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NEWSLETTER Fall 2014 Volume LXIII, No kosciuszko foundation THE AMERICAN CENTER OF POLISH CULTURE NEWSLETTER Fall 2014 Volume LXIII, No. 2 ISSN 1081-2776 Inside... Message from 2 President Dr. John S. Micgiel Restoration 3 at the KF Washington D.C. 4 Gala Tribute to Dr. Julian Kulski The Teaching 6 English in Poland Program 8 Special Mission: Pińczów Camp KF Summer 2014 9 Interns Cultural Events 10 at the KF Exchange 12 Fellowships and Grants FIRST LADY OF POLAND Smialowski and 17 Wojciechowski Award Winners ANNA KOMOROWSKA Scholarships 18 and Grants for VISITS THE KF Americans On September 23rd, 2014, Anna Komorowska, First Special Lady of Poland, visited the Kosciuszko Foundation. 25 Undergraduate Dr. John Micgiel, President and Executive Director Tuition Scholarships warmly welcomed the First Lady, accompanied by the 26 KF Chicago Consul General of Poland, Ewa Junczyk-Ziomecka, Chapter and members of the office of the President of Poland. 27 KF Philadelphia Among the guests were KF Trustees, former President Chapter and Executive Director, Alex Storozynski, and staff. 30 Members, Donors The First Lady toured the KF gallery and expressed and Contributors great enthusiasm when listening to the history and Debutantes for accomplishments of the KF. A small reception followed 39 the 80th Annual during which the First Lady signed the KF guestbook. 2 Dinner an Ball MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Dr. John S. Micgiel SCHOLARSHIPS: SOMETHING TO BE THANKFUL FOR As I reflect on the progress that the Kosciuszko Foundation has had to deal with a much smaller income and the amount that experienced over the last several decades, I cannot but express could be devoted to scholarships and grants plummeted. my appreciation and thanks. My appreciation goes to the many With a good deal of hard work, a positive change in the members who have supported the Foundation in good times financial markets, and with the good advice of the KF Finance and bad, and the staff members, Trustees, and volunteers who Committee, in 2013-2014, the Kosciuszko Foundation was helped run and manage the Foundation’s various programs over able to provide scholarships and grants of $946,181. According the years. to the Annual Financial Report (available online), the Mark Twain famously wrote that “There are three kinds of endowment funds amounted to just over $29 million. lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” Yet, as we say today, That sounds like a lot of money, but the needs are just as great, “Money talks,” and it seems entirely appropriate to look back perhaps greater, than they were in the past. More scholarship at the last 90 years of the Foundation’s activities in the area applications, a broader array of cultural events that are taking of scholarships. Like most young enterprises, the Kosciuszko place throughout the United States thanks to our eight Foundation arose from humble beginnings. Dr. Steven P. Chapters and a Center in Washington, D.C., a Warsaw office Mizwa wrote in The Kosciuszko Foundation Reports, 1948-1952, that handles Foundation affairs in Poland, all these evidence A Review of the First Quarter Century, the need for more support, and more effort. In the beginning, in 1925—there was nothing, no We cannot do it without you. The Foundation relies on its building, not even a typewriter or desk space, and members to participate in our activities when and wherever no funds. There was only an idea and a few people possible. Case in point: the enormously successful campaign who believed in it. At the end of the first quarter to stop the erroneous use by the press of the term “Polish centure (sic), in 1950, the Foundation was located concentration camps” when referring to Nazi German in a magnificent little building of its own in concentration camps in occupied Poland led to a change in midtown New York; had in its endowment fund, the style books of major media outlets and the subsequent plant and equipment over quarter of a million massive decrease in abusive terminology, all thanks to the dollars; had provided nearly half a million dollars’ leadership of Alex Storozynski, who was also responsible for worth in scholarships and other services within the merging the National Polish Center in Washington, D.C. scope of its activities, and is generally held in high with the Kosciuszko Foundation, and making it possible for esteem in educational circles and among its sister Poles in Poland to support us through our Office in Warsaw. organizations of similar purposes. On November 2, 2014, we will honor Dr. Julian Kulski of By 1970, the Foundation had raised $1 million in endowment Washington D.C. for his achievements and his leadership at a funds. Then-KF President Dr. Eugene Kusielewicz reported Gala in the Cosmos Club. If you know Dr. Kulski and would in the 1977 Kosciuszko Foundation Newsletter (No.309) that like to participate, please contact the Washington Center or our the Foundation had granted some $277,000 in scholarships headquarters in New York. and aid during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1977, and The Foundation is in the process of renovating both its secured an additional $85,000 in the form of tuition landmark building, and its Gallery of Masters. Some before waivers, transportation grants, housing, and so on. And the and after photos are included here to show at least part of endowments kept growing. the ongoing work that is taking place outside and inside the KF President Dr. Albert Juszczak reported in January 1985 that building. Please support this effort by donating to our Capital the endowment had grown to $4 million, and that for 1983- Campaign. 84, $335,485 in grants and scholarships had been awarded. Finally, we hope to be able to increase our scholarship and His successor Joseph E. Gore, Esq., led the Foundation from grants program by approximately ten percent this year, with 1987 to 2008, and faced, as his predecessors had, economic ups your help. In this newsletter, we publish the results of some of and downs. In 2008, the Foundation awarded $1,001,820 in our efforts during 2013-2014. We do have a lot to be thankful scholarships and grants, and the Foundation’s investments rose for, and I trust you will find the Foundation worthy of your to over $25 million. With the onset of the financial crisis of continued interest and financial support.2 2007-08, he and his successor President Mr. Alex Storozynski 2 THE KOS CIUS ZKO FOUN DATION Restoration First Lady of Poland Anna Komorowska and KF President John Micgiel observing art conservator Ivan Mitsyk restoring Wojciech Kossak’s 1930 painting The Knight and the Maid Gift of Dr. and Mrs. John A. Cetner in memory of Edward & Jeanette Witkowski KF BUILDING AND ART RESTORATION FUND We are now in the process of extensive renovations to the KF House in New York, as well as a general art restoration program. Many of you are well aware of the Van Alen Mansion, the “KF House,” home to Polonia over many generations. The building and street front are undergoing extensive renovation, and the KF is raising funds to help cover expenses. The artwork of the Foundation includes the Gallery of Polish Masters, an awe-inspiring collection of premier significance – including pieces by Matejko, the Kossak family, the Styka family, and Malczewski. The pieces need to be maintained and restored, and it is high time to do so. We are reaching out to all of our supporters: help to preserve the beauty of Polish-American culture. The Kosciuszko Foundation depends upon public donations to continue its work. You can help! To donate, visit www.thekf.org/support/building_and_art_funds or call the Development Office at 212-734-2130. Restoration of the KF House 3 the 2014 KOSCIUSZKO FOUNDATION IN WASHINGTON D.C. Gala A HISTORY MAKER OF POLAND A TRIBUTE TO DR. JULIAN KULSKI The Kosciuszko Foundation in state “prescribed” that he write out his We will gather at 4.30 p.m. in the Washington D.C. will hold its annual experiences in the form of a memoir. elegant Grand Ballroom of the Cosmos Fundraising Reception on Sunday, The newly edited and expanded version Club, where delicious hors d’oeuvres November 2nd at 4:30 pm. The event of this memoir, titled The Color of and drinks will be served throughout will be held in the handsome and Courage: A Boy at the evening. Entertainment will include historic Cosmos Club located at 2121 War will be released a special performance by two Polish Massachusetts Avenue on Embassy this October and musicians, who perform under the Row in the nation’s capital. The Club will be available name “Duo Klavitarre.” Pianist Jolanta was founded in 1878 and is one of the at our reception. Ziemska and her husband, guitarist most prestigious private social clubs Former Polish Maciej Ziemski, have been performing in the United States. Members have president and Nobel together for twelve years. Both artists included three U.S. Presidents, two Prize laureate Lech graduated with Vice-Presidents, a dozen Supreme Court Walesa wrote this awards from the Justices, 32 Nobel Prize winners, 56 in the foreword: “This account, written Music Academy Pulitzer Prize winners, and 45 recipients from the heart and by the hand of an in Łódź, where of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. adolescent, gives us unique and moving they found insights into World War II.” romance and This year’s reception honors the discovered their acclaimed writer and architect Julian After the war, Dr. Kulski studied love of playing Kulski, recipient of the 2014 Kosciuszko architecture at Yale University and led music together.
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