PREVIEW OF EVENTS
Sunday, May 5
- ELIZABETH, N.J.: St. Vladimir's Ukrainian Catholic Church, Grier Street,
welcomes the choir of Ss. Cyril and Methodius Church of Olyphant, Pa.,
at the 11 a.m. liturgy. Under the direction of Pat Marcinko, the 114-year-old
choir will praise God in selected liturgical works by priest/composer Mykhailo
Verbytsky (1815-1870) in Old Church Slavonic along with traditional Easter
anthems. The pastor and celebrant, the Rev. Joseph Shupa, invites the faithful
to attend, especially those with fond reminiscences of Old Church Slavonic
prayers of yesteryear or the curious wishing to experience the essence
of the old-world liturgy this Easter season.
Saturday, May 11
- NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Medical Association of North America, New York
Metro Chapter, in cooperation with the Self Reliance Association of American-Ukrainians,
New York City Branch, present "How To Enter the Medical Mainstream:
Ukraine to U.S., The Success Stories." This will be a colleague to
colleague panel discussion and social gathering to exchange information
and create channels of communication with new medical colleagues from Ukraine.
The event will be held at 98 Second Ave. at 7 p.m. All healthcare professionals
welcome. Admission is free and refreshments will be served. For more information
call Dr. Marta Kushnir, (508) 855-2245.
Sunday, April 28
- NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S. invites
the public to the second conference in the series "Contribution of
Émigrés from Ukraine to the Treasury of Culture and Science
of America." The conference, to be conducted in Ukrainian, will be
held in the academy's building, 206 W. 100 St., at 2:30 p.m. Featured speakers
are Mykola Kravets, "Ihor Sikorski - The Father of the Helicopter";
Mykhailo Mishchenko, "Otto Struve - The Star of American Astronomy";
and Oleksa Bilaniuk, "George Gamov - From the Atom to the Universe."
The audience will hear about the lives and achievements of these world-renowned
scientists who emigrated to the United States from Ukraine in the first
quarter of the 20th century and who are frequently identified in reference
books and encyclopedias as being "born in Russia," while they
were born in Kyiv (Sikorski), Kharkiv (Struve) and Odesa (Gamov).
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28, 2002, No. 17, Vol. LXX
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