Author: Irene Sawchyn Doll

SURF CITY, N.J. – The Spartanky Plast sorority held their annual retreat and conference on October 27-29 on Long Beach Island in New Jersey. Forty-nine members from the northeast of the United States, including 32 and 17 members from the senior and younger divisions, respectively, gathered to refresh their commitments to the Plast Ukrainian Scouting...

WHIPPANY, N.J. – Members of Branch 75 of the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America (UNWLA) of Maplewood, N.J., celebrated the 50th anniversary of its inception with a gala dinner and dance held on October 21 at the Ukrainian-American Cultural Center of New Jersey in Whippany, N.J. Over 150 people came to mark the anniversary...

MONTICELLO, N.Y. – Members of the Spartanky sorority of the Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization held their annual winter outing for cub scouts of the greater New York area on February 12 at the Holiday Mountain ski resort in Monticello, N.Y. This one-day ski trip was organized by Spartanky members from the New York and New...

JEWETT, N.Y. – The Ukrainian community centered around Hunter, N.Y., gathered on August 21 at St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church’s Grazhda community hall to commemorate the 31st anniversary of Ukraine’s renewed independence. Dr. Irena Sawchyn Doll, who moderated the program, invited Fr. Roman Lytvyniv to open the program with a prayer for the...

MORRISTOWN, N.J. – More than 50 members of the Ukrainian American community in New Jersey participated in the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Morristown, N.J., on March 19 The representatives of the Ukrainian community, who were invited to march in the annual parade by the American Legion Post 59, walked the parade and received an...

WASHINGTON – More than 1,000 people took part in a rally on March 6 in front of the White House to protest Russian President Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked and premeditated war on Ukraine. The group also called for further action to support the people and government of the war-torn country. The rally was the second to...

MORRISTOWN, N.J. – The Ukrainian National Women’s League of America (UNWLA), Branch 75 of Morris County, N.J., will host Prof. Lubomyr Luciuk for a book discussion on December 5 at 2 p.m. at the Ukrainian American Cultural Center of New Jersey in Whippany, N.J. Prof. Luciuk is a renowned scholar in the field of Ukrainian...

JEWETT, N.Y. – The Ukrainian community located in and around Hunter, N.Y., gathered here to mark the 30th anniversary of Ukraine’s renewed independence with two commemorative programs held at St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church’s Grazhda community hall.

In the first event, Tina Peresunko, a Fulbright Scholar from Ukraine who is conducting research in the United States on the history of the Ukrainian Republican Capella (later known as the Ukrainian National Chorus), discussed the organization, cultural diplomacy and the group’s international tours of 1919-1924.