- JULY 2004
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Faculty
Member and Students Provide Instruction and Humanitarian Aid in Ukraine
Dr. Charles Pryor, Head
of Educational Leadership and Counseling, and two
ULM
students, Steve Traxler, a construction major and Stuart Traxler, a
criminal justice major, joined a team of ten volunteers who traveled to
eastern
Ukraine
from June 17 to June 27 to provide instruction and humanitarian aid in a
children’s camp there. In addition to the camp work, the team served as
consultants to an orphanage recently established to provide a home for up
to twenty-nine homeless Ukrainian children.
The team, made up of
eleven members of North Monroe Baptist Church, with expertise in teaching,
ministry, health care, recreation, and community planning, included Dr.
Charles Pryor, Steve and Stuart Traxler of ULM, Lois Pryor, an elementary
teacher, David McCormick, a music minister, Dr. Shelly McCormick, a
pediatrician, Lilly Traxler, a cosmetologist, Joanne Poret, Director of
Monroe City Zoning and Planning, and Edward and Joyce Schroth, a retired
industrial arts teacher and a retired dental assistant, and
Katie Sheppard, a journalism student at Mississippi College.
All participants, traveling at their own expense, applied their
knowledge and skills to meeting the needs of the 210 children in
attendance and to improving the quality of life in the surrounding
environment.
As a result of
ULM
’s presence in the Ukrainian community, Svetlana Victorovna Bondar, a
key person in the children’s camp and orphanage work, will be attending
graduate school at
ULM
this fall to earn the master’s degree in counseling. Ms. Bondar is a
proven professional in her field of work. She has done undergraduate work
in
Iowa
as a participant in a highly selective exchange program and is a graduate
of
State Lugansk Pedagogical University
,
Ukraine
, where she maintained an undergraduate GPA of 3.4.
ULM
is pleased to welcome Svetlana to
ULM
and to
Monroe
. Her long-range plans include continuing her work in
Ukraine
with specialization in providing services to that country’s high orphan
population.
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