Introducing: Miss Soyuzivka 2007

KERHONKSON, N.Y, - Deanna Rakowsky (center), a freshman at Boston College who plans to major in communications, is the newly named Miss Soyuzivka 2007. Miss Rakowsky of Maplewood, N.J., is a champion fencer, and member of the Syzokryli Ukrainian dance ensemble and Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization. She was crowned as the winner of the Miss Soyuzivka contest at the Ukrainian National Association's estate on Saturday, August 12. Above she is flanked by the two runners-up for the title: first runner-up Roxolana Wacyk (right) of Tarrytown, N.Y., a freshman at Harvard University, and second runner-up Larissa Liteplo (left) of Brooklyn, N.Y., a junior at Goucher College. A feature story on the Miss Soyuzivka contest will appear in an upcoming issue of The Ukrainian Weekly.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, September 3, 2006, No. 36, Vol. LXXIV

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