UFU confers honorary degrees

MUNICH - Following a practical conference on the future of Ukrainian Institutions in Western Europe which took place on March 29-31, the rector of the Ukrainian Free University in Munich, Dr. Leonid Rudnytzky, conferred honorary doctorates on Julian Kulas (Chicago), Volodymyr Rak (New York) and Vasyl Kuybida, Mayor of Lviv, Ukraine.

Over 120 people attended the ceremony, including representatives of the Ukrainian community of Munich, German academic and political dignitaries, as well as honored guests from Ukraine. Among the latter were Ukraine's Vice-Prime Minister Mykola Zhulynskyi; the president of the National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Viatcheslav Brioukhovetsky, the president of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Ukraine, Oleh Romaniv; and Ukraine's consul general of Ukraine in Munich, Heorhii Kosykh.

Other notables present were Bishop Michael Hrynchyshyn, apostolic administrator for the Ukrainian Catholics in Germany and Scandinavia, Dr. Askold Lozynskyj, president of the Ukrainian World Congress; Oleksa Bilaniuk, president of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in New York; Wolodymyr Stojko, vice-president of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the U.S.A.; and Yuriy Kurys, vice-president of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Canada, among others.

The ceremony was covered by German and Ukrainian news media.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, May 28, 2000, No. 22, Vol. LXVIII

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