THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUM (07/15/01)

THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUM

Former branch secretary, Helen Chornomaz, dies

BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J. - Helen Chornomaz, 83, died at home on June 21. A memorial service was held at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Berkeley Heights, N.J., on June 26.

The daughter of Alexander and Tekla Buchak, she was born in Pittsburgh and grew up in Newark, N.J. She was active in the First Ukrainian Presbyterian Church of Irvington, N.J., and served as the clerk of session and president of the Women's Auxiliary. She sang for many years with her husband in the church choir.

Mrs. Chornomaz was secretary of Branch 490 of the Ukrainian National Association until its merger with Branch 142.

Mrs. Chornomaz was the wife of Sam Chornomaz, who died in 1999; and the sister of the late Bohdan and Eugenia. She is survived by two brothers, Andrew of Sun City, Ariz., and Myron of Brecksville, Ohio; four children, Daria Romankow of Berkeley Heights, Dennis of Egg Harbor Township, N.J. Daniel of Branchburg, N.J. and David Chornomaz of Naugatuck, Conn.; 10 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Memorial contributions in her name may be made to the Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund, 272 Old Short Hills Road, Short Hills, NJ 07078.

Weekly 2000 Volume II

PARSIPPANY, N.Y. - Volume II of "The Ukrainian Weekly 2000," featuring the most significant articles published in The Weekly during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, is now arriving in the homes of readers of this newspaper.

Each decade of selections in the volume is preceded by introductions written by former and current staffers of The Ukrainian Weekly. Titled "The 1970s: Soviet repressions and response," "The 1980s: Of divisions, struggle and remembrance" and "The 1990s: The dream, and the reality," they are meant to help set the stage for the news reports and commentaries that follow.

The book is a companion to the Volume I, released last year and covering the years 1933, when The Weekly was founded, to 1969. Cover design is by layout artist Serge Polishchuk and typesetting is by Awilda Rolon, both of the paper's production staff.

Copies of "The Ukrainian Weekly 2000" Volume II may be ordered by sending $15 per copy to: The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P. O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054.

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