UCC elects board of directors
by Andrij Kudla Wynnyckyj
Toronto Press Bureau
WINNIPEG - The Nominations Committee of the 19th Congress of Ukrainian Canadians proposed a slate for the UCC's board of directors (formerly known as the presidium), which was approved unanimously on October 11.
Under the UCC's Constitution, certain executive positions, such as vice-presidencies, had been reserved for representatives of senior organizations of the UCC, known as the "Big Six," but that stipulation was abolished at this congress.
The past national president (in this case, Oleh Romaniw of the Ukrainian Catholic Brotherhood of Canada) and the presidents of UCC provincial councils all have spots on the board.
Evhen Czolij, the new UCC national president, will continue as UCC Québec Provincial Council president until the spring of 1999, when that regional body's general meeting is scheduled.
According to a source who preferred not to be identified, Dr. Evhen Roslycky's position as president of the Ontario Provincial Council will be subject to review in a meeting to be held in Toronto in November. No general meetings of that provincial body have been held since Dr. Roslycky's election in May 1995.
Three vacancies on the board remain to be filled. The Ukrainian National Association, the Canadian Lemko Association and the National Council of Ukrainian Organizations for the Patriarchate of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, have yet to submit names of officials who will represent their organizations.
The officers of the UCC national executive will be voted on at a meeting of the board scheduled to take place in Winnipeg on November 14-15. Formerly a body of up to 24 officials, the maximum number of executive members under the new by-laws was set at 15.
The board of auditors, also as proposed by the Nominations Committee (neatly representing the "Big Six") and approved by the congress, includes Peter Capar, Ukrainian Catholic Brotherhood of Canada; Gloria Yaremenko, Ukrainian Self-Reliance League of Canada; Bohdan Bochna, Leauge of Ukrainian Canadians; Anne Wach, Ukrainian National Federation; and Myroslaw Bugera, Council of Ukrainian Credit Unions in Canada; plus alternate Nestor Budyk, representing the Ukrainian Canadian Professional and Business Federation.
The UCC national board of directors
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Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, November 8, 1998, No. 45, Vol. LXVI
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