1987: A LOOK BACK: Deaths in the community (12/27/87)

1987: A LOOK BACK

Deaths in the community

In 1987 the Ukrainian community was saddened to learn of the deaths of a number of its prominent members, among them the following:

Lev Rejnarovycz, 73, opera soloist with the Lviv Opera House and Ukrainian Opera Ensemble in Germany, and organizer and director of Mykola Lysenko Opera Company in the U.S. - January 21.
The Rev. Wladimir Borowsky, 80, executive secretary of the Ukrainian Evangelical Alliance of North America, pastor of the Ukrainian Evangelical-Reformed Church, editor-in-chief of Evangelical Morning (Evanhelsky Ranok) - January 25.
Alvin Kapusta, 57, the U.S. State Department's first special assistant for Soviet nationalities, organizer of the Soviet Nationalities Division in the Office for Analysis of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe - January 25.
Dr. Miro Chapowskyj, 64, supreme secretary of the Ukrainian Fraternal Association - January 29.
Gen. Petro Grigorenko, 79, founding member of the Moscow and Ukrainian Helsinki monitoring groups, former Red Army general who spent nearly six years in Soviet psychiatric hospitals for his human and national rights activity - February 21.
Michael Piznak, 80, New York community activist, former treasurer of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America and former vice-president of the Ukrainian National Association - May 23.
Dr. Peter G. Stercho, 68, professor of political economy at Drexel University, chairman of the National Committee to Commemorate Genocide Victims in Ukraine 1932-33 - June 18.
Gordon R. Bohdan Panchuk, 73, a World War II veteran of the Royal Canadian Air Force who assisted Ukrainian displaced persons after the war and saved veterans of the Galicia Division from repatriation to the USSR - June 20.
Ulas Samchuk, 82, noted writer, editor and Ukrainian activist in Volhynia, Ukraine, and Canada - July 9.
Michael Luchuf, 69, retired captain of the New York City Police Department - July 25.
Edward Popil, 69, longtime financial secretary-treasurer of the Ukrainian Fraternal Association as well as financial secretary of the National Committee to Commemorate Genocide Victims in Ukraine 1932-33 - September 8.
Prof. Theodore Onufryk, 96, choir director at St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church in 1919-1962, under whose direction thousands of Ukrainian Americans sang at countless concerts, including those at Town Hall, Carnegie Hall, the New York World's Fair and St. Patrick's Cathedral - September 17.
Jaroslav Rubel, 67, organizer of sports events, longtime president of the Carpathian Ski Club, leading member of the Ukrainian Sports Association of the U.S.A. and Canada - October 24.
George Ryga, 55, Canadian playwright, son of Ukrainian immigrants, whose plays reflected his belief that the responsibility of writers is to speak for those unable to speak for themselves - November 18.
Jurij Lawrinenko, 82, author, literary critic and former political prisoner of the Stalinist gulag - December 14.
Mstyslaw Dolnycky, 69, former editor-in-chief of America, a Ukrainian Catholic newspaper published in Philadelphia, who began his long journalistic career in 1929 in Ukraine - December 20.

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