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POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL • JANUARY 2012 www.polamjournal.com 1 JANUARY 2012 • vOL. 101, NO. 1 $2.00 Szczęśliwego Nowego YORK NEW BOSTON, AT PAID PERIODICAL POSTAGE POLISH AMERICAN Roku! OFFICES AND ADDITIONAL ENTRY 2012 Happy New JOURNALESTABLISHED 1911 www.polamjournal.com Year! DEDICATED TO THE PROMOTION AND CONTINUANCE OF POLISH AMERICAN CULTURE tHE CHaNGiNG FaCE OF PaNNa Maria • ViKiNGS tOUCHED POLaND aND NOrtH aMEriCa • UNDErGrOUND HiDEOUt a “StO Lat” rEaLitY • GiViNG YOUr SUPEr BOWL PartY a POLiSH tWiSt • “PHENOMENON OF SOLiDaritY” EXHiBit tHE POLiSH aMEriCaN StriNG BaND • tHE artWOrK OF artHUr SZYK • tHaNK GOD it’S PiĄtEK! NEWSMARK Calls for Poland’s inclusion The End of Roman TALIBAN ATTACK KILLS FIvE pOLES. A roadside in Visa Waiver Program Catholicism in Detroit? bomb killed fi ve Polish soldiers in a NATO convoy in Af- ghanistan, Dec. 21, 2011, Poland’s heaviest single loss of life since the mission began. The soldiers were a few miles from their base in Ghazni province when the bomb exploded. Three died at the scene. Another two were said to have died of their wounds at a military hospital. The soldiers were part of a convoy of around 30 ve- hicles which was heading to the opening of a mausoleum, described by Polish media as one of the projects the recon- struction team had funded. Poland has 2,500 troops in Afghanistan who are respon- sible for handling security in Ghazni. The Taliban said it carried out the attack. In the nine years that Polish forces have taken part in the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan, 36 have been killed. Polish troops are scheduled to leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014. REPRESENTATIvE MIKE QUIGLEY testifi es before Congress ST. FLORIAN’S in Hamtramck is among four traditionally MAJORITY OF pOLES AGAINST ADOpTING THE in favor of expanding the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) to in- Polish parishes that may close or be merged under recom- EURO. Three out of four Polish citizens are against the clude Poland and other U.S. allies. mendations made to the archbishop. adoption of the European currency. Forty percent of those DETROIT — The Arch- churches in the archdiocese polled said they were “defi nitely against,” thirty-four per- WASHINGTON —U.S. ate jobs, stimulate the econ- diocese of Detroit presented could be shuttered in the cent said they were “rather against,” while twenty-two per- Representative Mike Quigley omy and strengthen national unsettled proposals to cluster, coming years. Unlike a previ- cent stated that they supported entering the Eurozone. of Illinois, whose 5th Con- security. It’s time to expand close and merge some four ous round of church closings The poll was taken as central banks in the United States, gressional District is home to outdated travel standards to dozen parishes in the next in Detrit in 1989, this time the Canada, Europe, the UK and Switzerland agreed to work more than 100,000 citizens include our proven allies.” fi ve years. The recommen- anger and sadness will be felt together to ensure that rising interest rates on Italian bonds of Polish ancestry, testifi ed Expansion of the VWP dations were made to Arch- in parishes throughout De- don’t cause the collapse of Eurozone banks. before the House Subcom- would bring increased reve- mittee on Immigration Policy nue to the travel industry at a bishop Allen Vigneron by a troit’s older suburbs. layperson’s panel. The plan is to reduce the WIERZBOWSKA FIRST FEMALE BOARD CHAIR. The and Enforcement in favor of time when America’s econo- “The recommendations number of parishes from 270 Polish & Slavic FCU, the nation’s largest ethnic credit expanding the Visa Waiver my needs it most. In 2008, the are not in themselves the fi - to 222 by closing nine of union, has elected Marzena Wierzbowska (inset) as its fi rst Program (VWP) to include countries in the VWP gener- nal plans for the future of them and merging 60 others female board chair, the credit union announced. It also Poland and other U.S. allies. ated more than 16 million vis- the Archdiocese of Detroit, into 21. elected four new directors: Malgorzata Gradzki, Beata “This is an issue of fairness its to the U.S., accounting for although they are serious Among parishes that are Klar-Jakubowski, and equity for a longstanding 65 percent of all overseas ar- and well-researched propos- threatened, the Polish ones Leon Kokoszka, and friend and partner, Poland,” rivals that year. VWP travel- als,” the archdiocese said in a are: Marzena Wojczula- said Quigley. “Expansion of ers spent more than 51 billion statement. • St. Florian parish, with nis. the Visa Waiver Program will dollars in the United States, The suggestions mean that steeples that defi ne the sky- Wierzbowska, improve our international which generated an estimated nearly one in fi ve Catholic See “Detroit,” page 4 who is in the middle diplomatic relationships, cre- See “Visa,” page 4 of her second term on the board, com- pleted journalism Better the Up Through the Ranks and political science An Interview with around 1910. studies in Poland Devil You Fr. Machalski spoke about Orchard Lake, and studied psychology at New York University. She has Rev. Canon Machalski Polonia, and Polish American Catholic par- served as the director of the Legal and Social Services pro- Know? Rector, Ss. Cyril & Methodius Seminary ishes in this interview with The Polish Ameri- gram at the Polish Cultural Foundation in Clark, N.J., and can Journal. was director of the Community Action Program and man- Sikorski Asks Germany by John Grondelski ager/coordinator of the municipal ESL teaching program to Step up to the Plate The Rev. Canon Thomas C. Machalski be- Tell us something about yourself: your organized by the city of New York. came the new Rector of Ss. Cyril & Metho- bac kground, education, priestly life, and your BERLIN — The Euro cri- dius Seminary, Orchard Lake, connections to Poland and DESpITE HATRED, BOOK’S ANNIvERSARY CELE- sis has become so serious that Michigan, on July 1, 2011. His Polonia. BRATED. To commemorate the 25th anniversary of Art Poland’s foreign minister is offi cial installation took place I am a fourth generation Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus, calling for Germany to take August 27, presided over by Polish American—my great- Pantheon Books has released MetaMaus, a book-length in- the lead in forming a much Detroit Archbishop Allen Vi- grandparents left Poland “za terview with Spiegelman conducted by University of Chi- tighter EU federation to save gneron. chlebem” and came to the cago professor Hillary Chute, who collaborated with him the Union from a “crisis of Machalski, a Brooklyn United States. I am the old- on the book. MetaMaus includes interviews with Spiegel- apocalyptic proportions.” diocesan priest, will also est son of the late Thomas C., man’s children and wife, genealogical information about “I will probably be the fi rst became Chancellor of the Sr. and Regina (Rutkowska) his family, transcripts of is original interview with his fa- Polish foreign minister in his- Orchard Lake Schools on Machalski; I have a younger ther Vladek Spiegelman, and more. tory to say so but here it is: I January 1, 2012 (his offi cial brother Michael. I was born Maus recreated the horrors of the Holocaust — as expe- fear German power less than installation is now slated for and raised in Maspeth, New rienced his parents — casting Jews as mice and Germans I am beginning to fear Ger- February 19). He succeeds the York where I attended Holy as cats. But the book depicts Poles as pigs in concert with man inactivity,” said Radek Rev. Timothy Whalen. Cross parish and school. Af- the Nazis, i.e, unlike Jews slated for extermination by Hit- Sikorski. The Orchard Lake Schools ter eighth grade graduation, ler, Germany planned to use Poles as slaves and not part of His demand set off a fi re- has been ministering to Ro- I attended St. Francis Prep in the cat/mouse food chain, according to Spiegelman. storm of protest from Polish man Catholic Polish Ameri- Brooklyn for one year before Ignoring the fact that Poles were to be killed for assist- nationalists. He faces a no- cans since its foundation in transferring to St. Mary’s Prep ing Jews, and that the Polish resistance movement is cred- confi dence vote in parlia- Detroit in 1885. Fr. Joseph in Orchard Lake, Michigan. I ited with saving the lives of nearly a half-million Jews, the ment, and the main opposition Dabrowski founded the institution to supply graduated from St. Mary’s Prep in May 1976 Pulitzer Prize was given to Spiegelman for his twisted in- leader, Jarosław Kaczyński, priests for Polonian parishes in the United and then entered St. Mary’s College from terpretation of life in Nazi-occupied Poland, which is based wants him brought before States. The Schools, which today consist of which I graduated with a B.A. in Philosophy largely on his father’s contempt for the Poles. the state tribunal (a form of a high school and a seminary, moved to the in May 1980. See “Sikorski,” page 4 northwest Detroit suburb of Orchard Lake continued on page 3 POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL • JANUARY 2012 www.polamjournal.com 2 Paper Late! JUST BETWEEN US / Mark Kohan A “Sto Lat” Reality The February 2012 edition PHOTO: R of the PAJ will not be printed and mailed until February 3. 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