| January | Washington Post Correspondent, James Rupert, Addresses TWG/SAIS Forum; Dinner Planned for President Kuchma; Memorializing Chornobyl Victims (bl -Jane Kunka); Markian Bilynskyj and Bohdan Radejko Discuss Work in Kyiv; Juliana Osinchuk Performs in Kennedy Center |
| February | George Masiuk Re-elected as TWG President; Ukraine’s President Kuchma Gets Freedom House Award; TWG President’s Report, Treasurer’s Report, Membership Report, Public Relations Report, Fellowship Fund Report, Cultural Fund Report |
| March-April | Odesa Philharmonic Marks Chornobyl Anniversary with Kennedy Center Concert (bl -Marta Zielyk) – also see Video 1996-10; Candidates Sought for TWG Embassy Internship; Meeting with Ukraine’s Scientists (bl -R.L. Chomiak); TWG Leadership Conference Planning; Horowitz Piano Competition winners |
| May-June | Taras Bazyluk, Clinton Administration Speechwriter, and Marta Zielyk, Ukrainian Interpreter for the President address TWG Forum — Ukrainian Embassy Press Attache, Vasyl Zorya briefed the Audience on Ukraine’s newly adopted Constitution ( bl -R.L.Chomiak); Lyudmyla Pekarska Presentation on Ancient Kyiv and its Relics (bl -R.L. Chomiak) |
| July-August | TWG Leadership Conference Planning — Ukraine at Five: A Progress Report; Helena Zyblikewycz – First TWG Intern Assisting at Ukrainian Embassy; Obituary: Theodore B. Zalucky |
| September | Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott and Ukraine’s Minister for Environmental Protection Yuri Kostenko to Address TWG Leadership Conference; TWG and Center for Strategic and International Studies held a Roundtable Discussion on Ukraine’s Situation – Oleh Havrylyshyn, Roman Popadiuk, Adrian Karatnycky participated (bl -R.L. Chomiak) |
| October-November | TWG Leadership Conference “Ukraine at Five: A Progress Report”– (Also see TWG 1996 Leadership Conference Booklet and Video 1996-20, 30) – Addresses by by Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, Ukraine’s Ambassador Yuri Shcherbak, Amb. Jeanne Kilpatrick, Justice Olexander Volkov — Panels – Ukraine’s Geostrategic Position – Economic Reform – Democracy Building – Health Care Reform – Energy Sector Reform — Friend of Ukraine Conductor of Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra; Also as part of the Conference a Presentation By Sarah Sievers and Margareta Hewko — Oral History: Chronicling Ukraine’s Independence — 70 Interviews with prominent Ukrainian, American, Russian, Polish, Belorusian Political, Religious, Civic Society Witnesses to Ukraine’s Independence — Oral History Project |