One of the first pioneers of Plast in Australia in the 1950s.
He was the first Stanytsia president in Adelaide from 1951 to 1956, and then from 1961 to 1964.
His Plast career began in Ukraine in the 1930s.
He belonged to the Lisovi Chorty kurin’ and was one of the first four members in Australia, founded in 1955.
His pseudonym was ‘Tourist’ because he was always everywhere.
He was awarded the silver and gold Sv Yuri.
He was the komendant of many Plast meetings and camps and an advisor to the National Plast Museum.
He was also an active and long-standing member of the Ukrainian community in Adelaide.
He always came to Plast events with his banjo and accompanied the singing, especially around the Plast campfire.
