The UNA's Jersey City headquarters, 1974-1997 (10/19/97)

The UNA's Jersey City headquarters, 1974-1997

How do you say goodbye to a building? Especially one that was so much a part of your history?

One way is to look back and reflect. Hence this pictorial appreciation of the UNA's former headquarters in Jersey City, N.J.

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Seen in the photos on this page (beginning with top row, from left) are: the Ukrainian National Association headquarters building, located at 30 Montgomery St., being built in the early 1970s near the Hudson River against the backdrop of Manhattan and the World Trade Center, whose second tower was still being constructed (the UNA building's groundbreaking was held on November 30, 1970); the day of the "topping off," June 9, 1972, when the American, Canadian and Ukrainian flags were raised atop the completed structural frame of the 15-story building; UNA Supreme President Joseph Lesawyer (right) places historical and cultural artifacts, including a jubilee almanac of the UNA, into a time capsule to be inserted into the cornerstone on dedication day, February 22, 1974, as Jersey City Mayor Paul Jordan (left) looks on; U.S. Sen. Dominick V. Daniels of New Jersey (second from left) with UNA executives (from left), Supreme President Joseph Lesawyer, Supreme Treasurer Roman Slobodian and Supreme Director for Canada Sen. Paul Yuzyk, next to the building's cornerstone before it is put in place; the Svoboda print shop tries out its new offset press at the new headquarters building.

Seen on this page: Patriarch Josyf Slipyj, primate of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, visiting in 1976, enjoys the view of New York City from the 15th floor of the Ukrainian National Association's headquarters building with Supreme President Joseph Lesawyer (left) and Svoboda Editor-in-Chief Anthony Dragan (right); a view of the completed UNA building; newly released Soviet political prisoner and Ukrainian national rights activist Valentyn Moroz is surrounded by the news media as he holds his first independent press conference in the UNA's executive conference room on April 30, 1979 (on the left is UNA Supreme President John O. Flis, on the right is Svoboda Editor Zenon Snylyk, who served as Mr. Moroz's interpreter); UNA executive officers (from left) Treasurer Alexander Blahitka, Secretary Walter Sochan, President Ulana Diachuk, Vice-Presidentess Gloria Paschen and Vice-President Nestor Olesnycky, with a birthday cake for the UNA on the occasion of the organization's 100th anniversary in 1994; Leonid Kravchuk, former president of Ukraine, is welcomed to the UNA Home Office in 1995.

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