INTRODUCTION TO TWG ARCHIVE
The Washington Group (TWG) website documents TWG’s history and lays the foundation for TWG’s growth in the coming decade. This site contains 135 issues of TWG NEWS, 14 TWG Leadership Conference Booklets, 20 photo albums, and 80 Videos. Collectively this material documents the life of the Ukrainian-American Community in the Greater Washington, D.C. area and its extensive interaction with Ukraine. In the critical years for Ukraine’s independence (1989-1992) just about all significant Ukrainian figures spoke in Washington and their presentations are captured on video.
The TWG Cultural Fund, founded in 1994, is an integral part of TWG, but with its own history, leadership and management. It has its own web site (twgcf.org). Prior to 1994 TWG as such sponsored many cultural events. This TWG website contains material documenting TWG’s promotion of Ukrainian culture in the years before the TWG Cultural Fund was established and also includes photos from TWGCF events (1994-2004). Please download the TWGCF photo album under Photos tab. Also numerous articles in TWG NEWS cover TWGCF events.
If you are new to TWG, click through the slideshows below to get a sense of the quality of TWG forums and its Leadership Conferences, as well as the fun we had at our social events, and then explore the website. Perhaps a good starting point is to look at the extraordinary years 1989-1992 when Ukraine was on its road to independence. TWG hosted just about all of the key persons on the Ukrainian side and many important persons on the American side. You can see videos of what they thought and said contemporaneously, how TWG NEWS covered their presentations and how Natalie Sluzar photographed them. Also see TWG History under the “About Us” tab for a systematic look at the Ukrainian-American Community (1984-2011).
TWG Social Events
3/16/2023 Ukraine Benefit Concert “This Ukrainian American Life” – Reception at La Maison Francaise 12/13/84 Christmas Party Eugene Iwanciw & Marta Procinsky, Hlib Taran 12/13/84 Christmas Party Hlib Taran 12/13/84 Christmas Party Wolodymyr Sulzynsky 1984 First TWG Board of Directors: Jurij Petrenko, Marta Mostovych, Eugene Iwanciw, Marta Pereyma, Natalie Sluzar, Daria Stec, Halyna Breslawec, Yaro Bihun, Orest Deychakiwsky 10/17/86 Leadership Conference Reception: Valentina Limonczenko, Roman Ferencevych, Marta Pereyma 7/19/86 Blobs Park (for names see Photo Album 1986 in Archives) 12/13/86 Christmas Party: Hnatiw, Chomiak, Stec, Masiuk, Sluzar, Diachok, Pereyma, Romaniuk, Rudensky 9/25/87 Board of Directors: Jurij Dobczansky, Daria Stec, Julia Romaniuk, R.L. Chomiak, Lydia Chopivsky, Natalie Sluzar 8/1/87 TWG Tabir by the Ocean 9/23/88 Annual Meeting: Bihun, Pylyshenko, Leonid Kondratiuk, Laryssa Chopivsky, Deychakiwsky, Lydia Chopivsky, Andy Rylyk, Helen Chaikovsky, Stec, Zielyk, Sluzar 8/27/88 TWG Strategic Planning Summit 12/17/88 TWG Christmas Party: Orysia Pylyshenko, Lydia Chopivsky, Orest Deychakiwsky, Daria Stec, Maria Rudensky, Anna Worobij 11/17/89 Annual Meeting: Maria Rudensky, Yaro Bihun 11/17/89 TWG Board of Directors: Ihor Kotlarchuk, Oksana Dackiw, Orysia Pylyshenko, Adrian Kerod, Daria Chapelsky, Marianne Woloschuk, Marta Zielyk, Yaro Bihun, Olya Holoyda 8/5/89 TWG Tabir 12/9/89 TWG Christmas Party: Eugene Iwanciw, Ella Ostapenko 12/9/89 TWG Christmas Party: George Sajewych 12/9/89 TWG Christmas Party: Ina Deychakiwsky, Orest Deychakiwsky, Anna Worobij, Pat Onufrak, Hlib Taran 4/27/90 Mid-year Meeting: Adrian Kerod, Lydia Chopivsky, Yaro Bihun, Orysia Pylyshenko, Marta Zielyk, Marianne Woloschuk 11/30/90 Annual Meeting: Yaro Bihun, Laryssa Chopivsky Jan/90 Maria Rudensky Farewell Party (Maria off to Haiti) 12/8/90 TWG Christmas Party: Steve Boyduy, Marusia Drohobycky Sloniewsky 5/21/91 TWG Board Meeting 6/22/91 TWG Strategic Planning: Peter Sawchyn, Isha Pryshlak, Irene Jarosewich, Halya Duda, Marusia Drohobycky, Lydia Chopivsky-Benson, Antonina Pipko, Daria Stec, Mykola Babiak, George Masiuk, Steve Boyduy, Yaro Bihun 12/13/91 TWG Christmas Party: Margarita Hewko, John Hewko, Lydia Chopivsky-Benson 1/23/92 Ukrainian Independence Day: Isha Pryshlak, Oleksander Pryshlak, Lydia Jarosewich 3/5/93 TWG Board: Ihor Procinsky, Bohdan Radejko, George Masiuk, Yuriy Holowinsky, Mykola Babiak, Rick Smith, Sophia Nakonechny, Sophia Caryk, Lydia Chopivsky-Benson, Marta Jarosewich 10/9/93 Leadership Conference Banquet: Chrystyna Babiak, Mykola Babiak 10/9/93 Leadership Conference Banquet: Lydia Chopivsky-Benson, Randy Benson 2/26/94 Federation Organizational Meeting: Mykola Babiak, Anna Mostovych, Areta Pawlynsky, Christine Hoshowsky, Ihor Havryluk, Rosalie Kapustij, Emil Bandriwsky, Lydia Chopivsky-Benson, Bohdan Vitvitsky Early 1996 First Board Meeting 2/15/97 Annual Meeting: Mike Drabyk, Yaro Bihun, Marta Zielyk, Roman Stelmach, George Masiuk, Laryssa Chopivsky, John Kun, Orysia Pylyshenko, Orest Deychakiwsky, Sonia Melnyk, Anya Silecky 9/20/97 Virginia Winery Tour: J. Martyniuk, M&L Teluk, E. Bauer, E. Wizniak, S. Roman, L. Brantley, M.&R. Drabyk, R. Chomiak, M. Kulczycky, G. Masiuk, N. Sluzar Summer 1997 TWG Ukrainian Embassy Intern Lesia Richardson 5/29/1998 Annual Meeting: George Masiuk, Tanya Stasiuk 10/23/99 Virginian Winery Tour: M.&O. Lomacky, R.&M. Drabyk, K. Lutz, B.&J. Gott & Andrijko, A.&M. Mostovych, L.&M. Teluk, N. Sluzar 1999 TWG Ukrainian Embassy Intern Valentina Yarr 10/7/00 Leadership Conference Banquet: George Masiuk 10/7/00 Leadership Conference Banquet: Ihor Kotlarchuk, Orest Deychakiwsky, Marta Zielyk 10/7/00 Leadership Conference Banquet: Frank and Anya (Silecky) Piazza 10/7/00 Leadership Conference Banquet: John and Juliana (Kinal) Ballard 10/7/00 Leadership Conference Banquet: Maria Kulczycky and Lamar Brantley 10/7/00 Leadership Conference Banquet: Roman Stelmach and Donna Pochoday 6/12/04 Leadership Conference: Natalie Sluzar, Marta Kolomayets, Daria Stec, Marta Zielyk, Lesia Richardson, Isha Pryshlak 6/12/04 Leadership Conference: Daria Stec, George Masiuk, Isha Pryshlak 6/12/04 Leadership Conference: Orysia Voronin Deychakiwsky, Orest Deychakiwsky 6/12/04 Leadership Conference: Marta Zielyk, Ed Gay 6/12/04 Leadership Conference: Iryna Reznik, William and Laryssa Courtney 6/12/04 Leadership Conference: Inia Tunstall, Alexander Kuzma 6/12/04 Leadership Conference: Ihor and Tamara Vitkovitsky 6/12/04 Leadership Conference: Brian and Inia Tunstall 6/12/04 Natalia Holub and TWG President Ihor Kotlarchuk
TWG Professional Events
6/26/2023 “Sacred Land: Music and Poems of Resilience from Ukraine” – Ensemble Cherubim – Marika Kuzma Director – John Paul II National Shrine 6/26/2023 “Sacred Land: Music and Poems of Resilience from Ukraine” – Ensemble Cherubim – Manu Kumasi reciting Taras Shevchenko’s “Zapovit”- John Paul II National Shrine 6/26/2023 “Sacred Land: Music and Poems of Resilience from Ukraine” – Ensemble Cherubim – Rev. Mark Morozowich reciting poem “Singing Underground”- John Paul II National Shrine 6/26/2023 “Sacred Land: Music and Poems of Resilience from Ukraine” – Ensemble Cherubim – Marika Kuzma Director – John Paul II National Shrine 3/16/2023 Ukraine Benefit Concert “This Ukrainian American Life” artists contralto Vira Slywotzky and pianist/composer Dina Pruzhansky 3/16/2023 Ukraine Benefit Concert “This Ukrainian American Life” – TWG President Laryssa Courtney presents 17thC Map of Ukraine by French cartographer Guillaume de Beauplan to Embassy of France DCM Aurelie Bonal. 3/16/2023 Ukraine Benefit Concert “This Ukrainian American Life” – Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy of Ukraine, Yaroslav Brisiuck, greets audience. 3/16/2023 Ukraine Benefit Concert “This Ukrainian American Life” – Audience 3/16/2023 Ukraine Benefit Concert “This Ukrainian American Life” – Estonian Ambassador Kristian Prikk and wife Liis congratulate singer Vira Slywotzky 3/16/2023 Ukraine Benefit Concert “This Ukrainian American Life” – Estonian Ambassador Kristian Prikk and wife Liis at post concert reception with Ukrainian DCM Yaroslav Brisiuck. 11/10/2019 Lyceum: SpivZhuttya – Left side of photo – L-R: Yaromyr Oryshkevych, Ryan Mulvey, Olenka Dobczanska, Xenia Jowyk, Halia Breslawec, Andrij Bihun, Jurij Dobczansky 11/10/2019 Lyceum: SpivZhuttya – Right side of photo – L-R: Olya, Lesia Bihun, Michael Hoobchaak, Oksana Onyshkevych, Larissa Pastuchiv, Lesia Brannan, Victor Morozov 5/19/2019 Lyceum: TWGCF 25th Anniversary, soprano Stefania Dovhan 5/19/2019 Lyceum: TWGCF 25th Anniversary: pianist R. Timothy McReynolds and soprano Stefania Dovhan 5/19/2019 Lyceum: TWGCF 25th Anniversary – L. Courtney, Y. Bihun, soprano Stefania Dovhan, R. Norair, S. Sonevytsky, C. Lucyk 3/17/2019 Lyceum: Anna and Dmytro Shelest 9/30/2018 Lyceum: pianist Pavlo Gintov 4/22/2018 Lyceum: pianist Serhiy Salov 3/25/2018 Lyceum: cellist Natalie Choma, pianist Volodymyr Vynnytsky 9/24/2017 Lyceum: Gerdan Trio: Andrei Pidkivka (flute); Solomia Goroshkina (violin); Kalin Kirov (accordian) 5/21/2017 Lyceum violinist Oleh Krysa, pianist Irina Lupines 3/12/2017 Lyceum: pianist Arthur Green, violinist Solomia Soroka, composer Yevhen Stankovych, Ludmila Mazuka, Chrystia Lucyk, Olha Ivanova 10/2/2016 Lyceum: pianist Mylkola Suk 11/1/2015 Lyceum: singer Vira Slywotzky and pianist George Shevtsov 6/5/2015 Embassy of Ukraine: soprano Sofia Soloviy and pianist Elia Andrea Corazzo 10/4/2015 Lyceum: violinist Solomiya Ivakhiv and pianist Angelina Gadeliya 4/10/2011 Westmoreland Church: Exec Dir of Washington Conservatory Kathy Judd, pianist Alexej Gorlatch, NN, Laryssa Courtney; Reception Hosts Jane and Hon. Charles Erwin 5/2/10 Lyceum: pianist Thomas Hrynkiw and cellist Nestor Cybriwsky 11/9/2008 Lyceum: Composer Myroslav’s Skoryk’s 70th Birthday – violinists Yuri Kharenko and Oleksander Abayev, cellist Natalia Choma, violinist Borys Deviatov, pianist Volodymyr Vynnytsky, Myroslav Skoryk 10/16/2005 Lyceum: Continuum ensemble – Airi Yoshioka, Joel Sachs, Benjamin Fingland 6/13/04 Leadership Conference: General Morozov 6/13/04 Leadership Conference: Nancy Medwid (UABA), Andrij Wowk (UESA), Oksana Xenos (UNWLA), George Masiuk (TWG), George Hrycelak (UMANA)), 6/13/04 Leadership Conference: Jozef Janis (violinist), Alexander Fedoriouk (cimbalom), Beata Salak (vocalist) 6/12/04 Leadership Conference: Amb. William Miller, Amb. Steven Pifer, TWG President Ihor Kotlarchuk, Amb. Oleh Bilorus 6/12/04 Ambassador Mykhailo Reznik 6/12/04 Leadership Conference: TWG Presidents – Orest Deychakiwsky (98-00), Daria Stec (86-88), Ihor Kotlarchuk (00-05), Natalie Sluzar (84-86), George Masiuk (95-97), Mykola Babiak (93-95) 5/23/2004 Lyceum: Amb. Mykhailo Reznik, Laryssa Courtney, pianist M. Rogozhyna, violinist Oleksander Abayev, Natalia Holub 9/8/2003 Embassy of Ukraine: Skoryk Concert and Reception – baritone Oleh Chmyr, cultural attaché Natalia Holub, composer Rostyslav Skoryk 5/18/2003 Lyceum: Reception – Pianist Lidia Artymiv, Lesia Bihun, Laryssa Courtney, Ihor Kiebuzinski 4/6/2003 Lyceum: Laryssa Courtney, Bass Stepan Szkafarowsky, NN 11/3/2002 Lyceum: Harmonia Concert – Jozef Janis (violin), Alexander Fedoriok (cimbalom), Beata Salak (vocalist), Andrei Pidkivka (flute) 3/24/2002 Lyceum: Horowitz Competition Winners – Kyrylo Keduk, Mariya Kim, Dmytro Onishchenko 3/14/2002 Politics of Looted Art: Konstantin Akinsha, Patricia Grimsted 10/21/2001 Leadership Conference: Rev. Gudziak 10/20/2001 Leadership Conference: Yara Zubalskyj, Maria Pryshlak, Rev. Borys Gudziak, Modern Art Collector Olga Hirshhorn 10/20/2001 Leadership Conference: Alexandra Hrycak, Vera Andrushkiw, Robert de Lossa, Iryna Kurowycky, George Masiuk, Amy Heyden 10/20/2001 Leadership Conference: The Hon. Borys Tarasyuk 10/20/2001 Leadership Conference: Ukraine Ambassador Kostyantyn Gryschenko, Ihor Kotlarchuk, Nadia Diuk, Slovak Amb. Martin Butora, Hungarian Amb. Geza Jeszenszky, George Masiuk, Bulgarian Amb. Philip Dmitrov 10/20/2001 Leadership Conference: TWG President Ihor Kotlarchuk, General Nicholas Krawciw 10/20/2001 Leadership Conference Reception: Former Foreign Minister Borys Tarasiuk, Former U.S. Ambassador William Miller, Ukrainian Ambassador Kostyantyn Gryschenko 10/8/2000 Leadership Conference: Experimental Bandura Trio: Yurij Fedynsky, Julian Kytasty, Michael Andrec 10/7/2000 Leadership Conference: Sofika Zielyk 10/7/2000 Leadership Conference: NDI Katie Fox, IRI Judy van Rest, Helsinki Commission Orest Deychakiwsky, Assistance Programs Coordinator Amb. William Taylor 10/7/2000 Leadership Conference: Former Director International Management Institute Andrij Masiuk, RAND Corporation Analyst Roman Solchanyk, Senior Advisor IMF Oleh Havrylyshyn 10/7/2000 Leadership Conference: U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Carlos Pascual 10/7/2000 Leadership Conference: TWG Cultural Fund Committee – Larysa Kurylas, Daria Stec, Nadia Diuk, Laryssa Courtney, Rosalie Norair, Marta Zielyk 10/6/2000 Leadership Conference: TWG President Ihor Kotlarchuk, Ukraine Embassy Chargé d’Affairs Oleksii Berezhnyi 10/3/2000 Rosslyn Spectrum: Benefit Concert – Zenoviy Bogachek, Laryssa Courtney, Volodymyr Vynnytsky, Igor Leshchishin, Elizabeth Davis, Bob Odmark, Greg Drone, Chrystia Sonevytsky, Uri Wassertzug, Joan Hurley 2/23/2000 Chevy Chase Women’s Club: Laryssa Courtney, violinist Solomiya Soroka, Amb William Miller, Suzanne Miller 12/2/99 TWG Cultural Fund Icon Exhibit: Katya Bowers, Lydia Piaseckyj, Ivan Mitsyk, Christina Dochwat, TWGCF Director Laryssa Chopivsky, Yevhen Prokopov, Vera Senchuk, Victoria Varvariv 10/14/1999 Temple Micah: Horowitz Competition Winners – Daniil Shlevenkov, Vadym Kholodenko, Seiko Tsukamoto, Jian Liu, Oleksiy Hrynyuk 6/26/99 Joint Conferences: Amb. William Miller, Judge Bohdan Futey 6/26/99 Joint Conferences: Ukrainian Broadcast Network Executive Ihor Dlaboha, Ambassador-at-Large for Newly Independent States Steve Sestanovich, Amb. Anton Buteyko, Conference Organizer Dr. Roman Goy 6/26/99 Joint Conferences – UABA: Lawyer, Banker, Philanthropist President of Ukrainian American Heritage Foundation Julian Kulas 6/26/99 Joint Conferences: Director of Security Services of Ukraine Leonid Derkach and Congressman Don Bonker 6/26/99 Leadership Conference: Former U.S. Ambassador William Miller, National Endowment for Democracy Nadia Diuk, National Security Council John Tedstrom, Carnegie Endowment Sherman Garnett 6/26/99 Leadership Conference: President International Academy of Astronautics Michael Yarymovych 6/26/98 Amb. Stephen Pifer and International Research and Exchange Board (IREX) President Daniel Matuszewski 6/26/98 TWG & IREX hosting Amb. Stephen Pifer, TWG President Orest Deychakiwsky 3/23/98 Presentation of Honorary Membership Award to Amb. William Miller, TWG President George Masiuk 3/21/97 Director State Department Office of Ukrainian, Belorusian, and Moldovan Affairs Jack Segal 7/23/97 Embassy Reception for Ukrainian Journalists 10/11/07 Leadership Conference: Roma Hayda, Bohdan Vitvitsky, Myron Kuropas, Bohdan Watral, Rev. Stefan Zencuch 10/11/97 Leadership Conference: Amb. William Courtney and George Masiuk 10/12/96 Leadership Conference Banquet: TWG’s Friend of Ukraine Award recipient Hobart Earle with his parents and sister and TWGCF Director Laryssa Chopivsky 2/15/97 Annual Meeting: Mike Drabyk, Yaro Bihun, Marta Zielyk, Roman Stelmach, George Masiuk, Laryssa Chopivsky, John Kun, Orysia Pylyshenko, Orest Deychakiwsky, Sonia Melnyk, Anya Silecky 10/12/96 Former UN Ambassador and Dole Campaign Representative Jeanne Kirkpatrick flanked by PR Director Jane Kunka and TWG President George Masiuk 10/12/96 Leadership Conference: Interpreter George Sajewych and Ukrainian Supreme Court Justice Olexander Volkov 10/11/96 Leadership Conference Reception: Director Central Intelligence John Deutch, TWG President George Masiuk 10/11/96 Leadership Conference Reception: Director of Central Intelligence John Deutch, unknown, Maria Shcherbak, Russian Ambassador Juli Vorontsov 10/11/96 Leadership Conference Reception: Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, Assistant to President and Chief of Staff to the First Lady Melanne Verveer, Ukrainian Embassy Official 10/11/96 Leadership Conference Reception: Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott 1/19/96 Washington Post Correspondent James Rupert 1/19/96 Washington Post Correspondent James Rupert with Bohdan Kantor and George Sajewych in back 10/8/95 Leadership Conference: Pianist John Stetch and TWGCF Director Laryssa Chopivsky 10/8/95 Leadership Conference: TWG President George Masiuk and Ukrainian Ambassador Yuriy Shcherbak 10/7/95 Leadership Conference: Historian Orest Subtelny, International Management Institute Director Andrew Masiuk, TWG President George Masiuk 10/7/95 Leadership Conference: TWG Journalism Award: VOA Ukrainian Service Chief Wolodymyr Bilajiw, VOA Director Geoffrey Cowan, Former Ukrainian Service Chiefs Michael Terpak and Mykola Francuzenko 1/20/95 Former Ukraine President Leonid Kravchuk flanked by TWG President Mykola Babiak and President Federation of Ukrainian-American Business and Professional Association Lydia Chopivsky 12/8/94 TWG President Mykola Babiak and Modern Art Collector and Museum Benefactor Olga Hirshhorn 10/15/94 Leadership Conference: Lviv Institute of Management Students 10/15/94 Leadership Conference: Ukraine’s First Minister of Defense Kostyantyn Morozov and Coordinator for Newly Independent States James Collins 10/14/94 Leadership Conference – TWG 10th Anniversary Celebration: Laryssa Chopivsky, Yaro Bihun, Daria Stec, Marta Zielyk 6/5/94 TWG Cultural Fund (TWGCF) inaugural event: Les Kurbas Young Theater of Lviv: Volodymyr Kuchinsky, Tetiana Kaspruk, Oleh Drach, Natalka Polovynka, Andrei Vodichev 3/16/94 Front: Theodor Kostiuk, Ross Chomiak, Ukr. Embassy Press Attaché Dmitro Markov, U.S. Representative Maurice Hinchey, TWG President Mykola Babiak, Marta Chomiak, George Sierant__Back: Roman Stelmach, George Masiuk, Mike Drabyk, Raymond Arent 1/26/94 Economic Delegation: Presidential Advisor Anton Buteyko, National Bank Chairman Victor Yushchenko, Economics Minister Roman Shpek, Amb. Oleh Bilorus, Presidential Advisor Bohdan Hawrylyshyn, TWG VP Andrew Bihun 10/9/93 Leadership Conference: Director at the Washington National Opera Roman Terlecky 10/9/93 Leadership Conference Banquet: TWG President Mykola Babiak presents Friend of Ukraine Award for George Soros to Oleh Havrylyshyn IMF Executive Director for Ukraine 10/8/93 Leadership Conference Reception: Amb. William Miller, President Carter’s National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, Amb. Oleh Bilorus 3/21/93 Ukraine Deputy Prime Minister Victor Pynzenyk 1/22/93 Amb. Oleh Bilorus, Larisa Bilorus, President of the Ukrainian People’s Republic in Exile Mykola Plawiuk 12/1/92 TWG Breakfast Forum: Editor of Foreign Policy Charles Maynes 11/13/92 First Peace Corps to Ukraine: Peace Corps Director in Ukraine Jerry Dutkewych (suit jacket) and in purple Nadia McConnell 11/14/92 Kennedy Center Washington Opera: R to L – Wolodymyr Bilajiw, Marika Jurach, Isha Pryshlak, Marta Zielyk, Hanya Cherniak, Washington National Opera Stage and Production Director Roman Terleckyj 11/14/92 Kennedy Center Washington Opera: L to R – Martha Jarosewich, Larysa Kurylas, Daria Stec, Tenor Volodymyr Hryshko, Laryssa Chopivsky, Washington National Opera Stage and Production Director Roman Terleckyj 10/10/92 Leadership Conference: U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Roman Popadiuk and Ukraine Ambassador Oleh Bilorus 10/9/92 Leadership Conference: – Reception at Hungarian Embassy: Ambassador Pal Tar 5/15/92 TWG President Lydia Chopivsky-Benson and First U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Roman Popadiuk 1992 Chairman of Verkhovna Rada Ivan Plyushch and Radiation Chemist Leonid Huebner 5/13/92 TWG Breakfast Forum: New Yorker Journalist Robert Cullen (center) 1/17/92 TWG Breakfast Forum: Former Direstor Centtral Intelligence William Colby 12/6/91 Founder of Center for the Study of Soviet Change Susan Eisenhower 11/16/91 Minister of Environmental Protection Yuriy Shcherbak 10/12/91 Leadership Conference: Ukrainian Foreign Minister Anatoliy Zlenko, Ada Kulyk, Laryssa Chopivsky, Ukraine Representative to U.N. Guennadi Oudovenko, Greg Hulka 10/12/91 Leadership Conference: Ukrainian Business Digest Publisher Richard Shriver and Luncheon Speaker Deputy Foreign Minister Guennadi Oudovenko 10/12/91 Leadership Conference: National Endowment for Democracy President Carl Gershman 7/26/91 TWG hosts International Management Institute Students: TWG President Lydia Chopivsky-Benson, Roman Shpek, Serhij Ovcharenko, Mykola Deychakiwsky 7/16/91 Sovereignty Day: Panelists – Maxim Kniazkov, Adrian Karatnycky, TWG President Lydia Chopivsky-Benson, Marusia Drohobycky-Sloniewsky, Robert McConnell 5/17/91 Artist Ilona Sochynsky 5/4/90 Guides to Donbas: Peter Sawchyn, Tania Chomiak, Marta Pereyma, Marta Zielyk, Adrian Karmazyn 3/25/90 Antonovych Awards: Roman Szporluk, Omelian Antonovych, Award Recipient Lina Kostenko, Tetiana Antonovych, John Fizer 2/27/90 Orysia Pylyshenko, Environmental Activist and future Member of Ukrainian Ministry of Environmental Protection Andrij Demidenko, Historian Marta Bohachevsky-Chomiak 2/27/90 Fellow Institute of Literature Ukrainian Acedemy of Sciences Viacheslav Briukhovetsky 2/26/90 Lviv Representative to the Congress of People’s Deputies of the USSR Rostyslav Bratun’ 2/23/90 Soviet Demographics: Murray Feshbach 1/31/90 Ukrainian Independence Day: Wolodymyr Sulzynsky, Yaromyr Koropecky, Hlib Taran, Inia Yevich, Sandfal, Andrij Bohdan Hetmanskyj, George Turiansky, Jurij Petrenko 8/11/89 Dinner with BIZNEX reps: Yaro Bihun, Lydia Chopivsky-Benson, Orysia Pylyshenko__bk_John Hewko, Chairman Serhiy Berezevenko, Andriy Bihun, Deputy Chairman Serhiy Mischenko, International Economic Relations Vitaly Voloshin 7/13/89 Poet Pavlo Movchan, Leader of Memorial Les Taniuk, Union of Soviet Journalists and Union of Soviet Theatrical Activists Nelli Kornienko 5/21/89 Antonovych Award Recipients: Hryhorij Kostiuk, John Paul Himka, Yuriy Shevelov, Award sponsors – Tetiana and Omelian Antonovych 3/28/89 Poet Ihor Rymaruk 3/28/89 Literary Critic Mykola Zhulynsky 3/28/89 Novelist and Historian Raisa Ivanchenko 3/28/89 Author of Internationalism or Russification Ivan Dziuba 3/24/89 Violinist Oleh Krysa and Discographer Stefan Maksymjuk 2/17/89 Historians Zenon Kohut and Orest Subtelny 2/3/89 Policy Advisors Helsinki Commission: Orest Deychakiwsky, Ron McNamara, John Finerty 1/25/89 Ogonyok editor Vitaliy Korotich 10/7/89 Leadership Conference: Music Director and Conductor Las Vegas Symphony Orchestra Virko Baley 10/7/89 Leadership Conference: Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Paula Dobriansky 10/7/89 Leadership Conference: Former Political Prisoner and First President of Ukrainian Helsinki Group and Head of its External Representation Mykola Rudenko 10/7/89 Leadership Conference: Poet and Former Political Prisoner and Member of Rukh Coordinating Committee and Member of Helsinki Union Mykola Horbal 10/7/89 Leadership Conference: Editor-in-Chief Ukrainian Weekly Roma Hadzewycz and Historian and Chornobyl Researcher at University of Alberta David Marples 10/7/89 Leadership Conference Banquet: Metropolitan Mstyslav and Wolodymyr Pylyshenko 10/7/89 Leadership Conference: Representative to Soviet Congress of People’s Deputies and Leader of Popular Movement for Perebudova Rukh Volodymyr Yavorivsky 10/7/89 Leadership Conference: U. S. House of Representatives Co-Chairman, Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe Steny Hoyer, Laryssa Chopivsky 8/24/88 Ukrainian Polish ties: Khrystyna Mokry, Marta Pereyma, Jagellonian University Professor Wolodymyr Mokry, TWG President Daria Stec, Ross Chomiak 3/20/88 Antonovych Awards: Jaroslav Pelenski, Bohdan Rubchak, Author Ekzod Tarasa Shevchenka Leonid Plyushch, Omelian and Tetiana Antonovych, Author Harvest of Sorrow Robert Conquest, Ivan Fizer, Roman Szporluk 3/20/88 Antonovych Awards: Award Recipient for Harvest of Sorrow, Robert Conquest 2/9/88 TWG Reception for Virsky Dancers; 2nd from left TWG member Chrystia Shashkevych Oryshkevych 10/21/87 Interpreter George Sajewych, Former Political Prisoner Danylo Shumuk 10/10/87 Leadership Conference: Assistant to Amb. Schifter Katia Chumachenko, Luncheon speaker Assisstant Secretary of State for Human Rights Amb. Richard Shifter, TWG President Daria Stec 4/8/87 Head of President’s Initiative on Soviet American Exchanges Stephen Rhinesmith 3/18/87 Policy Advisor U.S. Helsinki Commission Orest Deychakiwsky, Ambassador to Soviet Union Jack Matlock 2/27/87 Recent Travels in Ukraine: National Geographic Senior Editor Michael Edwards 12/10/86 TWG President Daria Stec, Research Associate at Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at University of Alberta David Marple, Marta Pereyma 10/18/86 Leadership Conference: Opening Address – American Author and Theologian Michael Novak 10/18/86 Leadership Conference: Keynote Address – President Carter’s National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski 7/19/86 TWG Trip to Artist’s Studio: Artist Orest Poliszczuk 4/18/86 TWG President Natalie Sluzar, Gloria y’Edynak, Executive Director Ukrainian Famine Commission Jim Mace, Patricia Filipov, Marta Mostovych 3/14/86 Ukrainian Genealogy: Soviet Nationalities Specialist and TWG Advisor Alvin Kapusta 1/22/86 Ukr. Independence Day: Yaromyr Koropecky, Hlib Taran, NN (Mil Phys), Jurij Petrenko, Leonid Kondratiuk, Bohdan Dombchewskyj, Ihor_Procinsky, Yaromyr Oryshkevych, NN, Dr_Novosivskyj, NN, Orest Hawryluk, NN 12/7/85 Religious Freedom in Ukraine: Andrew Sorokowski 11/26/85 Film Director Producer of Film Harvest of Despair – a Documentary on Ukrainian Famine, Slavko Nowytski 10/19/85 TWG-UABA Gala: Assistant Attorney General William Bradford Reynolds 5/17/85 Holodomor Researcher Marko Carynnyk 3/25/85 History of Christianity in Ukraine and Millennium Celebrations: Bohdan Bociurkiw 12/6/84 Counselor to State Department Edward Derwinski, TWG NEWS editor Eugene Iwanciw