THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUM
Report from the Home Office: organizing
activity in 1997
OBITUARY: Joseph Sedor, 88, long-time secretary
in Pennsylvania
Young UNA'ers
Report from the Home Office: organizing activity in 1997
We are happy to report the results of organizing for the first four months of 1997. The following branch secretaries were most successful: Vira Banit, secretary, Branch 473 - eight members for $46,000; Leon Hardink, secretary, Branch 206 - seven members for $193,000; Frank Kozemchak, secretary, Branch, 113 - six members for $57,000; Taras Slevinsky, secretary, Branch 59 - five members for $17,000; Michael Felenchak, Branch 271, Tetiana Meskiv, secretary, Branch 407, and Yaroslav Zaviysky, secretary, Branch 155 - four members each.
The following persons organized three members each: Ilko Cybriwsky, secretary, Branch 417; George Danyliw, secretary, Branch 153; Stephanie Hawryluk, secretary, Branch 88, and advisor; William Pastuszek, secretary, Branch 231, and auditor; Paul Shewchuk, secretary, Branch 13; and Michael Spontak, secretary, Branch 204.
Another 22 branch secretaries brought in two members each: Wolodymyr Bilyk, Branch 170; Barbara Boyd, Branch 381; Julia Cresina, Branch 382; Nadia Demczur, Branch 86; Dmytro Fedorijczuk, Branch 162; Dmytro Galonzka, Branch 307; Julie Guglik, Branch 259; Joseph Hawryluk, Branch 360; Mary Kapral, Branch 112; Jaroslawa Komichak, Branch 96; Julian Kotlar, Branch 42; Myron Kuzio, Branch 277; Alexandra Lawrin, Branch 175; Oksana Markus, Branch 217; Andrew Maryniuk, Branch 388; Eli Matiash, Branch 120; Fedir Petryk, Branch 362; Myron Pilipiak, Branch 496; Katherine Prowe, Branch 26; Alexander Skibickij, Branch 285; and John Teluk, Branch 414.
One member each was organized by the following 49 secretaries: Janet Bardell, Branch 241; Michael Bilyk, Branch 323; Mary Bolosky, Branch 282; Tymko Butrej, Branch 164; Natalya Cebrij, Branch 226; Michael Danylyk, Branch 28; Alexandra Dolnycky, Branch 434; Theodor Duda, Branch 163; Joseph Ferenec, Branch 462; Edward Guzylak, Branch 38; Peter Hawryluk, Branch 360; Stefan Hawrysz, Branch 83 (chairman of the Philadelphia District Committee); Marguerite Hentosh, Branch 305; Bohdan Hryshchyshyn, Branch 264; Wasyl Jewtuszenko, Branch 422; Gregory Klymenko, Branch 182; Stephanie Kochy, Branch 472; Stephen Kolodrub, Branch 137; Jaroslaw Kryshtalowych, Branch 222; Genevieve Kufta, Branch 171; Iwan Kujdych, Branch 331; Michael Kuropas, Branch 22; Stefko Kuropas, Branch 176 (advisor); Wasyl Leshuk, Branch 303; Sophie Lonyszyn, Branch 372; Michael Luciw, Branch 339; Myron Luszczak, Branch 379; Mychajlo Martynenko, Branch 245; Janice Milinichik, Branch 147; Mary Pelechaty, Branch 165; Anna Perun, Branch 39; Roman Prypchan, Branch 399; Mykola Pryszlak, Branch 430; Maria Rejnarowycz, Branch 158; Anna Remick, Branch 238 (advisor); Basil Romanyshyn, Branch 254; Maria Savchak, Branch 25; Bohdan Semkiw, Branch 240; Martin Sheska, Branch 44; Stephan Shilkevich, Branch 116; David Stachiv, Branch 204; Michael Turko, Branch 63; Bohdan Wowchyk, Branch 220; George Yurkiw, Branch 130; Wolodymyr Zacerkowny, Branch 439; Jaroslawa Zorych, Branch 432; and Ostap Zynjuk, Branch 15.
The total number of new members organized by the above group was 266, for policies valued at $8,454,456.
Among professional salespersons/secretaries, the following results were attained: Andrew Worobec, secretary, Branch 76 - 16 members; Joseph Chabon, secretary, Branch 242, and chairman of the Anthracite District Committee - six members; Nicholas Diakiwsky, secretary, Branch 161, and advisor - six members; Barbara Bachynsky, secretary, Branch 184, and chairwoman of the New York District Committee - five members; Eugene Oscislawski, secretary, Branch 234, and chairman of the Northern New Jersey District Committee - four members; Longin Staruch, secretary, Branch 174 - four members; Walter Krywulych, secretary, Branch 266 - three members; Christine Gerbehy, secretary, Branch 269, and Iouri Lazirko, secretary, Branch 134 - two members each; and Zenobia Zarycky, secretary, Branch 327 - one member.
The full-time professional sales staff achieved the following results: Bianka Hrnjak - 16 members; Maria Chomyn - 11 members; John Danilack - seven members; Irine Danilovitch, Mirjana Gargenta and Tetiana Tsarinnaia - six members each; Slavica Glisic and Valentyna Korchista - five members each; Bohdan Karisik, Dejan Petrovic and Michael Tkaczyszyn - two members each; Joseph Binczak and Anna Smith - one member each.
We thank all organizers, secretaries and branch officers for their achievements and ask for continued enrollment of new members in the upcoming months.
The Executive Committee reminds all secretaries and branch officers, especially those who have not yet signed up any new members, to actively participate in organizing work, so that our organization is enriched by 1,250 new members, as set out in the 1997 organizing quota.
- UNA Executive Committee
OBITUARY: Joseph Sedor, 88, long-time secretary in Pennsylvania
CENTRALIA, Pa. - Joseph Sedor, a member of the UNA since 1926, died on April 21. He was 88.
Born near Turka, Halychyna, on November 10, 1908, Mr. Sedor arrived in United States from Ukraine in 1926 and immediately joined UNA Branch 90, which he served as secretary until 1937.
He later founded Branch 426 and served as the branch secretary. In 1955 Branch 456 merged with Branch 90 and he again assumed the post of branch secretary, serving in that capacity until his retirement in 1985.
An active UNAer all his life, Mr. Sedor will be most remembered for the sculpture he created and presented to the UNA supreme secretary in 1980. Living in Centralia, Pa., a coal-mining region, Mr. Sedor was a coal miner. To honor all those like himself who came to this country, found work in the coal mines and became builders of the UNA, he sculpted from a lump of coal the figure of a miner wearing a UNA pin and standing atop a pile of coal.
Mr. Sedor was buried in Centralia, Pa., after a liturgy at St. Mary's Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, where he was married almost half a century before. He is survived by his wife, Anna, his three daughters, a sister, two brothers, grandchildren, nephews and nieces.
His coal sculpture, which remains in the UNA Home Office, will remind everyone of the UNA's beginnings.
Christine Marie DeBruin (left), daughter of Olga and Tomas DeBruin, is a new member of UNA Branch 8 in Yonkers, N.Y. She was enrolled by her parents. Christina's older sister, Stephanie Christine, also is a member of Branch 8.
Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, June 1, 1997, No. 22, Vol. LXV
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