George A. Perfecky, M.A., ’98, Ph.D., a professor for 50 years in La Salle University’s Department of Foreign Languages, died Dec. 28, 2019. He began teaching in the Department of Foreign Languages at La Salle in 1965. For a half-century, he taught and developed courses in Russian, German, Ukrainian, Polish and, for the last decade, Spanish, after receiving a Master’s degree in Bilingual Studies. The core of Dr. Perfecky’s academic and research work centered on Old Church Slavonic Chronicles. His most important scholarly contributions were his book The Galician-Volynian Chronicle: An Annotated Translation, which was published in Harvard’s Series in Ukrainian Studies, and related works about the chronicle as a source of Ukrainian language and historiography. He translated the 17th century Hustyn Chronicle, which represented the first attempt of early chroniclers to write a systematic history of Ukraine, and the Bykhovets Chronicle. He co-authored Intermediate Ukrainian II: A Manual for Individualized Instruction, and authored vocabulary supplements to all four volumes of the Ukrainian language series. He wrote widely-published articles on the status of the Ukrainian language in the Ukrainian SSR and on the linguistic Russification of Ukrainian and reviewed several series of Ukrainian dictionaries. Dr. Perfecky was a member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society of America, the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United States, and various American associations.