Shevchenko Scientific Society holds 15th general meeting

NEW YORK - The 15th general meeting of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (U.S.A.) was held on November 23, 1996, in the society's building in New York City. In his "state-of-the-society" message, President Leonid Rudnytzky reviewed the activity of the society over the last reporting period, including its effective collaboration with the Shevchenko Scientific Society of Ukraine, based in Lviv, which regularly publishes the Zapysky NTSh.

Dr. Rudnytzky emphasized the need to bring young scientists into the society and reported the generous donation of $100,000 by Yuri Kuziv of Florida, to aid young scholars.

Dr. Oleh Romaniw, president of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv, spoke briefly about the society's work in Ukraine and its publications.

New officers elected to a three-year term of office are: Dr. Rudnytzky, president; Larissa Onyshkevych, executive vice-president; Wolodymyr Stojko, vice-president and executive secretary; Wolodymyr Rak, vice-president and chief financial officer; Vasyl Markus, Sviatoslav Trofimenko, Ivan Fizer and Roman Andrushkiv, vice-presidents at large; and Olha Kuzmowycz, recording secretary.

Also elected were members of the board, auditors and committee heads.

After a lively discussion, the general meeting adopted resolutions that included: to support scholars and institutions that work in Ukraine under extremely adverse conditions, and to encourage collaboration with these individuals and entities; to organize a program to celebrate the society's 125th anniversary in 1998; to continue to call attention to the Russification that occurred at the time of the Ukrainian SSR to the norms of Ukrainian orthography; to disseminate information about the Ukrainian orthography system developed in Ukraine in the late 1920s and adopted in Kharkiv in 1929 (until a new Ukrainian orthography is adopted in the future, the Shevchenko Scientific Society will adhere to the 1929 all-Ukrainian orthography system); to give special attention to enlisting young members; and to support newly arrived scholars from Ukraine.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, March 2, 1997, No. 9, Vol. LXV

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