THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUM

Chicago Convention Committee prepares for UNA conclave in 2002

CHICAGO - The 2002 UNA Convention Committee in Chicago is up and running.

"We plan to make this the best convention ever, " stated Stefko Kuropas, UNA Chicago District Committee chairman and UNA vice-president. "If all goes as planned, we will have many activities for the spouses of delegates as well as for their children and grandchildren. Chicago is a great place for a convention, and the Marriott O'Hare is a wonderful place to be."

The convention committee is headed by Myron B. Kuropas, honorary member of the UNA General Assembly, and includes UNA Advisor Andrij Skyba, vice-chairman; Osyp Panczyszyn. Ukrainian-language secretary; Lesia W. Kuropas, English-language secretary; and Nick Chemers, treasurer.

The UNA convention is scheduled for Memorial Day weekend 2002.

STAFF PROFILE: Deanna Yurchuk of The Ukrainian Weekly team

PARSIPPANY, N.J. - Readers of The Ukrainian Weekly may have noticed a new byline on the pages of our newspaper. Deanna Yurchuk, who majored in journalism and English at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., has been working on The Weekly staff part-time since late November of last year.

She was a key staffer involved in the preparation of our 2000 year-in-review issue and has been writing features on diverse topics. In May Ms. Yurchuk graduated from Rutgers, earning a B.A., and was able to devote more time to editorial work at The Weekly, including all facets of the newspaper's production, from writing and editing, to proofreading and layout.

Though she enjoys journalism, Ms. Yurchuk's primary interest is in experiential education, to which she has devoted a considerable amount of time as a counselor and instructor with the Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization. She is a member of Plast's Newark branch and the Lisovi Mavky sorority, and has been involved with Plast youth programs both during the school year and summers, at camps, leadership training courses and international jamborees throughout the United States and Canada.

In addition, she had been employed by the Rutgers University Outdoor Recreation Department and the Lindley G. Cook Youth Center for Outdoor Education in Branchville, N.J.

Ms. Yurchuk has honed her skills by attending numerous workshops and courses in canoe rescue, kayaking, winter mountaineering and rock climbing, as well as a seminar in leadership training. Most recently she completed a wilderness medicine course called Wilderness First Responder in Massachusetts.

She also enjoys, cross-country skiing, snow shoeing and ice climbing, and has been a co-organizer and instructor at Plast's winter mountaineering camps in the Adirondacks of New York State.

Come September Ms. Yurchuk will be employed as an experiential education teacher at Friends Seminary, a private high school in New York City. She will be teaching rock climbing, kayaking, mountaineering and backpacking.

So, before we bid her good luck in her new position, we felt it only fitting to properly introduce Deanna Yurchuk, finally, to our readers.

UNA notice regarding privacy and protection
of personal financial and medical information

Protecting the privacy of your personal financial and medical information has always been and will continue to be a matter of top priority for us. When used in this notice, the following terms have the meaning shown.

• "Public information" means information that is lawfully available to the general public from federal, state or local government records; widely distributed media; or, disclosures to the general public that are required to be made by federal, state or local law.
  
  
• "Non-public information" means personally identifiable financial and medical information. It also means any list, description or other grouping of individuals, and publicly available information pertaining to them, that is derived from any personally identifiable information that is not publicly available.
  
  
• "Consumer reporting agency" means an entity that regularly provides reports (consumer reports), including information regarding an individual's general reputation, character, personal characteristics or mode of living and financial status. The information may be obtained through interviews with the individual or third parties such as the individual's business associates, family members, friends, neighbors, acquaintances or financial sources.

We obtain information about you from the following sources:

• information that you provide to us in an application or other form;
  
  
• information about your transactions with us (such as premium payments, loans, claims, etc.) or others; and
  
  
• information that we may receive from a consumer reporting agency.

We do not disclose any personal, non-public, information about you to anyone, except as permitted or required by law. We will not disclose personal medical information about you, except as permitted by law or as you may authorize.

We restrict access to your personal, insurance and medical information to those of our employees who need to know that information in order to provide insurance or service to you. We are, and will continue to be, vigilant in the safeguarding of your personal financial and medical information. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to comply with federal and state regulations regarding the safeguarding of non-public information.

It is our sincere desire to maintain complete, accurate and up-to-date records. You may contact us (Ukrainian National Association, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054; 973-292-9800) to access, as provided by law, information included in your file. We will promptly correct any error in our information. To protect your privacy, you will need to identify yourself by providing us with your name, date of birth and social security number.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, June 24, 2001, No. 25, Vol. LXIX

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