OBITUARY: Dr. Oleh Romaniv, president of Shevchenko Scientific Society in Ukraine

NEW YORK - Dr. Oleh Romaniv, president of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTSh) in Ukraine and secretary general of the World Council of NTSh, died on November 3 in Lviv.

Dr. Romaniv was also a corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, a professor at the Lviv Polytechnic Institute and a leading Ukrainian authority in the field of metallurgy and the strength of materials.

Dr. Romaniv was born on March 21, 1928. He graduated from the Lviv Polytechnic Institute and worked in the Physico-Mechanical Institute of the National Academy of Sciences.

In 1989 he initiated the rebirth of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv, and since then devoted most of his time and effort to the development of NTSh in Ukraine.

In addition, Dr. Romaniv was very active in the life of the Lviv community.

"His premature and sudden death represents an irreplaceable loss to the Ukrainian scientific and civic community in the city of Lviv and to all of Ukraine," noted a press release from the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the United States. "NTSh in America, with whom the deceased enjoyed a friendly and close relationship, will be deeply affected by this loss," the release noted.

Dr. Romaniv was interred in Lviv at the Lychakiv Cemetery on November 5 in the presence of a large number of mourners, particularly from the Ukrainian scientific community.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, November 13, 2005, No. 46, Vol. LXXIII

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