GCC Russian Club: Russian Heritage Day

Russian Heritage Day

Speakers, Food, Music, Exhibits Friday — November 14, 1997 — 10 AM to 3 PM In Student Union Lounge	Click on Pictures to Enlarge
Program
	10 a.m. : Russian Exhibits Art Music Literature Christmas / New Year Language Samovars
11 a.m.: Speakers Welcome: Penny Smith, Russian Club President Andrei Conovaloff: "The Russian Settlers of Glendale, Arizona" Fae Veronin: "Growing up in the Russian Community"
	12 noon: Lunch Solianka — potato and fish soup Pirog s miasom — meat pie Pirog s kapustoi — vegetable pie "Black Russian" sandwich
12:30 p.m.: Barney Lorenz "Pisanki" — Creating Ukrainian Easter eggs
	1 p.m.: Snacks Samovar Russian tea Russian Cookies
Russian Heritage Day recognized the valley's emigrants from the Former Soviet Union — from the Spiritual Christians who came before the Russian Revolution to those who came after perestroika. Russian Spiritual Christian demographer Andrew Conovaloff used maps to demonstrate the rapid expansion and collapse of the 4 villages from Russia that at their peak in 1920 occupied 10 square miles at the western edge of Glendale. Fae Veronin, who is currently working on a pictorial history of the Arizona Russians, described how they survived the depression and endured to the present. About 400 students and community members, including many descendants of Spiritual Christians, from Russia were in attendance.

For more information contact: Dr. Joyce Story, Russian instructor
Department of Foreign Languages (she retired in 2006-2007)
Telephone: 435-3686 — E-mail: story@gc.maricopa.edu
Original web-site: http://staff.gc.maricopa.edu/~jstory/rhd.htm

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