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Kosciuszko Foundation T H E a M E R I C a N C E N T Er of Polish C U L T U R E kosciuszko foundation T H E A M E R I C A N C EN T ER OF POLISH C UL T URE NEWSLETTER Fall 2010 Volume LX, No. 2 WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE ISSN 1081-2776 THE HONOREE FOR THE KF 2011 BALL: Inside... Message from the COACH K 2 MessagePresident from and Executivethe 2 DirectorPresident and Executive Winning seasons, coaches in NCAA Director Message from the superb graduation history to earn three 3 rates for his players or more NCAA TheChairman KF and a basketball titles. In addition 4 National75th Anniversary Polish Center 4 DinnerJoins Forces and Ballwith the KF team that is as close to Krzyzewski, only as family are all John Wooden (10) “Spirit of Polonia” 20 Summers of attributes that reflect and Adolph Rupp (4) 5 Sculpture Exhibition 8 Teaching English on the man who have accomplished Professor Smialowski in Poland is in his 31st year that feat. Such 6 Award as the head coach accomplishments 9 An Evening of Chopin KF 75th Anniversary of the Duke Blue have not gone 6 Dinner and Ball International Civics Devils, Hall of Famer unnoticed. In all, 710 NewWorkshop Exchange in Krakow Program Mike Krzyzewski. Coach K has been Tribute to Warsaw Krzyzewski named the National 8 Krystyna Brzechwa Uprising guided Duke to Coach of the Year 11 Art Exhibit its fourth NCAA 12 times in eight 9 Teaching English in 11 PaintingPoland Renovation Championship in different seasons. Exchange Fellowships 2009-10, posting a On October 5, 1210 Chapterand Grants News 35-5 record for the program’s 11th 30-win 2001, Coach K was presented by his 15 TributeScholarships to Paderewski and season along the way. Krzyzewski’s record college coach Bob Knight as one of three 13 Grants for Americans as Duke’s all-time winningest coach offers members of the Naismith Memorial 15 FilmingThe Year at Abroad the KF Program evidence of his success: 11 Final Four Basketball Hall of Fame class of 2001 16 berths in the last 25 years, including five (Krzyzewski joined Temple’s John Chaney Chopinin Poland for Children 15 straight appearances from 1988-92; 25 and former NBA star Moses Malone as Graduate Studies and 16 ResearchSofia and inEdward Poland seasons with at least 20 wins in the past 2001 inductees). Krzyzewski added to his 17 Dembia 27 years; 23 upper-division finishes in the already impressive list of accomplishments Summer Sessions Awards 17 ACC in the past 25 years; 11 seasons with on Sept. 26, 2005, when he was named Kosciuszko Foundation 1718 The Pulaski Day 30 or more (most by any coach all-time); head coach of the USA Basketball Men’s ParadeChapters 12 regular season ACC crowns and 12 Senior National Team program for 2006- Children’s Programs In Memoriam: Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament 2008. With Krzyzewski at the helm, Team 21 at the KF 18 Ron Melnyk titles, including nine of the last 12 years (a USA reclaimed the gold medal at the 2008 22 Contributors record five in succession from 1999-2003). Beijing Summer Olympics with a 118- 1923 Giving to the But most impressive are the four national 107 victory over Spain. This past summer, Kosciuszko Foundation championships (1991, 1992, 2001, 2010) Coach K led the USA team to its first 2024 Calendar of Events that make Coach K one of only four FIBA World Championship since 1994. Message from the President and Executive Director Alex Storozynski THE KOSCIUSZKO FOUNDatION CONTINUES TO FLOURISH The Kosciuszko Foundation has survived the Great began working to find a Depression, WWII, The Cold War, and the stock market way to honor the 22,000 crash of 2008. With the help of our Board of Trustees and officers and members of members, we are weathering the storm, and marching ahead Poland’s intelligentsia with many events and campaigns to empower Polonia through that were murdered in educational programs, and enlighten Americans about Polish the forests of Russia culture and the role that Poland has played in world history. by the NKVD, Stalin’s secret police. Not every Polish organization has been so lucky, and with the dissolution of the National Polish Center, the Kosciuszko With the help Foundation has been asked to breathe new life into the center of Pennsylvania at 2025 on O Street. It’s a huge responsibility and we are Congressman Paul working with other organizations to promote Polish culture Kanjorski, we in our nation’s capital. With our friends at the Polish Library secured the Coolidge in Washington, D.C., we’ve been screening movies at 2025 Auditorium at the O Street of such as Katyn and Rewers to expose Americans to Jefferson Building of Polish Cinema. The O Street building hosted a celebration the Library of Congress Katyn exhibit at the for a panel discussion of the 125th Anniversary of Witkacy’s birth, and to honor Library of Congress the 200th anniversary of Chopin’s birth, the Kosciuszko on the Katyn massacre, and partnered with the Polish Embassy in Washington D.C, Foundation sponsored a concert by Regina Romanowska, who and historian Andrzej Przewoznik to show the exhibition he wowed the audience at Georgetown University’s Gaston Hall prepared for The Council to Preserve the Memory of Combat playing Chopin mazurkas, waltzes and etudes. and Martyrdom. Because the cost of printing and mounting In June, the Kosciuszko Foundation opened the doors on O the exhibit was quite expensive, we applied for help from the Street to the American Council for Polish Culture, ACPC, Foundation for Polish Science to give this fascinating exhibit which held several events as part of its important Youth the proper exposure that it deserves. Leadership Conference to educate and inspire young Polish And then on April 10, tragedy struck. The plane crash that Americans interested in learning more about the political killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski and nearly 100 of process. We have also introduced Polish language classes at O Poland’s elite hit home. Andrzej Przewoznik was on that flight, Street, and we are hoping to start a program to begin classical as was First Lady Maria Kaczynska, who several months earlier music lessons, and cosponsor other events with Polish- had visited the Kosciuszko Foundation’s headquarters in New American organizations there as well. York to view our art gallery. The President of the National But all of these programs need funding, so on Oct. 16th, we held Bank of Poland, Slawomir Skrzypek had also visited the a fundraising dinner at the Polish Embassy in Washington D.C. Kosciuszko Foundation as our guest for a networking session which included a short recital by mezzo soprano Magdalena with Polish American bankers on Wall Street. That meeting Wor, a performance by Kosciuszko and Thomas Jefferson re- inspired the idea to raise money for scholarships to help Poles enactors and a book signing by Rita Cosby, author of Quiet earn Masters of Business Administration degrees, MBAs, at top Hero. For that we thank Polish Ambassador Robert Kupiecki American universities. Several other passengers on that flight who has invited us to make this an annual event in Washington. were also friends and guests of the Kosciuszko Foundation. Perhaps the most talked about event that the Kosciuszko This terrible tragedy thrust the story of Katyn onto the front Foundation held in Washington was the Katyn conference in pages of newspapers around the world, spurring interest in April at the Library of Congress. As this year marked the 70th this massacre that had been covered up for decades. It also anniversary of the Katyn murders, in February the Foundation increased interest in the Katyn conference that we had been 2 T H E K O S CIU S Z K O F O U N D A T IO N working on. Sen. Barbara Mikulski was able to convince the These were but a few of the concerts at the Kosciuszko powers that be in the U.S. Senate to allow us to display the exhibit Foundation this year. We also screened several movies and hosted of photos and archival material about the Katyn Massacre in the theatrical performances and art openings. Rotunda of the Russell Senate Office Building, ensuring that In July we unveiled the world premier of “Messenger from Hell,” United States Senators had to walk past it on their way to work. a 10-minute animated short film about Jan Karski, the man who The conference was a huge success with help from the U.S. tried to stop the Holocaust. Produced by Dr. Rafael Medoff in Helsinki Commission, The Cold War Studies Program at Harvard collaboration with ABC News and the Disney Corporation, the University and The Memorial Human Rights Protection Center film is aimed at explaining Jan Karski’s valiant mission to students in Moscow. The speakers included Senators Mikulski, Ben in American schools. The Foundation also held the New York Cardin, Richard Lugar, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, premier of “Karski” a play by Marc P. Smith, with six actors Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, President Bush’s Ambassador performing a spectacle about life in Poland during World War II. to Poland Victor Ashe, Poland’s Ambassador to the U.S.. Jan Karski is a hero that all Poles, Jews and Americans should be Robert Kupiecki, and several other distinguished dignitaries. proud of so we are trying to make him a household name in the Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski stole the show with a fantastic talk about United States. his visit to the Katyn forest. Videos of the speeches at this historic conference can be watched on the web at: www.thekf.org.
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