[aaus-list] Champions of Philanthropy: Book honoring Peter and Doris Kule

[nataliek at ualberta.ca]

Posting a press release about a book dedicated to Peter and Doris Kule.


Champions of Philanthropy: Book honoring Peter and Doris Kule

Peter and Doris Kule, exceptional individuals who have influenced the  
course of Canadian higher education, were honored on July 2 with the  
presentation of a book dedicated to them and their work.  Entitled  
Champions of Philanthropy: Peter and Doris Kule and the Endowments,  
the book was edited by Serge Cipko and Natalie Kononenko.  The two  
editors made the presentation.  Also present were Kule family members  
Nick and Josephine Kuleba, Ken and Debbie Pasnak, Christine Enns and  
Richard Turner, Peter Radesh and Audrey Manual, the spouses of the two  
editors, Jacqueline Tait and Peter Holloway, and Anna Biscoe and  
Catherine Szabo who represented the Faculty of Arts at the University  
of Alberta.

The book dedicated to the Kules gives their biographies and chronicles  
their contributions to Canadian higher education.  Peter Kule, a  
retired accountant, came to Canada as a young man of 18.  He quickly  
learned English and used his remarkable aptitude for mathematics to  
begin studying for a career in accounting.  Enterprising, resourceful,  
and exceptionally innovative, he not only mastered his chosen field,  
becoming a trusted and admired accountant, but also learned from  
everything he did.  He turned his experiences working as a busboy, a  
part-time job he held to support himself, into a second career as an  
enormously successful real estate investor in the hospitality  
industry.  Boundless energetic and dedicated to the Ukrainian  
community, Peter helped found the Ukrainian Professional and  
Businessman’s Club in Edmonton and began volunteer work early,  
offering free accounting services to many organizations.

Doris was born east of Edmonton in Boian, Alberta.  As energetic as  
her husband, she was an award-winning athlete, a crafts person, a  
gardener, and a person who deeply loved education.  After earning her  
degree in teaching, Doris worked in several rural schools and then in  
Beverly, which later became part of Edmonton.  Together with her  
husband, she engaged in a variety of volunteer activities, especially  
through the Ukrainian Catholic Women’s League of Canada at St.  
Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in Edmonton.

As the book attests, the Kules have not only led exemplary lives,  
these have been major supporters of higher education, endowing chairs  
and providing other forms of support to the University of Alberta and  
to Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton and to the University of  
Ottawa and Saint Paul University in Ottawa.

A formal launch for Champions of Philanthropy: Peter and Doris Kule  
and the Endowments is planned for the fall.  It will be hosted by the  
University of Alberta and all contributors to the book, as well as  
family and friends, will be invited to attend.


Natalie Kononenko
Kule Chair of Ukrainian Ethnography
Editor, Folklorica
University of Alberta
Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
200 Arts Building
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E6
Phone: 780-492-6810
Web: http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/uvp/