NOTES ON PEOPLE (12/22/96)

NOTES ON PEOPLE

Receives Canadian national youth award

OTTAWA - Madame Diana Fowler Leblanc, wife of the queen's personal representative in Canada, Governor General Romeo Leblanc, presented Marc Marzotto of Windsor with the NORTEL National Youth Award.

The presentation, in the presence of hundreds of guests, took place in Ottawa on November 24, in the Great Hall of the prestigious National Art Gallery of Canada.

It was held in conjunction with the recognition of Canada's other outstanding young individuals of various youth-oriented business and community organizations, such as Windsor's Junior Achievement Company, of which Mr. Marzotto was the most prominent member - the 1996 Most Valuable Achiever in Canada.

NORTEL, an international leader in the field of telecommunications research, development and production, was the major sponsor of this event.

The inscription on Mr. Marzotto's trophy reads: "NORTEL. National Youth Award. Presented to Marc Marzotto for leadership, commitment and innovation. November 26, 1996. Canada's Children ... Canada's Future conference, Ottawa."

Upon graduating from high school this year, Mr. Marzotto received scholarships from the Ukrainian National Association, the Ukrainian Graduates of Windsor and Detroit, and the Ukrainian Women's Association of Canada as well a university and high school grants.

During his high school years, his achievements included: winner of the International Student Forum Scholarship, president for three terms of the Junior Achievement Company and Student of the Year.

Mr. Marzotto's Ukrainian-related involvements include folk dancing and bandura playing with Windsor's bandura and dance ensembles.

He is a graduate of the Ukrainian immersion course given by the Petro Mohyla Institute of Saskatoon, where he was the student council president. He was selected by the institute to be the 1996 student exchange representative to Ukraine. He not only enjoyed this, but also the company of his cousin, Jaroslav Dutkewych, the director of the United States Peace Corps in Ukraine.

Mr. Marzotto, his brother Anthony and his sister Anna, children of Tito and Svitlana Marzotto, are students of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. They are members of UNA Branch 341 in Windsor, of which their mother, Svitlana Halich-Marzotto, is president.

Serves as assistant set designer for play

ALFRED, N.Y. - Ruta O. Lew of Oakton, Va., was part of a recent theatrical production on the Alfred University campus.

Miss Lew, a sophomore theater major, was an assistant set designer for the October 9-12 production of "The World Before Us," directed by Dr. Becky Prophet. According to a press release issued by the university, the play focused on various creation myths around the world, and featured writing and interpretation by students.

Miss Lew has been active in theater since high school. A 1991 graduate of Flint Hill School in Oakton, Miss Lew played the role of Jan in the school's 1990 production of the musical "Grease."

At Alfred University she worked on the set crew of the play "La Ronde," and assisted in designing the costumes and the set for the play "The Bacchae."

She is a graduate of the Washington area Ukrainian Saturday School and was a counselor in the Ukrainian youth organization Plast.

Alfred University, located in the Finger Lakes region of New York state, has been consistently ranked in the top of the 505 regional universities in the annual U.S. News and World report survey. Ranked 15th this year, it is the ninth consecutive year that Alfred has been ranked in the top 15 in the North in the annual guide.

Miss Lew is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wasyl Lew of Oakton. She is a member of UNA Branch 158.