TWG to honor two arts activists (10/05/97)

TWG to honor two arts activists

WASHINGTON - The Washington Group has announced that the winners of its 1997 "Friend of Ukraine" award are Lidia Krushelnytsky and Roma Pryma-Bohachevsky.

The award is bestowed upon those individuals who have made a great contribution to the cause of Ukraine. Ms. Krushelnytsky, actress and theater director, and Ms. Pryma-Bohachevsky, balletmaster and choreographer, have devoted decades to promoting Ukrainian culture - through dance and the spoken word - in the United States as well as in their native Ukraine.

The Washington Group (TWG) is an organization of Ukrainian American professionals based in the capital of the United States. Established in 1984, it is dedicated to providing service to the Ukrainian American community and to fostering close ties between the United States and Ukraine. TWG has approximately 400 members in the U.S., Canada and abroad.

In the past TWG has given the "Friend of Ukraine" award to the pre-eminent financier and philanthropist George Soros (1993) and Hobart Earle, principal conductor and music director of the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra (1996).

In previous years, TWG's "Journalist of the Year" honor was awarded to the Ukrainian services of Radio Liberty and the Voice of America, to the editorial staff of The Ukrainian Weekly, and to the renowned U.S. journalist Cord Meyer.

The "Friend of Ukraine" award will be presented in Washington during TWG's annual Leadership Conference scheduled for October 10-12. This year's conference theme is "We Can Do Better: Expanding Horizons for Ukrainian Americans."

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