Nearly 400 congressmen, administration officials, members of the Ukrainian National Association and its Supreme Assembly, as well as local Ukrainian community activists on May 22, 1985, attended a reception at the Russell Senate Office Building celebrating the centennial of Ukrainian settlement in the United States. The reception was sponsored by the Ukrainian National Association in cooperation with the Ukrainian American Caucus (UAC), The Washington Group, the Ukrainian Association of the Washington Metropolitan Area and the local chapter of the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America.