The ability to integrate these three ingredients is a sure sign of a genuine leader. Stephan Chemych was neither a statesman nor a political figure. Yet he combined all the best features that we would like to see in a public figure and that are almost extinct nowadays. There could be different views about creating a center for Ukraine-focused scholarship in the United States, a project that 40 years ago sounded more like a dream or a fantasy. But one thing is clear, Stephan Chemych and his associates were instrumental in establishing a Ukrainian presence in North American consciousness.
Ukrainian studies are now part and parcel of the international community of scholars.
Stephan Chemych lived long enough to see the program he founded have an impact on the science and culture of independent Ukraine. He took special pride in the fact that a graduate of Ukrainian Harvard became one of the co-founders and later a rector of the Lviv Theological Academy. But most of all Stephan was an extremely honest, kind and modest person, a family man, devoted to his wife, his daughter and his son. He was a great man and this is how he will always be remembered.