scholarship at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 85,667.62 dollars.

Oksana Cheredarchuk-Folvarkiv

One can only marvel at the generosity of this noble woman, who donated large sums of money for cultural purposes, including the UVU Foundation.

This daughter of Kolomiyshchyna was born in the family of Vasyl and Maria, from the Melnychuk, Cheredarchuk family, on January 22, 1922. After graduating from the Vasiliyanok Sisters Gymnasium in Lviv, she enrolled in medical studies, which she was forced to continue in Munich, Germany due to the outbreak of the Second World War. After moving to America, she continued her studies at the medical faculty in Washington, specializing in clinical pathology. She married Dr. Roman Folvarkov, who worked in the same field of medicine.

Dr. Oksana worked from 1957 until her retirement at Gaines Hospital in Brookfield, Illinois. She was interested in art, opera, theater, the life of the Ukrainian community and the American community in which she lived, and generously responded to the community's needs. Her husband, Dr. Roman, passed away in 1979. In 1984, Dr. O. Folvarkiv married for the second time to George V. Gartler Sokologorsky, who died in 1990.

The patroness passed away at the age of 79, leaving behind a good memory of her compatriots.

The founder of the Scholarship fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 40,000 dollars.

Black Anatoly

Anatoly Chornyi was born on December 12, 1915 in the village of Zadryshivtsi, Ternopil Oblast.

He graduated from the folk school in Pidvolochysk, in 1932 he entered the Second State Gymnasium in Ternopil and graduated in 1936. The following year, he began studying chemistry at Lviv University. With the arrival of the German authorities, he worked at a sugar factory for eight months, then continued his studies at the Lviv Polytechnic. With the advance of the Soviet troops, A. Cherny, like thousands of young people from Galicia, saved his life by fleeing to the West. In Graz, he finally finished his chemical studies and, coming to America in 1952, he was able to get a job at a chemical laboratory in New York. He had no family, but he felt himself to be a son of the Church and the Ukrainian people, he belonged not only to generous donors for educational and cultural purposes, but he himself was one of those who "gives soon" without much thought.

He especially cared about young people who wanted to get a higher education - this is evidenced by the considerable amount of the fund established by A. Chorniy under the UVU Foundation.

Died in 2004.

Founders of the Permanent Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 100,000 dollars (jointly with the Volyaniks' spouses).

Swabian Theodore and Sophia

See about them. "Volyanik-Shwabinsky Literary Fund".

The founder of the Permanent Scholarship Fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 25,000 dollars.

Shegrin Yakov

Yakiv Shegrin, a social and strategist, was born in Halychyna, in the Zhydachiv district.

He received his secondary education at the Ukrainian gymnasium in Innsbruck. While in the resettlement camp in the Austrian city of Landek, in 1945 he organized a camp of senior platoon soldiers named after Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, who later got the name "Khmelnychenka". For five years, Yakov Shegrin was the henkeeper of this chicken. Having emigrated to America in 1950, he settled in Boston, Massachusetts, where he organized a stratum village and headed it for 16 years. Belongs to the most selfless stratum educators, 19 times he was the commander of novice camps in Bridgewater, "Sonyashnaya Polyana", Bobyrivka and at "Wolf's Trail" in East Chatham, N.Y. He was also active in other Ukrainian social and cultural organizations in Boston.

Plastovi lord Ya. Shegrin assigned his fund to the education of the leading asset and teachers for Ukrainian youth, for which the philanthropist himself devoted tens of years of his useful work, worthy of respect and admiration.

The founder of the Scholarship fund at the UVU Foundation in the amount of 20,000 dollars.

Yarosh Alexander

Saint Mr. O. Yarosh died on July 30, 1987. Previously, I did not send autobiographical data about myself.

In July 1993, from the legacy of St. Oleksandr's contribution to the UVU Foundation was 15,000 dollars.
During his lifetime, in a letter to the UVU Foundation, Oleksandr Yarosh wrote: "...I want to inform you that, in addition to the donation of 5,000 dollars, I did not forget you in my will. I added 15 percent of my property to the foundation. It will be around 25,000 dollars, more or less." And in reality, the will was written on May 19, 1984.

The UVU Foundation is sincerely grateful for the understanding of the needs of the UVU and every year in prayer services for its founders, patrons, donors and members will remember the good heart of St. Mr. Oleksandr Yarosh.