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Ukrainian Technological Society ​of Pittsburgh - 2024 ​Scholarship Applications are available online.

Ukrainian Technological Society ​of Pittsburgh - 2024 ​Scholarship Applications
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Scholarship for U.S. Students of Lemko Ancestry

Organization for Defense of Lemko Western Ukraine, Inc.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

OOL Offers Scholarship for U.S. Students of Lemko Ancestry

Passaic, NJ, USA – April 25, 2024 – The Organization for the Defense of Lemkivshchyna (OOL) is offering scholarship awards for the 2024-2025 academic year. Successful applicants will each receive a scholarship of $500. To qualify, students must meet the following requirements:

• Be of Lemko ancestry.

• Be enrolled as a full-time student in any year (i.e., freshman through senior) of an undergraduate program or trade school.

• Be a member of OOL (applying for OOL membership in parallel is allowed).

• Be a legal U.S. resident.

• Submit a 500-word essay on one of the essay topics below.

o Over the past year, how have you contributed to the Lemko-Ukrainian community?

o If you could study any topic that relates to the Lemko region, what would it be?

To apply, students must complete the application (and OOL membership form, if not currently a member), which can be found at: https://lemko-ool.org/ool/ool-scholarship-award-application/

Submission deadline is June 30, 2024. Please email admin@lemko-ool.com with any questions.

Scholarship for U.S. Students of Lemko Ancestry
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Obituary for Stephen Zinski (04.05.24)

Obituary for Stephen Zinski (04.05.24)

The psalmist wrote, or perhaps sang, “I rejoiced when I heard them say, let us go to the house of the Lord.” While grieving his loss, the people of Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Church rejoice in the reposing of our esteemed and beloved cantor, Mr. Stephen Zinski, and in his going to the house of the Lord. Steve lived his life for, and in, the house of the Lord.

He graduated from St. Basil’s Seminary in Stamford, Connecticut and then from Catholic University of America in Washington, DC in 1969. He received his Master’s Degree in Science from Duquesne University on May 6th of 1973.

His surviving high school classmates to this day still refer to him as the best student in his class, a magnificent peer and a terrific basketball player who was loved by all his teammates and coaches. To those who came to know him later in life through his work making pyrohy at his church in Carnegie, he was viewed the same way: magnificent in character and beloved by all.

He served the people of God as a teacher in Catholic elementary schools in the Pittsburgh diocese, where he taught children everything from Math and Science to Religion and Music. It was common for grown men to stop him in public spaces and yell out, “Mr. Z!” Invariably they were once his students from his years teaching elementary school in South Side, Brookline or one of the various other neighborhoods within his beloved Pittsburgh. He served as cantor at St. John’s Ukrainian Catholic Church (South Side) and at his home parish of Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Church in Carnegie for a combined total of more than 50 years. In that time, he blessed countless people through his beautiful singing of the Church’s timeless chants. Steve made it his mission to preserve the musical patrimony of the Ukrainian Catholic Church. He translated chants and hymns, while preserving the ancient melodies of his people. He compiled the parish’s liturgical books so as to make the ancient liturgies accessible to congregants new and old. This was his way of evangelization. He loved the traditions of his Church and his people. It has been said that tradition is not the preservation of ashes, but the passing along of the fire. Steve passed on the fire of faith in the countless young people that he mentored and taught to chant the ancient prayers of the sacred liturgy. They will be part of his lasting legacy.

Steve’s vocation was music—and he lived his calling to the fullest. Through his sonorous voice countless souls experienced a foreshadowing of that heavenly chorus to which we are called, and in whose measured melody and euphoric crescendo the saints will exalt forever at the wedding banquet in the shade of the Tree of Life.

This rarest of men was as inimitable in character as he was in voice, and none shall ever hear a voice nor meet a man such as him ever again. He loved his church and all her traditions, just as he loved the people in his life: knowing and caring about every detail. These details, such as the birthday of the latest grand-niece in the family tree to the anniversary of a bishop’s ordination from fifty years ago, were as important to him as the little notes are to the sparrow straining its sweet morning melody. All these details were compiled together by his mind into a mosaic of love. Compiling and sharing this information with others was his way of saying: “You are important to me…your milestones are my milestones, your joys are my joys, your sorrows are my sorrows.”

Perhaps because of his love for music, the Lord Jesus Christ called him to the heavenly choir at the intersection of Pascha (Easter) on the old calendar and Ascension on the new. This most dedicated of cantors will be laid out at church “in-state” with all the honor that the tradition of the Ukrainian Catholic church prescribes. Viewing is at Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Church, 730 Washington Ave, Carnegie, Pa, on Wednesday, May 8 from 4pm-8pm with Parastas beginning at 7pm. Requiem Divine Liturgy is on Ascension Thursday at 10am at the same location with burial to follow at Trinity Acres in Collier. Vichnaya Pamyat’! Or, as Steve loved to sing: “Christ is risen from the dead, trampling death by death, and to those in the tombs giving life!”

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Scholarship Fund for Students
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Congratulations to the 2021 UTS Scholarship ...

July 18, 2021- The Ukrainian Technological Society of Pittsburgh announces the following recipients of its 49th Scholarship Program. Including this year’s 25 awards, the Society has made 537 awards to 320 different students residing in the Pittsburgh-tristate area, totaling $257,200. Thanks to exceptional financial support, during the COVID-19 pandemic, from the Ukrainian Community, the Society was able to award $14,000 in scholarships this year. The Ukrainian Community is invited to attend the Scholarship Awards Social on Sunday, August 1, 2021, beginning at 3:00 PM, in the Parish Hall of Saints Peter and Paul Ukrainian Orthodox G. C. Church, 220 Mansfield Boulevard, Carnegie, PA 15106. Matushka Laryssa Charest will be the guest speaker.

The Society has IRC 501(c)(3) status, and donations to the UTS Scholarship Fund are accepted year around.

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Congratulations to the 2021 UTS Scholarship Recipients!

2021 UTS Scholarship Awards

July 18, 2021- The Ukrainian Technological Society of Pittsburgh announces the following recipients of its 49th Scholarship Program. Including this year’s 25 awards, the Society has made 537 awards to 320 different students residing in the Pittsburgh-tristate area, totaling $257,200. Thanks to exceptional financial support, during the COVID-19 pandemic, from the Ukrainian Community, the Society was able to award $14,000 in scholarships this year. The Ukrainian Community is invited to attend the Scholarship Awards Social on Sunday, August 1, 2021, beginning at 3:00 PM, in the Parish Hall of Saints Peter and Paul Ukrainian Orthodox G. C. Church, 220 Mansfield Boulevard, Carnegie, PA 15106. Matushka Laryssa Charest will be the guest speaker.

The Society has IRC 501(c)(3) status, and donations to the UTS Scholarship Fund are accepted year around.

Natali Lutsiv (Carnegie)- The Maria Hulai Lion Foundation Scholarship ($1,000)

Maria Smereka (Carnegie)- George A. Nestor Memorial Scholarship ($1,000)

Stephanie Manasterski (Moon Township)- Michael Korchynsky Memorial Scholarship ($1,000)

Pani Yimost’ Inna Hohosha (Pittsburgh)- Chester and Olga Manasterski Memorial Scholarship ($500)

Nicholas Spak (Bridgeville)- Ukrainian Selfreliance of W. Pa. Federal Credit Union Scholarship ($500)

Anne Victoria Nasevich (Pittsburgh)- Michael and Anna Komichak Memorial Scholarship ($500)

Nicholas Hladio (Bradford Woods)- Ukrainian Cultural Trust Choir of Western Pennsylvania Scholarship ($500)

Cyril Sheptak (Butler)- Ukrainian Technological Society Founders’ Scholarship ($500)

Receiving Michael and Olga Lisewych Scholarships of $500 each were:

Sofiya Bidochko (Export)

Yulia Davyda (Pittsburgh)

Anastasiia Rudenko (Pittsburgh)

Victoria Swindle (Pittsburgh)

Receiving Ukrainian Technological Society Scholarships of $500 each were:

Maria Charron (Carnegie)

Andrianna Cycak (Moon Township)

Stanislav Davyda (Pittsburgh)

Amelia Freed (Baden)

Monika Karpa (Carnegie)

Kateryna Kocelko (Pittsburgh)

Yuriy Korenovskyi (Carnegie)

Maranda Kuzemka (Pittsburgh)

Matthew Manasterski (Moon Township)

John Nasevich (Pittsburgh)

Petro Pavlyshyn (Carnegie)

Anna Swindle (Pittsburgh)

Marissa Yourstowsky (Canfield, OH)

Congratulations to the 2021 UTS Scholarship Recipients!

Congratulations to the 2021 UTS Scholarship Recipients!

July 18, 2021- The Ukrainian Technological Society of Pittsburgh announces the following recipients of its 49th Scholarship Program. Including this year’s 25 awards, the Society has made 537 awards to 320 different students residing in the Pittsburgh-tristate area, totaling $257,200. Thanks to exceptional financial support, during the COVID-19 pandemic, from the Ukrainian Community, the Society was able to award $14,000 in scholarships this year. The Ukrainian Community is invited to attend the Scholarship Awards Social on Sunday, August 1, 2021, beginning at 3:00 PM, in the Parish Hall of Saints Peter and Paul Ukrainian Orthodox G. C. Church, 220 Mansfield Boulevard, Carnegie, PA 15106. Matushka Laryssa Charest will be the guest speaker.

The Society has IRC 501(c)(3) status, and donations to the UTS Scholarship Fund are accepted year around.

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Congratulations to the 2020 UTS Scholarship Recipients!

Congratulations to the 2020 UTS Scholarship Recipients!

July 27, 2020 – The Ukrainian Technological Society of Pittsburgh, PA announces the following recipients of its 48th Scholarship Program. Including this year’s 27 awards, the Society has made 512 awards to 312 different students residing in the Pittsburgh- tristate area, totaling $243,200. Please see the Society’s website at www.utspgh.org for more information. The Society has IRC 501(c )(3) status, and donations to the UTS Scholarship Fund are accepted throughout the year.

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The Ukrainian American community came together to benefit hospitalized Ukrainian soldiers at the Lviv Military Hospital

In January of 2020, the Ukrainian American community came together for Malanka, a benefit event to raise money for hospitalized Ukrainian soldiers at the Lviv Military Hospital. Even though Pittsburgh Ukrainians were not physically in Ukraine, they wanted to find a way to help those fighting for the freedom of their motherland. With continuous efforts from the Ukrainian American community of Pittsburgh, this event was a huge success with the largest turnout in its history…

Meet New Chair of Pitt Slavic Department

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(l to r) Oksana Lernatovych (Instructor of Ukrainian Language) and Nick C. Kotow (representing Ridna Shkola of Pittsburgh) meet on December 19, 2019 with DR. BELLA GRIGORYAN, the new Chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh, beginning January 1, 2020, Dr. Nancy Condee, Acting Chair of the Slavic Department and Director of the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (REEES), and Briar Somerville, Slavic Dept. Administrator, to finalize details of the new Kateryna Dowbenko Ukrainian Language Scholarships to be offered to those enrolling in Ukrainian Language courses at the University