2002: THE YEAR IN REVIEW

Our community mourns its losses

During 2002 we mourned the passing of statesmen, scholars, editors and broadcasters, leading members of the community, and other prominent individuals. Among them were the following.

In early 2002, we learned of the death of the Rev. Vital Wasyl Pidskalny, 80, former vice-general and Canadian provincial superior of Basilian Fathers - Saskatoon, December 10, 2001.

• Stepan Woroch, 81, dentist and prominent Ukrainian community activist and leader - Maplewood, N.J., January 2.
  
  
• Ivan Fedorovych Karabyts, 57, a leading composer of Ukraine, founder of the international music festival, Kyiv Music Fest and the Kyiv International Piano Competition in Memory of Vladimir Horowitz - Kyiv, January 20.
  
  
• Zenon Snylyk, 69, editor-in-chief of the Svoboda Ukrainian-language daily newspaper (1980-1998) and prior to that editor of The Ukrainian Weekly; an accomplished athlete and three-time member of the U.S. Olympic soccer team - Berkeley Heights, N.J., January 21.
  
  
• Lydia Wasylenko Smyk, 43, teacher at St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic School and editor of The Ukrainian Weekly's "UKELODEON" section - Newark, N.J., February 14.
  
  
• Natalia Shukhevych, 92, wife of Roman Shukhevych (1907-1950), supreme commander of the Ukranian Insurgent Army (UPA) - Lviv, February 28.
  
  
• Wasyl Kardash, 79, founder and director of Ukrainian Canadian church choirs and choral ensembles; member of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and a Holocaust survivor - Toronto, March 26.
  
  
• Dr. Oksana Maria Korzeniowski, 57, physician and professor of medicine at the Medical College of Pennsylvania-Hahnemann University in Philadelphia - Glenside, Pa., March 29.
  
  
• George Y. Shevelov, 94, world-renowned linguist and literary critic, professor of Slavic philology at Harvard and Columbia universities - New York, April 12.
  
  
• Savella Stechishin, 99, editor and author, pioneer of Ukrainian women's movement in Canada - Saskatoon, April 22.
  
  
• Dr. Peter Woroby, economics professor emeritus of the University of Regina, special advisor to the government of Saskatchewan on Ukraine (1990-1995) and community leader - Regina, Saskatchewan, May 5.
  
  
• Valerii Lobanovsky, 63, legendary soccer coach of Kyiv Dynamo - Kyiv, May 13.
  
  
• The Rev. Michael Horoshko, 90, Ukrainian chaplain in the Canadian Armed Forces during World War II and parish priest serving in parishes in Canada and the United States - Mahonoy City, Pa., May 31.
  
  
• Roman Oliynyk Rakhmanny, 83, prolific journalist-publicist - Montreal, June 24.
  
  
• Dr. Mykola Deychakiwsky, 81, physician, member of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, community activist and benefactor - Parma, Ohio, July 11.
  
  
• John Teluk, 78, former vice-president of the Ukrainian National Association and professor of economics and finance at the University of New Haven - Kerhonkson, N.Y., July 13.
  
  
• Bohdan Yasinsky, 79, librarian-bibliographer and Ukrainian area specialist at the Library of Congress; resident of Silver Spring, Md. - died in Kyiv, while on an extended visit to Ukraine, July 28.
  
  
• Bohdan Pevny, 71, artist, arts writer and critic, co-editor of the journal Suchasnist - Kew Gardens, N.Y., September 7.
  
  
• Mary Dushnyck, 91, former vice-presidentess of the Ukrainian National Association and a women's and community activist - Brooklyn, N.Y., September 13.
  
  
• Zenon Onufryk, 66, engineer, community activist and leader - Whippany, N.J., September 24.
  
  
• Hryhoriy Oleksandrovych Kostiuk, 99, prominent émigré literary scholar and editor, who wrote extensively on Ukrainian literature and politics in interwar Soviet Ukraine - Silver Spring, Md., October 3.
  
  
• Ivan Kandyba, 72, lawyer and dissident active in the national and human rights movements in Ukraine, and founding member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group - Lviv, November 8.
  
  
• Dr. Wasyl Lencyk, 90, scholar and educator, whose life was marked by service to the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the United States - Stamford, Conn., November 10.
  
  
• Michael Terpak, 85, pioneer in international radio broadcasting during the Cold War, established the Ukrainian section of Radio Liberation (now Radio Liberty), chief of the Ukrainian Service at Voice of America - Fairfax, Va., December 2.
  
  
• Ramon John Hnatyshyn, 68, governor general of Canada, 1990-1995, and former justice minister of Canada - Ottawa, December 18.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, January 12, 2003, No. 2, Vol. LXXI

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