NOTES ON PEOPLE (06/21/98)

NOTES ON PEOPLE

Joins McGraw-Hill as associate

NEW YORK - Theodora B. Chomiak has joined the McGraw-Hill Companies as an associate in the Executive Development program. Her first rotation is in the office of the president and chief executive officer of this large media conglomerate with headquarters in New York.

Miss Chomiak received her Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Columbia University on May 16.

She graduated in 1991 from Princeton University and immediately left for Ukraine, where she worked first for the International Renaissance Foundation established by American financier and philanthropist George Soros and later for the International Media Center, a project of Internews Network funded by Soros, the Westminster Foundation and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

After three years in Ukraine she returned to New York and worked for the Soros Foundations as a media consultant. In 1996 she entered the Columbia Business School. During the summer of 1997 she worked as an associate at Chase Manhattan Bank and, among other things, wrote a report for the bank on communications systems in Ukraine.

Miss Chomiak is a member of Branch 25 of the Ukrainian National Association.

Receives B.S. in nursing

ELMIRA, N.Y. - Catherine Alexis Konopada, daughter of Robert and Gail Konopada of Tewksbury Township, N.J., was awarded a bachelor of science degree in nursing from Elmira College, Elmira, N.Y.

Miss Konopada is a member of the Tri Beta Honor Society, the Elmira College Nursing Club and a communicant of St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church in Elmira Heights.

During her years at Elmira College, Miss Konopada was involved in programs at the Arnot Ogden Medical Center in Elmira, as well as the Corning Medical Center in Corning. Most recently Miss Konopada interned in the medical/surgical unit of St. Joseph's Hospital, also in Elmira.

Miss Konopada is a member of UNA Branch 7.

Notes on people is a feature geared toward reporting on the achievements of members of the Ukrainian National Association. All submissions should be concise due to space limitations and must include the person's UNA branch number. Items will be published as soon as possible after their receipt, when space permits.