UNA awards 171 scholarships

PARSIPPANY, N.J. - The Ukrainian National Association has awarded $27,900 in scholarships for the 1999-2000 academic year, plus an additional $6,000 from special scholarship funds established by separate benefactors.

Meeting at the UNA Corporate Headquarters, the UNA Scholarship Committee, consisting of UNA Treasurer Stefan Kaczaraj, UNA Auditor Yaroslav Zaviysky and UNA Advisor Vasyl Luchkiv, reviewed a total of 171 applications from undergraduate students who are members of the UNA.

In keeping with a decision of the UNA General Assembly, the scholarship application and granting processes were simplified. Scholarships were awarded as follows: 47 freshmen received awards of $100 each; 44 sophomores received $150 each; 35 juniors received $200 each; and 34 seniors received $250 each.

Krystina Hawryluk (UNA Branch 349), 20, of Manville, N.J., a junior at Georgetown University in Washington who is majoring in biology and minoring in psychology, received the top award of $2,000, the Joseph and Dora Galandiuk Scholarship.

Other top students chosen by the UNA Scholarship Committee for special awards are:

• Maryana German (Branch 277), 19, born in Ukraine and now a resident of Unionville, Conn., a sophomore majoring in journalism and minoring in international relations at the University of Nevada in Reno, who was awarded the Vera Stangl Scholarship in the amount of $750; and
  
  
• Orysia Duplak (UNA Branch 39), 21, of Camillus, N.Y., a senior majoring in economics and finance at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, N.Y., who was awarded the Joseph Wolk Scholarship in the sum of $750.

Five scholarships for students from New England were funded by the Ukrainian National Home of Blackstone, Mass., and $500 each was awarded to:

• Andrew Bakaj (UNA Branch 350), 17, of Stamford, Conn., a freshman majoring in biology at the George Washington University;
  
  
• Mark Borejko (UNA Branch 277), 19, of Wethersfield, Conn., a junior majoring in business management at the University of Hartford;
  
  
• Elizabeth Ellington (UNA Branch 206), 20, of Arnold, Md., a sophomore majoring in architecture and minoring in interior design at Auburn University in Alabama;
  
  
• John Nicholas Hull (UNA Branch 241), 18, of St. Petersburg, Fla., a freshman majoring in international relations at Brown University in Rhode Island; and
  
  
• Kenneth Payette (UNA Branch 206), 20, of Woonsocket, R.I., a junior majoring in business management at Rhode Island College.

UNA memorial scholarships were designated as follows:

• The Anthony Dragan Scholarship (named in honor of the longtime editor-in-chief of Svoboda) was awarded in the amount of $350 to Mary-Lee Scholtis (UNA Branch 164), 19, of Berwick Pa., a student of nursing at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania.
  
  
• The Roman Slobodian Scholarship (in honor of the UNA's longtime treasurer) was awarded in the amount of $350 to Tetyana Bunik (UNA Branch 42), 19, a native of Ukaine who now resides in Passaic, N.J., and is majoring in biology at the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science.
  
  
• Bohdan Zorych Scholarship (in honor of the UNA's longtime Canadian vice-president) was awarded in the amount of $400 to Roman Biszko (UNA Branch 888), 21, a native of Poland who now resides in Etobicoke, Ontario, and is majoring in international relations and minoring in economics at the University of Western Ontario.

In addition, the UNA awarded special scholarships totaling $1,250 to students of Ukrainian studies at the University of Manitoba and the University of Alberta, as well as to graduates of Immaculate Conception High School in Hamtramck, Mich., which brings the total of UNA expenditures for scholarships in 1999-2000 to $35,150.

From 1946 through 1999, the Ukrainian National Association has awarded more than $1.77 million in scholarships to students.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, November 7, 1999, No. 45, Vol. LXVII

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