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Nameless But Not Forgotten
No one deserves to be a fatherless person. — Oleksandr Dovzhenko (Ukrainian writer, cinematographer)
People ON THE MOVE IN HAWAI‘I Compiled by Karen Iwamoto, kiwamoto@midweek.com
When I was a child, I was fascinated by reading about royal families and exploring their genealogy trees. One day, I decided to create one for my family. Everything began easily, but only to the stage of great-grandparents. That was because I did not know those who preceded them, and even my grandparents couldn’t pro- vide this information.
had been born.
In the attic, we found a
Stacey Villarino has been hired by WhiteSpace Architects as an architectural designer. She is currently posted to the company’s Hawai‘i Island branch office, where she is working on plans for a health center and a custom residence on the Hāmākua Coast. Villarino previously served as an architecture designer at RIM Architects, where she focused on industrial warehouse and military projects.
Eduardo Andrews joins Hilton Grand Vacations as senior chief engineer of the Hawai‘i region. In this role, based on Hawai‘i Island, he will oversee engineering needs at Kings Land in Waikoloa, and provide support and guidance to HGV’s engineering teams across all islands. Prior to this, Andrews was HGV‘s chief engineer for over a decade and was essential to the openings of The Grand Islander, Ocean Tower and Maui Bay Villas.
Cynde Vannatta is general manager for Outrigger Hawai‘i’s Royal Sea Cliff by Outrigger in Kailua-Kona. She will ensure operations are effectively managed and work closely with on-site departments to maintain profitability, customer satisfaction and company standards. Vannatta was previously with Marriott Vacation Club, where she was marketing manager for the Waikoloa Ocean Club.
As I got older, I learned that many of our relatives had died from famine or were exiled, so the memory of them has not survived. With deeper knowl- edge of the Ukrainian history of repressions, my desire for creating a family tree grew dimmer.
When the Rus- sian-Ukrainian war broke out in February, my grand- father called me and said that if something happened suddenly, he would like this vyshyvanka to stay with me so I could bequeath it to our future generations through the
centuries and honor the mem- ory of our ancestors. That day I received one of the greatest missions of my life.
never forgotten, ancestors.
wooden chest. Opening it, we found an embroidered dress (a vyshyvanka, a traditional national Ukra- nian costume), which my grandfather’s great-grand- mother had sewn herself. The moment I touched it, I felt myself a little girl fi- nally holding the threads of direct connection to the suffering, the resilience, the care and love of part of her ancestry.
The author’s grandfather gifted
her a vyshyvanka, a traditional h
Ukranian outfifit that his own great- U
Stacey Villarino
Eduardo Andrews
Cynde Vannatta
with Katherine Bakai
grandmother sewed. PHOTOS
COURTESY KATHERINE BAKAI C
to preserve our family her- itage. A precious memory of them is encoded in this vyshyvanka, which waited in a chest for 150 years to unite me and my nameless, but
Katherine Bakai lives in Kyiv, Ukraine. She is studying international law at Kyiv-Mo- hyla Academy.
Chasing The Light is pro- duced by Lynne Johnson and Robin Stephens Rohr.
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But one day my grandfa- ther and I went to clean the abandoned house where he
Now at age 20, I finally re- alize that knowing the names of those who came before me was not absolutely necessary
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