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Published Quarterly by the American Council for Polish CultureSummer/Fall 2010 Vol. 61 No. 2,3

To all our members and friends who forsome reason or other were unable to

attend the 62nd Annual Convention inRapid City, South Dakota, we express ourdeep regrets that you could not join us.This year ’s annual convention whosetheme was “Carving a Dream” drew oversixty participants from various parts of thecountry. On arrival at the convention site,the Radisson Hotel in downtown RapidCity, each conventioneer received a strawcowboy hat and a red bandana at check-in. Business meetings were held in thehotel and bus tours to the various locationswere a short distance away. The conven-tion co-chairs, Debbie Majka and RichardWiermanski made sure we visited all the

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tourist possibilities in the area.Every one of our conventions isunique and this one was espe-cially so. It connected us to theAmerican side of our Polish/American Heritage. The localsout West were most friendlyand for those of us from theWashington, DC area theyseemed to be very patriotic, re-flecting the goodness and will-ingness to serve that made thiscountry great.

We also had great reason tobe extremely proud of our ownPol/Am, Korczak-Ziolkowskiand his family. When visitingthe Crazy Horse Monument welearned of his myriad accomplishments notonly with the monument but in additionto it. He appears to have been singularlyblessed to do all the things he did and to

keep his strength and resolve through itall. He was also blessed with a wife andchildren who cared to continue his dreamand some good friends who support it.

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Co-chairs Richard Wiermanski, left, and DebbieMajka set the convention’s Western theme

Conventioneers at Crazy Horse Monument

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From the PresidentDebbie Majka

The opening ceremonies on Wednesday,July 14, consisted of the Welcome by Presi-dent Debbie Majka who also lead the meet-ing in singing the Polish Anthem.

The Lakota Flag Song was sung byWhitney Rencountre (Tatanka Najin,Standing Buffalo in Dakota language). Heis Hunkpati Dakota from Crow CreekSioux tribe of South Dakota. The FlagSong was written by Ellis Chips and re-flects the participation of the Lakota Indi-ans proudly serving in the U.S. Army inseveral battles.

He was followed by Stephen YellowHawk who sang the American Anthem.

Father Canon Philip Majka gave the in-vocation after which the Mayor of RapidCity, Alan Hanks, greeted all the conven-tioneers and extended a very warm wel-come and invited all to return anytime.

Pres. Debbie Majka asked for a momentof silence to honor and remember thosewho died in that fateful airline crash inRussia on April 10, 2010 that claimed thelives of Poland’s President, his wife andmany other Polish dignitaries on their wayto ceremonies at Katyn. Richard Wierman-ski, convention co-chair, greeted all and in-troduced the Keynote speaker, ConsulGeneral of the Republic of Poland fromChicago, Zygmunt Matynia. Consul

We have often heard it said that a picture’s wortha thousand words! So I trust that by looking at

the pictures in this edition of the Polish Heritage, whichwere taken at this year’s convention in Rapid City, SD,you’ll begin to understand what an absolutely fantas-tic experience it was. If you were there, you know; ifyou weren’t, you missed an extraordinary experience. The dream of LakotaSioux Chief Henry Standing Bear to show the world that “the red man hasheroes, too” comes to life in the monumental work of the sculptor, KorczakZiolkowski. His wife, Ruth and their ten children are continuing his legacy to“carve the dream”. Our convention in the Black Hills of South Dakota pre-sented the perfect opportunity for a blending of our American and Polish-American heritage in the West. Congratulations to all whose vision and deter-mination made this convention a reality.

And while we attempted to maximize sightseeing at Mt. Rushmore, BearCountry USA, Deadwood City and Crazy Horse, we did manage to squeeze insome ACPC business. Two items of import of the many that were discussedduring our business sessions are a Pulaski scholarship challenge and the estab-lishment of a small grants program to aid our affiliated organizations. Thisyear, the Pulaski Scholarship Committee was able to award only one $5,000scholarship from the endowment earnings. And, it appears that we will be ableto afford only one $5,000 grant in 2011. Our treasurer, Greg Biestek and hiswife, Monica, who were unable to attend the convention, issued a challenge toall members of our affiliated and supporting organizations, as well as indi-vidual members and all sympathetic members of the community, to match their$500 challenge gift to encourage contributions and gather sufficient funds forat least a second $5,000 scholarship to be awarded in 2011. In the words of Gregand Monica, “join us in our challenge and help another young person com-plete his/her advanced education. We await your response”.

I am proud to announce that the ACPC board has taken an important stepforward to assist our affiliates and has approved the proposal made by Re-cording Secretary, Marcia Lewandowska, to establish an affiliate small grantsprogram. This matching grant, up to $500, would enable affiliates to sponsorprograms in their respective communities, which they might not otherwise beable to undertake. The criteria and application will be mailed separately toeach affiliate. The deadline for applying is September 30, 2010. The Council ispleased to assist our affiliates to maintain visibility in their respective commu-nities, to expand their outreach with a view toward increasing and strengthen-ing their membership and to enhance their profile in the area of Polish arts andculture. I urge you to take advantage of this opportunity.

And as I write of affiliate sponsorship of cultural programs, I’m reminded ofseveral important anniversaries in our Polish heritage calendar, which occurthis year and which present a golden opportunity to share information aboutour heritage and culture in our respective communities: the bicentennial of thebirth of Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; the 150th anniversary of the birth of pia-nist, composer and statesman, Ignacy Jan Paderewski; the 75th anniversary ofthe death of the great coloratura soprano, pianist and violinist, MarcellaKochanska-Sembrich; the 600th anniversary of the defeat of the Teutonic Knightsat the Battle of Grunwald; the centenary of the first performance of the hymnRota, the Oath, music composed by Feliks Nowowiejski to the poem authoredby Maria Konopnicka. We have a glorious heritage; let’s keep up the goodwork of fostering an interest in our heritage and culture.

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Jasmine Pickner, Hoop dancer

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Matynia took his cue from the theme forthe convention “Carving a Dream” andadapted it to Poles’ carving their dreamof a democratic Poland. At the close ofthe ceremonies, Jackie Droleski and Bar-bara Lemecha presented a bouquet on be-half of the Council in expressing pride inDebbie Majka’s appointment as HonoraryCounsul of the Republic of Poland for thePhiladelphia area. Consul Matynia theninvited all to attend the Chopin/Paderewski Concert in Chicago later in themonth.

A delicious luncheon followed. Duringthe lunch, Jasmine Pickner, from the CrowCreek Sioux spoke about the traditionalhoop dance which she wastaught by her adoptive father,Dallas Chief Eagle. She hastaught and performed thedance all over the world. Thehoop dance was originally per-formed by men and she is oneof a growing number of womenperforming the intricate dance.She has won numerous compe-titions and is a leader in thefield. At the end of her perfor-

mance she was joined by her two chil-dren, daughter Savannah Rose and sonCaydo. She then had them join a fewvolunteers from the audience to learn afew hoop movements. It was a most en-joyable luncheon.

On Thursday, after the morning busi-ness session, lunch followed with guestspeaker, our own member, JaroslawGolembiowski, well known composerand musician. Mr. Golembiowski spokeabout the Chopin/Paderewski centen-nial celebrations world wide and en-couraged all to attend one or some ofthem. After lunch, buses left for BearCountry, a wildlife preserve. From BearCountry they proceeded to Mt.Rushmore. At Rushmore, dinner in theirrestaurant was followed by a patrioticceremony and light show. The visitorsreturned to the hotel tired but pleased.

On Friday, after lunch, the bus de-parted for Deadwood, a replica ofthe old mining town where Wild BillHickock and Calamity Jane are bur-ied on Boot Hill. Conventioneershad time to tour, shop or gamble.The bus then took them several milesup the road to the Circle B Ranchwhere a Chuck-Wagon Dinner (BarBQ Beef, Buffalo and Chicken withbaked potato and beans, biscuits anddrinks) just like the fare cowboys hadon the trail was served. After themeal the owners and two of theirsons entertained the audience sing-ing familiar cowboy songs. Theirprofessional talented singing en-thralled the listeners who joined inon familiar songs.

Business session

Cowboysentertain

Welcome from Mayor Alan Hanks

Jaroslaw Golembiowski discusses world wideChopin/Paderewski centennial celebrations

Opening ceremony singers Whitney Rencountre and StephenYellow Hawk

Invocation by Father Majka

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Saturday’s final business session includedthe elections conducted by JacquelineKolowski, Nominations Chair person. Atlunch, a very interesting talk by DougJacobsen, the author of “Night of Flames:A Novel of World War Two” delighted theguests. He recounted the background forhis book and for the events that inspiredhim and why he chose a Polish setting.

After lunch, the bus left for the CrazyHorse Monument. On arriving at themonument grounds, visitors were showna film about the history behind the monu-ment. What has been accomplished so farwas overwhelming. Korczak had to bedivinely inspired and blessed with thedrive and stamina to accomplish so much.It made all the attendees very proud of thisreally great man who claimed his Polishheritage and did so much for others andtheir heritage. During the time after thefilm, members of the tour visited the mu-seum which included Korczak’s home andworkshop and gift shops. According toRuth Ziolkowski’s letter, the ACPC Post-

Author Doug Jacobsen’s presentationcaptivates audience

Newly ElectedOfficersBoard of Directors:Ilona Frederic, Rochester, NY Marie Hejnosz,Philadelphia, PAMary Heslin, Hartford, CTFlorence Landridge, Hartford, CTCarolyn Meleski, Detroit, MIWalter Wojcik, Philadelphia, PA

Auditing CommitteeAlice Laning, Washington, DC

Nominating CommitteeEdyta Dudek, Minneapolis, MNEd Pawlowski, Washington, DC

Credentials & GrievancesCommitteeAlicia Dutka, Chicago, ILMatthew Meleski, Detroit, MIIrene Musman, Philadelphia, PA

Barbara Lemecha and Henrietta Nowakowski reporting on ourpart in the National Social studies Convention

Irena Mirecki reportson the success of the2010 Youth LeadershipConference

Carol Surma presents token of appreciation to co-chairsMajka and Wiermanski for organizing a fabulous convention

Newly elected board members are sworn in by Canon Philip Majka

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Footnote:Sixteen girls and five boys from the Dako-tas, Alaska, Oklahoma and New Mexicostarted classes this summer at the first Sum-mer University Program at Crazy HorseMemorial. The Ziolkowskis envisioned auniversity and medical training centershortly after dedicating the nonprofit Me-morial in 1948 to honor and help AmericanIndians. On her 80th birthday, Ruth, thesculptors wife, wished for a dormitory andclassroom facility for which well wishers

humous Jan deRosen Award is dis-played in their library. Dinner in thenewly built Restaurant, reminiscentof Zakopane architecture, followedwith the presentation of our AnnualAwards.

The Founders Awards were pre-sented to: Jaqueline Droleski by MaryEllen Tyszka, 2nd Vice President ofACPC and to: Mary Heslin byBernadette Wiermanski, 1st VicePresident. The ACPC SpecialAchievement Award was presentedto all those who work to carry onKorczak’s Dream by ACPC President,Deborah Majka and accepted on be-half of the group by Korczak’s daugh-ter, Jadwiga.

When the sun set, a laser-lightshow titled “Legends in Light” dra-matically lit up the monument withvarying lights, Indian symbols andstory telling graphics. No part of themonument has been governmentfunded. Everything was paid for byprivate donations from school chil-dren to benefactors. The light showwas made possible recently, by a be-quest from the estate of Mrs. Kroc,whose husband, Ray, the founder ofMcDonald’s was a close friend ofKorczak.

Sunday morning, a Mass was cel-ebrated by Father Canon Philip Majkain the hotel at 8 am for those who werenot already on their way home andwished to attend. It was a fitting endto a wonderful convention.

M.F.

came up with funds for planning and engi-neering designs. Other philanthropistsfunded the construction and provided an en-dowment to provide the educationalprogram’s ongoing operating costs.

The Crazy Horse classes are aimed at col-lege preparation and freshman-level English,Algebra and American Indian Studies. Thestudents earn up to 12 college credit hours,including time working in paid internshipsat the Memorial’s visitor complex.

Deborah M. Majka, President ofACPC, has been appointed asHonorary Consul of the Republic ofPoland in Philadelphia. She waspresented flowers on behalf of theconventioneers by Jackie Kowolski

Awards ChairMary Flanagan

opens the awardsceremony

Mary Heslin receives Founders Award fromBernadette Wiermanski, 1st VP

Jaqueline Droleski receives Founders awardfrom Mary Ellen Tyszka, 2nd VP

President Debbie Majka presents SpecialAchievement Award Jadwiga Ziolkowski

Boot Hill visitors at the grave of Wild Bill Hicock . Calamity Jane is buried in plot next to him

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Atop Crazy Horse

Mount Rushmore entrance

Bear country

Deadwood scenes

Hoop Dance lesson

Below Crazy Horse

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The Youth Leadership Conference orga-nized by the American Council for Pol-

ish Culture is a week-long program inWashington DC in which young personsof Polish descent meet persons of Polishdescent in leadership positions in politics,business, media, academia and arts. Thisyear, the Conference was held on June 20to 26. Housing was in a dormitory ofGeorge Washington University in down-town Washington. The 13 participantsranged in age from 17 to 23, and came fromvarious cities, mainly on the East Coast.

The program was organized by IrenaMirecki, YLC Chair, and her husband Ted.Janet Beane, a Board member of the Pol-ish American Arts Association of Washing-ton (an ACPC Affiliate) was chaperone anddorm mother to the group.

The participants arrived on a Sunday af-ternoon and settled into their dorm rooms;the program began with an orientationmeeting and pizza dinner that evening.The rest of the week was filled with ses-sions and presentations by a variety ofspeakers, a summary of which follows.

Monday’s program began with the key-note address, entitled “The Essence ofLeadership,” given by Peter Podbielski, aretired Army colonel who had served indiplomatic military posts abroad, includ-ing a term as Chief of the Office of DefenseCooperation, US Embassy Warsaw, Po-land. His presentation was not a dry lec-ture, as he elicited discussion from theparticipants on the points he presented.

The next point of the program was atthe Embassy of the Republic of Poland,where Ambassador Robert Kupiecki metwith the group. We were pleasantly sur-prised that he found the time from his busyschedule to spend over half an hour withus, as the participants introduced them-selves. Among the Embassy staff who gavepresentations was a young diplomat who

had taken’part in YLC over ten years ago,so the current participants could readilyrelate to him. We ended by having lunchthere. The Embassy program was orga-nized by Minister Marek Konarzewski andDr. Grazyna Zebrowska of the Science,Education and Technology Section.

That same day, Monday, our next ses-sion was at the Institute of World Politics,a graduate school of national security andinternational affairs, whose web site(wwwiwp.edu) states that it is “dedicatedto developingleaders with asound understand-ing of internationalrealities and theethical conduct ofstatecraft, based on

knowledge and appreciation of the prin-ciples of the American political economyand the Western moral tradition.” Weheard several presentations, concluded bya talk by author, history professor and IWPacademic dean Marek Chodakiewicz,whose two-hour ad-lib presentation wasbrilliant - the participants hung on his ev-ery word as he ranged over a variety oftopics, including some from Polish historyand others of the present, particularly theIraq war.

On Tuesday, the day began with a pre-sentation at the Library of Congress byRegina Frackowiak, Head of the EuropeanReading Room. The LOC staff brought outseveral rare items relating to Poland, in-cluding an album of signatures of Polishschool children on the occasion of the 150th

anniversary of US independence, and alsoin thanks to the people of the United Statesfor their support of Polish independenceafter WW I, and food assistance after thatwar. Next was a tour of the US Capitolbuilding, arranged by the office of Sena-tor Barbara Mikulski of Maryland.

In the afternoon, the group met with Dr.Andrzej Raczko, outgoing Alternate Ex-ecutive Director at the International Mon-etary Fund, in the IMF group of countriesthat includes Poland. The day ended witha tour of Arlington National Cemetery,with stops at the Kennedy gravesite, theTomb of the Unknowns for the changingof the guard, and Arlington House, themansion once owned by Robert E. Lee andconfiscated when his land was national-ized to provide a burial ground for CivilWar Union soldiers.

The 2010 Youth Leadership Conference By Ted Mirecki

At the International Monetary Fund. From left: Jean de Dalmas, Patricia Wnek, Ted Mirecki,Alexandra Wojdakowska, Saundra Malanowicz, Pamela Migalska, Janet Beane, StephanieCimoch, Dr. Andrzej Raczko of IMF, Agata Maczuga, Peter Roman, Max Korzan, AlexanderHejnosz Martyna Rybak, Jan Stefanski, Stuart Simon.

Embassy of theRepublic of

Poland. Fromleft, Stuart

Simon, MaxKorzan, Amb.

Robert Kupiecki,Jan Stefanski,

Jean de Dalmas

StephanieCimochfromPhiladelphiapresents theConferenceT-shirt toACPCPresidentDebbieMajka, whocame to thelast sessionand theclosingdinner.

Library of Congress.Title page of a com-

merative albumfrom the people ofPoland to those ofthe United States,signed by govern-ment officials and

25,000 schoolchildren

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“Dream and Deeds” was the theme ofthe 2009 conference in Atlanta, Georgia,which took place November 13-15. Onceagain we took advantage of this great op-portunity for our “Polish Perspectives” tointeract with teachers, provide them withhistorically accurate facts and highlightPolish contributions to American andWorld history that are not readily avail-able in American textbooks.

This 89th Annual Conference that gath-ered 4000 educators. We presented Polishperspectives on World War II and Polishcontributions to the Allied victory. Since2009 marked the 70th Anniversary of thebeginning of WW II and the 20th of theSolidarity Movement’s success in expel-ling communism, we prepared materialsthat highlighted those accomplishments.We invested in a new display unit andfilled it with invaluable educational post-ers that we created especially for thisyear’s exhibit. A poster, Poland First toFight, was our main focus supported byposters featuring Irena Sendler’s heroicdeeds, the Battle ofMonte Cassino, Solidar-ity and other historicalfacts.

Our tables were filledwith printed materialand books such as; “AQuestion of Honor”,“Null and Void’, “War-saw Uprising”, “Enigma”,“Night of Flames”, “TheMermaid and theMesserschmitt” and pe-rennial favorites“Zegota” and “Legacyof the White Eagle”among others. We alsohad for distribution, asmaller version of theposters on display, book marks, WorldWarII documentary DVD’s, and our owncustom-designed CD containing many re-sources hyperlinked to web sites of all ofthe supporting organizations as well asother pertinent resources

Another very important addition thisyear was the World War II brochure “ForYour Freedom and Ours”, reprinted bvACPC. with permission from the PolishCombatants of Canada. All 4000 regis-trants received a copy in their NCSS con-vention tote bag. Some of the teacherslooked us up because of that brochure. Itwas a grand idea, very well received andtruly money well spent.

As we report every year, this AnnualConference is the largest of its kind whereprofessionals from all over the UnitedStates and across the globe attend and we,the American Council for Polish Culture,are part of it for the ninthyear. This conference of-fers teachers an opportu-nity to find new materialsto use in their classroomand we were there readyto proudly present PolishPerspectives. We are de-termined to inspire teach-ers to engage their stu-dents to explore, investi-gate and leam about Pol-ish physicists engineers,chemists poets composersand other brilliant mindsof Poland.This was prob-ably our best year thus far,not only because of ourdisplay and its content butbecause, for the first time,

the American Council forPolish Culture was pre-senting, before a live audi-ence, a program entitled“World War II: Perspec-tives on Fear”. We were se-lected as Presenters by theNCSS Conference PlanningCommittee out of 900 ap-plicants. The presentationdealt with the psychologi-cal factor effecting indi-viduals’ response to war-time tragedy.

Meg Heubeck, fromUniversity of Virginia Cen-ter for Politics with EmilyGrannis, her intern, andHenrietta Nowakowski

spent months gathering information,translating eye witness accounts, personalbiographies, and other documents for thispower point presentation. The result wasa very powerful program. It was held in alarge meeting room with Meg Heubeck asthe main speaker and over 150 teachers inattendance. The presentation was aug-mented with visual historical military andconcentration camp artifacts. We werevery fortunate to have them on loan fromthe World War II Museums of the, OrchardLake Schools in Michigan for the 3 days inAtlanta.

After the presentation, an invigorating‘question and answer” segment followedwith interesting exchanges of historicalfacts. Many teachers after the session camedirectly to our booth to see what else we

had on display, full ofquestions and interest inour exhibit. Incidentallythis same presentationwill be published in theNational Council for theSocial Studies’ officialjournal “Social Educa-tion” which Meg Heu-beck prepared.Now for the “icing on

the cake” if you will.Among many teachersthat came to see our ex-hibit directly from thepresentation, curious tosee what else we had tooffer, was a man fromLong Island, NY withvery interesting feed-

back. He was very well informed aboutPoland and Polish WW II history. He cameto see our exhibit in past years and trea-sures the books we gave him, especiallythe Forgotten Holocaust. This non-Polelearned much about the history of wartimePoland and how it fought against the Ger-mans from start to finish. He was so verycomplimentary about our efforts to bringour whole story to light, and said, “somany facts are so little known and so littleis written about Polish contributions”. Outof this productive exchange came an invi-tation to present our program at the NewYork State Conference for the Social Stud-ies on March 4 & 5, 2010 in Rye, NY. There,we reached a much younger group, notthe same crowd that attends the nationalmeeting, a totally new audience. We re-peated the five presentation and also ar-ranged a display table with WWII materi-als.

This vision, which started with IreneSzewiola and Wally West, continues togrow and make an impact. At the core ofthis success are organizations and indi-viduals that are financially committed tothis effort. For this commitment, we thankyou!

This year the 90* Annual NCSS “Vistas,Visions and Voices” will be in Denver,Colorado on November 12-14, which willgive us another opportunity to “Keep ThisHeritage Alive”.

The 89lh National Conference for the Social Studies (NCSS).

Barbara Lemecha

Henrietta Nowakowska

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“Vistas Visions and Voices” is thetheme of this year’s National Conferencefor the Social Studies in Denver, Coloradoon November 12-14, 2010. As every yearfor the last 10 years, we are actively pre-paring to present our Polish Perspectivesexhibit. We are pleased to report that Ceiland Ray Glembocki will chair the projectthis year. It is a pleasure to watch Ceil em-brace this event with enthusiasm that’s re-flected in her visions and proposals of newideas for our Polish Perspectives.

We at ACPC are very pleased with thesuccess of this project and realize its im-portance. The proof of this is the financialsupport we received at the last ACPC Con-vention in Rapid City. Delegates andguests enthusiastically supported this an-nual project with pledges of financial sup-port and we actually collected over$1,300.00 during our presentation. As theoutgoing chairs of this annual exhibit wewould like to take this opportunity to ex-press our gratitude to all of our friendswho faithfully supported us in our com-mitment to this event and helped us grow.

ACPC accomplished a lot in the last 10years at this gathering of educators andcurricula writers, but there is a lot more todo and we are committed to continue thisworthwhile project in Denver this Novem-ber. Again, we need you to continue yourhelp by providing materials, books and asalways we invite all organizations and in-dividuals to support this rewardingproject with a financial commitment.Thank you again,

Barbara Lemecha andHenrietta Nowakowski

To “Keep Our Heritage Alive”, pleasemake checks payable to ACPC/NCSS andmail to: Cecilia Glembocki

911 Saddleback Court Mclean, VA 22102-1317

There aren’t many of us who wouldcelebrate our birthdays at the New

York State Regional Social Studies Con-ference, but that’s exactly what BarbaraLemecha did Thursday and Friday,March 4 & 5 along with HenriettaNowakowska. This is the first time thatACPC was represented at a regional con-ference, this one held in Rye Brook, NY,

Approximately 800 social studiesteachers from New York State partici-pated. They participated in workshopsand visited the many booths representedthere. Although smaller than the Na-tional Conference on Social Studies,ACPC continued featuring the theme ofthe 70th anniversary of the start of WWII,highlighting Poland as the first to fightas well as featuring the heroine whosaved 2,500 Jewish children, IrenaSendler. By distributing the handoutswhich show all the battles were Poles par-ticipated, we work to dispel the miscon-ception that Poles collaborated with theNazis. Meg Heubeck, of the UVA, in be-half of ACPC, gave the presentation,given last Fall in Atlanta at the NationalConference, entitled “perspectives offear” through which she attempts to givea sense of what the atmosphere was likein Poland during the War, a unique situ-ation given Poland having two en-emies—the Nazis and the Soviets.

We have received two add’l invita-tions—next year’s New York regional inRochester and to the Long Island socialstudies conference in October—all it’lltake is manpower. The National Confer-ence will take place in Denver, CO.

Sto Lat, Basia. Thanks to you and toHenrietta for your willingness to travelto NY to have ACPC represented there.To all ACPC Board Members: Please notethat Basia and Henrietta will not be con-tinuing to handle this project and newChairs are needed. They’ve given sevenyears of their respective lives to thisproject and have done an outstanding jobof getting our message out to the teach-ers about the accomplishments of Polesand Polish Americans. Please think aboutgetting involved in this project; there’ssuch satisfaction from interaction withthe teachers. All volunteers are welcome.This is a most worthwhile project. When-ever I travel to these conferences, I’mcontinually amazed at how little isknown about us and how gratifying it isto bring in many cases this new informa-tion to the teachers who will share it willtheir students. DM

Congratulations to Marion V. Winters,former President of ACPC who was

chosen to receive The Pride of PoloniaAward. The award was created y the Ex-ecutive Board of the Polish Apostolate andis presented annually to honor individu-als who have made a unique contributionto the life of American Polonia. Its firstrecipient, in 1992 was John Cardinal Krol.

Past recipients include WalterZachariasiewicz and Blanka Rosenstielboth former ACPC presidents, and PolishAmerican Congress President EdwardMoskal and historian Edward Pinkowski.

The award presented on Sunday August29, 2010 at the conclusion of the 12:30 pmMass at the National Shrine of Our Ladyof Czestochowa, Doylestown, PA. wasfollowed at 2:20 pm by the official open-ing of the Adam Styka Art Competitionand Exhibition at the Shrine by the PolishHeritage Society of Philadelphia.

We are proud to count Marion and JoLouise Winters as our members andpleased that Marion has been given therecognition he so richly deserves.

Pride of PoloniaNational Conference for the Social Studies

The new NCSScoordinators Raymondand Ceil Glembocki

Marion Winters

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Founder of PHA celebrates100th Birthday

Stanley Ciesielski founder and firstpresident of PHA was honored at a

celebration of the 35th Annual Scholar-ship Program. A scholarship was givenin his honor for dedication not only tothe organization but also for promotingPoland’s many causes during his life-time.

In the thirty five years since its incep-tion the Scholarship Program has fundedover $215,000. in grants to further theeducation of Polish Students.

A lavish reception was prepared by theHospitality Committee. Happy BirthdayStanley!!!

At the Anniversary luncheon held atthe Tippecanoe Place scholarships

were awarded to: Hannah Osborne - FineArts - Adams High School; MariahDoublas Liberal Arts - Marian HighSchool. Also outgoing officers: JoanJaworski and Mary Ann Kwiecinski werethanked for their service and the new of-ficers: Lori Bettcher, VP and BernadetteSutton, Secty. were welcomed.

A Memorial Mass was celebrated forthe Polish President and the Dignitarieswho died in the plane crash near theKatyn Forest at St. Patrick’s Church onApril 17.

In May a Chopin Festival was heldto celebrate the 200th anniversary ofFrederik Chopin.Calendar of events:September 19 a card party at the Falcon HallNovember 6,Mass for the living and deceased mem-bers at St. Stanislaus B.M. Church.

Polish AmericanCultural Societyof Stamford

Jerzy Karwowski, President of the So-ciety in Stamford has informed Mem-

bership Chair Anna-Mae Maglaty that atthe society’s annual meeting and electionof officers the membership voted to dropits membership in ACPC. It was with aheavy heart that they leave ACPC buttheir membership is both aging and de-clining and thus, their decision.

Polish Heritage Club ofSyracuse, Inc.

Ellye Kozak Sluszarczyk, author, poet,news columnist and former elemen-

tary school teacher was guest speaker atthe April meeting. She read selectionsfrom her book : “The Crystalline Eagle”,a collection of Polish-themed poetry. Shewas accompanied by pianist/composer,Sharon Markwardt.

At the May meeting Dr. Julie Dubieland husband, Steve Kapusniak showedfilm of their “2000 Polka Poland Tour”hosted by Chicago’s finest, EddieBlazonczyk.

Some members also attended theChopin Concert sponsored by LeMoyneCollege.

ACPC Affiliate & Supporting Member News

Polish Heritage Society ofRochester NY

The ACPC happily welcomes the Po- lish Heritage Society of Rochester,

NY as a new affiliate. We thank themfor being on our Supporting Organiza-tion Roster previously. The Society wasestablished in 1919. It preserves and pro-motes Polish Heritage by producing andsponsoring lectures, presentations, artexhibits, musical performances andscholarships for senior high school stu-dents and including a new summer Pol-ish language and Culture Program atTorun University.Stanley Ciesielski, Sylwia Surowiec,

recipientof scholarship, Victoria T.Leshinskie, President, Gordon Creamer,Chair, Scholarship Committee.

The Chopin FineArts Club

Polish Heritage Societyof Philadelphia

Scholarship Recipients at the NationalShrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa,Doylestown, PA

Left to Right: President Teresa N. Wojcik,Staphanie Cimoch,Paula Kwasniewski,

Natalia Falkowska, Thomas Przeniczny,Julia Wojcik, Dr. Medvec’s assistant, and

Vice-President and ScholarshipCommittee Steven E. Medved, PhD.

The Polish HeritageAssociation of Maryland,Inc.

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Friends of Polish Art

FPA held their annual election in Janu- ary. The new officers: Carol Surma,

President; Bill Gorski, 1st Vice-Pres.;Evelyn Bachorski-Bowman, 2nd VicePres.; Elzbieta Mscichowska, Treasurer;Christa Zabawski, Corr. Secty. BoardMembers: Janet Hedin, Jane Wojtan, MattMeleski, Halina Ujda and Greg Biestek.

The March meeting included a presen-tation and lecture about Polish animationshorts from the 1970’s to recent computergenerated animation presented by mem-ber Alina Klin.

The annual Swieconka was held onApril 11th at the Krakus Restaurant inDetroit. The delicious traditional dinnerwas followed by a wonderful mini con-cert of Polish sacred music by DavidTroiano. Janet Hedin, mistress of cer-emonies announced the winners of theShort Story Competition. They are:Lauren Jo Sypniewski, 1st Place; KathrynA.O’Donnell, 2nd Place; ElizabethKerlikowske, 3rd Place; and PeterKleczynski, Honorable Mention.

On a sad note, long time member andformer board member, MarianOwczarski died on April 15th. He was acelebrated artist in both Poland and theUnited States.

The PAC Office in Washington DC presented the interests and perspectives

of the Polish American Community dur-ing the annual Taste America event onCapitol Hill. The event was titled “TasteAmerica 2 010- Protect and Defend”. ThePAC subtitle was “Poles and Polish Ameri-cans in Service to the United States and theWorld”.

During its 19 years of presence on Capi-tol Hill, the Taste America event has drawnapproximately 650-700 visitors annually -primarily members of the House of Rep-resentatives and Senate and their families,to whom the event is addressed. Tradition-ally, the reception is held in the Members’Dining Room of the U.S. Capitol with a richchoice of hors d’oeuvres and a string quar-tet; today, it is the only public event that isauthorized to take place in this historicsetting.

The event, an elegant reception with anexpo of approximately 12-15 exhibitors,once again invited the Polish AmericanCongress to present its display, the only

‘ethnic’ exhibit at the event. The prepa-rations for the event were once againconducted under the oversight of Dr.Barbara B. Andersen, Director of Re-search at the Washington D.C. Office.

Each year the event is organized un-der a different theme; this year it wasProtect and Defend (The PAC suggestedthe theme to the organizers as a way ofhighlighting two anniversaries—the cen-tenary of the Kosciuszko and Pulaskimonuments in Washington DC, both ofwhich were unveiled on the same day acentury ago).

Although the PAC Washington D.C.Office traditionally strives to keep asclose to the theme as possible, this year’stheme was approached from a muchbroader perspective - one that empha-sized many Polish and Polish Americanmilitary achievements throughout his-tory and al! over the world, while alsohighlighting accomplishments in thehealth sciences and the preservation andtransmission of cultural heritage.

To create a clear link between thetheme of the event and the many books,brochures and handouts on the two PACtables, the office organized its displayinto six sections (clearly marked withcorresponding signs): Two of the themeswere Protect and Defend HistoricalAwareness primarily included informa-tion about the Katyn Massacre and Ger-man Nazi concentration camps in Po-land. The memory of these tragic eventscannot be forgotten.

Protect and Defend Memory of He-roes. Here, the PAC focused on extraor-dinary individuals, such as the genera-tions of Poles and Polish Americans whohave served the United States and theworld, as well as Polish RighteousAmong the Nations.

With expressions of astonishment,each guest seemed truly amazed to hearthat Kosciuszko, a Pole, designed the for-tifications at West Point, or that over20,000 Polish officers and intelligentsiawere secretly exterminated in the forestsof Katyn 70 years ago. Their interest ex-pressed fascination with such topics, andeveryone left the event enriched by mu-tual discovery and meaningful interac-tion. This, after all, seemed to be the ul-timate goal of PAC at Taste America.

Polish American Congress, Washington DC - Taste America By Saundra Malanowicz

PAC tables at the Taste America event

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The Polish American Arts Associa- tion of Washington, D.C. and the

Embassy of the Republic of Polandjointly honored Fryderyk Chopin’s200th birthday with a magnificentconcert on March 6. The Counsel forCultural and Public Affairs, MalgorzataSzum, welcomed an overflowingcrowd on behalf of Ambassador RobertKupiecki. A second warm welcome inbehalf of the Arts Association wasdelivered by Ed Pawlowski. Theevening wasripe for socialenjoyment of wisewomen andmen, gourmetfoods and musicat the piano onceplayed by IgnacyPaderewski .

Many thanksand deep appre-ciation wereexpressed by Edto AmbassadorKupiecki and hisstaff for their support in planning,organizing, promoting, and staging thisconcert to celebrate Poland’s greatestcomposer and Poland’s greatestmusical gift to the world. Special thankswere extended to Malgorzata Szum andMaster Chef Adam Holewa whoprepared the after concert meal. Ed wasprivileged to recognize several PAAAmembers and colleagues whoconstitute a slice of living history:Ambassador General Ed Rowny,America’s senior negotiator in theStrategic Arms Limitation Talks withthe Soviet Union during the Cold War;Mrs. Wanda Spasowski, former FirstLady at this embassy, widow ofAmbassador Romuald Spasowski,who, at the time of their defection tothe west, became the highest rankingcommunist diplomat to defect; Mrs.Barbara Colby, widow of Bill Colby,former Director of the CentralIntelligence Agency, with whom sheserved in Norway, Italy, Vietnam, andWashington, and whose Polish roots goback to the Polish Ukraine in the 16thcentury; Sir Walter Zachariasiewicz,nominal leader of Polonia in the D.C.Area, who was taken prisoner by theSoviets, released when the Nazisattacked the USSR, rearrested as aPolish spy, escaped, made his way tothe Middle East, across Northern Africa

to Italy. At age 98 Walter has developeda lifestyle to sail on toward 100! “DrugieSto Lat,” (another 100) Walter!

Also recognized: Dr. SuzanneLotarski, President of the PolishAmerican Congress, WashingtonDivision; Richard Poremski, Chairmanof the National Katyn MemorialFoundation; Jeanne Wigham, Presidentof the Washington International PianoArts Council; Eliza Wojtaszek,President of the Polish American Arts

Association ofWashington, DC;and MariannaEckel, Chair-person of ourConcert Organ-izing Commit-tee. PianistRaymond Jack-son attendedthe JulliardSchool in NewYork City wherehe amassed a

Bachelor ofScience, Master of Science, and Doctorof Musical Arts degrees. Dr. Jacksonwent on to become a musical activist: arecording artist, researcher, teacher,scholar, lecturer, adjudicator, andauthor. He has been a pioneer and trailblazer for African American composers.

He is the first musician, the firstAfrican American, and the youngest tobe elected into the Rhode IslandHeritage Hall of Fame. At present, Dr.Jackson is the Professor of Music atHoward University in Washington,D.C. where he was honored with theUniversity Faculty Excellence Award.

His recital included Chopin’smasterworks of Scherzo, Berceuse,Barcarolle, Nocturnes, and Polonaises.After standing ovations, the audienceenjoyed a delicious reception.Chopin, the poet of the piano, has beencelebrated with Chopin concerts beingheld worldwide.

Ed Pawlowski.Ph.D.

The PAAA held its annual “WiankiFestival” on Saturday, June 26 in theevening at the Capitol Reflecting Pool.Families enjoyed picnics in the ancientPolish tradition. At dusk the candleson the wreaths were lighted and placedat the Reflecting Pool. The programended with public dancing .

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Years after her mother’s death Ritafinally nerved herself to sort throughher mother’s stored belongings, neverdreaming what a dramatic story waswaiting for her. Opening a battered tansuitcase, she discovered it belonged toher father-the enigmatic man who haddivorced her mother and left when Ritawas still a teenager.

Rita Knew little of her father’s pastjust that he had left Poland after WorldWar II, and that his many scars, visibleand not, bore mute witness to some pasttragedy. He had always refused to an-swer questions. Now, however, she heldin her hand stark mementos from theyouth of the man she knew only as Ri-chard Cosby, proud American a wornPolish Resistance armband, rusted tagsbearing a prisoner number and thewords Stalag IVB; and an identity cardfor an ex-POW bearing the nameRyszard Kossobudzki.

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outstanding Polishartist and sculptor,died on April 15,2010. Many of ourACPC members be-came acquaintedwith Marian at ourmeetings in OrchardLake where he livedon campus and di-rected their ‘Galle-

ria’. We had the pleasure of seeing many ofhis sculptures on display. He is rated as anInternational Sculptor. His work has beenexhibited in 11 countries. Following an ex-hibition in DC in 1970, he was approachedsimultaneously by St. Mary’s College at Or-chard Lake and by Princeton University tobecome an artist-in-residence. He said “I wasjust over from Poland and never heard ofPrinceton” so he went with Orchard Lakewhere they all spoke Polish.“Wieczny odpoczynek racz mu dac, Panie.”

Born into an old, fiercely patrioticPolish family, tracing its roots al-

most 700 years, Pani Wanda Tomczy-kowska embodied all that she hadseen as a young girl and was taughtas a student, on the subject of de-fending country, family and faith.

Pani Wanda took all that was de-nied Poland in the mid 1900’s andbrought it to the fore in her adoptedland of America.

She used the now 41-year old Pol-ish Arts and Culture Foundation todrive the message of Polish Pride toa broader audience through book-lets, exhibits, and cultural programs.That drive helped San Francisco tohave the only Lech Walesa Way inthe world, a Joseph Conrad Squareand innumerable new friends whonow treat Poles with the highest re-gard. The PACF’s annual PolonaiseBall at The Fairmont Hotel’s GoldRoom are legendary. The dozens ofexhibits over the years at the MainLibrary, at Stanford and UCBerkley,have showcased Polish History,music and the arts.

Pani Wanda was of a generationof doers and dreamers. An elegantlady who loved to travel and wasmore adventurous than she looked,lived with style and panache,through good times and bad, retireddue to poor health, to Krakow, Po-land. In Krakow, on Tuesday, March2, 2010 Pani Wanda finally suc-cumbed to the ravages of old age andillness to Rest in Peace. She is sur-vived by her grieving daughterCaria, loving grandchildren Remy,Dariana and Sebastian Szykier andgreat-granddaughters Hennessy andLillian. She was pre-deceased byCaria’s daughter Andria and sonDamien.

MarianOwczarski

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Give a LegacyA wonderful way to per-petuate Polish Heritageand insure that our pro-grams will continue is tomake a gift through a will.

Direct bequests or chari-table remainder trusts maybe made simply by desig-nating American Councilfor Polish Culture, Inc. as abeneficiary.

This beautifully written, meticu-lously researched work is a must-

read not only for Polish-Americans, butfor all readers who are interested inlearning about the challenges and joysof the trans-Atlantic crossing made bymillions of European immigrants in thelate nineteenth century.

Richard and Aloysius Lutz have writ-ten a compelling tale about the hard-ships encountered by a group of poorPolish immigrants, viewed through theeyes of newlyweds Paul and JadwigaAdamik. Readers are introduced toPoles and Polish folklore from severalregions of then-partitioned Poland, aswell as the tensions that existed be-tween Poles and the three nations thatoccupied Poland in the nineteenth cen-tury: Prussia, Russia, and Austria.

This work of historical fiction willresonate with readers whose ancestors,three or four generations ago, made thesame difficult decision to uproot theirfamilies from their familiar surround-ings in Europe in order to secure a bet-ter life in America. Their stories abouttheir emigration from the Old World,often carefully passed down from gen-eration to generation, have been woveninto the fabric of Jadwiga’s Crossing.

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In Memoriam

Anna Walentynowicz, a centralfigure inPoland’s Solidarity movement died in

a fatal air crash on April 10, 2010. The crashkilled 95 Polish dignitaries, her and the Presi-dent of Poland among them. They were ontheir way to ceremonies commemorating theinfamous Katyn massacre.

Ms. Walentynowicz became a heroic sym-bol of freedom in Poland after she was dis-missed from her job at the Gdansk shipyardin August 1980. This prompted a strike, firstto succeed in a communist country. The re-volt spread and less than a decade later re-sulted in the downfall of the communist re-gime in Poland.

The ACPC mourns the loss of all those wholost their lives in that crash and extends theirheartfelt condolences to the people of Poland.

Anna Walentynowicz, 80

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The winner of the 10th annual Brig.Gen. Casimir Pulaski Scholarship for

Advanced Studies, American Council forPolish Culture was announced recentlyby Mr. Marion Winters, MA, Chairman.Serving with Mr. Winters on the Com-mittee are Mrs. Anna-Mae Maglaty, MSEd; Mrs. Deborah M. Majka, MS; Mrs.Carolyn Meleski, MS; and Mr. Peter Obst,MA. The Committee awarded the $5,000scholarship to Ms. Vanessa Janowski ofPasadena, CA from amonga record number of appli-cants.

A citizen of both Polandand the United States, Ms.Janowski is currently aPh.D. student in Econom-ics on the Brain, Mind andSociety at California Insti-tute of Technology. Herpath to a Ph.D. began as aneconomics major at YaleUniversity where sheserved as a research assis-tant to two professors,Prof. Arturo Bris andChristos Cabolis. Togetherwith the two professors, she publishedher thesis as a chapter in InternationalMergers & Acquisitions Activity Since 1990:Qualitative Analysis & Recent Research,edited by G. Gregoriou and L.Renneboog (2007).

During her undergraduate studies atYale, Ms. Janowski served as presidentof the Polish Society and helped organizenumerous events for the students andalso for the Polonian Society, such as ascreening of the Polish film “EuropaEuropa”, followed by a discussion withthe director Agnieszka Holland herself.All these efforts earned her the SzymonSadowski Prize, awarded to the studentwho had done the most in a given yearto celebrate and promote Polish cultureat Yale.

Upon her graduation from Yale, theUniversity awarded Ms Janowski a Eu-ropean Union Studies Grant to study theintegration of Poland into the EU. Shespent several weeks in Poland conduct-ing interviews with prominent univer-sity professors and top ranking govern-ment officials. She put together her find-ings into a working research paper.

In order to strengthen her mathemat-ics background for more advanced workin economics, Janowska went on to studyfor a Master ’s degree in Applicable

Two Louis & Nellie Skalny Scholarshipsfor Polish Studies were awarded for

2010 by the American Council for PolishCulture (ACPC). Committee ChairpersonUrsula Brodowicz reported that the SkalnyScholarship Committee, including DebraMajka, Ange Iwanczyk,Dr. Ed Pawlowskiand Marion Winters, awarded $3,000 schol-arships to two outstanding applicants: Mat-thew Przybylek and Pawel Styrna.

Matthew Przybylek of Wilmington,Delaware is a 2009 graduate of the Univer-sity of Delaware where he was awarded aBA in European Studies. As part of his stud-ies at the University, Matthew completed ayear long program in Polish language & cul-ture at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.This fulfilled the requirements of the Uni-versity of Delaware Discovery Learning Ex-perience in the Arts & Science program. Aspart of his political science and internationalrelations studies, Matthew submitted ahighly evaluated paper analyzing the behav-ior logics of Jan Sobieski and his counterpartsduring events surrounding 1683 central Eu-rope and the Battle of Vienna. He is the 2009Recipient of the Foreign Languages and Lit-eratures Study, and the 2009 Recipient of theGlobal Scholars Award, among others. Mat-thew has been accepted to graduate schoolat Columbia University where he plans tocontinue with Polish studies. His activitiesin the PolAm community have been exten-sive and include involvement in local poli-tics and in the history of the sizeable Polishcommunity in Wilmington. Matthew statesthat he takes deep pride in his Polish rootsand in the language and culture of Poland.He identifies himself as a Polish Americanwho preserves and promotes the culture andhistory of Poland, that this is a defining char-acteristic of who he is and that it permeateshis professional and social life.

Mathematics at the London School ofEconomics (LSE). During that period sheremained actively involved in extracur-ricular activities. Elected Treasurer of thePolish Society, she undertook inviting in-teresting speakers to the campus, e.g.,the authors of A Question of Honor: TheKosciuszko Squadron, Lynn Olson andStanley Cloud. She also served as theEvents Chair of the LSE Salsa Society,leading a 3-member team in organizing

the Society’s events.Throughout her stud-

ies at undergraduateand graduate levels,Janowska received sev-eral fellowships recog-nizing her extensive in-volvement in the com-munity and specificallyin Polish affairs: TheKosciuszko Fdn., Polish& Slavic FCU, and PSO.She also supplementedher academic experi-ences in economics withapplied work in a busi-ness setting. This in-

volved serving as a consultant at Moni-tor Group, working in Warsaw, Paris,Madrid and London. Additionally, shewas employed as an analyst at the BancoBilboa Vizcaya Argentaria in Madrid andwith Merrill Lynch in NY.

The Pulaski Scholarship Committeewas very impressed with Ms. Janowski’sremarkable academic record that boastsa cumulative grade point average of 3.9at Caltech and that she still finds time toserve the community and to play lead-ership roles in promoting Polish culture.A letter of recommendation persuadedthe Committee that in selecting her forthe Pulaski Scholarship, the AmericanCouncil for Polish Culture will be rec-ognizing “...a young leader who alwaysacts on her commitment to Polishcauses...and sharing her knowledge andskills with others in the Polish-Ameri-can community”. Her goal is to becomea professor in the economics departmentof a top U.S. university or businessschool. The Committee has little doubtthat she will achieve her aims. Her the-sis advisor is also confident that her com-pleted Ph.D. projects at the intersectionof economics and neuroscience will havea tremendous impact in both fields andbe published in top science journals.

Pulaski Scholarship AwardBy Marion V. Winters, Chairman

Vanessa Janowski

Skalny ScholarshipsAwarded

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Pawel Styrna of Chicago, Illinois wasawarded an MA degree in history at theUniversity of Illinois at Chicago. Pawel’smaster’s thesis was titled “Opinions on theKiev Expedition in the American, British,Belgian, Polish and Soviet Press: A Samplefrom April-May, 1920”. This thesis wasdescribed by the professor of history as avery detailed, rigorously argued, and ex-tensively researched analysis and asgreatly exceeding requirements. As a re-search paper it met the highest standardsfor rigor, seriousness and analytical acu-men. His professor also states that in 17years of instruction at the university, Pawelwas by far the most diligent, enthusiasticand dedicated student. Pawel has com-pleted several independent studies andseminars in Polish Studies. He is an in-tern with the Kosciuszko Chair in PolishStudies at the Institute of World Politicsin Washington, D.C. He is enrolled as aContinuing Education student, and hasapplied to the Masters program in State-craft & International Relations.Pawel is a member of the American Asso-ciation for the Advancement of SlavicStudies. He is also a board member of theChicago based Roman Dmowski Instituteof America. Pawel continues to be activein the Polish American community, includ-ing assisting and coordinating the obser-vance of the Katyn Forest Massacre in Mayat the Library of Congress in Washington,D.C. He has been published in severalpublications and is working on two majoressays for publication on Polish history.Pawel believes that the study of history isa fine way to promote Polish history andPolish culture. His long term goals includeearning a PhD and becoming a profes-sional historian of Polish history involvedin American policy towards Poland.

Quite a few of you will recall Romuald(Rom) Hejna, an active member of

the Polish Arts Club of Chicago (includ-ing during my term as club president).In 1999, Rom left a legacy of $2M (largestever from an individual) to the Univer-sity of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) to estab-lish a fund in Polish History in the Col-lege of Liberal Arts & Sciences. He hopedit would someday grow to endow a chairin Polish studies - optimistically morethan one chair. UIC has just announcedthat Rom’s wish has more than come true.

The College has just named two inau-gural Hejna Chairs. Kecly Stauter-Halstedwill join the Dept. of History as the Stefanand Lucy Hejna Chair in the History ofPoland, and Polish scholar Michal PawelMarkowski will sign on with the Dept. ofSlavic & Baltic Languages & Literatures(where Jo Louise and I obtained our Mas-ters degrees after retirement) as the inau-gural Stefan & Lucy Hejna Family Chairin Polish Language & Literature. Prof.Stauter-Halsted stated that “the HejnaChairs provide the opportunity to makeUIC the center of scholarship and teach-ing about Polish affairs, and to establishlinks with centers of education in Po-land.” She has been active in East Euro-pean studies programs, study abroad inPoland, and several organizations asso-ciated with the American Association of

Slavic Studies, serving as a board memberof the Polish Studies Association. When shewas an exchange student in Vienna she met“fascinating Polish emigres - artists, musi-cians and intellectuals - who had fled mar-tial law.” She has been “fascinated eversince by Poland, its history and its people.’She believes that Poland is now at “a wa-tershed moment” and she is looking for-ward to continuing her “engagement to-gether with the huge and vibrant Chicagocommunity of people who care deeplyabout this unique country, its past and itsfuture.”

Considered one of Poland’s foremostpublic intellectuals, the second inauguralHejna Chair, Michal Pawell Markowski, isdirector of the Centre for Advanced Stud-ies in the Humanities and Chairman of theinternational program in Polish Studies atJagiellonian Univ. in Krakow, Poland wherehe is also professor of Polish studies.Among the many honors Markowski hasreceived is the Polish Science Foundation’smaster grant for research, the most presti-gious research grant in Poland. His ambi-tion is to “create at UIC the most attractiveprogram in Polish literature in the country,especially on the graduate level.” He pro-poses to embark on the project of “expand-ing the field of Polish studies into a morecomparative enterprise which will fit per-fectly the demands and expectations of thecontemporary student.”

Two Inaugural Polish Chairsby Marion Winters

The Polish Heritage Society of Phila-delphia has sponsored the Adam

Styka Art Competition and Exhibit dur-ing the Polish-American Festival atCzestochowa for many years. It providesan opportunity for us to support the workof Polish and Polish-American artists, avery significant goal. The thousands ofvisitors who come to the Shrine duringthe festival learn more about our organi-zation and develop an appreciation forPolish culture, so the Adam Styka ArtCompetition and Exhibit is an importantcomponent of our organization’s work.For details about the Adam Styka ArtCompetition and Exhibit, please see thefollowing website:http://www.polishcultureacpc.org/Styka_Art /index.html

Adam Styka ArtCompetitionand Exhibit The American Council for

Polish Culture invites Pol-ish Americans to join its orga-nization and enjoy the com-panionship and fellowship ofindividuals interested in Pol-ish and Polish-American ac-complishments and heritage.Annual dues are only $10 andinclude the quarterly PolishHeritage publication. Pleasejoin us! Contact:

Mrs. Anna-Mae MaglatyMembership Chair35 Fernridge Road

West Hartford, CT 06107Tel. 860-521-7621

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After World War I, the Poles declaredtheir independence on November 11,

1918, thereby creating the Second PolishRepublic. To keep its Independence, thenew Republic had to win some borderlandbattles. By far, the most important battlewas the Polish victory led by Marshal JozefPilsudski over the Russian Army in 1920.Lenin had attempted to over-run Polandand form a Moscow/Berlin Alliance inorder to carry out his plan for a WorldRevolution.

Twenty years later, the Soviet Commu-nist movement would avenge the defeatby joining forces with Nazi Germany toinvade Poland and start WWII.

The marked supremacy of the com-bined military forces of Nazi Germany andCommunist Soviet Union overwhelmedPoland and it was partitioned and occu-pied by the two totalitarian powers whoperpetrated inconceivable crimes hithertounknown to mankind. Nazi (an acronymfor National Socialist German WorkersParty) Germany and Communist SovietUnion exterminated millions of Poles andmillions of Jews, both in Poland and in allthe countries where the swastika and ham-mer and sickle ruled.

Of these two mass murderers of thetwentieth century, one has been widelycondemned while the other has beenmostly overlooked. When the average per-son learns about the Holocaust, they asso-ciate it with words like “Hitler”, “Gestapo”“Nazi” Concentration Camp” and “StormTroopers”. Rarely do they associate or linkthe Holocaust with such words as “Stalin”,“Siberia”, “Communism”, “Beria”,“KGB”, or “Katyn”.

When German death camps were liber-ated by the Allied Forces, the world wasshown pictures of skeletal corpses andcharred remains in cremation chambers,mass graves and emaciated survivors. Thefree world saw Nazi Germany’s highlyefficient means of mass murder to elimi-nate Europe’s Jewish population to be fol-lowed by the elimination or enslavementof Poles and their Slavic brethren. Suchscenes are identified with the word Holo-caust and the Western Allies called for ven-geance against the perpetrators of suchbarbaric behaviour.

On the other hand, at the end of WWII,news of Soviet mass murder was playeddown in the press of the Western Allies.Reports of Soviet death camps attractedtittle attention because the Soviet Unionbecame an ally in the war against Nazi

Germany. Stories of Soviet death campsattracted littleattention because of the fra-gility of Western/Soviet relations. Journal-ists of western forces had no opportunityto view the sites of mass murder in theSoviet Union or to visit the Gulag (StateBoard of Concentration Camps) in the So-

viet Union.Should west-ern worldjournalists fi-nally getaround todocumentingSoviet massmurders theywill discoverthat Sovietvictims camefrom all levels

of society and were shot, bayoneted, ordied of cold, disease, or starvation.

Massive evidence was recently uncov-ered to show that Nazi Germany and theSoviet Union agreed on the same prioritytargets for elimination of the Polish elite.They both set out to destroy political lead-ership in the Polish nation by eliminatingits capitalists, landowners, officials, judges,officers, intellectuals teachers, clergy, andaristocracy. Many contemporary historiansreport that the total number of Soviet vic-tims was greater than the total number ofNazi victims.

At the end of WWII, Poland was freedfrom one oppressor only to become a cap-tive nation of the Soviet union. But the Pol-ish desire to be free of foreign dominationled to the establishment of the Indepen-dent Solidarity Trade Union on September1,1980. It was the outgrowth of the ship-yard strikes on the Polish Baltic Shore. TheSolidarity movement became a major forceas its membership grew to 10 million mem-bers. To quell the popular Solidarity move-ment, the Communist Parry leadersbanned the movement and all Union prop-erty was confiscated or destroyed. To sur-vive, Solidarity had to go underground.During this period, two visits by Pope JohnPaul II strengthened Polish opposition fur-ther. Significant financial assistance fromthe West helped operate the undergroundpress and radio. The Solidarity movementwill be remembered as one of the most im-portant social and political actions of thetwentieth century, It’s non-violent policywas a heroic struggle for freedom and de-mocracy in Eastern Europe. None of thechanges which occurred in Europe after

1989 would have been possible without it.The spread of Communism has beenslowed. It would be slowed further whenPolish Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski, a noblehero of Poland, America and the WesternWorld embarked on what would becomeone of the most extraordinary human in-telligence operations of the Cold War. De-spite great risk to himself and his family,he contacted the American Embassy inBonn, Germany, and arranged a secretmeeting. He told the Americans that hedeplored the Soviet domination of Poland.

He believed that his country was on thewrong side in the Cold War and the onlyway he could help Poland was to workagainst its oppressor, the Soviet Union, anddeliver its deepest military secrets to theWestern Allies. American CIA DirectorMichael Hayden called Kuklinski “themost valuable source of information in theentire Cold War. For over 9 years he pro-vided information about the strategic plansof the Warsaw Pact and detailed plans forthe Soviet invasion of Western Europe.

He provided information on over 200weapon systems and details of the location,equipment, and communications of theWarsaw Pact Control Centers.

This information allowed the US toimplement pin-point surgical strikes in-stead of massive bombing strikes.Kuklinski’s covert mission helped theWestern Allies win the Cold War.

The Polish Contributions in Slowing The Spreadof Communism and Winning The Cold War by Wallace M. West

Kuklinski at audience with Pope John Paul II

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Keynote AddressCarving a dream - what a fantastic

topic for the convention organizednear the Crazy Horse Monument by theAmerican Council for Polish Culture.Thank you very much for having me here.

Every human being, most certainly, hadtheir dreams, as did I. Let me then sharewith all of you a dream which I had veryoften some time ago. In 1976, as a law stu-dent at the Jagiellonian University, dur-ing vacations I traveled to Sweden, it wasmy first trip to a western country. I wasthrilled with what I saw and experienced.Very well organized state, clean and col-orful cities, libraries with plenty of uncen-sored books, such as “The AnimalFarm”for example, or all books from ParyskaKultura. I have seen young friendlypeople in good cars. During my stay inSweden I’ve read newspapers and I’vewatched Swedish TV news about work-ers protests in Radom, and how the Pol-ish authorities were responding, how theywere treating the protesters. It was June1976. That year Polish government, 30years after WWII introduced to its ownnation, food stamps for sugar. When I re-turned home after that vacation I had aclear view about my motherland, that thisis a totalitarian state, but at the same timeI had a dream that in the future I will livein Poland which will be somehow similarto Sweden. The country which is free, in-dependent and colorful, the countrywhich is based on democratic rules.

That dream was common in Polish so-ciety. In the summer of 1980, 30 years ago,the Solidarity movement was born inGdansk. At that time 10 millions, all Soli-darity members, I believe, were carvingour dream. Unfortunately it was too early;once again totalitarian regime crushedwhat was independent and self-governed.This time it was martial law imposed inDecember 1981.

Martial law, by the way, was called a“state of war” under Polish Communistlegislation and meant among other things,the de-legalization of the Solidarity TradeUnion and the establishment of intern-ment camps for thousands of its leaders.We had to keep carving our dream aboutdemocratic Poland for another 8 years.

The round table talks that facilitated thedemocratic transformation of Poland’sone-party state began in February 1989and concluded in April at a time when thecommunist system in the region stillseemed to be irreversible. Yet clearly thosetalks were a lot less visually spectacularthan the joyous crowds hammering at theBerlin Wall half a year later. We could start,quite openly this time, to carve our dreamand restore a democratic state. On June 4th1989, as a result of the “round table” ne-gotiations Poland held parliamentary elec-

tions, maybe not yet com-pletely democratic be-cause they were only par-tially free, but those elec-tions would lead to theformation of the first non-communist governmentwith Tadeusz Mazowieckias prime minister, initiat-ing a new era in Polish his-tory. Our dream became areality.

In 1989 Poland inher-ited a centralized systemsuitable to the functions ofa totalitarian state. In or-der to establish standardsof a democratic state, itwas necessary to makecrucial changes, mainly toreduce the powers of theadministration. The re-duction process pro-gressed in two directions.The state’s scope of au-thority was reducedthrough privatization andderegulation, while thestate was decentralizedthrough the transfer ofnumerous powers to localand regional govern-ments. U n d e rcommunism, the partymade decisions and thestate administration served as an execu-tive body only. Public opinion was ig-nored, as the strategic goal of the state,according to the 1976 Constitution, was toimplement the “great ideas of socialism.”Party ideology guided social order, despiterecognition that it would generally con-flict with the will of the people.Therefore, the state had to be constructedin such a way as to control citizens andleverage their compliance with state deci-sions, often against their will. Thus, thecommunists found it necessary to main-tain a centralized state whose control in-filtrated both the public and private livesof its citizens. Under communism, allstructures of state administration wereorganized in hierarchical pyramids. Ad-ministration at the sub-national level wasorganized in the same way. There was onlyone administration, state administration.Local administration was the state admin-istration. So Mazowiecki’s cabinet beganthe extremely challenging task of remod-eling the state, which required legal, or-ganizational and personnel changes in allspheres of public life.

Local government reform was under-taken as the first reform of the state sys-tem. At the beginning of 1990, a broad eco-nomic reform was implemented called

“the Balcerowicz plan”. It was a form ofshock therapy, introducing many revolu-tionary changes toward market economyvery quickly. Following the Senate’s mo-tion, the Sejm (House of Representatives)adopted the fundamental Local Govern-ment Act and the laws describing the elec-tion of gmina (commune) councils.

Gmina council elections were held onMay 27, 1990, marking the rebirth of localgovernment in Poland. It opened a newperiod in the functioning of the state, inwhich local governments at the formerlyunrecognized gmina level were intro-duced as an element of the system.

The restoration of local government wasa meaningful achievement and those elec-tions were only the beginning, the firststep, of long systemic transformation.

In 1998 the local government structurewas expanded beyond the first one ofGminas to 3 tiers that included county andregional/provincial governments.Powiats were designed as the second tierof local government, supplementary togminas in that they were assigned localfunctions that were beyond gminas’ scaleof management capacity. At this momentthere are 314 rural counties and 65 urban

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The American Council for Polish Cul-ture (ACPC) held its Spring 2010

Board Meeting in Philadelphia. Pres.Debbie Majka and Teresa N. Wojcik, Pol-ish Heritage Society of Philadelphia Presi-dent, cooperated to make the weekendmeeting a memorable and interesting event.

Their plans included a very outstand-ing celebration, a dedication and unveil-ing of a historical State marker placed atthe site of aeronautical helicopter pioneerFrank N. Piasecki’s first engineering office.ACPC Director Mr. Peter Obst wastheChairman of the Piasecki marker eventwhich followed the Business session onSaturday, April 17.

Pres. Majka presided over the businesssessions wherein various committee chairspresented their reports. Chairlady CamilleKopielski reported on the ACPC’s 2010grant of $2,000 for university students’summer studies in Poland. Last year’swinner chose to study at the JagiellonianUniv. in Krakow where the studentsunanimously proclaimed that the teach-ers were highly proficient and attentive tothe students’ questions and needs.Krakow offered an array of sightseeingand interesting night life attractions.There were fascinating tours every week-end, which included Zakopane where stu-dents even participated in mountain hik-ing trips. Mrs. Kopielski and her commit-tee will be reporting on the 2010 winnersat the ACPC Annual Convention in July2010.

Board members were delighted to greetDr. Maria Winnicka, Pres. of the PolishArts Club of Elmira, NY who was accom-panied by the Club’s past Pres. Christine

Markiewicz, and Jackie Droleski, ACPCAwards Committee Sec’y. Dr. Winnickagraciously invited the ACPC Board mem-bers to Elmira for its Fall Board Meeting,Oct. 29-30, 2010. She revealed that ar-rangements have already been made withthe Holiday Inn and the White Eagle Clubfor meetings, lunch and dinner. On Sat-urday evening a concert by professionalpianists is scheduled. A second phase ofthe program will feature a Chopin concertby young aspiring pianists. The invitationwas eagerly accepted as the board mem-bers recalled prior meetings hosted by thevery hospitable officers and members ofthe Elmira Club. The Board unanimouslydecided to present a very special awardduring the meeting in Elmira to theirClub’s greatly admired and highly deserv-ing member Raymond J. Winieski for hisoutstanding creative cultural efforts overmany years throughout the Polish Ameri-can community.

The Council extended its heartfelt grati-tude to Co-Chairs Barbara Lemecha andHenrietta Nowakowski for their devotionto the yearlong preparations for the Na-tional Social Studies project held inAatlanta, GA in November 2009.

Membership Chair Anna-Mae Maglatyreported that the Council now welcomesa new Supporting Organization, the Pol-ish Falcons of America. Since our Fall2009 board meeting we also gained 39 newindividual members that included 19Pulaski Scholarship applicants.Following the business meeting, membersgathered to attend the unveiling of theFrank A. Piasecki plaque.

ACPC Spring Board Meeting By Jo Louise Winters

Zygmunt Matynia, the Consul Generalof the Republic of Poland in Chicago,was born 1953 in Starachowice. Heearned a Master’s Degree in Adminis-trative Law at Krakow’s JagiellonlanUniversity, where he taught law for tenyears. From 1989 he served as the Cen-tral Government’s Representative tothe Krakow Regional Government incharge of local self-government. Hisposts at the Foreign Ministry have in-cluded: Second Secretary and Execu-tive director of the Polish Mission tothe U.N. in New York (1992-98), Coun-selor Minister in the General Director’sOffice at the Ministry of Foreign Affairsin Warsaw (1998-2001), Consul and thehead of the Legal Section at the Con-sulate General in New York (2001-2005), and the Deputy Director of theConsular Department for the PolishCommunity Abroad. ( 2005-2007). Cur-rently he is a member of the Interna-tional Commission on Civil Status, andthe Prime Minister’s working group onthe Polish Diaspora and Poles LivingAbroad. His wife, Bozena Matynia, isa microbiologist. They have onedaughter, Karolina.

counties, 379 all together. As the high-est tier of local government,voivodships were assigned a differenttype of responsibility— they were to beaccountable for the economic and gen-eral development of regional territories.Since 1999 Poland has been divided into16 provinces.

After implementation of the self-gov-ernment reform our central govern-ment poses very limited power focusedmostly on national security and foreignpolicy. As you know such a structure ischaracteristic for a normal, democraticstate.

As a closing argument I would liketo emphasize that it took us 10 years torestore the democratic state.

So here we are today, citizens of thisgreat country, citizens of EuropeanUnion, who thanks to the great decen-tralization of the public administration,as well as the very well performedtransformation from central planningeconomy to the market economy, cancelebrate important values for allpeople, freedom, independence andprosperity. So far Poland is the only Eu-ropean country which does have posi-tive GDP, a positive growth. Thats greatnews ?Most certainly my dream became atruth.

Mary Ellen Tyszka, Bernadette Wiermanski, Debbie Majka and Marcia Lewandowskiat board meeting

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As 4:00 pm as the afternoon approached on Saturday April 17 in

Philadelphia, a crowd began to gather ona blocked-off segment of Callowhill Street(between 19th and 20th Streets) to witnessthe dedication and unveiling of the city’snewest historical marker, placed at the siteof helicopter builder and aeronautical pio-neer Frank N. Piasecki’s first engineeringoffice. The ceremonies started on sched-ule with a presentation of colors by a Ma-rine Corps honor guard accompanied bymembers of Polish Veterans Post 12. Thenformer Philadelphia City Councilman Jo-seph Zazyczny greeted the assembly ofover 250 persons in the name of the PolishHeritage Society of Philadelphia, an affili-ate organization of the American Councilfor Polish Culture (ACPC). A moment ofsilence was observed to remember the vic-tims of the airplane crash in whichPoland’s President Kaczynski and manyprominent members of the Polish govern-ment died while on their way to Katyn.He was followed by Fred Piasecki, chair-man of the board of Piasecki Aircraft whostood in for his brother John, thecompany’s president and CEO who wasnot able to attend, being in London whileon a business trip when flights were can-celed due to the volcano erupting in Ice-land.

There were topical speeches by SenatorArlen Specter, a personal friend of FrankPiasecki; Lt. Gen. Michael Hough(Ret.USMC; Flora Becker from the Penn-sylvania Historical and Museum Commis-sion (PHMC); and Phil Dunford, VP andGeneral Manager of the Boeing Company.Peter J. Obst, who filed the application forthe marker back in 2008 and then chairedthe committee organizing the event, filled

in for the absent City ofPhiladelphia representa-tive. He read the procla-mation issued by MayorMichael A. Nutterwhich, after praising Mr.Piasecki for his activitiesthat created a helicopterindustry in the Philadel-phia area, declared thatthis day was to be cel-ebrated as Frank N.Piasecki Day in the city.While cameras fromthree TV stations(alerted by publicitychairman Walter Wojcik)took in the scene, Mrs.Vivian Piasecki, widow of the great engi-neer, started to unveil the sign. She pulleda cord attached to a cover held in place byVelcro fastenings; it fell away and revealedthe following words in yellow-gold letterson a blue background:

of the street. It was an excerpt from “AnInnovator’s Story” a film about the life andwork of Frank Piasecki. The post-dedica-tion banquet was held at the StotesburyMansion, headquarters of the CatholicPhilopatrian Literary Society, on WalnutStreet.

At the banquet Deborah M. Majka,president of the ACPC introduced the im-portant guests and speakers. Teresa N.Wojcik, president of the Polish HeritageSociety, welcomed the participants. Fr.Leonard Lewandowski of St. Josaphat’sparish gave the invocation.

After a lovely dinner, several speakerstook the podium to pay tribute to the ac-complishments and legacy of FrankPiasecki. These were: Lt. Col. Paul RiegertUSMC who praised Piasecki’s advancedhelicopter designs in military application;Mike Walsh from the Office of the Secre-tary of Defense; Col. Andrzej Kopacki,Assistant Military Attaché at the PolishEmbassy; Prof. Marek Konarzewski, Min-ister Counselor for Science and Technol-ogy at the Polish Embassy, and JanuszZastocki, Honorary President of PoloniaTechnica, the Polish engineers’ associationin the United States. Prof. Konarzewski’sreference to the indomitable Polish spirit,evident both in cases of disaster, such asthe recent airplane crash, and in the de-velopment of new inventions to benefitmankind, drew spontaneous applausefrom listeners. In conclusion Fred Piaseckithanked the guests for their participationand members of the audience graduallystarted for home.

As they left, guests were able to takehome an event journal produced by PeterObst, which included a detailed biographyof Frank N. Piasecki and many interest-ing photographs.

Philadelphia Honors Aviation Pioneer Frank N. Piasecki by Peter Obst

New marker on Callowhill Street

EventcoordinatingCommitteeJos. Zazyczny,his wife Marti;JanuszRomanski;Debbie Majka;Peter Obst

FRANK N. PIASECKI(1919-2008)

Aviation pioneer Piasecki developedand flew the 2nd helicopter in the USand the world’s 1st tandem rotor heli-copter, initiating the 1st practical useof rotor-craft in the 1940s. His origi-nal company, started here, now a divi-sion of Boeing, is a world leader in he-licopter production. In 1956, hefounded Piasecki Aircraft Corp., con-tinuing development of innovative ad-vanced rotorcraft. Awarded the Na-tional Medal of Technology in 1986.

In conclusion there followed an eight-minute video presentation on a truck-sized electronic screen parked at the end

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