Eugene Skotzko papers

Eugene Skotzko (1907-1996), an economist and editor, was born in Jarciwci, Ukraine on December 20, 1907. He came to America and New York in 1929. He received his B.S. in foreign service from Georgetown University n 1948 and in 1954 an M.A. in international relations. He was a federal employee in the Department of Labor as staff editor (1956-1964) and later as economics editor for the Bureau of Labor Statistics' "Monthly Labor Review" (1964-1968) and a regular columnist (1968-). Skotzko was a political, social and cultural activist in the Ukrainian American and American community. In 1938, he was a delegate of U.S. and Canadian Ukrainian National Organizations to Carpatho-Ukraine. In 1937 Skotzko helped found the Ukrainian Press Service in New York; he was founder and president of the Ukrainian Bureau of Washington, D.C. (1939-1940), was a founding member of ODWU (Organization for the Rebirth of Ukraine, 1930-) and the first secretary of its Central Executive Committee (1931-1934, 1937-1938); was editor of "Vistnyk ODWU" (1932-1935); and was a founding member and first president of the United Ukrainians of Washington, D.C. (1948).