https://www.ukrweekly.com/uwwp/endowment-in-honor-of-dmytro-shtohryn-established-at-u-of-illinois/
When we lived in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, I was a Slavic Librarian at the University of Illinois where I worked with a number of Ukrainians and other emigres from the Baltics and Russia. One I remember well was Dmytro Shtohryn. I learned a lot about cataloging, librarianship, Ukraine, and WWII from him. He was also kind and generous--a good boss. With all the recent news about Ukraine and Russia I decided to look him up. He died in 2019 at age 95. A life well lived. His obituary mentions Ralph T. Fisher who died in 2015, and he was my boss when I worked in the Russian Language Area Center which is how I ended up being a Slavic Librarian.
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