1982: a look back
Deaths
In 1982, a number of prominent Ukrainians passed away. Among them were
the following:
- Vassyl Yemetz, 91, bandurist-virtuoso, music educator, bandurist chorus
organizer, the "insuperable kobzar" - January 6;
- Daria Emilia Stolarchuk, 76, author and journalist, who wrote under
the pen name Daria Yaroslavska - January 13;
- Victor Prychodko, 96, Ukrainian political activist and former minister
of justice of the Directorate of the Ukrainian National Republic and assistant
minister of finance of the Ukrainian National Republic-in-exile - February
6;
- Dmytro Kuzyk, 75, editor for 14 years of the Ukrainian-language monthly
Our Voice and editorial board member of various Ukrainian newspapers in
Ukraine and Germany - February 13;
- Nestor Chylak, 59, former American League umpire who worked five World
Series, three American League championship series and four all-star games
- February 17;
- Constantine Warvariv, 57, high-ranking U.S. diplomat who served as
director of UNESCO affairs at the Bureau of International Organization
Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, and also as U.S. delegate to UNESCO,
as well as social officer in the office of Multilateral Policy and Plans,
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the State Department - April
6;
- Olenka Leskiw Savyckyj, 36, community activist who chaired the "Ukrainian
Woman in Two Worlds" conference organizing committee - April 26;
- Roman Slobodian, 92, former long-time UNA supreme treasurer and honorary
member of the UNA Supreme Assembly - May 20;
- Wolodymyr Kirshak, poet, essayist, literary critic, who wrote under
the pen name Wadym Lesytch - August 24;
- Thomas Shepko, free-lance illustrator, designer and art director for
leading New York art studios and advertising agencies - September 25;
- Bishop Andrew Roborecki, 71, of the Saskatoon, Sask., Eparchy - October
23;
- George Lopatynsky, 76, a former lieutenant colonel of the Ukrainian
Insurgent Army and member of the board of directors of Prolog Research
- November 16;
- Dr. George B. Kistiakowsky, 82, internationally known chemist who helped
pioneer the atomic bomb and later advocated the banning of nuclear weapons
- December 7.
Also in 1982, news about the deaths in late December 1981 of three prominent
Ukrainians was reported:
- Frank Mural, 87, Cleveland Ukrainian businessman who sponsored over
100 Ukrainian families who arrived in the United States after World War
II - December 15, 1981;
- Wasyl Werhun, 72, journalist and former editor of Narodna Volia, the
newspaper of the Ukrainian Fraternal Association - December 25, 1981;
- Petro Andrusiw, 75, artist and illustrator perhaps best known for his
monumental murals of Ukrainian historic and religious scenes, including
"Baptism of Ukraine-Rus'" - December 29, 1981.
Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, December
26, 1982, No. 52, Vol. L
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