June / July 2014, Polish American News - Page 15 Museum’s Historic Reflections Project Part 6 From the Desk of July 21, 1935 - Myron “Moe” Drabowsky (Born) Mary Ann Zerkowski, President Berks County Polish American Myron Walter “Moe” Drabowsky was born in Ozanna, Board of Education Poland. He was a well known right-handed relief
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