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 Andrew John Conovaloff: "The Russian Settlers of Glendale, Arizona" Fae Veronin: "Growing up in the Molokan 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 Russian emigrants -- from the Molokans who came before the Russian Revolution to those who came after perestroika. Molokan demographer Andrew Conovaloff used maps to demonstrate the rapid expansion and collapse of the four communes that at their peak in 1920 occupied eight square miles of the west edge of Glendale. Fae Veronin, who is currently working on a pictoral history of the Arizona Molokans, described how they survived the depression and endured to the present. About 400 students and community members, including many descendants of Molokans and Jumpers, 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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