TWG News 1995

EditorYaro Bihun
MonthFeatured Content
JanuaryLeonid Kravchuk Addresses TWG Public Forum; A Discussion about Art with Olga Hirshhorn; TWG Profile – Andy Fedynsky (bl -Jerry Pockar); TWG Hosts “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” Evening
FebruaryGeorge Masiuk Elected TWG President; Mykola Babiak – President’s Report; TWG Board Reports – Public Relations, Fellowship Fund, TWG Cultural Fund; TWG Cultural Fund Report; Obituaries: TWG Colleague Orest Turczyn, Ukrainian Poet, Journalist, Politician Rostyslav Bratun’
March-AprilFormer Ukrainian Defense Minister Morozov Says Ukraine Should Join NATO (bl -Adrian Karmazyn); Ukrainian Ambassador Yuri Shcherbak Meets with Local Leaders; Ukrainian Art in Georgetown – The Alla Rodgers Gallery (bl -Jane Kunka); Ukraine – Rounding the Corner (bl -Michael Drabyk); Commemorating Shevchenko
MayTWG Cultural Fund Brings Berkeley Chorus, Slavic Music to Washington; Report from Ukraine Peace Corps Director, Jaroslaw Dutkewych; Center for Strategic and International Studies report on Business Investment in Ukraine (bl -Lida Bihun)
SummerPlanning for October TWG Leadership Conference; Plans for TWG Cultural Fund Activities (bl -Laryssa Chopivsky); Cultural Life in Alaska – Pianist Juliana Osinchuk; Amb. William Courtney ends Kazakhstan Tour
SeptemberAmb. Shcherbak, Sr. Director at National Security Council, Coit Blacker, Freedom House President Adrian Karatnycky, First Lady’s Deputy Chief of Staff Melanne Verveer to Address TWG Leadership Conference; Kyiv Farewell for Consul Maria Rudensky (bl -R.L. Chomiak); Conference Speaker Profiles (Coit Blacker, Yuri Shcherbak, Adrian Karatnycky, Melanne Verveer)
OctoberTWG Leadership Conference “The Ukrainian Community: Defining a New Role” — (Also see TWG 1995 Leadership Conference Booklet and Video 1995-10, 20, 30) – Addresses by NSC Director for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia Coit Blacker, Ukraine’s Ambassador Yuri Sncherbak, Freedom House President Adrian Karatnycky, Deputy Chief of Staff to First Lady Melanne Verveer (bl -Maria Kulczycky) Panels – Developing a Consensus on Ukrainian Community Goals – Providing Services to the Ukrainian-American Community – Getting Our Message Out to the Broader Community (bl -Maria Kulczycky) – Financing Ukrainian-American Community’s Projects — Journalism Award to VOA and RFL Ukrainian Branches