JENKINTOWN, Pa. – Seven students of St. Basil Academy in Jenkintown, Pa., participated on November 6 in the poetry recitation contest honoring Lina Kostenko organized and sponsored by St. Sophia Religious Association of Ukrainian Catholics Inc., in Philadelphia.
The judges – Iryna Ivankovych, president of the St. Sophia Religious Association; Leonid Rudnytzky, professor at LaSalle University; and Alexandra Penkalskyj, vice-principal of St. Basil Academy – graded each performance on the fluency of the recitation, clarity of pronunciation, intonation, artistic performance and expression. Students recited poems by Lina Kostenko translated into English by Michael Naydan, Woskob Family Professor of Ukrainian Studies at the Pennsylvania State University.