Gregorovich is named research center director (02/11/96)

Gregorovich is named research center director

TORONTO - Prof. Wasyl Janishewskyj, chairman of the board of the Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Center, announced the appointment of Andrew Gregorovich to the post of executive director at the board's January 16 meeting.

The UCRD Center, founded in 1982, is an academically oriented organization that promotes the collection of research materials and oral history relating to Ukrainian Canadians and Ukraine.

The center produced the noted 1984 award-winning film "Harvest of Despair," which brought the 1933 famine in Ukraine to the awareness of the Western world.

The center is now preparing a new documentary film, "Ukraine in World War II," that will help to explain the Ukrainian experience in World War II as the battleground between Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Russia.

Mr. Gregorovich, the center's new executive director, brings much experience to the position. A third-generation Ukrainian Canadian whose family came to Canada in 1899, he has just taken early retirement from the University of Toronto Library system where he was a department head for 30 years.

He also has just completed two years on the Academic Board of the University of Toronto. He was chairman of the Toronto Historical Board, president of the 2,000-member Ontario Library Association and president of the Canadian Multilingual Press Federation.

He has been active in the Ukrainian community, serving as national president of the Ukrainian Canadian University Students Union (SUSK), and is the current president of the Ukrainian Librarians Association of Canada.

He is the author of major bibliographies on Canada and Ukrainian subjects. He is perhaps best known as the editor of the illustrated magazine Forum, published since 1967 by the Ukrainian Fraternal Association. It was for his work on Forum that he was honored as 1994 Ukrainian of the Year by the Ukrainian Technological Society based in Pittsburgh.

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