1997: THE YEAR IN REVIEW

They are mourned by our community

During 1997 we mourned the passing of a number of community activists, artists, political leaders, musicians and other prominent individuals. Among them were the following.

• Sister Anna Duda SSMI, 80, longtime worker at Rome-based Catholic NearEast Welfare Association - Sloatsburg, N.Y., November 28, 1996.
  
  
• Walter Kwas, 80, manager of the Ukrainian National Association's Soyuzivka resort in upstate New York - Kerhonkson, N.Y., December 28, 1996.
  
  
• George Chranewycz, 67, city planner, prominent political and sports activist - Secaucus, N.J., December 29, 1996.
  
  
• Taras Durbak, 86, leading activist in Plast and the Ukrainian Catholic Church - St. Petersburg, Fla., December 31, 1996.
  
  
• Peter Krawchuk, 85, Ukrainian Canadian Communist known for his press and organizational work with the Ukrainian Labor Farmer Temple Association and its successor, the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians - Toronto, February 3.
• Liudmyla Morozova, 89, artist - Hunter, N.Y., March 1.
  
  
• Rosalie C. Polche, national president, Ladies Auxiliary of the Ukrainian American Veterans and active member of the Ukrainian National Women's League of America Branch 72 - New York, March 3.
  
  
• Anne Herman, 90, former supreme vice-presidentess of the Ukrainian National Association - Berea, Ohio, March 8.
  
  
• Mychajlo Dmytrenko, 88, artist - Detroit, March 8.
  
  
• Msgr. Anthony Borsa, 91, pastor in Ukraine and in numerous parishes in the U.S., who was named papal chaplain by Pope John Paul II in 1980 - Aberdeen, N.J., March 12.
  
  
• Wolodymyr Mazur, 75, president of the Ukrainian National Aid Association, longtime chairman of the National Council of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, member of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists - Chicago, March 24.
  
  
• Antonina Horokhovych, 84, officer in the Union of Ukrainian Women (Soyuz Ukrainok) in Ukraine, Plast activist and educator - Toronto, April 3.
  
  
• The Rev. Dr. Simon Hayuk, 87, Ukrainian Orthodox pastor and Church scholar - Buffalo, N.Y., April 4.
  
  
• Wilhelm Fushchych, 60, pioneer in mathematical physics - Kyiv, April 7.
  
  
• Oleksa Horbach, 79, eminent Ukrainian linguist, professor of Slavic philology and dean of department of Eastern European languages at the University of Frankfurt - Frankfurt am Main, Germany, May 23.
  
  
• Lev Kopelev, 85, writer, dissident, witness to the famine of 1932-1933 and author of "The Education of A True Believer" (1978), who appeared in the documentary "Harvest of Despair" (1984) - Köln, Germany, June 18.
  
  
• The Very Rev. Stephen Hankavich, 74, pastor emeritus of St. Vladimir Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral in Parma - Parma, Ohio, June 20.
  
  
• John Switalski, 88, editor and traveling journalist - Barrington, R.I., July 4.
  
  
• Sviatoslav Richter, 82, one of the most acclaimed pianists of the 20th century, who was born March 20, 1915, in Zhytomyr, Ukraine - Moscow, August 1.
  
  
• Myron Leskiw, national director of the Organization for the Rebirth of Ukraine and New Jersey chairman of the Ukrainian American Republican Association - Newark, N.J., August 7.
  
  
• Ireney Kowal, 55, founder and leader of the popular Tempo Orchestra - died en route from Kosiv to Lviv while on a trip to Ukraine, August 9.
  
  
• Stepan Procyk, 75, member of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and former political prisoner in Nazi German concentration camps - Jersey City, N.J., August 16.
  
  
• Eugene Oryszczyn, 82, Canadian sports personality, trainer, coach and judge at national and world championships in gymnastics - Toronto, August 17.
  
  
• Liubka Kolessa, 93, prominent Ukrainian pianist and educator, who concertized in Europe and Soviet Ukraine and upon emigration to Canada in 1940 taught at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto - Toronto, August 15.
  
  
• Apollinare Osadca, 81, architect - Glen Spey, N.Y., September 26.
  
  
• John Kolasky, 82, former Ukrainian Canadian Communist, writer, lecturer and educator, author of "Two Years in Soviet Ukraine: A Canadian's Personal Account of Russian Oppression and the Growing Opposition" - Kyiv, October 20.
  
  
• Volodymyr Kolesnyk, 69, conductor, choirmaster and musicologist, former director of Kyiv Theater of Opera and Ballet and the Canadian Ukrainian Opera Chorus - Toronto, November 7.
  
  
• Peter Lishchynski, 56, Canadian career diplomat and chief of the NATO information service in Ukraine - killed in a car accident near the village of Bohdanivka, Kirovohrad region, Ukraine, November 13.
  
  
• Vasyl Sichko, 41, former Ukrainian political prisoner and president of the Ukrainian Christian Democratic Party in Ukraine - died in a house fire in Chicago, November 18.
  
  
• John Sopinka, 64, justice of the Supreme Court of Canada - Ottawa, November 24.
  
  
• George Kuzmycz, 53, nuclear physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy, who was honored posthumously with the department's Distinguished Career Service Award - killed in a car accident in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, December 6.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, December 28, 1997, No. 52, Vol. LXV

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