1995: THE YEAR IN REVIEW: They are mourned by our community (12/31/95)

1995: THE YEAR IN REVIEW

They are mourned by our community

During 1995, the Ukrainian community mourned the passing of notable clergy, leaders and activists, writers and journalists, musicians, scholars and professionals, both in the diaspora and in Ukraine. Among them were the following:

Theodore Baran, 83, Canadian iconographer and active member of the Ukrainian Catholic Brotherhood - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, January 3.
Volodymyr Sumin, 57, president and founding member of the Ukrainian Union of Jurists, law professor and political activist - Turin, Italy, January 20.
Michael Smyk, 79, long-time editor of the Detroit-based Ukrainian News, political and community activist - Dearborn, Mich., February 1.
Ivan Kedryn-Rudnytsky, 98, doyen of Ukrainian journalists and long-time Svoboda editorial board member, whose journalistic activity spanned more than seven decades and two continents, a Galician and emigre political activist - Jersey City, N.J., March 4.
Rostyslav Bratun, 67, editor, publicist, writer, community activist and a leading figure in the Ukrainian democratic revival of the late 1980s-early 1990s - Lviv, March 8.
The Rt. Rev. Semen Izyk, 82, a survivior of the Bergen-Belsen Nazi death concentration camp during the second world war who went on to edit a Ukrainian-English weekly newspaper and host popular television and radio programs in Winnipeg - Winnipeg, June 9.
Patriarch Volodymyr (Vasyl Romaniuk), 69, primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate, former political prisoner and member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group - Kyiv, July 14 (see "Churches").
Oles Honchar, 77, renowned Ukrainian writer, eulogized as being the "conscience of the nation"; best known for his novel "Sobor" (The Cathedral, 1968) and head of the Writers' Union of Ukraine (1959-1971) - Kyiv, July 14.
Anthony Shumeyko, 84, prominent businessman in New York's East Village, owner of an insurance agency bearing his name; long-time Ukrainian community activist and generous benefactor of numerous Ukrainian causes - New York, July 18.
David G. Roth, 55, prominent U.S. ethnic relations activist and founding director of the American Jewish Committee's Project Ukraine - Chicago, July 29.
Petro Bashuk, 83, editor of Winnipeg-based Ukrainian-English biweekly newspaper, Progress (Postup), and a founder of the Canadian League for the Liberation of Ukraine - Winnipeg, May 29.
Yevhen Hutsalo, 58, one of Ukraine's leading prose writers, member of the 1960s generation of intellectuals; journalist, critic and editorial board member of regional periodicals and, since 1962, of Literaturna Ukraina - Kyiv, July 4.
Nazar Yaremchuk, noted Ukrainian singer, who gained recognition during the 1970s, member of the Smerichka ensemble - Lviv, July 1.
Bishop Filemon Kurchaba, 81, bishop in the underground Ukrainian Catholic Church (ordained in 1985) and former provincial superior of the then-underground Redemptorist Order in Galicia - Lviv, October 26.
Prof. Jaroslaw Bohdan Rudnyckyj, 84, leader in the field of Ukrainian and Slavic studies; member, Canadian Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism; president, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Canada, the Canadian Linguistic Association, the Canadian Association of Slavists; author of widely used text "Modern Ukrainian Grammar" (1949); and head of the Ukrainian National Republic government-in-exile (1980-1989) - Montreal, October 19.
Dmytro Korbutiak, 84, journalist, editor of Narodna Volya, community leader, and prominent activist within the Ukrainian Fraternal Association - Silver Spring, Md., November 21.

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