1980 UNA Almanac comes off press (12/30/79)

1980 UNA Almanac comes off press

JERSEY CITY, N.J. - The 1980 Almanac of the Ukrainian National Association last week came off the presses and was mailed to all 20,000 Svoboda subscribers, announced the UNA Main Office and the Svoboda Press.

The 286-page almanac, edited by editor emeritus Anthony Dragan, contains 40 articles, essays, memoirs, stories and poems and many photographs and illustrations. The cover was designed by artist Bohdan Tytla.

In the covering letter mailed with the almanacs, Dr. John O. Flis, UNA Supreme President, and Luba Lapychak, Svoboda administrative manager, noted: "Each year at Christmas time everyone of us tries to think of some pleasant surprise to make the holidays a happy occasion for our friends and relatives...Along with this letter we are sending you the new UNA Almanac for 1980, hoping that you will consider it to be such a pleasant surprise on the eve of Christmas and the New Year."

The letter also mentioned that the almanac's contents are diverse in form and content and that the material attempts "to recall the past, to discuss the present and to peek into the future."

The price of the almanac has been set at $7.50, but senior citizens and other readers who cannot afford the price are asked to keep the almanac as the UNA's Christmas gist.

The covering letter also expressed the hope that "readers who have contributed to our Press Fund in the past, thus enabling us to continue the publication of the almanac, will do so again with an even larger measure of generosity. Without these contributions and general support we could hardly continue publishing this costly yet need book."

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