1996: THE YEAR IN REVIEW: They are mourned by our community (12/29/96)

1996: THE YEAR IN REVIEW

They are mourned by our community

During 1996 we mourned the passing of bishops, politicians, writers, artists, community activists and other prominent individuals. The following were among them:

Bishop Myron Daciuk, 76, Ukrainian Catholic eparch of Edmonton - Edmonton, January 14.
Slaw Rebchuk, 88, politician with 28-year tenure as alderman of the Winnipeg City Council and former deputy mayor of Winnipeg - Winnipeg, January 15.
Petro Shelest, 87, first secretary of the Communist Party of the Ukrainian SSR (1963-1972) and member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (CPSU) of the Soviet Union (1966-1972); purged in 1972 for pursuing domestic policies that encouraged cultural and educational Ukrainization and a measure of autonomous administration and economic developemnt; author of the book, "Ukraino Nasha Radianska" (Our Soviet Ukraine, 1970) - Moscow, January 25.
Msgr. John Beckage, 70, pastor of Ss. Cyril and Methodius Ukrainian Catholic Church in Berwick, Pa., and other parishes throughout the U.S. - Berwick, Pa., February 16.
Viktor Kryzhanivsky, 27, son of Consul General Viktor Kryzhanivsky of Ukraine's Consulate General in New York - Kyiv, March 19.
Dokia Humenna, 88, writer active in Ukraine and in the Ukrainian emigre literary scene - New York, April 4.
Ivan Teslia, 93, noted geographer and demographer - Toronto, April 10.
Archbishop-Metropolitan Maxim Hermaniuk, 84, Canada's first Ukrainian Catholic metropolitan (1957-1992) - Winnipeg, May 3.
Arcadia Olenska-Petryshyn, 61, noted artist and critic - murdered in New Brunswick, N.J., May 6.
The Rev. Jaropolk Radkewycz, 52, vicar-general of the Ukrainian Archeparchy of Winnipeg - killed in a car accident outside Winnipeg, April 29.
Eugene Skotzko, 88, economics editor of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Monthly Labor Review and founding member and first secretary of the Organization for the Rebirth of Ukraine - Silver Spring, Md., March 19.
Michael Herman, 85, teacher and authority on folk dance; founder and director of the Folk Dance House in Manhattan (1940-1970) - Babylon, N.Y., May 10.
Leo G. Wynnyckyj, 65, management consultant and active member in the Ukrainian Canadian Students' Union and Plast - Ottawa, May 31.
Sister Therese Bochnewich, founder of the order of the Basilian Contemplative Nuns - Middletown, N.Y., June 10.
Marta Shmigel, 56, multifaceted community activist: member of the national board of the Ukrainian National Women's League of America, founding member of the organizing committee of the Coordinating Committee to Aid Ukraine and member of its executive - Rochester, N.Y., May 28.
Zina Botte, citizen of Australia and honorary consul of Ukraine; hosted Ukraine's first consular reception in Australia on the second anniversary of Ukrainian independence in 1993; member of the "Ti Scho Hrebli Rvut" Plast sorority; awarded the Presidential Medal posthumously by President Leonid Kuchma on August 24 - Melbourne, June 30.
Ihor Suchoversky, 68, aeronautical engineer and president of Alcan International Ltd. (1982-1989); founding member of the Burlaky Plast fraternity - Toronto, July 19.
Zenon Babiuk, 64, prominent New Jersey businessman and active participant in the Ukrainian community; member of the board of directors of the Ukrainian Institute of America and the Harvard University Ukrainian Studies Fund; president, Foundation for an Independent and Democratic Ukraine; executive with Robinson Lake - Maplewood, N.J., July 18.
Orest Woronewych, 61, longtime broadcast design pioneer at Home Box Office - Queens, N.Y., July 26.
Yaroslava Szafraniuk, 91, art patron and co-founder of Ukrainian Canadian Art Foundation; awarded the Presidential Medal by Ukraine's chief executive, Leonid Kuchma, in 1995, and the St. Volodymyr Medal in 1966 by the Ukrainian World Congress Secretariat - Toronto, August 18.
Semen Kalba, 84, lawyer and prominent member of the community known for his work within the United Ukrainian American Relief Committee, the Ukrainian Canadian Relief Fund, the Ukrainian Canadian Committee and the World Congress of Free Ukrainians - Toronto, August 25.
Dr. Alex Cybriwsky, 82, research physicist and prominent member of the Ukrainian community -Milwaukee, September 3.
Ted Komar, 67, premiere music man, with a six-decade career in radio and television; well-known for his appearances at Canada's major Ukrainian festivals - London, Ontario, October 3.
Walter Kosonocky, 64, pioneer in solid-state electronics - Skillman, N.J., November 2.
Viktor Batiuk, 57, diplomat, permanent representative of Ukraine to the United Nations (1992-1994); ambassador to Canada (1994-1996); and member of the Ukrainian Writers' Union - killed in a car accident near Latorytsia in the Zakarpattia region of Ukraine, December 2.

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