National Cherry Blossom Festival includes representative from Ukraine

WASHINGTON - Manor Junior College student Maria Loun (left), a native of Ukraine, participated in the 1999 National Cherry Blossom Festival held here the week of April 4-10. The festival included the 51st anniversary of the Cherry Blossom Princess Program, an event sponsored by the National Conference of State Societies in which 60 women throughout the U.S. and abroad participate in civic, educational, cultural, charitable and patriotic programs and activities. Ms. Loun said: "I was honored and glad to represent Ukraine and share the Ukrainian traditions and our rich heroic history with the other princesses." Ms. Loun is a second-year student at Manor majoring in liberal arts and is a member of the Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society for a students with a grade point average of 3.5 or higher. Also pictured above are: Austria Princess Ilona Abere, Hungary Princess Nadine Kenderesy and Slovenia Princess Susanne Ipavec.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, May 30, 1999, No. 22, Vol. LXVII

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