2001: THE YEAR IN REVIEW: We mourn their passing: our community's losses (01/06/02)

2001: THE YEAR IN REVIEW

We mourn their passing: our community's losses

During 2001 we mourned the passing of the victims of the Twin Towers terrorist attack, as well as bishops and clergy, scholars and artists, leaders and community activists, and prominent individuals. Among them were:

Sir Harry Polche, 82, lieutenant with the New York Police Department, past national commander of the Ukrainian American Veterans, and Knight of St. Gregory the Great - New York, December 18, 2000.
Nicholas Martynuk, 91, choir director at Ukrainian parishes in Pennsylvania, including Ss Cyril and Methodius Church Choir of Olyphant, Pa., and Blessed Andrew Sheptytsky Deanery Choir, Oberlin, Ohio - Oberlin, December 22, 2000.
Stephan Chemych, 72, civil servant and administrator, founder and president of the Ukrainian Studies Fund at Harvard University - New York, February 8.
Bishop Ivan Prasko, 86, former leader of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Australia - Melbourne, January 28.
Jaroslav Pryshlak, 86, engineer and community activist, head of the Buffalo branch of the Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization, dedicated educator of the youngest Plast members, or "novatstvo" - Buffalo, N.Y., March 24.
Hryhory Lohvyn, Ph.D., 90, leading historian of Ukrainian art and architecture - Kyiv, March 7.
Serge Kisluk, 78, veteran of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), who died amidst deportation proceedings by the Canadian government; accused of war crimes and collaborating with the Nazis, Mr. Kisluk composed a final statement maintaining his innocence - St. Catharines, Ontario, May 21.
Walter Sochan, 77, journalist and community leader, longtime supreme secretary of the Ukrainian National Association and honorary member of the UNA General Assembly - Newark, N.J., May 23.
Msgr. Joseph John Fedorek, 75, pastor, St. Vladimir Ukrainian Catholic Church and dean of New Jersey's Ukrainian Catholic parishes - Elizabeth, N.J., May 26.
Dr. John O. Flis, 78, lawyer and former three-term president of the Ukrainian National Association and first president of the Ukrainian American Coordinating Council - Newport, Vt., June 8.
Ludmyla Wolansky, 79, journalist and longtime editor at the Ukrainian-language daily Svoboda - Kerhonkson, N.Y., June 22.
Anatol Kurdydyk, 95, journalist and publicist, longtime editor of the Ukrainian Canadian weekly Novyi Shliakh - Winnipeg, June 25.
Iwanna Rozankowsky, 87, lawyer and research librarian at the New York Public Library, longtime president and honorary president of the Ukrainian National Women's League of America - New York, June 18.
Jaroslaw Struminsky, 82, general practitioner of family medicine and clinical professor of medicine at the Brown University Medical School - Providence, R.I., July 26.
Stephen Kuropas, 100, community leader and vice-president and supreme auditor of the Ukrainian National Association (UNA), first president of UNA Seniors, editor of Samostiyna Ukrayina and contributing columnist to Svoboda daily - Dekalb, Ill., August 11.
Wladyslaw Klech (Klechnowski), 79, scenic artist with the Metropolitan Opera of New York and set designer with Volodymyr Blavatsky's Ukrainian Actors' Ensemble - New Rochelle, N.Y., July 22.
Volodymyr Luchkan, 93, longtime Plast activist in Ukraine and the United States - Hartford, Conn., August 24.
John Skala, 31, of Clifton, N.J., Port Authority police officer and part-time paramedic, perished in the collapse of the Twin Towers - New York, September 11.
Oleh Wengerczuk, 56, of Centerpoint, N.Y., transportation designer for Washington Group International, which had an office on the 91st floor of 2 World Trade Center - New York, September 11.
Mykhailo Woskobiynyk, 83, historian and president of the Ukrainian Revolutionary Democratic Party, head of the Ukrainian National Council - Coral Springs, Fla., September 15.
Tatiana Antonovych, 86, physician, faculty member of the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences and of Georgetown University, and staff member of the U.S. Armed Forces Institute of Pathology; founder, with her husband, Omelan, of the Tatiana and Omelan Antonovych Prize - Washington, September 23; buried at Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv.
Teodosiy Samotulka, 86, psychiatrist and longtime Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization educator - Princeton, N.J., October 31.
Andriy-Zhdan Novakivsky, 54, architect and art historian, former director of the National Museum in Lviv, grandson of renowned Ukrainian painter Oleksa Novakivsky - Lviv, October 25.
Hryhorii Chukhrai, 80, Ukrainian Soviet-era filmmaker best known for his unorthodox treatment of wartime themes; whose film "Ballad of a Soldier" (1959) launched his career - Moscow, October 28.
Peter Jacyk, 80, businessman and philanthropist, patron of numerous scholarly projects and institutions of higher learning associated with Ukrainian studies - Mississauga, Ontario, November 1.
Gregory Hulka, 44, consul general of the consular section at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, killed in a fatal automobile accident in Ukraine, along with his 10-year-old daughter, Abigail, and their relative Yurii Kotyk, a Ukrainian national - on the road between Uman, Cherkasy Oblast, and Nemyriv, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine, November 9.
George S.N. Luckyj, 82, pioneering and leading scholar in post-war Ukrainian and Slavic studies in the West, translator and editor, professor and chair of the department of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of Toronto - Toronto, November 22.
The Rev. Vital Wasyl Pidskalny, OSBM, 80, former provincial superior of the Basilian Fathers in Canada and the United Kingdom, and former vice-general at the order's headquarters in Rome - Saskatoon, December 10.

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