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ESTABLISHED 1911 www.polamjournal.com JOURNAL ALLURING (AND INSPIRING): 1911 • 2011 DEDICATED TO THE PROMOTION AND CONTINUANCE OF POLISH AMERICAN CULTURE POLAND’S SPY — Page 7 IRELAND, POLAND, AND CITIZENSHIP • KF, ACPC AGREE TO TERMS ON NATIONAL POLISH CENTER GROSS PENS ANOTHER BOOK • WIN ONE OF THREE POLISH COOKBOOKS • IT’S CHRUŚCIKI TIME SZYK ARTWORK SHOWCASED IN CALIFORNIA • YOUTH LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE 2011 NEWSMARK John Paul II to be Beatified Sheriff’s Comments at Ceremony to be held in Saint Peter’s Square, Divine Mercy Sunday, May 1 Center of Controversy by Robert Strybel said Kraków Archbishop Stanisław Dzi- WARSAW–Via the electronic media, wisz, the late Pope’s secretary and close TUSCON, Ariz. — Some want e-mails, blogs and text messages, news friend, in a message to Benedict XVI. him to resign. Others are joining that Pope Benedict XVI had signed his “Thank you, Holy Father or signing the the “Clarence Dupnik is my Hero” predecessor’s beatification document decree recognizing John Paul’s interces- page on Facebook. Whatever your spread like wildfire across Poland and sion in the miracle needed for beatifica- stance, Pima County Sheriff Clar- the country was overjoyed. Special tion.” ence Dupnik’s comments about the masses of thanksgiving were celebrated A medical commission confirmed political atmosphere in Arizona — in churches and cathedrals around the that French nun Marie Simon-Pierre had and subsequently throughout the country, and thousands gathered at ven- been inexplicably cured of Parkinson’s United States — have attracted at- ues associated with the late Pope John disease overnight after praying for the tention from the left and right. CLARENCE DUPNIK: Paul II, their nation’s favorite son. late Pope’s intercession. According to Hours after Rep. Gabrielle Gif- Outspoken sheriff has Nowhere was the joy greater than in the Vatican’s saint-making rules, one fords was shot during the Tucson fans and foes. sleepy, provincial Wadowice in the Ta- miracle is needed for beatification, the rampage that also left six dead, tra foothills, Karol Wojtyła’s hometown, penultimate stage leading to sainthood. Dupnik called Arizona “a mecca for prejudice and bigotry” where he had lived until he was 18 be- A second is required for canonization. and blasted “vitriol” in today’s political rhetoric. fore going to Kraków to study. Worship- No miracle is needed for the beatifica- The sheriff at the center of the shooting investigation ers crowded the local church, where he tion of a martyr for the faith such as then went after the state’s gun laws. had been baptized and served as an al- Blessed Jerzy Popiełuszko, the pro-Soli- His comments raised hackle on both sides of the politi- tarboy to express their gratitude for the darity priest beatified last summer. cal fence, bringing the debate into the national spotlight. current Pope’s decision. A common, understandably impa- Among those who think Dupnik, a Democrat, spoke out JOHN PAUL II. Considered by many to “I am overjoyed. I thank Divine Prov- tient Polish reaction to the announce- of line was his home-state senator, Republican Jon Kyl, for be one of the greatest Poles in history. idence for giving me a chance to live ment went along the lines of: “At long the remarks. “It was speculation,” Kyl said on CBS’ Face alongside someone destined to become a Franciszkańska 3 (3 Franciscan Street). last. This is what we have been waiting the Nation. (continued on page 4). saint.. He was a giant in spirit, heart and That is Kraków Archdiocese’s Episco- and praying for.” By the standards of intellect,” remarked octogenarian Euge- pal Palace, where Cardinal Wojtyła had the Catholic Church, whose wheels turn Moscow Blames Poles for Smolensk Air Disaster niusz Mróz, a Wadowice native and one lived and worked. During papal visits slowly but surely to avoid hasty errors, by Robert Strybel, PAJ Warsaw Correspondent of the late pope’s classmates. to his homeland he would appear in the the process can only be called fast-track WARSAW — Russian investigators probing last April’s In nearby Kraków, some 30 miles window to chat and joke with students beatification. Banners with the words air crash that killed the Polish head of state and the remain- away, hundreds of Poles, especially before turning in for the night. “Santo Subito” were unfurled by young ing 95 people on board have blamed the disaster on Polish university students and young married “I am happy that ‘Santo Subito’ Catholics in St. Peter’s Square during pilot error. The Polish crewman had ignored warnings not couples with children, clustered beneath (Italian for ‘sainthood at once’), which John Paul’s funeral in 2005, and acceler- to land due to bad weather in order not to upset the flight’s Poland’s best-known window at ulica people had requested is being fulfilled,” See “Fast-track Beatification,” page 4 main passenger, President Lech Kaczyński, who was run- ning late, the one-sided Russian report* claimed. It also sought to absolve the Russian side from any blame for the Mikulski Sets Record as Longest-Serving Female Senator tragedy. term January 5, 2011, becom- banes, a fellow Maryland ect through the city’s historic The antiquated Soviet-designed plane taking the top- ing the longest-serving fe- Democrat, with helping her. Fells Point neighborhood. level delegation to the 70th anniversary commemoration male senator in United States “Senator Paul Sarbanes First sworn in as a U.S. of the Katyń Forest Massacre had crashed while trying to history. not only helped me get very land in heavy fog just short of the runway of a disused mili- senator in 1987, Mikulski be- She served in the Senate good committee assignments, tary airport in Smolensk, Russia. None of the passengers or came the first female Demo- for more time than the previ- but showed me those invis- crew survived one the greatest tragedies in Polish history, crat to serve on the Senate ous longest-serving female ible channels and hallways of compared by some to another Katyń. Apart from Poland’s Appropriations Committee. senator, Maine’s Sen. Marga- power that no woman — no First Couple, the victims included senior government offi- She said because she was ret Chase Smith, who served Democratic woman — had cials, top military brass, lawmakers, bishops, war veterans first greeted with skepticism, and family members who had lost loved ones in Stalin’s 24 years. ever gone before,” Mikulski Reflecting on when she said. she worked twice as hard. Mi- cold-blooded 1940 murder of 22,000 Polish officers. kulski credits her acceptance At a special televised news conference in Moscow, the was one of two female sena- Mikulski is the daughter of tors, Mikulski says she was a Baltimore grocer and social partly to her plainspoken, head of the Russian aviation committee Tatyana Anodina wisecracking personality, announced the findings of the investigation, emphasizing never interested in being a ce- worker. She first gained -rec ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Mary- which she said was a pow- that the TU-154 jetliner had been technically sound when it lebrity because of her status. ognition in 1970 when she took off from Warsaw. That echoed Moscow’s initial reac- land Senator Barbara Mikul- She credited male colleagues successfully fought to block erful tool for breaking down tion to the April 10th disaster which insisted that the plane ski, was sworn in for a fifth such as then-Sen. Paul Sar- an interstate highway proj- barriers. had just undergone a major overhaul and was in excellent shape. Nienstedt Nixes Polish Church Appeal in Minneapolis

Anodina then proceeded to read off a litany of alleged DAYLIFE.COM PHOTO: (continued on page 3) MINNEAPOLIS — On December Cross, St. Hedwig and the Polish com- 27, Archbishop of St. Paul and Min- munity are, in fact, preparing an appeal Poland, Three others, Urge EU Action neapolis John C. Nienstedt rejected an to the Vatican. Many have commented appeal for the Polish parishes of Holy on the fact that while the Archbishop has WARSAW —Poland’s Foreign Ministry says four EU Cross and St. Hedwig (Jadwiga) to con- shown a strong determination to elimi- governments have asked the bloc’s foreign policy chief to tinue to exist as separate parishes. The nate existing Polish national parishes take up the issue of recent attacks against Christians. appeal was signed by over 800 Polish through merger, he has left a German Ministry spokesman Marcin Bosacki told The Associat- Americans, concerned Catholics, and national parish alone. Some believe that ed Press that the foreign ministers of Poland, Italy, France members of the two churches. this may be due to Archbishop Nienst- and Hungary have sent a joint letter to Catherine Ashton In his letter to Holy Cross parishio- edt’s German background. suggesting that the EU “look into” the recent “wave of at- ners, the Archbishop recognized Polish Others have been frustrated by a lack tacks on Christians.” Catholics’ attachment to their parish, ARCHBISHOP JOHN C. NIENSTEDT of meaningful consultation with the par- Bosacki refused to disclose further details. but stated that the continued existence rejected an appeal for Polish parishes. ishes involved and the laity. “I am sick A bomb attack on worshippers of Egypt’s Coptic Chris- of Holy Cross “is simply not in the best them that an appeal could be sent to the and tired of his (Nienstedt’s) blatant ar- tian minority on Christmas Day in Alexandria killed 21 and interests of the area.” He assured them Vatican’s Congregation for the Clergy, rogance,” said a caller to the PAJ office, left nearly 100 wounded. Deadly attacks also hit Chris- that, in the new merged parish, Polish but expressed his hope that this would who did not want to disclose her name. tians on Dec. 25 in Nigeria and the Philippines. An attack Mass and Polish activities would be con- not be necessary. “And we Poles don’t go down without a last fall on Catholics in Baghdad claimed 68 lives. tinued. The Archbishop also informed A number of people from Holy good fight.” POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL • FEBRUARY 2011 • OUR 100th ANNIVERSARY YEAR www.polamjournal.com 2

ALMANAC VIEWPOINTS KF, ACPC Agree to Terms on National February • Luty Polish Center Idzie luty, podkuj buty. Ireland, Poland, and Citizenship by Jo Louise Winters When February comes, Ireland is very generous in conferring its citizen- The Irish and Polish Diasporas both originated in ACPC PR Chair hobnail your shoes. ship—and very public about that generosity. Americans the 19th century, as a result of economic impoverish- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The of Irish descent can acquire Irish citizenship if at least ment in a homeland under foreign occupation. Ireland Kosciuszko Foundation, Inc. and 2 CANDLEMAS one of their grandparents was born in Ireland. Nor is the has managed to expand citizenship to grandchildren of the American Council for Polish Gdy s³once œwieci jasno na Irish Government shy about the benefits: Irish citizen- persons born in Ireland. Poland confers citizenship only Culture (“ACPC”) announced their Gromnicê, to przyjd¹ wiêksze ship entitles a person to live and work anywhere within on children born to a Polish citizen. There are two key mrozy, œnie¿yce. joint solidarity in support of the If sun shines on Candlemas, the European Union, to purchase property there, and to differences here: the Irish leave the door open to a third Kosciuszko Foundation’s current more frost and attend university at preferential EU rates. And, as the generation, and their criterion is birth in, not citizenship and future operation of the Nation- snow will this way pass. Irish note, they have no objection to dual nationality. of Ireland. Sean O’Heaney can be an Irish citizen if his al Polish Center (the “Center”) in 1674. Coronation of Jan So- Lots of Americans have acquired Irish citizenship un- grandmother was born in Ireland, even if she arrived in Washington, D.C. bieski, king and military leader der this arrangement. New York on a British passport. Jan Kowalski, whose The Center was first conceived at who defeated the Turks in Vi- Ireland and Poland have a lot in common. Both were grandparents came with a Russian, Prussian, or Austro- the annual convention of the ACPC enna. occupied countries that acquired their independence Hungarian passport, is out-of-luck. held in 1985 to serve as a national 3 1899. Death of painter Juliusz only after World War I. Both have large Diasporas in In an increasingly globalized world, dual Irish- Polish American cultural center in Kossak (b. 1824). the United States which are sentimentally attached to American citizenship gives Americans a chance to the nation’s capital. It was subse- 4 1505. Birth of the father of Pol- the “old country.” Ireland figured out thirty years ago work in France, England, Germany, Italy, Ireland, or ish literature, Mikolaj Rej. quently established in 1988 by the 1745. Birth of Polish and Ameri- how to benefit from the political abilities of its Diaspo- Poland without any additional paperwork. They can ACPC as a separate non-profit -or can patriot, freedom fighter and ra. Remember, the green card or “diversity” visa lottery stay in Europe without facing the Schengen visa limits ganization and in 1991 acquired military engineer Thaddeus started out originally as a vehicle to address illegal Irish Americans now face. And the university premium? If its current property — including a Kosciuszko. immigration. Ireland and Irish Americans managed to you live in England three years before beginning stud- historic townhouse in the Dupont 6 ST. DOROTHY work together to get the Northern Irish Peace Talks go- ies, for example, you can study at “Home/EU” rates, Circle area of the nation’s capital, as Œwiêtej Dorocie ing, and the U.S. even has a special visa “reward” pro- roughly 25% of what an American would pay. well as pieces of artwork and other uschnie koszula na p³ocie. gram for Northern Irish to come to the United States. And for those Irish who don’t qualify for citizenship, items of Polish and Polish-Ameri- St. Dorothy’s shirt will The Polish Diaspora hasn’t yet gotten its political Dublin is planning to inaugurate a “Certificate of Irish dry on the fence. can cultural significance— with the act together. When the visa lottery legislation was writ- Heritage” later this year. It might not let you live in Ire- help of the ACPC’s fundraising ef- 9 1961. Birth of John Kruk, col- ten, Irish Americans managed to set aside 40% of the land, but the plan is to allow various discounts for “Irish orful and often-quoted major forts. league baseball player. visas in the original program for Irish nationals, but Heritage” visitors, e.g., on trains, public transportation, As of January 2010, the Kos- 10 1866. Birth in Detroit of John other countries (e.g., Poland in the last cycle) now get admissions, ferries, etc. ciuszko Foundation acquired the Temke, first American priest of periodically kicked out of the program for producing In the early 20th century, when Poland was still par- Center, which is now operated as Polish descent. too many “winners.” Despite criticism from the Wash- titioned, our countrymen spoke of American Polonia the foundation’s Washington, D.C. 11 1945. Yalta Conference. Soviets ington establishment, Jean Kennedy Smith (Ted’s sis- as the “fourth partition.” Maybe Warsaw should finally office. The Kosciuszko Foundation, receive Poland’s Eastern lands. ter) managed during her tenure as U.S. Ambassador to start thinking about reforming its citizenship laws for a non-profit established in 1925, 12 1867. Death of George Soko- Dublin to get Ireland—high overstay rates in the 1980s the benefit of that “fourth partition.” Or at -least ac promotes educational and cultural loski, first Polish American notwithstanding—into the Visa Waiver Program. Poles, knowledging the heritage of 10,000,000 of us. Lots of graduate of West Point Acad- exchanges between Poland and the despite going to Iraq and Afghanistan with the United Poles have been recently working in Ireland during the United States and awards up to one emy and Civil War veteran. States, have again be left in the dust as Visa Waiver ex- latter’s boom times. It’s time they brought something 15 1903. Death of million dollars annually in scholar- Fr. Jozef Dab- panded in Central Europe. else home from that experience besides money. rowski, founder of the Orchard ships to Poles and Polish Ameri- Lake Schools. (b. 1842). cans. 16 1952. Death of Felix Witkows- DATELINE WARSAW / Robert Strybel The ACPC is a national non- ki, last Polish American veteran profit, charitable, cultural and edu- of the Confederacy. POLISH PRESIDENT BRONISLAW KOMOROWSKI been a short distance away during trips to neighboring cational organization that serves 17 1772. First Partition of Poland between Prussia, Russia and marked Hanukkah, as did his predecessor Lech Kac- Germany and the Czech Republic. as a network and body of national Austria. zynski, by welcoming members of Warsaw’s Jew- leadership among affiliated Pol- 18 1386. Marriage of Polish Queen ish community to his residence, lighting a Hanukkah CONTROVERSIAL SOCIOLOGIST JAN TOMASZ ish-American cultural organiza- Jadwiga d’Anjou to Wladys- candle and distributing gifts to Jewish children. The GROSS has published a new book which describes tions throughout the United States. law Jagiello of Lithuania. celebration took place on the fifth day of the eight-day how Polish gold-diggers robbed Jewish corpses in the Founded in 1948, the Council repre- 19 1473. Birth of astronomer Nich- festival of lights. Former President Kaczynski initiated area of Germany’s death camp at Treblinka in Nazi- sents the interests of some 21 affili- olas Copernicus (Mikolaj Ko- the annual tradition, a gesture appreciated by Poland’s occupied Poland immediately after World War II. “A ated organizations in 15 states and pernik) in Torun, Poland. Jewish citizens. Golden Harvest,” due to hit bookshops in Poland in the District of Columbia. Comment- 20 1530. Zyg- Since the overthrow of communism, Poland has February, was inspired by Poland’s second-largest daily ing on this important development, munt II demonstrated an interest in honoring the Jewish life that newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza which, like Gross, dwells ACPC President Debbie Majka A u g u s t c r o w n e d flourished there prior to World War II. on alleged Polish anti-Semitism. Most Poles and Po- said, “The Kosciuszko Foundation’s King of Po- lonians protested against Gross’ earlier books on anti- absorption of the Center will hope- land. POLAND WANTS TO CHANGE ITS MILITARY pres- Jewish pogroms in Jedwabne and Kielce, but the con- fully ensure its long-term financial 21 1883. 1899. ence in Afghanistan to a training and educational one troversy only helped him sell more copies. viability.” Death of mission, starting in 2014. Currently 2,600 Polish troops “The Center provides the Polish R u d o l p h are taking part in the NATO-led operation in Afghani- THE ONE-MILLIONTH VISITOR to Wieliczka salt community with a foothold in our Piotrowski stan where they are in charge of Ghazni province. Soon Mine in southern Poland was Urszula Szczęsnowicz nation’s capital, and I urge all Polish in Saintes, ZYGMUNT II after being elected last summer, President Bronisław from the town of Mława north of Warsaw. She was Americans to join the Kosciuszko France, one given red-carpet treatment, taken on a special tour, pre- of the co-founders of the Pol- Komorowski pledged to withdraw Polish troops in Foundation and to support the Cen- ish Society of California in 1863 2012. The target date has since been moved to 2014. sented with gifts and asked to sign Visitors Book which ter to help promote Polonia’s inter- (now the Polish Club of San includes the signatures of composer Fryderyk Chopin ests,” said Kosciuszko Foundation Francisco). U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA has been invited and the King of the Belgians Albert II. The mine, set President and Executive Director 1820. Birth of Apollo Nalecz- to visit Poland by President Bronisław Komorowski, up in the mid-13th century, ranks among the man-made Alex Storozynski. Korzeniowski, dramatist, poet according to Polish presidential adviser Professor Ro- wonders of the world and includes an underground To learn more about the Kos- and father of Joseph Conrad. man Kuźniar. The visit would coincide with a planned sanatorium for asthma sufferers, ballroom, chapels, ten- ciuszko Foundation, visit www. 22 1814. 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The Conference assists youths of Polish back- (inset, right) is a 40-year-old ground who are interested in civic and political activism councilman in the Polish city to realize their full potential and to assume leadership of Lodz, a teacher and pastor roles in various fields at all levels of society. of the Church of God in Christ, This year’s week-long Conference is scheduled for an active Christian Pentecostal the third week of June. church in Poland. Originally It is an up close and intensive opportunity for 20 to from Nigeria, he came to Po- 25 young Polish Americans, chosen from all over the land as a Protestant mission- United States to explore the political processes and ary, taught English there and interact with national and international leaders in the has lived in Lodz for seven- realms of foreign policy, business, science, education, teen years where he has proven journalism, culture, Polish American and east-central himself a popular local leader, serving on the city coun- CHERYL BABIEC (left) was inducted into the Pawtucket, R.I. Hall of Fame European affairs. It is open to high school graduates or cil for several years. He married a Pole and became a for 2010. A teacher at Cunningham Elementary School, she was cited for college students, ages 17 to 26 of Polish descent. Polish citizen ten years ago. the honor for her over 2,700 volunteer hours at The Memorial Hospital A deposit of $50 (refundable) will guarantee a place He filled Hanna Zdanowska’s national parliament Emergency Department. Babiec transports patients, updates files, runs as attendance is limited. seat which she vacated after being elected mayor of errands, and does “anything she can do to help the staff,” says the hospital. The ACPC Youth Leadership Conference registra- Lodz. Godson was her runner-up in the parliamentary Babiec spends many hours after school helping students and meeting tion fee is $500. This provides for housing at George elections of 2007. Both are members of the Civic Plat- with parents. She works on such programs as Red Ribbon Week, DARE, Washington University and one meal per day, along form party. and the School Improvement Team. with most other conference expenses such as local trav- Godson states that he will promote technological She has been involved in several Polish heritage organizations for over el and tours. Transportation to and from Washington, development and bolster Poland’s relations with Af- three decades, and helps organize events during Polish Heritage Month as well as each student’s optional expenses are up to rica. He is a graduate of the Department of Agronomy and at Christmas, when she helps collect, pack, and ship medical supplies the individual and/or local supporting ACPC affiliate, at Nigeria’s Abia State University, holds a doctorate in and equipment to Poland. Babiec has raised money for the Pawtucket Polish club or student organization, etc., through their human resource management, lectures at many univer- Times Christmas Fund and the Pawtucket Animal Shelter. support for the student. sities throughout Poland and is president of Poland’s She is the daughter of the late Frank Babiec, and Jean (Janina) Babiec The application form is available from at the ACPC African Institute. (above, center). Also pictured is Cheryl’s brother, Dr. Daniel Babiec, of website, www.polishcultureacpc.org or by contacting In a recent newspaper interview Godson stated: “I Alexandria, Virg. the YLC Director: Irena Mirecki, Conference Chair, am from Lodz, I will live here, I want to die here and I 4041 41st Street, McLean, VA 22101, irena@mirecki. want to be buried here.” Moscow Blames Poles for Smolensk Air Disaster us. continued from cover also found no blame on the part of SAN DIEGO ZOO IS REFUGE FOR WILD HORSES. ered critically endangered. Polish failings, shortcomings and the Russian control tower, although However, wildlife refuges and zoos around the unjustified risks on the part of the its performance had raised various Although we use the word “wild” to describe feral world, including the San Diego Zoo, continue to house Polish crew. During the flight, the misgivings. Many Polish observers horses, there is really only one wild horse left in the and breed the Przewalski horse. crew was repeatedly informed of feel the airport, withdrawn from ser- world. The Przewalski horse in east-central Asia has The horse is named after the Russian colonel Nikolai inadequate weather conditions at vice a year earlier, should not have never been domesticated. In fact, this species almost Przhevalsky (1839–1888). The name is of Polish origin Smolensk airport but refused to fly received an international VIP flight became extinct in the 1960s. Today, only about 300 of and “Przewalski” is the Polish spelling. to an alternative airfield, she insist- of that caliber in the first place. these special horses live in the wild. They are consid- ed. Jarosław Kaczynski, the late She also accused the plane’s president’s twin brother and former captain and co-pilot of being poor- Polish prime minister, told a press Reasons to Buy Life Insurance from a ly trained, because they feared the conference that “the report makes a wrath of the president who was al- mockery of Poland.” He also raised ready late for the Katyń observance. some questions the Russian probe Polish American Fraternal Benefit Society The plane’s black box had recorded failed to explain: “Why did (Rus- one of the pilot saying in the flight’s sian) air traffic control state that the 1. Money, should something happen to you. American Polonia’s fraternal final minutes “On się wkurzy” plane was on course and on the right benefit societies were founded (“He’ll get teed off”), suggesting flight path? Such was the informa- 2. It’s a supplement to your retirement. as mutual aid societies for the 3. To provide a way to peace of mind and security in old age. that Kaczyński would have opposed tion received by the pilots and that newly arrived. Over the past changing the plane’s destination. was the basic reason behind their 4. It’s a savings plan. 100-plus years, these organiza- 5. It’s a way to borrow money. The findings set forth in the Rus- actions? Why did the air traffic tions have helped millions of sian investigators’ 210-page report controllers not react correctly and 6. 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QUOTES / compiled from news sources Fast-track Beatification for John Paul II continued from cover ated processing followed. Within KAROL WOJTYŁA — Pope John Paul II MAY 18, 1920 - APRIL 2, 2005 weeks of his predecessor’s death, ORDAINED PRIEST...... NOVEMBER 1, 1946 Poland Calls on United States Benedict XVI launched beatifica- ORDAINED BISHOP...... SEPTEMBER 28, 1958 tion proceedings, waiving the nor- ELEVATED TO CARDINAL...... JUNE 26, 1967 to Aid Belarus Dissidents mal five-year “cooling-off” period. ELECTED POPE...... OCTOBER 16, 1978 ELEVATED TO PAPACY...... OCTOBER 22, 1978 “We expect political and demo- by BMW, which is opening a factory In Warsaw, Catholics marked the DUE TO BE BEATIFIED...... MAY 1, 2011 cratic pressure on the Belarusian in Greer, S.C. American workers beatification announcement with authorities. This means all forms of will make $15.00 per hour, com- a mass at St. John’s Cathedral fol- Pope John Paul II will go down recent centuries. He was the first support for democratic society to di- pared to the $30.00 per hour made lowed by a torchlight procession in history as one of Christendom’s pope to enter a Jewish synagogue rect help for those brave people in by German autoworkers. across town to Piłsudski Square, greatest popes, whose intense spir- and a Muslim mosque, asking Belarus who have the courage to op- v v v where the papal cross proudly ituality, intellectual brilliance and forgiveness for the transgressions pose the oppressive government.” “It was a little bit of a feeling of stands. It was there in 1979 that the physical stamina were beyond dis- Christians had committed over the — Poland’s ambassador to the shock that everything I really want- Holy Father uttered his prophetic pute. Although a profound thinker, centuries. He constantly stressed United States, Robert Kupiecki, ed I got.” appeal: “May Your Spirit descend he never lost the common touch, that Jewish, Christians and Mus- asking the United States to help — Midshipman Abigail and change the face of the land… brought the papacy to the people lims “all worship the same God, fund dissidents in Belarus follow- Gesecki, of Nanticoke, Pa., one of this land!” A year later, Polish work- and earned the nickname ‘Pilgrim but we are moving towards him ing a widely condemned election the first eleven female U.S. Naval ers launched a strike wave that led Pope’ along somewhat different roads.” and a crackdown on dissent. The Academy graduates who will be to the emergence of Solidarność, Born in Wadowice, Poland, A great promoter of ecumen- United States and other Western able to serve as officers aboard sub- the Soviet bloc’s first independent Karol Józef Wojtyła lost his moth- ism, John Paul II gathered the countries have called the Belarus’s marines. The group should be fully trade union. The rest is history and er and elder brother at an early age leaders of all the world’s major elections in December illegitimate trained for active service by 2012. includes the peaceful overthrow and was raised by a religiously religions in Assisi, Italy, to pray and condemned the crackdown on v v v of communist rule across the con- devout father, a military officer. together for world peace. Lukashenko opponents. More than “It’s a lot cheaper, and I kind of tinent, the dismantling of the iron His studies in Polish language His moral authority was a ma- 700 people, including seven candi- want a change of scene.” curtain and the end of the cold war. and literature at Kraków’s Jagi- jor spiritual force driving Poland’s dates who ran against Lukashenko, — Kajetan Malachowski, a se- Legendary Solidarność founder ellonian were interrupted by the peaceful Solidarity revolution were arrested after the voting, most nior at Walt Whitman High School and former Polish president Lech outbreak of World War Two, but which ultimately led to the col- of them at a massive demonstration in Bethesda, Md., who applied to Wałęsa, a devout Catholic, re- he continued to take part in an un- lapse of the Soviet bloc and put an protesting alleged vote fraud. five universities in the U.K. Enroll- marked: “I was delighted by the derground student theatre group. end to the cold war and arms race. v v v ment of U.S. undergraduates in the news. A man who was a living saint He began secretly studying for Always concerned with human the priesthood, while working in a “Right now there are more wom- U.K. has spiked 30 percent in the is now on the way to becoming an dignity and the sanctity of life, he stone quarry. After his ordination en serving right this minute than past five years. official one. Our Polish Pope did opposed all forms of killing: capi- to the priesthood, he rose through had served in the Senate — than had v v v great things.” tal punishment, abortion, euthana- the ranks of the hierarchy and was served in all of American history — “Excessive weight is not only a Pope John II is regarded by many sia and war. When asked to bless when I arrived.” risk factor for cardiovascular dis- in Poland as the greatest Pole ever elected the first non-Italian Pope in 458 years in 1978. the American-led invasion of Iraq, — U.S. Senator Barbara Mikul- ease … but it is also a risk factor for to have walked God’s good earth. he only replied: I will pray for the ski (D-Md.), after being sworn in developing dementia.” Numerous surveys have shown John Paul’s papacy was not without hardship or controversy. children and others who will die for her fifth term, Jan. 5, 2011, mak- — Stefan Gazdzinski, research- that Karol Wojtyła is ranked by his and suffer in the war. John Paul ing her the longest-serving female er at Poland’s Jagiellonian Uni- countrymen ahead of such other He survived an assassination at- tempt in St. Peter’s Square, May pioneered World Youth Day which senator in U.S. history. versity, on recent findings on body unquestionable giants as Casimir attracted crowds of up to a mil- v v v 13, 1981; (When the text of the mass. the Great, Copernicus, Chopin, lion and more around the globe. v v v Kościuzsko, Madam Skłodowska- Third Secret of Fatima was re- “We are a low-wage country He developed easy rapport with Curie, Marshal Józef Piłsudski and vealed, it referred to the attempted compared to Germany, and that “ … the legendary Zubrowka is young people, because he did not helps put jobs here.” probably my favorite in the world.” Lech Wałęsa. assassination of John Paul II. He talk down to them but tried to un- — Kristin Dziczek, director of — Spirits columnist and author He will now join the some 280 attributed his recovery to the in- derstand and empathize with their Labor and Industry Group at the Jason Wilson, rejoicing that Po- Poles who have received the title of tercession of the Blessed Mother. cares and problems. He warned Center for Automotive Research, on land’s bison grass vodka is once blessed so far, 154 of them beati- When he visited the Shrine to Our them against the propaganda of the 1,000 jobs that will be created again available in the United States. fied by Pope Wojtyła himself. Dur- Lady of Fatima in Portugal, John ing his 27-year pontificate, he also Paul placed the bullet that nearly cheap commercialism and passing canonized nine of his compatriots. killed him in the crown of the trends, urging them to seek higher His beatification has been set for a statue of Our Lady of Fatima. He values SUPPORT THE PAJ PRESS FUND week after Easter on Divine Mercy donated the sash he was wearing The night before he died, thou- n 1971, a voluntary fund-raising campaign was launched by a group Sunday, a feast day instituted by that day to Poland’s Shrine of Our sands of young people filled St. of loyal readers of the Polish American Journal entitled “We Love the John Paul. Initial estimates predict Lady of Częstochowa. Peter’s Square, demanding his im- PAJ Press Fund” in order to help cover rising postage, material over a million Poles are planning to The Polish-born Pontiff has mediate canonization. His mortal and production costs. witness the ceremony at the Vatican, been acclaimed by many as one remains were laid to rest in the IDonations to the PAJ Press Fund are also used to support our reader presided over Pope Benedict XVI. of the leading moral authorities of grotto beneath St. Peter’s Basilica. services (postage, telephone, research, etc.), provide newsclippers with stamps and envelopes, and cover extraordinary expenses in producing Sheriff’s Comments atCenter of Controversy the paper. The Polish American Journal is not a profit-making ven- continued from cover mayor of Hamtramck, Mich., which his finger at Palin. When asked by ture. Thanks to its dedicated staff, the PAJ is pub­lished as a “public “First, I didn’t really think that has a large Muslim population: Geraldo Rivera on Fox News if he service” for American Polonia. that had any part in a law enforce- “For those who want to argue the regretted bringing politics into the Donations to the PAJ Press Fund will be acknowledged in the paper ment briefing last night,” said Kyl. fantasy that the shooter was a loony investigation, Dupnik said: unless otherwise directed by the contributor. “We really don’t know what moti- and that public political rhetoric is “Not in any way shape or form. A sincere “THANK YOU” for their donations to the PAJ PRESS FUND: vated this young person (alleged irrelevant, let me tell you that every When you have people like Sharon Walter Andruszka, Naples, Fla.; Chester Bijoch, Minneapolis; John shooter Jared Lee Loughner) ex- time some right wing blogger writes Angle, in Las Vegas, running against Bogdanovicz, Jessup, Pa.; Felix Cizdziel, West Seneca, N.Y.; Eleanor cept to know he was very mentally something about Hamtramck’s call Harry Reid, making outrageous Fuks, Passiac, N.J.; Frank Gavel, Wilton, Conn.; Robert Michalak, unstable as was pointed out in the to prayer issue — or about ... Mus- statements such as ‘We may need to Redmond, Wash.; Maryann Oganowski, Franklin, Maine; Anthony piece.” lims in Hamtramck, or about efforts resort to taking the second amend- Pawlowski, Wilmington, Del.; Mary Pizzato, Manteno, Ill.; Rev. Walter Right-wing radio host Jon Jus- to resolve the [housing discrimina- ment into certain cases.’ And for Rakoczy, Michigan City, Ind.; Robert Ricci, Palm Beach, Fla.; Fr. Ronald tice, who is on KQTH FM 104.1 tion] R-31 lawsuit — I know about people like Sarah Palin to say ‘We Rutkowski, Blountville, Tenn.; Mike Siwek, Newark, Del.; Adolph in Arizona, has called for Dupnik’s it. How? Because I start getting hos- have people like Gabby Giffords in Tomaszek, N. Smithfield, R.I.; Rik Suligowski-Fox, Agua Dulce, Calif.; resignation. Justice has taken issue tile email from all around the coun- our cross-hairs.’ I think those state- Dolores Vukovich, South Park, Pa.; Loretta Lyk, Warren, Mich.; Irene with the Dupnik’s comments that try,” she said. ments are totally irresponsible and Wrobel, Cheektowaga, N.Y.; Leonard Zawistowski, Ashburn, Virg.; and right wing talk radio helped to fu- Majewski quoted one such threat they’re not without consequences. two “Friends of the PAJ.” Dziekujemy! The PAJ thanks all who donated eled the shooting. made to her: “… if I did not have job And we are seeing them here.” to the Press Fund. “To say, as Dupnik did, that com- I would travel to you and do some- Dupnik, 74, has been sheriff of ments made on the airwaves essen- thing about this. Consider yourself sprawling Pima County since 1980. MAIL TO: PAJ PRESS FUND tially motivated this person to com- lucky that I am not on unemploy- Blunt and often partisan, Dupnik POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL mit this crime is exactly what he ment you b**ch.” refused last year to enforce Arizo- P.O. BOX 328, BOSTON, NY 14025-0328 blamed talk radio of doing, inciting “Dupnik got it exactly right,” na’s controversial immigration law. I want to make sure the POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL continues its through pure rhetoric,” Justice said said nationally syndicated colum- The law requires local and state law service to American Polonia. Enclosed is my contribution of $______in a statement to Tucson Weekly. “It nist Ruben Navarrette, Jr. on CNN’s enforcement to ask people about was complete misuse of his power Opinion page, but also said early ef- their immigration status if they are NAME and he owes the media in town, TV forts to blame the right wing (“those suspected to be in the United States and radio, an apology for his horri- on the liberal left who … blame the illegally. ble comments in the middle of such tragedy on right-wing talk radio, the The Arizona law is being ap- ADDRESS a tragic day. He should step down Tea Party movement and even po- pealed in federal court. Dupnik was immediately from his position as tential 2012 GOP presidential hope- unabashed in criticizing the Arizona CITY, STATE, ZIP Pima County Sheriff.” ful Sarah Palin”) for the shootings Legislature for passing the measure, Please [ ] include [ ] do not include my name in your list of contributors. Hardly subscribing to Justice’s were “misguided.” calling state lawmakers “racists.” view would be Karen Majewski, But Dupnik himself pointed — compiled from press reports POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL • FEBRUARY 2011 • OUR 100th ANNIVERSARY YEAR www.polamjournal.com 5 TRAVELOGUE / Staś Kmieć Butter & Kraków Bagels and the Planty CHOCOLATE Part XXI Legend has it that the bagel was string, thus destroying it, and tak- was placed beyond them. In 1820 MOLDS I leave the historic sub-district of popularized in Vienna, where it was ing away its nature of being crunchy it was decided to create a “gar- Also: Easter Word Coins, Kazimierz – the site of a lost era and baked to commemorate the Polish and circular and perfect — or you den city” on the site demolished in Everyday Word Coins, make a final trek into the Old Town. King Jan Sobieski’s 1683 triumph can untie the string and let all the the early nineteenth century walls and Miniature Polish Foods Retracing my familiar path from over the Turks. It was then named obwarzanki loose — thus separating (hence the name of the Planty - the many visits. I want to take in the beugel, (Austrian for stirrup). Over their unified chain of being. splantowania, Easy to use! To make with butter, ambiance of Kraków on my never time, its shape evolved into a circle Around 1900, Polish-Jewish im- The symbolic birth of contempo- simply coat the mold with vegetable ending final day in Poland. with a hole in the center and its migrants brought oil (spray type works best), press named evolved to its modern form, this great bread to in softened butter, clamp halves OBWARZANKI – THE KRAKÓW “bagel.” New York City, together, place and refrigerator TWISTED BAGEL. Still in Ka- According to a resolution of where it continues until hardened and you’re done. For zimierz, I pass by Bagelmama (ul. 1611 the Kraków Bakers’ Guild in popularity. The chocolate, just pour and let harden. It’s that easy! Clean with soap and Dajwór 10) – the only bagel shop (Krakowski Cechu Piekarzy) could Lender brothers, warm water. in Poland. The store is owned and decide who and what place could immigrants from run by Nava De Kime, an Ameri- deal with the sale of bagels. This Lublin invented can who has lived here for the past strict control by the Guild continued the flash freezing ten years. The tiny shop is the place until 1802. Bakers then had the right process for a bagel to go for a classic American bagel to make bagels, only when their and soon the prod- breakfast with smoked lox, onions, turn came from a draw. This form uct from the East of selection was could be distrib- used until 1849, uted nationwide. at which point all The brothers made bakers were al- a fortune and the Before being baked, the bagels are are sprinkled with lowed the privi- bagel secured its seasoning, usually poppy or sesame seeds lege. position as a main- Traditionally, stream product be- bagels were sold loved by millions of Americans. rary Planty was planting an elm – EASTER BUTTER LAMB MOLD to the so-called The bagel has endured through the “Freedom Tree” on May 3, 1892 Small 3-1/2” width by 3” tall Jatek (shambles) the centuries not only because of its to celebrate the anniversary of the # 1-600 $4.95 PLUS S&H bakery, which heroic legend. It also had the advan- Constitution of the Third of May. Large 5” width by 4” tall opened at 6:00 tage of lasting longer than freshly Since 1815, under the surveillance # 1-601 $7.95 PLUS S&H a.m. every day. baked bread because the boiling of Feliks Radwanski, trees had been Control over these gave the roll an outer sheen and a systematically planted around the stalls was moni- crunchy, protective crust. Old City, thus creating a different tored by the Eight type of wall – the green one called Brothers Guild. PLANTY – GARDEN RING “Plantation.” Since the nine- AROUND THE OLD TOWN. I en- Florian Straszewski continued teenth century ter the green circle of public parks Radwański’s works developing this into the 1950s called Planty – an area which took unusual park, and he was complete- twentieth cen- up the emptied area of 52 acres in ly devoted to this undertaking until tury bagels were the 1820s. It can take an hour to two his death in 1847. The next stage LET’S LEARN POLISH EASTER sold straight from hours to walk around the Old Town of development (1847-1870) was WORDS PLASTIC MOLD 12-coin wicker baskets. historical district down the leafy al- called “romantic,” as Planty was mold. Each coin is 1-inch across x Today most of leys among old trees. The stroll is given the look of the fashionable 1/4” deep. $8.95 PLUS S&H Most of the bagels in Kraków today are sold on the Kraków bagels are even more delightful as the ancient then English Gardens full of “flower street, from small mobile stands. sold on the street, buildings reveal their unusual as- portraits”, bends, secret bridges and from small mo- pects. arborswhich suddenly appeared be- and capers. bile stands numbering about 180, Surrounding the oldest part of fore its pedestrians. The third period An original bagel bakery – Pan and the average daily production of the city, Planty is one of the most started and it lasted until 1914. It Beigel (Mr. Bagel) that opened in bagels sold during a week is almost unusual monuments of Krakow. It was a period of naturalism and Art 1915, has long since closed and dis- 150 thousand. is a place where you can go for an Nouveau. Planty was equipped with appeared. De Kime, a musician, and On November 28, 2006 the amazing walk through centuries. wooden benches, gas lighting, and caterer, opened in exactly the same “Kraków bagel” was included on This almost unbroken ring of green- monuments. location allowing the history of the the list of traditional products from ness is attractive during all the sea- What followed was the interwar bagel ro come full circle (with a LET’S LEARN POLISH EVERYDAY the Małopolska province in the cat- sons of the year. Now in autumn, it period (referred to as “stage-land- WORDS MOLD. 12-coin mold. Each hole in the middle). egory of bakery and confectionery attracts and entices with its romantic scape”), the years of the Second coin is 1-inch across x 1/4” deep. Currently there is a baker in the World War and occupation when the $8.95 PLUS S&H district that advertises his bagels The Lender brothers, immigrants from Lublin invented memorial elm, then 150 years old, as “Kazimierz bagels.” If they are the flash freezing process for a bagel and soon the product was cut down, the first after-war pe- indeed based on the original, they from the East could be distributed nationwide. riod until the 1960’s and “the years must have been a poor, but neces- of negligence” 1960 – 1990. sary ingredient for survival back products, and on October 30, 2010 gold and purple leaves, but watch A park renewal was designed then ... they are chalky, dry and to it was listed as a product protected out – one can easily get hit by a fall- by Professor Janusz Bogdanowski the point of being difficult to swal- by European Union. ing chestnut. including: plant renovation, restora- low. Approaching the Old Town I The area was once a moat, but tion of small architecture – stylish The notion that the bagel was in- spot one of the familiar blue street has long since been filled in. Built lamps, fences, benches, and stone vented in Kraków may be more than seller carts vending the ubiquitous on the site of fortifications sur- walls. Moreover, divided into eight just myth, as a spate of recent schol- street food obwarzanki, in actual- rounding the city walls and located gardens: Wawel, University, Palace arship has shown. The tradition of ity a bread transmutation between a on the outskirts of ditches and em- of Arts, Florianka, Barbican Rail- baking bagels is old, the first pre- bagel and a pretzel. They are tradi- bankments, the surroundings were way Station, Gródek, and Stradom served records date from the four- tionally sprinkled with poppy seeds, muddy and unkempt serving as the Gardens.. NEW! MINI POLISH FOODS teenth century accounts of the court but now come in a variety of flavors. mouth of garbage and sewage. A walk around the entire length MOLD. $8.95 of Władysław Jagiełło and Jad- Usually manned by older sellers, The gardens came about as a re- of the gardens is a good way to get a Six all-time favorites. Mold is 6“x6“. wiga, in which on March 2, 1394, they can be spotted all over the old sult of the dismantling of the medi- feel for the city. Be careful walking Each food app. 2” x 1” x 3/8” deep. it was enrolled: Dla królowej pani city. I decided to buy one from a curt eval fortifications, a move that had in Planty at night, particularly at the Includes: Rye Bread • Pierogi pro circulis obrzanky 1 grosz (for old lady for breakfast the next day, been set in motion by the Austrians north end (near the train station). At Kielbasa • Golabki •Pisanka the Queen lady circular warzanki since I had an early flight. in 1806. With the exception of the night time, some of those who fre- Mini Butter Lamb for the price of 1 grosz – a penny This modern bagel predeces- area with the main gate, its adjoin- quent the park are there for more equivalent). sor has a ring-like shape – its color ing towers and the Barbican, the mischievous reasons than others. Shipping & Handling: $3.00 per mold Initially, bagels could be baked golden to tan, with a clear gloss. It medieval city walls were largely de- Those with a penchant for vodka are 5 or more molds: $2.00 each only during Lent by bakers specifi- is made from wheat flour (rye flour molished after 1807. Many inhab- understandably fond of the pretty cally designated for that purpose by can be an addition), fat, sugar, yeast, itants of the city protested against flowerbeds and inviting benches. HOW TO ORDER the Guild. Another source survived salt and water, and is molded into an the idea. Only a piece of the walls This is an overwhelmingly safe, 1. SEND CHECK or money order from the fifteenth century (issued oblong shape the dough pieces are next to The Florian Gate was saved tranquil place and not to be missed. payable to: by Jan Olbracht, May 26, 1496) au- helical-twisted together to form a by the defenders of the old fortifica- Walking through a portion of “Polish American Journal” to thorizing that the bagels could be spiral. The formed bagels are left to tions, who threatened the council- the the Planty to the top of ul. P.O. Box 328, Boston, NY 14025. bake and sold only by the bakers of ferment, then immersed in boiling ors that the strong mountain wind Floriańska at the city walls and the 2. CALL 1 (800) 422-1275 or Kraków. water and obgotowuje or obwarza “Halny,” when it gets to Kraków, Barbican, I spot an impressive mon- (716) 312-8088 M-F, 8:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. EST The 1610 community regulations (hence the name). Then, they are will raise the skirts of their wives, ument. There in the middle of Mate- 3. Order on-line at: of Kraków reported that bagels were sprinkled with seasoning, poppy as it will no longer meet any large jko Square is a huge slab of granite www.polamjournal.com presented to women in childbirth seeds or sesame seeds and baked. obstacles in a form of walls. bedecked with statues of mighty as a mystical symbol of good luck There is a tradition to eat obwar- Following the Napoleonic Wars, medieval warriors in dramatic mili- to mother and child. Mothers used zanki, strung around a string, which Kraków enjoyed a brief period as a taristic poses. Give your them as nutritious teething rings that is then tied in a circle. One can eat free city, and a grand project was Next month: the Grunwald mon- their infants could easily grasp – a an obwarzanek in one of two ways: launched to beautify the area. Gar- ument and last day in Kraków con- table some practice still popular today. you either have to bite it off the dens were laid out and a ring-road tinues. 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RELIGION / Benjamin Fiore, S.J. John Paul II Relic to be Home in Krakow A vial containing blood drawn of treatment or 51% after six cycles, before the game, the bishop skated followed a non-profit group to the from Pope John Paul II shortly be- NaPro boasts that up to 70% of to center ice and dropped the cer- Dominican Republic where they in- fore he died will be installed as a couples have been helped to achieve emonial puck to start the game. St. stalled an aqueduct for a community relic in a Polish church soon after pregnancy. Norbert’s won 8-2. that had never seen running water. his beatification later this year. Piotr Sionko, the spokesman ARCHBISHOP RETIRES. Pope JOHN PAUL II FILM FESTIVAL HAPPY ANNIVERSARY. … for the John Paul II Center, said the Bendict XVI recently accepted the LAUNCHED. The John Paul II In- to priests and religious of the vial will be encased in crystal and resignation of Archbishop Daniel ternational Film Festival, “a home Philadelphia Archdiocese: Bro. built into the altar of a church in E. Pilarczyk of the Archdiocese of to filmmakers who have chosen Kaźimierz Paśnik, of the Pauline the southern city of Krakow that is Cincinnati. Archbishop Pilarczyk to use this medium to express and order, 75 years; Sr. Ann Rita Ko- opening in May. had been the longest serving active share a message of hope, struggle, bierowski, CSFN, Sr. Regina We- The exact date of the opening bishop in the United States, heading triumph and love to the world,” held solowski, CSFN, Sr. Consolata is not yet known, but it should be the archdiocese for the previous 27 its first awards ceremony in Miami Pylilo, CSFN, 70 years; Sr. Aure- shortly after John Paul’s beatifica- years. in November. The Miami campus of lia Lopata, CSFN, Sr. Bernadette tion at the Vatican on May 1 (see Florida International University was Sznurkowski, CSFN, Sr. Mary- cover story). ARCHBISHOP UNMASKS “PRO- the site and the festival was hosted ann McKeough, CSFN, Sr. Rita Sionko said the idea came from CHOICE CATHOLIC” GROUP. by the non-profit 7eventhDay - Me Partyka, CSFN, Fr. Marcellus Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, the Archbishop-designate of Milwau- dia, Inc. The festival was created Kolakowski, OFM, Fr. Clement archbishop of Krakow and the long- kee Jerome E. Listecki declared in response to the late pope’s apos- Kurowski, OFM, 60 years; Fr. Jo- time friend and secretary of the late CARDINAL DZIWISZ. Archbishop that a self-described Wisconsin tolic “Letter to Artists,” in which he seph M. Olczak, Pauline order, Sr. Polish-born pontiff. The blood was of Krakow and the longtime friend Catholic group which holds that challenged artists to respond to the Patricia Ann Czarnota, OSF, Sr. drawn for medical tests at Rome’s and secretary of the late Polish-born Catholics can disregard the Church’s world’s need for Truth, Love and Maria Denise Provoke, OSF, 50 Gemelli Polyclinic shortly before pontiff kept vial of blood that will teachings on abortion, contracep- Peace through the use of art.” One years; Bro. Martin Joseph Jaro- John Paul’s death on April 2, 2005, be enshrined. tion and human sexuality is disown- of the films awarded was the docu- cinski, Mercedarian, Sr. Christine and is now in Dziwisz’s possession, ing its Catholic heritage. The group mentary “The Water Project,” which M. Konopelski, SSJ, 25 years. he said. cated at 15 East 40 St. in New York Young Catholics for Choice, a part “It was the cardinal’s proposal,” and sponsored by St. Vincent’s Hos- of the dissenting group Catholics Sionko said. “He is of the opinion pital. In addition to fertility treat- for Choice, has begun collaborat- GENEALOGY that this is the most precious relic of ment, the center offers a wide range ing with Family Planning Health John Paul II and should be the focal of general women’s health care Services of Wausau and is con- point of the church.” including obstetrics, prenatal care ducting an advertising campaign to Interviewing Grandparents The church in the Lagiewniki and routine gynecology. Dr. Anne convince Catholics that they can This information comes by way 9. How did you like school? district is part of a center that will Mielnik, co-founder of the center, disregard Church teaching and still of Diane Haddad with Family Tree 10. What did you want to be when be devoted to cultivating the memo- explains that while it is open to all remain in good standing. “Nothing Magazine. And although it was in- you grew up? ry and the teaching of the late pope regardless of their beliefs, the cen- could be further from the truth,” the tended to help a school age child 11. Tell me about your first date – who was born Karol Wojtyla in ter’s pro-life ethic and its founders’ archbishop-designate insisted. who may have been given the as- 12. How did you meet Grandma/ Wadowice, southern Poland, and Catholic faith touch every aspect signment of interviewing his/her Grandpa? spent decades in Krakow. of its work. She and her associate FAITH ON ICE. Archdiocese of grandparents, it can be of help to 13. Tell me about the day my mom/ The idea of displaying the pope’s Joan Nolan of Syracuse, N.Y., also Chicago’s Bishop Thomas Pap- adults trying to learn more about dad was born. relics has met with some reser- founded the John Paul II Center for rocki, known as the “Holy Goalie,” their grandparents and the lives 14. What advice would you give to vations, even inside the Catholic Women, a nonprofit organization skated with the Green Knights of they led. The answers to these ques- parents? Church. with the goal of creating centers St. Norbert College in Wisconsin tions might be surprising and in turn 15. What jobs have you had? “The tradition of relics comes throughout the US to offer pro-life and then addressed the team in the bring us closer to our parents/grand- 16. What are your strongest memo- from medieval practices of teach- medical care to women and to give locker room before the game. The parents. Here are some questions to ries from your time in the mili- ing the Bible through images and them an alternative to treatments bishop is a seasoned athlete and help get started: tary? symbols,” said the Rev. Krzysztof that are not prop-life such as in vitro marathoner and, after his practice 1. When and where were you 17. What would be your recipe for Madel, a Jesuit priest in Nowy Sacz fertilization (IVF). The Gianna cen- with the team spoke to them about born? happiness? who has publicly questioned the ter uses natural procreative technol- the connections between sports and 2. What were your parents’ To add extra interest to the an- usefulness of displaying John Paul’s ogy (NaPro) to treat infertility and living the Catholic faith. “My faith,” names? swers, Diane suggests coupling blood. “But in today’s rationalized also to assist couples to avoid preg- he says, “gives me strength to run 3. What is your happiest memory this information with the historical world the message should rather nancy naturally. With this approach, marathons, and running marathons of your father, your mother? events that paralleled the grand- come through teaching about some- says Dr. Mielnik, no embryos are teaches me endurance, which helps 4. What is the most important les- parents’ lives or to simply compare one’s life.” created in the lab for implantation me to persevere when facing chal- son your parents taught you? their lives to their grandparents. in the uterus with some subsequent- lenges in life.” 5. What are the names of your For more oral history interview- CATHOLIC HEALTHCARE CEN- ly aborted as they begin to grow. Bishop Paprocki is currently grandparents? ing tips go to FamilyTreeMagazine. TER FOR WOMEN. A specially Rather NaPro tracks the women’s writing a book on sports and faith. 6. What is your happiest memory com. 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Zamość under German Occupation 1939-1945 / Sophie Hodorowicz Knab POLAND FIGHTS / Douglas W. Jacobson The Transports to Auschwitz Krystyna Skarbek The camp at Zamość was meant port) was definitely late. baths, handed out camp uniforms- When Krystyna Skarbek was liv- to be a transit camp, a temporary In the matter of capability to undershirt, shoes striped dress, a ing a comfortable life and winning holding place until the fate of each work SS Hauptsturmfuhrer, Hau- short overcoat and three cornered teen-age beauty contests she could individual would be decided by the meir made it clear that arrivals to scarf. In the barracks we received never have imagined that a few Germans. Those who were deemed the camp should be Poles capable of coffee but because we didn’t have years later she would become one capable were sent to work as forced work in order to avoid unnecessary any dishes, we drank it from a piece of the most renowned female opera- laborers to Germany. Children who overloading of the camp as well as of straw obtained from our mat- tives in the Allied Resistance. met certain racial characteristics modes of transportation. A certain tresses. Born in Mlodziesyn in 1908, to were sent to Germany to become number of individuals, idiots, crip- “On Christmas Day they drove Count Jerzy Skarbek, descendant of Germans. Some elderly and chil- ples and sick people must be in the us out to the apel (parade grounds) one of Poland’s oldest noble fami- dren were sent to live among strang- quickest manner be removed from where — under the Christmas tree lies, and Stefanie Goldfelder, the ers in the General Government and the camp by liquidation to prevent with electric lights— some of the daughter of a wealthy Jewish bank- some were sent to the concentration overload.(Document #80 Zamojszc- weakened prisoners died. That was ing family, Krystyna’s early life was camps of Majdanek and Auschwitz. zyzna-Sonderlaboratorium ss. Zbior our camp Christmas. Constantly one of luxury and privilege. From the collection of German doc- documentow Polskich i niemieckich in my thoughts were the words of But events took a turn for the uments gathered by Poland after the w okresu okupacji hitlerowski Tom a German woman who said to us worse when Krystyna’s father died Skarbek became a legend in her life- war we read the following: 1) at the beginning of our stay in the and, shortly thereafter, her first mar- time. Soon after her death, she en- Report on the transport of 644 camp, ‘You came here to be soap. riage failed. In 1938, she married tered the realm of popular culture. Poles to the work camp in Auschwitz “You came here to be soap. It’ll be very good soap’.” again, to the writer Jerzy Grzycki, It has been said that Ian Fleming, on December 10, 1942 and the couple moved to Ethiopia in his first James Bond novel, Ca- The transport was dispatched It’ll be very good soap.” At the beginning of her stay in where Jerzy had accepted a diplo- sino Royale (1953), modeled Vesper from Zamość on December 10th Auschwitz her work was to separate matic position. When the war broke Lynd on her. According to William F. at 1600 hours. The arrival in Aus- Wacława Kędzierska, with her items brought in to the warehouse out in 1939, returning to Poland Nolan, Fleming also based Tatiana chwitz took place December 12 at parents, sister Stanisława and grand- from the crematorium. Then, to- proved impossible and the couple Romanova, in his 1957 novel From 2300 hours. From among the 644 mother Agnieszka were expelled gether with other young girls, she fled to London. Russia, with Love, on Skarbek. Four Poles, 14 escaped. Three individu- from their village of Skierbieszowa was selected by Dr. Mengele for his Eager to return to her home decades later, in 1999, Polish writer als, specifically: on November 27, 1942. Her sister psuedoexperiments receiving injec- country and look after her mother, Maria Nurowska published a novel, • Biała, Karolina, nee Batzdorf, and her grandmother were sent to tions of the germs of typhus and Krystyna offered her services to Miłośnica (The Lover)—an account born December 14, 1900 the horse barracks to be transported malaria. Her entire body became British Intelligence to conduct espi- of a fictional female journalist’s at- • Biały, Czesław, son, somewhere in the General Govern- covered in sores. From Auschwitz, onage and subversive actions in Po- tempt to probe Skarbek’s story. The born February 17th, 1926 ment but she, along with her mother Wacława was transferred to Ravens- land. The British, however, showed Krakow Post reported that Agnieszka • Sędzimirska, Michalina, and her father were on that transport bruck where they worked for the no- little interest in a young woman with Holland will direct a big-budget film born February 19, 1922 to Auschwitz. torious Siemens factory. From there no experience. Not to be denied, about Skarbek. escaped on route during the “We were in the Zamość camp they were transferred to Sachsen- Krystyna persisted and finally made stop near the distribution station in from November 28 to Decem- hausen. As the war drew to an end her way to Budapest where she saved their lives when she expertly Kraków with the help of Polish rail- ber 10th, 1942. On that day they the prisoners were herded on a death joined a Polish Resistance group. In faked the symptoms of tuberculosis way workers who opened the locked crammed us into a cattle car in march. She writes: the winter of 1940 she trekked over and won their release. The couple door of the wagon. The escape was which we stood, thirsty and hungry, “For three weeks we were with- the snow-capped Tatra mountains then fled Hungary to Turkey. In Is- made possible by the darkness and exhausted beyond all endurance, out food and water. During rest pe- into Poland where she tried, without tanbul Krystyna again employed her occurred at a time when the guards riding for three days. Our physio- riods in the woods, to try and save success, to persuade her mother to natural beauty and charm to obtain were at the other end of the train. An logical needs we took care of on the ourselves from starvation we ate leave Poland. travel visas to Cairo where they immediate search produced no re- wooden floor of the car. The stench grass, roots and the buds of trees. In Hungary Krystyna joined a connected with British SOE. sults. The other 11 people-the num- was unbearable. A small loaf of The best were birch and linden secret courier operation, smuggling Being fluent in French, Krystyna ber accounted for in Zamość during bread, received in Zamość, protect- trees. I was so exhausted, physically information and armaments over the was assigned to SOE’s “Section the loading was accurate-apparent- ed us from starvation. On December and emotionally, that I didn’t want mountains and conducting sabotage F” under the code name Christine ly jumped out the top window of the 13 we arrived in Auschwitz. They to go any further. And yet, I forced against the Nazis in Poland. She Granville. She parachuted into freight car. It would be directed that separated the men and women. myself. Mother and a neighbor took also met, and soon fell in love with, France and coordinated sabotage in the future the unsealed top win- The SS woman from the office me under the arms ... in the town of a co-conspirator and former Polish operations with Italian partisans dow be secured with barbed wire. told us to line up alphabetically. Schwerin we lived to see freedom. army officer, Andrzej Kowerski. and the French Maquis. Then, in Admittance to Auschwitz took Each of us received an Auschwitz The Americans liberated us on May The two of them worked side-by- 1944, two of her fellow operatives place on December 13, 1942; the number; mine, still visible to this 3, 1945. (Excerpted and translated side conducting subversive actions were arrested by the Gestapo. When list of names was not read. day has the numbers 26934 ... all from Wojenne Losy Dzieci Zamo- until they were arrested by the Ge- Krystyna learned that they were The transport arrived as planned the women, completely naked were jszczyzny (The Wartime Fate of the stapo. soon to be executed she embarked with the exception of the 14 individ- pushed into the baths ... the camp Children of Zamość); Rodzik, Julia, But Krystyna’s wit and gift of on another daring and audacious uals who skipped out and (the trans- staff cut our hair, then after the editor. Zamość. 2007. persuasion (especially over men) mission. Posing as the niece of Brit- ish General Bernard Montgomery, CIEKAWOSTKI / Martin S. Nowak Krystyna threatened a local Gestapo officer with terrible retribution if the captives were not released. She sealed the deal with a bribe using se- Bits and Pieces cret SOE funds. Martinus Polonus, or Martin of Poland, also many western stars in Los Angeles, including or sending in strike-breakers. The workers took The end of the war, however, did known as Martin von Trappau (German), Mar- Autry and Rogers. their places and simply refused to work. In 1937 not bring good fortune to Krystyna. tin z Opavy (Czech) and Marcin z Opawy (Pol- in Detroit, two thousand women cigar factory Though awarded medals for her six ish), was a Dominican monk of the 13th century. Strategy and Tactics magazine reports that employees, mostly of Polish descent, staged a years of service by both the British His birthplace and ethnicity are unknown, but the Baltic Sea floor is home to hundreds of thou- big sit-down strike that led to sympathy strikes and the French, she was given just he was probably Czech (Bohemian). He was sands of tons of unexploded bombs and mines by auto workers. The most famous sit-down one month’s salary and left to fend known as Martin of Poland because his home dumped there following both world wars. Po- strike in history was the Solidarność strike in for herself in Cairo. Unable to return monastery in Opava, Bohemia, close to the Pol- land has a Baltic seacoast of about 300 miles. Gdańsk’s Lenin Shipyards in 1980, that brought to Poland, and virtually penniless, ish border, was under the jurisdiction of the Pol- The sea bottom also is littered with tens of down communism in Europe. This is a mostly she divorced her husband, Jerzy, ish province of the Dominicans. His surname thousands of tons of discarded chemical weap- illegal move, since it is a violation of trespass and spent the next several years was Strebski. He went to Rome about 1250 ons agents in rusting containers, about 5,000 laws. In the 1960s, young Americans used the travelling aimlessly, working at me- where he served as papal chaplain. In 1278 he warships, submarines and airplanes, and possi- tactic to occupy college buildings and public nial jobs. In 1952, after finally man- was appointed Bishop of Gniezno, Poland by bly nuclear waste dumped there by the former places, mostly to protest the Vietnam War, and it aging to obtain a visa, Krystyna re- Pope Nicholas III, but Martin died in Italy on USSR. Combine all this with centuries’ worth of became known as the sit-in. turned to London where she met her his way to Poland to assume his bishopric. He dumped sewage and agricultural and industrial final fate. An obsessive merchant wrote a chronicle of the popes that was used as waste and the Baltic Sea is the most dangerously Ignacy Jan Paderewski funded a full-length marine steward whom she had en- a textbook for two centuries after his death. In it, polluted large body of water in the world. statue of American President Woodrow Wilson countered in her travels, and whose Martin told the story of Pope Joan, the supposed in Poznań’s Wilson Park. Of bronze and twelve advances she had rejected, stabbed female pontiff who allegedly served in the 9th Conductor and com- feet high, it was designed by Gutzon Borglum, her to death in a Kensington ho- century. It was through this book that the legend poser John Philip Sousa who also designed and supervised the carving tel. Krystyna was buried at Kensel of Pope Joan was made known throughout the (left), America’s March of Mount Rushmore. It was unveiled on July Green in London. In 1988 the ashes world. King, toured with his band 4, 1931 before a large crowd, with hundreds of of her lover and comrade-in-arms, throughout the world. On Americans in attendance. The gathering includ- Andrzej Kowerski, were interred at Bernard Lichtenstein, known as Rodeo May 22, 1903, they stopped ed American ambassador John Willys who read the foot of her grave. Ben, was a Polish born (Łódź) American Jew in Warsaw, Poland where a message from President Herbert Hoover, Pol- v v v in Philadelphia who designed the rodeo jean for they gave an afternoon and ish ambassador to America Tytus Filipowicz, Douglas W. Jacobson is the Pol- Wrangler in 1947. Working with pro riders, he an evening performance General Joseph Haller, Bernard Baruch, Polish ish-American author of the award- designed a tough blue jean that was both smart at Warsaw’s Philharmonic Cardinal August Hłond, Polish President Ignacy winning book, Night of Flames: looking and practical for rodeo competitors, and Hall. Mościcki, and special guest Edith Wilson, wid- A Novel of World War Two. Mr. featured the first jean with a zipper fly. Rodeo ow of the late president. This was followed by Jacobson has been a frequent con- Ben is also credited with being the first tailor to The sit-down strike, or occupation strike, a luncheon at Poznań’s Town Hall. All day, Pol- tributor to this newspaper and has specialize in western wear, in the 1920s. Tom became known as the “Polish strike” during the ish radio featured programs on President Wilson written a second historical novel set Mix, Gene Autry and Roy Rogers were among interwar years because it was used by workers and America. In 1939 the statue was destroyed in Poland in World War Two, The his customers. Nathan Turk was another Polish in Poland, but seldom anywhere else. It pre- by the invading Germans, and was replaced Katyn Order, which will be released born (Warsaw) American Jew, who was tailor to vented employers from locking out workers, years later by a granite bust of Mr. Wilson. in May, 2011. POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL • FEBRUARY 2011 • OUR 100th ANNIVERSARY YEAR www.polamjournal.com 8

HAPPENINGS: CHICAGO STYLE / Geraldine Balut Coleman Michelin Guide 2011 Selects Best Polish Restaurant CHICAGO — There is no ques- The Great Church and on January landmark Gateway Theatre will be tion that Chicago is home to the 2 in Niles, Ill. at St. John Brebeuf the site where volunteers will be largest Polish community in the Church. Even though these concerts on hand to offer their time to raise United States. From delicatessens to were held after Christmas, they are money for the purchase of the latest supermarkets to all-you-can-eat buf- still in keeping with Polish tradition, 21st century technological equip- fets and restaurants, there are plenty as carols are sung well into January. ment for public Polish hospitals. of great places to get an authentic The Lira Singers, an eight-mem- This year’s focus will be to the pur- Polish meal. But if you are look- ber female vocal ensemble, and the chase medical equipment specifical- ing for the best Polish fare, there Lira’s thirty-seven piece symphony ly to help children with urological is no other than Smak Tak. The orchestra sang and played gor- and nephrological diseases. 2011 Michelin Guide, Chicago Edi- geous Polish carols, as well as some This 19th Grand Finale is an an- tion, selected this quaint storefront American carols, all under the baton nual fund raiser that is held on the restaurant, located in the Jefferson of Maestro Mina Zikri. first or second Sunday of each new Park area of Chicago’s Northwest The entire program was narrated year. This year, it will begin at noon Side as one of its best. Smak Tak, in English and Polish by the Lira’s with a Mass followed by live con- a six table, wall-to-wall knotty pine, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, certs, photography and painting ex- Polish chalet is the epitome of “Pol- Lucyna Migala. The church-filled hibitions, an auction, and on stage ish Highlander chic.” The Polish audiences heard not only the most appearances of sports celebrities, culinary “marijuana” served here popular of Polish holiday music, politicians and members of Polish Outside Smak Tak restaurant. includes pierogi, served in a multi- but listened to the Polish mountain community. tude of variations that satisfy every- ing main course. This is a definite world ambiance and a cozy at- sounds and a collection of carols ar- The Great Orchestra of Christ- one’s taste buds. Steve Zavesky, a “take-home-the- rest” entrée. And mosphere with traditional Polish ranged by Witold Lutosławski. The mas Charity Foundation’s main pierogi aficionado, third generation the pork cutlet and nalesniki are kitchen flavors, along with a win- entire Lira Ensemble played the objective is “health protection and Whiting, Indiana native and the two to die for. And the soups! Try the (the) saving of children’s lives time pierogi-eating contest win- barszcz with uszka. through the providing of medical Smak Tak’s owners, Peter and equipment to public hospitals.” To- Ewa Lakomy, have been serving au- ward this objective, this Foundation thentic Polish cuisine for six years. has collected more than $60 million It’s a BYOB, where you can bring and has American Heart Association your own special bottle of wine or Certification for providing courses that six-pack of Zywiec or Okocim in CPR and ECC, and for using the that Peter, at your request, will make best possible technology for medi- sure is kept chilled. Have a special cal lifesaving. Polish request? If they can, Peter and Ewa will accommodate that re- CHICAGO SOCIETY CELEBRATES quest. It is like being in your Busia’s ITS 99TH INAUGURAL BALL. kitchen. The Chicago Society of the Pol- Not only has the Michelin Guide ish National Alliance will hold its considered Smak Tak the best, but 99th consecutive Inaugural Ball on local magazines and newspapers: January 22 at Café La Cave in Des Time Out Chicago, Max Week, Chi- Plaines, Ill. Co-chaired by Conrad cago Magazine, Chicago Tribune Miczko and Marian Skawski, this and Chicago Reader reviewed this black-tie optional event will offer an Inside Smak Tak restaurant. restaurant with the best of culinary Lira Ensemble at St. John Brebeuf. evening of cocktails, gourmet din- accolades. This may be the only Pol- ing and dancing to the music of the ner of that famous Whiting Pierogi ish restaurant in the United States ning combination of herculean serv- ever-popular “Rejoice!” (a Polish Anthony Kawalkowski, Orchestra. Festival, visited eight Chicago Pol- listed in the three Michelin Guides. ings, low prices and the freshest of American Christmas choral, hand- A short benefit program will include ish restaurants and tasted only the Among the 40 Bib Gourmand res- good food, then Smak Tak is the bell and orchestra medley). the induction of officers and the pre- potato cheese pierogi. The best, ac- taurants covered, the Michelin place to be. Gratulacje i Sto Lat! sentation of the Chicago Society’s cording to Steve, can be found at Guide also included the famous and COPERNICUS FOUNDATION Booster Award, an award given to Smak Tak. But wait, pierogi are not awarding-winning American Chef LIRA ENSEMBLE’S CROWD- HOLDS CHARITABLE EVENT. that member who sponsored the its only specialties, the Placek po Rick Bayless’ Frontera Grill, along PLEASING CONCERT HELD. The The Copernicus Foundation Cen- most new Chicago Society mem- wegierski, a large and crispy potato with the very trendy, reservations-a Lira Ensemble, artist-in-residence ter, located on Chicago’s Northwest bers during 2010. Proceeds from pancake folded and stuffed with a must, Girl and The Goat, as well as at Loyola University Chicago, once Side, will host the Great Orches- this benefit are designated toward massive portion of mushroom and the Purple Pig. All were selected for again brought the sounds of the Pol- tra of Christmas Charity Founda- academic scholarships. Students pepper Hungarian-style goulash their quality, freshness, and under ish Christmas Season to the Chicago tion, Wielka Orkiestra Świątecznej who matriculate to a four-year col- dabbled with exquisitely-decorated $40 value. suburbs by performing on Decem- Pomocy, fundraising event. On lege and/or university will be eli- sour cream is another mouth-water- Conclusion: If one loves old ber 26 in Burbank, Ill. at St. Albert January 9, the Copernicus Center’s gible for the scholarships. 53rd Polish Assistance Ball to Celebrate the PIASA Issues Call for Proposals Legacy of H.S.H. Princess Grace of Monaco ARLINGTON, Virg. — The 69th Annual Meeting are received. Deadline for receipt of all proposals April of the Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America 9, 2011. Proposals should be sent to PIASA, 208 E. NEW YORK — Polish Assis- affair or after-dinner festivities only. (PIASA) will be held on June 10-11,2011 at the con- 30th St., New York, N.Y. 10016 , Att: Dr. M.B.B. Bisk- tance will hold its 53rd Ball cele- ” said Jadwiga Palade, President of veniently located hotel, Hyatt Arlington (For more in- upski, Program Chair. Submission by email with Word brating the legacy of Princess Grace Polish Assistance. formation visit http://arlington.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/ document to [email protected] PIASA is reserving of Monaco, at the Plaza Hotel’s The Founders of Polish Assis- index.jsp). single/double occupancy rooms at a special group rate Grand Ballroom on February 26, tance where Maria Dembinska, Proposals for individual papers with short abstracts of $119. plus tax per room. All reservations (arr June 9 2011. Prince Albert II Sovereign of Helena Rubinstein, the cosmetics will be considered, but preference will be given to pro- and dep June 12 , must be made by May 20, 2011either Monaco will be the Honorary Chair- queen, and Aniela (Nela) Rubin- posals for complete two hour sessions involving pre- by phone : 1-800-233-1234 or on line www.arlington. man and Guest of Honor as repre- stein who did the cooking for the sentation of three 25 minute papers with a chair and a hyatt.com The Group reference code for reservations sented by his ambassador to the first three events. discussant. Proposals for panel and roundtable discus- is G-POLI .More specific information regarding regis- United States, Gilles Noghes. sions should be submitted only on topics that lend them- tration fees, directions, parking, etc. will be posted on ABOUT POLISH ASSISTANCE. Princess Grace opened the Ball selves to that format. Initial screening of all proposals www.piasa.org . Papers presented will be considered in 1982 by leading off the dancing Since 1956, Polish Assistance has will be made by a program committee as soon as they for publication in “The Polish Review.” of the Polonaise with Doctor Robert been providing financial assistance J. Campbell only months before her to needy persons of Polish origin tragic death, almost 30 years ago. who are facing unforeseen hard- “Polish Book of Monsters” Is Now Available The Honorary Committee al- ships. Recipients receive assistance ready includes such distinguished in meeting daily expenses, usually NEW YORK — PIASA Books, will enjoy the mix in this volume: price $12.00. 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Ziglinski Named POLONIA OF THE EASTERN GREAT LAKES / Michael Pietruszka Deportation Averted Illinois Emerging in the “Nic” of Time Poet Award Winner NEW YORK — Staten Island 14th Annual Paczki Day will be Held March 6 Academy parent Marzena Pudel- BUFFALO, N.Y. — Celebrate Historic Polonia District passing WNY legal organizations in Buffa- kiewicz was almost deported the last hurrah before lent begins at numerous Dyngus Day celebrations lo’s Old County Hall ... Elma native from the United States to her Western New York’s largest Polish including those at Central Termi- Rachel Sluberski was named to the native Poland due to a clerical pre-Lenten party. This year the Pol- nal, St. Stanislaus Church, Corpus All-American Field Hockey Team error that her previous attorney ish Heritage Dancers 14th annual Christi Church, The Adam Plewacki ... St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish in made while handling her case. “Paczki Day” celebration will be American Legion Post 799 and Rochester held its “Oplatek Dinner But, fortunately, a Staten Island held on Sun., March 6. This serves the Adam Mickewicz Library and Dance”, and Catholic Youth Stu- Academy staff member recom- as the group’s major fundraiser for Dramatic Circle. Parade organizers dio KSM hosted its Christmas Din- mended that she seek the advice the year. As a self-supporting non- anticipate more than 150 parade en- ner Dance at Mississauga, Ontario’s of another Academy parent, John profit organization that keeps alive tries and over 50,000 spectators this John Paul II Polish Cultural Cen- Nicelli, a lawyer who specializes Polish song and dance, the funds are year. tre on January 15 ... On January in immigration law. Pudelkie- used for costumes and music. Parade entry applications are 16, the Polish Union of America wicz did so, and now the family Help keep alive these great tra- available on-line at DyngusDayBuf- marked its 120th anniversary with a is celebrating winning their case ditions by bringing your family and falo.com. The deadline for parade dinner at the Potts Banquet Facility, and receiving their green cards. friends to the party. It all starts at entries is April 15. Completed appli- and the Polish Legacy Project cel- In order for Pudelkiewicz 1:00 p.m. at the Hearthstone Manor, cations or people interested in vol- ebrated its “Oplatek - Koleda” at the to win this case, Nicelli had to 333 Dick Rd., Depew, N.Y. Music unteering are to contact Dyngus Day St. Stanislaus Parish hall in Buffalo. demonstrate that it would have will be by the Bedrock Boys from Parade Director, Bernadette Pawlak Lucyna Dziedzic started anoth- been an “extreme and unusual 2:00-6:00, the Polish Heritage at [email protected] or er semester of her Polish language hardship”; for Samantha Pudel- SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Eliza- Dancers take the stage at 3:00 p.m. to Dyngus Day Parade, Attn: Berna- courses for the Maryvale Communi- kiewicz, the family’s eldest beth Hyden Ziglinski of Marion, with a folk dance show. dette Pawlak, 54 Arend Ave., Wil- ty Education program during Janu- daughter, who was born here Illinois, has been named a 2010 Illi- At 4:00 p.m. a Paczki Eating liamsville, NY 14221. ary ... The Buffalo and Erie County and is a United States’ citizen, to nois Emerging Poet Award Winner. Contest and a Chrusciki Bake-Off Historical Society is currently un- have her mother removed from The Emerging Writers Competition will take place. Call to enter. TIDBITS. The Polish Heritage dertaking preservation efforts and the United States. As this type is co-sponsored by the Illinois State New menu of homemade Polish Dancers of WNY and Harmony beginning to catalogue the approxi- Library, Secretary of State, the Il- food (dinners, ale carte items and Polish Folk Ensemble recently of case is very difficult to prove, mately 60,000 photographic nega- Nicelli urged the teachers and linois Poet Laureate and Illinois desserts) will be available for pur- participated in a workshop with tives in its collection donated by Center for the Book. The state-wide chase. There will be a Theme Bas- the members of Poland’s pre- staff of the Academy to write the estate of the late Am-Pol Eagle to the court describing the im- competition identifies outstanding ket Raffle. Amber, Gems and More miere dance troupe, Mazowsze, in photographer Edward Kasprzak. Illinois emerging poets and short and Salt Lamps Etc. with be there Youngstown , Ohio ... Local attor- pact of her mother’s removal on Kasprzak’s photographs chronicle Samantha. The staff responded story writers. as well for your shopping pleasure. ney, SUNYaB Law School adjunct the life of Buffalo’s Polonia Com- Elizabeth won second place in Tickets are $6 in advance or $8 at professor and retired Army National with alacrity. Nicelli stated that munity from the 1940s through “their input was instrumental in the poetry category for her poem, the door. Children under 12 are $2. Guard Brigadier General Richard the early 1980s ... The Polish Arts convincing the court that Saman- “Echoes.” Winners receive cash At 5:00 p.m., there will be a crown- Kwieczak recently passed away af- Club of Buffalo presented “Classi- tha’s life and life’s goals would prizes and are submitted for review ing of the Paczki King, Queen, ter a lengthy illness ... Polish Fal- cal Realism, Pursuing Masters,” a be demolished had her parents and possible publication in various Prince and Princess. cons Nest 52 in Rochester hosted lecture by Thomas Rojek, on Janu- been ordered removed.” Illinois literary journals. For tickets and table reservations an open house to begin the new year ary 19 ... The Professional and Mr. and Mrs. Pudelkeiwicz Secretary of State Jesse White call (716) 937-0032 or 681-3526. ... Dancers from Stacy Zawadzki’s Business Women of Polonia heard are elated at the outcome and announced the winners and said: “I Pre-sale ticket will be on sale until Performing Arts Center in West Sen- a presentation by David Zablotny, very grateful to Nicelli, Staten am very proud to congratulate these March 4. Tickets available at: Am- eca performed at this year’s Orange the Executive Director of Habitat talented writers whose work added Pol Eagle 3620 Harlem Rd., Cheek- Bowl in Florida ... “Spirit”, a musi- for Humanity - Buffalo, about Habi- Island Academy and to the judge to our state’s long and rich literary towaga, N.Y., 835-9454; and Salt cal written by WNYers Michael and tat’s efforts in Gliwice, Poland dur- who heard their case and provid- heritage.” A ceremony honoring the Lamps Etc., 5274 Broadway, Lan- Paul Marszalkowski, was present- ing their January 20 meeting. ed the special Christmas present, award winners was held November caster, 564-9286. There is plenty of ed at St. Philip the Apostle Church On January 28, Polish rock and Sarah M. Burr, Assistant Chief 18 in Springfield. free parking and buses are welcome. in Cheektowaga on January 7 and 8, roller Krzysztof Krawczyk per- Immigration Judge for the New Elizabeth, the daughter of Thom- The group is known as the “Am- and at Harvest House in Buffalo on formed at the Queen Elizabeth York District. as Ziglinski and Elaine Hyden of bassadors of Western New York’s the 16th. More information on the Theatre in Toronto ... WNED-TV, “Judge Burr is a very nice Marion, is a graduate of Marion Polish American Community” since show is available at www.spiritmu- WNY’s PBS affiliate, will be- re lady but due to her seniority, she High School and received her Bach- 1997. They continue to teach others sical.com ... On January 8, soprano turning its popular “WNED Cooks” doesn’t give anything away,” elor’s degree in Biological Sciences about their Polish traditions through Brittany Mruczek performed at a show with host Eileen Koteras Eli- said Nicelli. “The family’s vic- from Southern Illinois University a variety of programs. New mem- “Koledy” Concert and Mass at St. bol to its schedule during February tory was well deserved!” in 2009. She is currently pursuing bers are always welcome or you Adalbert’s Basilica on Buffalo’s ... The Polish Scholarship Fund of a Master’s degree in Genetic Coun- can share your talents as a dancer, East Side ... The Polka Variety So- Syracuse elected the following lead- seling at the University of South ARE YOUR COUCH AND CHAIR musician, singer, or work behind the cial Club elected the following of- ership for 2011: Tad Szyszka (presi- CUSHIONS LETTING YOU DOWN? Carolina in Columbia. scene with sewing and fundraising. ficers for 2011: Richard Szykowny dent), Kasia Prus and John Klocek Please visit www.phdofwny.com or (president), Bill Janish (vice-presi- (vice-presidents), and Nancy Cum- Add years to FIRST BABY BOY A POLE. give them a call. dent), Pauline Janish (treasurer) and mings (treasurer). Andre Bak, Dave your Furniture New York’s first baby born in Marcia Szykowny (recording secre- Kolakowski, Mitchell Lenczewski, with 2011 was Kacper Kozlowski, CALL TO MARCH. Organizers of tary). Laura Schumacher, Andre Siok and the firstborn of Marta and Jacek Buffalo, New York’s annual Dyngus WNY natives and NFL stand- Robert Synakowski were elected to Kozlowski. Kacper was born in NEW CUSHION FOAM Day Parade invite social groups, outs Dan (Denver Broncos), Chris the group’s board of directors ... The the Beth Israel hospital in Man- ethnic organizations, schools, (Dallas Cowboys) and Rob (New Polish Arts Club of Buffalo will be We Also Foam Cut To Your hattan. His mother came to the Size While-U-Wait marching and polka bands, dancers England Patriots) Gronkowski installing their new officers: Kath- Do Boats United States from Zambrow, and performers to participate in the launched a new website, www. leen Pawlowski (first vice-presi- and OUR FOAM IS 100% and his father Jacek, who is a Campers 5th annual Dyngus Day Parade. The gronknation.com ... On January 11, dent), Marsha Ashton (member- AMERICAN MADE driver, is a native of Suwalki . parade will take place at 5:00 p.m., newly elected NYS Supreme Court ship secretary), Thomas Zawadzki The couple lives in Maspeth Monday, April 25. Justices Henry Nowak and Debo- (treasurer), and directors Anna Ga- COLONIAL FOAM in Queens. They were married Buffalo’s Dyngus Day Parade, rah Chimes were officially wel- bryszak, Stanley Nowak and Wil- 1470 HARLEM RD. in St. Cross Church, where they the first and only parade of its kind comed to their positions by the Bar liam Podlewski, at their annual lun- HARLEM & WILLIAM 894-1818 plan to baptize Kacper. CHEEKTOWAGA, NY in the world, will march through the Association of Erie County and other cheon at Gregor’s Garden Grove in West Seneca on February 13. Buffalo - Rzeszow Sister Cities, Inc. and the SUNYaB Polish Stu- Membership Options! dent Association will host a “Zaba- wa Karnalowa Serduszkowa” fea- OPTION turing the music of “True Colors” at the St. Stanislaus Social Center on February 19 ... The General Pu- laski Association will hold its an- nual wreath-laying ceremony at the 1 Pulaski statue in Downtown Buf- falo on March 3 ... The Quo Vadis III “Tools for Success” leadership conference for young profession- als, graduates and students of Polish descent will be held in Toronto, On- tario from May 13 through the 15th. v v v If you have an item for this col- umn, please send the information to me by the 6 day of the month (i.e. Feb. 6 for the March edition) at: POLEGL, P.O. Box 223, Niagara Square Station, Buffalo, NY 14201- 0223; [email protected]. For more info, visit www.polegl.org. POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL • FEBRUARY 2011 • OUR 100th ANNIVERSARY YEAR www.polamjournal.com 10

PONDERING POLE / Edward Poniewaz BABA JAGA’S CORNER / Jaga Urban-Klahen The Matriarchs Warsaw’s Chopin Museum A simple definition of a matri- Her annual workshop was always an kee, Wisconsin. Award winning arch is “a woman who dominates interesting and positive experience. dance instructor, writer, research- and a Golden Duck an organization, community, etc.” There are others: er, and folklorist. (www.phan- One of the newest attractions of (World English Dictionary). I don’t Wanda Tomczykowska – tomranch.net/folkdanc/teachers/ Warsaw is a multi-media Chopin believe there are many strict patriar- founder of The Polish Arts and Cul- dziewanowska_a.htm). museum which I visited last year. chal or matriarchal societies left in tural Foundation, San Francisco, Lucyna Migala – Artistic direc- This is one of the most modern the modern world. The Taliban of California (www.polishculturesf. tor, general manager, and narrator of multi-media museums in Europe Afghanistan has a dominant patriar- org/home/). the Lira Ensemble, Chicago, Illinois. equipped in cutting edge audio–vi- chal structure. I can’t think of any Polanie of Minneapolis – from “The Lira Ensemble is the only pro- sual and interactive technologies. It society or community of people that the website “In October of 1927, fessional performing arts company is located in the Ostrogski Palace, a have an exclusive matriarchal lead- twelve young women living in the in the United States specializing in beautiful palace built near Vistula ership. Twin Cities founded a social club Polish music, song, and dance. The River. The palace was ruined twice, Modern nations are evolving to share their Polish background name of the company, “lira,” is the the first time in the beginning of the more and more into genderless en- with each other. They called them- Polish word for “lyre,” a traditional 19th century after it served as mili- tities although there still remains at selves the Polanie Club, and sought symbol of music. The Ensemble’s tary hospital for Napoleon’s sol- least a hint of male or female influ- to enrich their knowledge of Polish performing groups present the mu- diers, later it was rebuilt and served ence on the behavioral aspect of the language, music, literature, food, sic of Poland, sung in the original as a music institute. It was destroyed people. Examples of this include history, art and folklore. The Club language, and Polish folk and court again during the World War II with Italian, Polish, Russian, or Asian In- became a resource on Polish sub- dances, with narratives in English” 85% of Warsaw’s infrastructure. dian. Germanic, African, and Arab jects, furnishing costumes, exhib- (www.liraensemble.com/lira.html). Since its rebuilding it’s housed societies traditionally lean toward a its, recipes and a library on Polish What an awesome group of Frederick Chopin’s Society. The Chopin Museum. more male persuasion. subjects for the community” (http:// women, spread out in various parts The cellars below the bastion of A professor at Washington Uni- polanieclubmplsstpaul.com/history/ of our country, with vision, with Ostrogski’s Palace are supposedly needs help to carry the packages, versity in St. Louis told the story of history.htm). spirit, and with an amazing list of home to a Golden Duck, a mythi- which were full of new cloths. Lutek visiting Russia during World War II. Polanki of Milwaukee – The accomplishments. Even for those cal creature from one of the most walked along with the boys follow- He came upon a huge contingent of Polish Women’s Cultural Club of that are no longer with us, the will to unique Warsaw’s legends, presented ing when he saw an old man in a Polish soldiers kneeling down with Milwaukee, Wisconsin. “Polanki carry on a continuing and commit- below: worn out military uniform sitting on their arms outstretched and heads was founded in 1953 and has been ted influence in the Polish commu- the street corner. The man asked him lifted up to the sky praying after a dedicated to promoting knowledge nity and in the whole nation is still IN 1815 WARSAW was a capital for money to get something to eat horrendous battle had taken place. and appreciation of Polish culture there. These are the big matriarchs. of Warsaw Duchy under Russian since he did not have anything for He asked his Polish guide, “Are among Milwaukee Poles and non- The good news is there are hundreds tzar. In this time, Lutek, a poor ap- two days. The veteran soldier said they giving thanks to God for spar- Poles alike” (http://polanki.org/ if not thousands of small matriarchs, prentice shoemaker, lived there. He that he travelled all around Europe ing their lives?” The guide replied, about.html). with vision, with spirit, assuming was a skilled apprentice, but he was with Napoleon to fight for freedom “No, to the Blessed Mother.” Blanka Rosenstiel – Miami, the same kind of leadership and ser- poorly paid by his master. He heard of Poland and other countries, then My experience with Polonia from Florida. “Mrs. Blanka A. Rosenstiel vice in every section of the country, the story that the golden duck inhab- he was injured badly and begging a very broad perspective is that all founded the American Institute of with the same kind of commitment its the basement of the Ostrogski’s was the only way he could survive. of the major players were almost en- Polish Culture (AIPC) in 1972 as and influence. This Valentine’s Day, palace, which was ruinded after Lutek did not think too long, took a tirely women. One of those impres- a non-profit, non-sectarian, tax-ex- my heart goes out to you. Dziekuje Napoleon wars. The duck guarded golden coin and gave it to the needy sive Poles I became acquainted with empt Florida Corporation. The aims bardzo ladies, and thank you very, big treasures. Since he lived not far old man. in my younger years on a national of the Institute are twofold: first, very much! from the palace he decided to try his Suddenly the wind came up and level was Marta Korwin Rhoades, to share with American society the luck. the princess showed up of the whirl- the publisher of the Perspectives heritage of Poland, which has con- THE HAPPY MARRIAGE IS THE The right time was coming since wind. She said: “Lutek, you did not newsletter and based in Washington, tributed in many ways to Western ‘ME’ MARRIAGE. In an article writ- the golden duck was usually seen obey me. You will lose everything.” D.C. Perspectives’ primary purpose civilization; second, to promote the ten by Tara Parker-Pope, December during St. John Night, June 23, the She disappeared and took every- was to educate other Polish commu- scientific, educational, and artistic 31, 2010, for the New York Times shortest night of the year. Lutek thing that Lutek had. Lutek lost his nicators and organizations on how endeavors of Polish-Americans” comes a little bit of Valentine’s Day took a candle, went down to the money, packages full of clothings, to be more informed and effective (www.ampolinstitute.org/ip.asp?op advice from Gary W. Lewandowski dark, cold and musty basement that only one coin was shining in the in Polish anti-defamation and in =Institute&m=x0500Aboutus). Jr., a professor at Monmouth Uni- was partly flooded by Vistula River hand of the old man. The man said: spreading Polish culture and history. Ada Dziewanowska – Milwau- versity in New Jersey. He, along that was nearby. Then suddenly he “Lutek, do not despair, this money with psychology professor Author saw the golden duck floating there! were not earned by you. You’d earn Aron has … When the duck saw him, it changed more in the future if you follow your POLISH AMERICAN “studied how individuals use a into the beautiful princess with heart and work hard.” relationship to accumulate knowl- blond hair and crown. The princess This is what happened: Lutek CULTURAL CENTER edge and experiences, a process asked Lutek why he came here. He did not lose his good spirits and op- 308 WALNUT STREET called ‘self-expansion.’ Research responded that he had heard that she timism. He finished his apprentice shows that the more self-expansion guards the treasures and maybe she and became a valued shoemaker. PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106 people experience from their part- could share some wealth with him He worked hard and became known ner, the more committed and satis- since he was poor. The princess re- for good work. He got married, had (215) 922-1700 many children and grandchildren When You’re in Philadelphia’s Historic fied they are in the relationship. plied that she can make him rich but To measure this, Dr. Lewandows- and was always helping these who District, Visit The Polish American he needs to be tested first. Then she ki developed a series of questions gave him 100 golden coins and told were less fortunate. Nobody saw the Cultural Center Museum Exhibit Hall for couples: How much has being him that he has to spend it only on golden duck again. Featuring Polish History and Culture with your partner resulted in your his own pleasures. He cannot share The story of a golden duck and OPEN 10:00 a.m. TO 4:00 p.m. • FREE ADMISSION learning new things? How much it with anybody else. If he could do Lutek reflects a fate of Warsaw, the January through April • Monday to Friday has knowing your partner made you it, she would give him much more Polish capital. Warsaw’s spirit sur- May through December • Monday to Saturday a better person? money. Then she disappeared and vived in spite of the years of occu- Gift Shop is Open During Regular Exhibit Hall Hours While the notion of self-expan- left Lutek with the golden coins. pation, loss of independence after Closed on Holidays sion may sound inherently self-serv- Lutek was happy like never be- Poland’s partitions and the com- Visit Us on the Internet: www.polishamericancenter.org ing, it can lead to stronger, more fore, he went home, hid his money plete destruction during World War sustainable relationships, Dr. Le- under the pillow and went to bed II. After all of this, Warsaw was able www.polishamericanstudies.org wandowski says.” since it was already very late. The to rebuild like phoenix from ashes. Try the Lewandowski “self-ex- next day in the morning he got up, The hope, good work, sacrifice is PAHA pansion” process by teaching your checked that the money was still more important than a good luck. partner, for instance, a thing or two there and went to town. He ate a Visit Jaga Polish Culture Website The Polish American Histocial Association at: www.polishsite.us. was established in December 1942 as a special about Polish culture. Please let me good breakfast and bought him- commission of the The Polish Institute of Arts know if this increases the romance self new cloths. Then he hired an and Sciences in America to collect, compile and in your life. expensive carriage. People in the publish information about Polish Americans. town did not recognize him and In October 1944, it was reor­ganized as a na- POLISH OR NOT? Amanda Sey- were wondering who is this young Polish-English tional American society to promote study and research in the history and social background fried, actress. Saw her in the movie and wealthy nobleman. Lutek went Translator of Americans of Polish descent. The Associa- Jennifer’s Body and ironically she to see many places outside War- plays the character Anita “Needy” saw that he was unable to see be- • Official documents, letters, tion, which was incorporated under the laws e-mails, etc. of Illinois in 1972, strives to assist and coop- Lesnicki. Wikipedia says she was fore, then came back to the town, • Reasonable rates. erate with all individuals and organizations born in Allentown, Pennsylvania. I ate lunch and went to the theatre. • Fast, reliable service by e-mail interested in Polish American life and history. Contributions in support of the work of the think she has the “look.” Her mom Since he never was in the theatre or regular mail. Association are tax-exempt. Regular one-year membership to the Association is $30.00. is a Sander from home. Sander and before he enjoyed the play and the • Translation to/from other lan- Sanders often are changed Polish music greatly. It was already getting guages available as well. ___ I am interested in becoming a member of PAHA. Enclosed is a check or money • Over 20 years experience work- order for $30.00 made payable to the Polish American Historical Association. names. Is Amanda’s look – Polish, dark when the theatre performance finished. Lutek counted his money ing with genealogists, attorneys, or not? businesses, film-makers, gov- If you have a thought about this and was surprised to see that he still ernment, medical professionals, month’s topic, have a question of had many golden coins to spend. He NAME etc. your own, or have interesting facts decided to take his carriage home ANDY GOLEBIOWSKI ADDRESS to share, contact me at: Edward Po- since he was getting tired of all the 109 Rosemead Lane niewaz, 6432 Marmaduke, St.Louis, excitement that day. He stopped the Cheektowaga, NY 14227 CITY, STATE, ZIP MO 63139; eMail alinabrig@ya- carriage near his home. Some young (716) 892-5975 boys approched asking whether he MAIL TO: PAHA, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT 06050 hoo.com. 11 www.polamjournal.com POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL • FEBRUARY 2011 • OUR 100th ANNIVERSARY YEAR

POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL 2011 is Final Year for Versatones CHICAGO (PMN)— The year Eddie Blazonczyk, Sr., started 2011 will mark the conclusion for playing polkas in the early fifties Eddie Blazonczyk’s Versatones. with a four-piece combo known as After more than 47 years of en- “Happy Eddie and his Polka Jest- tertaining audiences worldwide, and ers.” They performed at many Pol- more than $47,000 annually in tour ish weddings, anniversaries and bus repairs and maintenance, the other engagements in Chicagoland. Versatones are going to retire fol- lowing the 2011 season to take time “Thank you in advance for all DEDICATED TO THE PROMOTION AND CONTINUANCE OF POLISH AMERICAN MUSIC off, reacquaint themselves with their families and pursue new interests. the good times we’ve shared The band is currently in the pro- in the past, as well as the POLKA INSIDER/ Steve Litwin cess of booking its 2011 schedule of party to come in 2011!” festivals, concerts and dances. Any- — Eddie Blazonczyk, Jr. one interested in having Eddie Bla- If I Had a Wish ... zonczyk’s Versatones perform at an In 1958, he went into the pop event or venue, should contact the music field as a songwriter and re- “If I had a wish, what would it There are too many other activities My Saint Stanislaus Kostka is band by phone at (815) 254-7624 or cording artist for Mercury Records. be?” Well, “If you’re like me you to occupy their time. closed. Your “home” church may by e-mail at www.versatones@aol. Under the name of Eddie Bell and love that lively polka sound,” but Families have changed as well. also be no more. Many of these com. the Bel-Aires, he recorded a few that sound is not as strong as it once At one time, 80 percent of my cous- places of worship were also places Eddie Blazonczyk, Jr., who as- hits. He toured the country and ap- was and the polka field isn’t what ins lived within three city blocks of to socialize with family, neighbors sumed leadership of the band after peared on television on Dick Clark’s it used to be. Changes in lifestyle, each other. I could easily walk to my and friends. The church halls of- the retirement of his father, issued American Bandstand and the Jim family structure, the loss of church- grandparents house and it seemed fered dances, dinners, and music— an open letter, saying, “Thank you Loundsbury Show. es, all contribute to the state of pol- like I was there “all the time.” With- often polka music. They say the in advance for all the good times In 1962, Eddie Sr., returned to ka music today. out my Dzia I wouldn’t know a only thing constant is change and we’ve shared in the past, as well as the polka field with a group known Today’s lifestyle is drastically brake line from an anti-freeze line the changes in the church have also the party to come in 2011! We look as the Versatones. They toured and different than what it was years ago. in a car. I learned to play “Czyja contributed to what has happened to forward to hearing from you, work- played in all parts of the United With only a few television channels ta Dziewczyna” on the accordion polka music. ing with you, and seeing you soon. States and Canada. He was inducted and no such thing as cable, weekend while he played it on harmonica or We all want to see that “future This music will never stop playing into the International Polka Asso- entertainment often brought people sang it. Polish music was always day, about a hundred years away,” in our hearts, just on stage as Eddie ciation’s Hall of Fame in 1970. to clubs and taverns where bands playing at their house, either on the where polka music is still part of Blazonczyk’s Versatones!” played. Whether it was a Dom Pol- radio or the “Victrola,” as my Bab- life, a reflection of our heritage, ski, a Polish Union, a Legion Post, cia called it. more than just a memory. It may or your local neighborhood bar, you Today, most families are scat- fade but let’s keep it from dying. Versatones Fan Club Dance could find a band or someone on an tered everywhere. Grandparents Support not only the music, but CHICAGO — Everyone is in- etary raffle as well as a prixe raffle accordion playing polkas. don’t live within walking distance those who make the music, those vited to come out to the Versatones for well over 25 elaborate gifts, gift Many of the neighborhood bars and most often it is within flying who promote it, those who love it. Fan Club Dance being held on Sun- baskets and much more. Meet and are gone now. They were not only distance now. My grandparents “Just keep on dancing strong, day, March 6 at the spacious Glen- greet with all the Versatones includ- bars but restaurants, places within didn’t golf, didn’t ski, didn’t go to next time bring your friends along, dora Banquets, 10225 S. Harlem ing Eddie, Sr. walking distance where people re- Florida. They lived for their fami- ‘cause we Polish people like our Avenue, Chicago Ridge, Illinois. To be included and purchase a laxed. The Dom Polski clubs, the lies, for their grandchildren, for dances packed.” Enjoy the phenomenal sounds of veterans clubs are all suffering from those Sundays when Polish music A special thanks to The Moder- Eddie Blazonczyk’s Versatones monetary or prize raffle ticket, or lack of membership today. People and family gatherings made the day naires Polka band of Buffalo for the sharing the stage with Danny Mate- to purchase dance tickets, contact don’t participate like they once did. special. inspiration. ja’s Downtown Sounds. This an- Trudy Patek, (708) 594-1302, Lau- nual event commences at 12:30 p.m. ra Bethke, (708) 598-8038 or Chet 5th Annual Memorial Organization Supports There will be drawings for the mon- Kowalkowski, (815) 834-1114. “Gift Of Life” Dance Chimnetzer Concertina Clubs (PMN)—The United States Concertina Association TOLEDO POLKA NEWS / Margaret Zotkiewicz WYANDOTTE, Mich. –The 5th annual (USCA) was founded in 2010 by a group of dedicated chem- memorial gift of life dance in honor of Lisa nitzer concertina musicians who had a vision to provide fel- Winter and Spring Dances Marie Biskup will take place Saturday, April low musicians with a virtual fraternal organization that is 30, 2011 at the PRCU Hall, 1430 Oak St, in truly nationwide, and to provide a means to give helpful as- The Toledo Area Polka Society The International Music Asso- Wyandotte. sistance to local concertina clubs and individual musicians (TAPS) and the International Music ciation line-up is as follows: Music is provided by The Legendary Brass as well. Association welcome all polka fans • Feb 13. Randy Krajewski’s and Lenny Gomulka & his Chicago Push. While the primary musical instrument supported by the to their winter and spring dances. Hallmark Band Performing with The Legendary Brass will USCA is the chemnitzer concertina, the association also rec- All dances for both organizations • March 6. Dyna-Brass from be Rich Bernier, Nick Nidoh, Mitch Biskup, ognizes the importance of supporting all of the other related take place at the Conn-Weissen- Michigan Steve Dudas, Steve Dudas Jr, Cory Nidoh and musical instruments from the bellows-driven, free-reed fam- berger American Legion Post on • April 3. Stas Golonka from Ed “Weasel” Wolinski, former musicians of ily. Alexis Road in Toledo. Chicago the New Brass. The mission of the USCA is to support the members of Toledo Area Polka Society line- • June 19. Polka Family from A Polish kitchen, door prizes, a silent auc- local concertina clubs and independent concertina musicians; up is as follows: Pennsylvania tion will be available. Doors open at 6 p.m. further the exchange of information and cooperation in and • February 27. Duane Malinows- Doors open at 1:00. A light lunch with music from 6:30 p.m. to midnight. between local concertina clubs; develop a better apprecia- ki and the Polka Jamboree is served at 2:00 p.m. and music is All proceeds are for the Lisa Biskup Organ tion of, and respect for, the concertina by the public; encour- • March 20. Old School with from 3:00-7:00 p.m. Information is and Tissue Donor Foundation. Adults-$19.00, age concertina musicians to improve their musical skills Frankie Liszka and David Wal- available by contacting Bobby Earl, Kids 13 & under admitted free. All donations, and abilities; and improve the fellowship and support that is ter Jr. at (419) 215-5499. including admission price, are tax deductable. shared within the concertina musician community across the • April 10. A Touch of Brass Additional information on Tole- For More Information contact: Ron or Sue entire United States. • May 21. To be announced do area Polish and polka events can Biskup, 810. 588.6266 or visit the internet The USCA can be found on the internet at http://USCon- For more information, contact be found at Polish Toledo.Com and website at: www.lisabiskupmemorial.com. certina.com; email at [email protected]. Mike Marek at (419) 345-5925 also for TAPS on Facebook.

POLKA MEMORIES / Jimmy K and Steve Litwin

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THE WALT JAWORSKI ORCHESTRA of Buffalo, N.Y. at Polkatown Park (the POLISH POLKA legends Gene Wisniewski and Frank Woj- TED DARLAK on clarinet and Harry Burdick on former Liberty Park) in Cheektowaga, N.Y. 1963. Jaworski is the accordionist. narowski share a microphone at Polkatown Park, 1963. violin, both of The Goral Boys Orchestra. Third The trumpet player was a member of the Ray Budzilek Orchestra, which Photo courtesy of Jack Barnas. Warder’s Club, North Tonawanda, N.Y., circa 1970. was also playing that day at the grounds. Photo courtesy of Jack Barnas. POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL • FEBRUARY 2011 • OUR 100th ANNIVERSARY YEAR www.polamjournal.com 12

NOTES / Barb Pinkowski Michigan Accordion POLKA PATTER / Polonia Media Network Society to Present Wackie Jackie Z., host of “The The “Happy Tappy Polka You Know Bruno Artist Peter Soave Polka Party Express,” announced Show” kicked off Polka Jammer’s that WMNF (88.5 FM Tampa, Flor- 54 hours of continuous Christmas BUFFALO, N.Y. — I hope ev- ida) held a food drive for “Feeding programming on December 23, eryone is keeping warm and cozy America Tampa Bay,” a non-profit 2010. Reportedly, the show was during these long winter days. It organization. He said that food broadcast from the North Pole at won’t be long before Spring arrives, banks were stretched to their lim- Santa’s Tavern with all those crazy and that will be most welcome. its during the holiday season, and little elves. The announcement said Recently, I had a nice conver- families and individuals relied on it would feature “Great Christmas sation with John Gnojek, a local them more than ever. Listeners to musician who has played trumpet polkas, giveaways and, of course, his show, who he calls “Polkateers,” cocktails,” although it was not made for over 45 years with many local were invited to come to the WMNF bands including Big Steve, Goral clear how the drinks would be made studios and drop off non-perishable available to listeners via the inter- Boys, Happy Richie, and Wanda & food. Stephanie, and is currently playing net. On the other hand, if you truly believe in Santa, internet cocktails in Stephanie’s band. John has been The Steve Drzewicki Band of may also have been real. The Polka traveling with Stephanie and her Bay City, Michigan, and eight oth- Jammer Network can be found at band to many states and everywhere er polka bands will be performing they play there are followers from on the “Caribbean Polka Cruise,” . this area and Canada who frequently visiting Aruba, Curacao and the SZYMANSKI. Leader of Cityside to ask the same question: Bahamas, November 12-19 2011. Ever wonder why the direction retire from Dunlop and the Army When are you going to have a Persons on the band’s mailing list, of dance is counterclockwise, in- Reserves. PETER SOAVE dance in the Buffalo area? So, John who request cruise information, will stead of clockwise? Well, a blogger decided to give it a try and is the STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. at the internet’s polka newsgroup sukiewicz, who had a knee replace- receive a free copy of the latest re- promoter for Honky Polka Night on — The Michigan Accordion Society lease by the band. For details visit // recently gave ten possible reasons, Sat. Feb. 5 at Potts Hall, 694 South ment in December. We wish them a very speedy recovery and hope will host a concert featuring interna- www.bobspolkacruisesandtrips. of which this was the first. Many Ogden St., featuring Stephanie & tionally renowned accordionist and military men were invited to court Her Honky Band. The dance will they will be all better very soon. Greg was a local polka DJ until he bandoneonist Peter Soave, Sun., Danny Mack, Palm Harbor, in the middle ages and had to be be from 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. and March 6, 4:00 p.m. at the American Florida, earlier of the Chicago area, taught such things as dancing. To admission is $10. Also, adding to moved to Ohio, and also plays with the Concertina All Stars. Gerri is Polish Century Club. Peter will be has a new 21-selection album on keep dance training simple train- the evening’s entertainment, Bruno joined by his wife Mady Soave. BriarHill Records entitled “Me, ers needed a simple rule. The king Mikos, long-time musician from married to Ray who also plays with Recognized worldwide as the Myself and I.” The singer, songwrit- went to the center of the room and Youngstown, Ohio will be making the Concertina All Stars … We also foremost master of the bandoneon er, musician and recording artist, lesser mortals had increasing circles a guest appearance with the band. hope Norb Pacer is feeling better after a hospital stay. and concert accordion, Soave has formerly of Chicago’s popular The extending to the outside nearest the Bruno excels on trumpet and vo- Casinos polka band developed his cals and it will be great to see him v v v established himself as the leading onlookers, which was for common- Valentine’s Day is around the soloist of his generation. own unique style and sound, which ers or private soldiers. Men were perform here. Things are looking he calls his Sun Coast Syncopation. good as fans from some other states corner. Enjoy the extra kisses! Light refreshments will be used to using their right arm to hold He is now billed as “Tampa Bay’s and Canada have already told John served. A cash bar is available. Ad- a bow and shake hands, and usually Premier One Man Polka and Variety they have made plans to attend. We UPCOMING vance tickets: $20.00. Tickets pur- their first punch in a fight was with Combo.” His new album was co- hope there is a big turnout to support Feb. 5. Honky Polka Night with chased at the door: $25.00. Children the right, stronger arm. If a strange produced with Polka personalities our local musicians who have done Stephanie at Potts Hall, 694 South age 14 and under: $10.00. To order man reached out to grab his lady or and longtime friends Billy Belina, so well. For table reservations, call Ogden St., Buffalo, N.Y. from 7:00 tickets, call (313) 822-4722, 585- even touch her, he could fend off the Todd Zaganiacz and The Music Dan Potts at 826-6575. Don’t miss p.m. to 11:00 p.m. $10 admission. 0956, (248) 689-3296 or at Zoppi “pervert” with his right arm. Zone of Massachusetts. what is sure to be a night of fun and Call Dan at 826-6575. Music Studio in Sterling Heights, fabulous honky music! Feb. 12. Valentine’s and Sweet- (586) 978-1816. Polka fans are always looking Some clips of a polka docu- heart Dance at Potts Hall, 694 So. for lyrics, but they are not easy to mentary that was released in 1984 CONGRATULATIONS … and a Ogden St., with music by the New called “In Heaven There Is No find. Even searching Google, which happy retirement wishes go out to Direction Band from 7:00 p.m. to Cabin Fever Dance Beer,” have been uploaded to You- seems to lead to everything, rarely Ted Szymanski who will soon be 11:00 p.m. Admission is $6.00 for GIRARD, Ohio — Three Tube and a playlist makes them easy helps. Both lyrics and sheet music retiring from Dunlop and the Army the dance and a buffet will be avail- great Ohio bands and seven to view by name or band. There are are rare commodities these days. Reserves. He is the leader of the able from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. for hours of music will help fight $6.95. Call Dan at 826-6575. selections by Happy Louie, Hen- This might suggest a nice business Cityside band. And, get well wishes that winter cabin fever on Sat- for a polka entrepreneur to consider. to Ted who had arthroscopic knee Feb. 17. Polka Boosters Meet- urday March 26 at Kuzman’s ny & The Versa J’s, Jimmy Sturr, surgery for a torn meniscus … Also, ing at the Polish Falcons Hall, 445 Lounge 1025 S. State Street in Walt Solek, Eddie Blazonczyk Columbia Ave., Depew, N.Y. Doors & the Versatones, Johnny Prytko Paul Wendinger, a well known best wishes for a very happy retire- Girard. Ethnic Jazz, Honky Ex- musician famous for German-style open at 7:00 p.m. Music, refresh- press and The Polkatones will be and others. It appears that many of ment go out to Carolyn Machelski, polka, passed away on November who retired from the Town of Ham- ments and meeting. Everyone wel- on stage with music from 1:00 to these clips were recorded at Seven 20, 1010, at his home in St. George, burg Recreation Dept. Carolyn is come to attend. For more informa- 8:00 p.m. Doors open at 11:30 Springs, Pennsylvania, around Minnesota. He fought a tough four- the wife of musician Ken Machelski tion, call Chris at 892-7977 a.m. Call (330) 545-8521 or 1983. To see them go to youtube.com/view_play_ year battle with cancer, and fought it at the Leonard Post, 2450 Walden list?p=67ED7D2C5486C6BD>. to the very last minute. GET WELL WISHES … go out to Ave., Cheektowaga, N.Y. 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Creative Partners Names Heuser President FORUM YOUNGSTOWN, N.Y. — Car- ol Heuser, P.T., has been named president of Creative Partners in View from the North: Surveying Directions Therapy, which assists children with Hippotherapy using equine (horse) movement to treat children with of Development for Canadian Polonia Autism, Cerebral Palsy, and Cere- by Mark Wegierski policies. There is the inability to convince wealthier bral Vascular Accidents. Canadian Polonia seems to have a perennial mis- members of the community to substantially support Heuser, nee Widlicka, has her apprehension of what constitutes “objective” cultural community initiatives, especially in regard what could clinic and offices at the Mourning influence and power in today’s Canada. Indeed, some be called “objectively culturally-empowering” initia- Dove Farm in Youngstown. representatives of Canadian Polonia have a rather curi- tives — such as the proposed Polish-Canadian Defence She has been a physical therapist ous definition of what makes up “culture” and “cultural Fund. In such a heavily media-saturated society, the for ten years, working children as an activities.” Considering that persons of Polish descent ongoing monitoring of various Canadian media and inpatient therapist, as well as home in Canada are said to number close to a million, it ap- launching a coordinated response when necessary can- care through the Early Intervention pears the community has a comparatively minor influ- not be entrusted solely to volunteer efforts. Program. ence in Canadian society. There are, currently no M.P.s who could be identi- The program Heuser oversees The Polish community in Canada seems to have a fied as emphatically belonging to the Polish-Canadian treats children with autism, cerebral larger number of prominent artists (such as sculptors, community, in the Canadian Federal Parliament. The palsy, cerebral vascular accidents, painters, and so forth), than coming to power of a new developmental delay, functional writers. Sculpture and paint- Despite often great, outstanding government in Ottawa in 2006 spine curvature, sensory processing ing often seem to offer far accomplishments by individuals of Polish has somewhat ironically re- disorders, brain injury, and Trisomy is that the horse’s movement pro- less scope for making a strong sulted in substantial move- 21 (Down syndrome). motes active responses in the child social impact, than writing. descent in Canada, the community is ment on some difficult issues A key principle of hippotherapy patient. Some types of writing (such usually not strengthened. (such as the lifting of visa as opinion journalism) have al- requirements for Polish citi- most immediate social and political effects. There are zens visiting Canada, and a pension plans agreement SPEAK UP / Letters to the Editor currently no opinion-columnists on staff in any of the between Canada and Poland) that had been log-jammed major Toronto newspapers (Globe and Mail, National for years under previous administrations. Also, there Post, Toronto Star, or Toronto Sun), who could be iden- has occurred the restoration of recognition of veteran Looking for a Translator tified as belonging to the Polish-Canadian community, status for Polish armed forces veterans who had served nor do any such opinion-columnists in any major news- with the Allies during World War II — a status that had Dear Editor: cell. 00393358301757 paper in the country come to mind. There are also very been withdrawn in 1995 by the Chretien government. I’m journalist of Polish national- http://www.ansa.it few authors of books by recognized publishers. The Polish armed forces veterans who came to Canada ity from Italian press agency Ansa. I in the aftermath of World War II, had constituted one of collaborated with the Italian histori- INTERNATIONAL STAMP COL- IT COULD BE ARGUED that “objective” cultural in- the largest Polish immigrant waves to Canada. an Marco Patricelli, author of “The LECTOR. I am a collector of stamps fluence and power does not mainly emphasize such The recent developments in Canadian politics could Volunteer” (Laterza). The book is phenomena as art exhibits, dramatic shows, symphony suggest that it would be helpful if people paid less at- about Witold Pilecki, the Auschwitz from around the world. I would like to ask your readers who may share concerts, and poetry recitals. Rather, it means — at its tention to old, mostly unrequited political affections, volunteer who uncovered Holocaust most expansive definition — the extensive participation but instead created the conditions for a situation where secrets. It was published last Janu- similar interest to contact me. of community-minded activists in well-funded, well- all the major parties are going to be seriously courting ary. The book won the “Acqui Sto- Peter Serafin supported structures across the various institutions of the community. ria” award, and the author received P.B. 190 Canadian society. These can include the mass-media, Polish immigrants and their offspring often do quite the “Bene Merito” honor from Pol- PL 37-450 Stalowa Wola 1 the state bureaucracies, the education system (especial- well materially in Canada — mostly through dint of ish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Poland EU ly at the university level), and so forth. It also means the sheer hard work and abstemious living. However, they That award is given for supporting extensive funneling of government and major corporate usually have an emphasis on individual or family ad- the status of Poland in the world. DYNGUS DAY IS EASTER MON- philanthropic support to various facets of the commu- vancement, with a downplaying of community efforts. The book had good reviews in the nity’s activities. What can one say when even the post Because of the legacy of Communism, many Poles most important Italian newspaper, DAY. Please take time to correct the of the President of the Canadian Polish Congress is a from the later immigrant waves, associate community on State television Rai 1, Radio people who call any party a “Dyn- volunteer position. work with a distasteful “social activism” — into which Vatican, and on Polish TVP. Patri- gus” party. Dyngus Day is the Mon- One can see over the decades the perennial inability the Communist regime in Poland had apparently al- celli has been interviewed on Polish day after Easter Sunday. No other to create a serious Polish-Canadian political and cul- ways been trying to force people. Despite often great, Radio, in Poland’s daily “Rzeczpos- day of the year is Dyngus Day. Just tural “lobby” — although Polonia organizations and in- outstanding accomplishments by individuals of Pol- polita,” and in the IPN Bulletin. because a party or gathering has a dividuals have been talking about such a goal for many ish descent in Canada, the community is usually not The book will be published in years. There is a chronic lack of funding, either from strengthened. polka band at it does not make it a 2011 from Wydawnictwo Literackie within the community, or from various levels of gov- Could one hope that there could be at this late date in Poland and from Lattes-Hachette Dyngus Day party. ernment — despite the fact that some reasonable expec- a synergy of concerned persons of Polish descent in in France. It lacks translation in I saw this in your paper on sev- tations for the latter have been created as a result of the Canada that would be able to make some significant English, so I’m looking for support eral occasions, including on group officially-proclaimed governmental multiculturalism cultural and political impact? from the Polish American media (or that called a dance during Lent as Polish émigré associations) to find a “St. Joseph, St. Patrick, Dyngus an editor in the United States. INTERNATIONAL Day Party.” That makes promoters, Adam Hanzelewicz ANSA - redazione interregionale the PAJ, and all involved, look like PETRAEUS PRAISES POLISH cally starting from scratch.” CADBURY CLOSURE BITTER- Abruzzo e Molise they don’t know their Polish history. MILITARY. (Warsaw Business Polish Defense Minister Bog- SWEET. The Cadbury factory in tel. 085/378100 Mitchell Leszynski Journal) General David Petraeus, dan Klich called the article “offen- Somerdale, England has produced fax 085/378189 Orlando commander of U.S. and NATO sive.” its last chocolate bar. All produc- forces in Afghanistan, has issued an tion has been shifted to the com- official statement praising Poland’s 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF FIRST pany’s Skarbimierz plant in south- FREE CATALOG! military contingent in the country. POLISH HEART TRANSPLANT western Poland. His remarks come after U.S. Army was marked at a special celebration A total of 300 people will gain HEAR ALL THE POLKA STARS officers were quoted in Time mag- gala. That successful surgery was employment at the Polish facility, on azine criticizing the competence led by human heart transplantation while 400 workers at the UK plant SUNSHINE and capabilities of Polish forces pioneer Professor Zbigniew Religa will lose their jobs once machinery serving in Afghanistan. at the Silesian Center for Heart at Somerdale has been dismantled. SEND FOR A FREE CATALOG “Polish forces are serving their Diseases and is memorialized by a Most of the chocolate made in SUNSHINE nation, the coalition and Afghani- prize-winning National Geograph- Poland will be transported 1,200 PO BOX 652 stan in truly admirable fashion,” ic photo, depicting a doctor sleep- W. SENECA, NY 14224 miles to Britain, a fact which has CDs $12 each General Petraeus said in the state- ing on the floor. invoked the ire of environmental- Religa is also the first surgeon $2.00 SHIPPING & HANDLING ment. “All of Poland’s citizens ists who complain about unneces- should be very proud of the enor- to graft an artificial valve created sary “food miles.” mous contributions their men and from matter taken from human Food giant Kraft assumed con- women in uniform are making in corpses, and developed an original trol of Cadbury last year after a Sunday, Afghanistan,” he added. Polish system for mechanical as- Feb. 13, 2011 The negative comments were sistance to the human heart (POL- bitter, but ultimately successful Valentine’s published in Time in December, CAS). hostile takeover. The U.S. corpora- THE RICH BOBINSKI and caused much resentment in An activist in politics as well, tion initially said that it would re- Day Dance Poland. he was a member of Parliament, verse the plan to close the plant and ORCHESTRA An anonymous U.S. officer was a Senator, the Minister of Health shift production from Somerdale to quoted as saying, “It was as if the and was resolute in this dedication Skarbimierz, but backtracked after [Poles] were waiting for us to come to the transformation of the Polish it won control, saying Cadbury’s THE GERMAN AMERICAN CULTURAL SOCIETY back and release them from their health care system into a modern plan was too advanced to reverse. (The German Club) 78 Carter Ave. base. [The Poles are] just kind of and efficient one, available to all. Explaining Kraft’s decision, Pawtucket RI hanging around.” Another U.S. of- Religa passed away at his home CEO Irene Rosenfeld said Cadbury 2:00-6:00 PM ficer claimed that the situation in in Warsaw on March 8, 2009 at the had already invested in improving the Polish-guarded district seems age of 71. its Polish factories, partly in readi- Kitchen will be open to have deteriorated. Recently heart surgeons from ness for the transfer. For info and tickets, Another source stated that the the Center transplanted a heart into The Somerdale factory had call Erika Danner at situation in the district overseen by a six-month old boy. The boy and been in operation since 1919, when (401) 723-3549 Polish forces had “regressed,” and his parents attended the anniver- it began making Fry’s Chocolate that coalition forces were “basi- sary gala. Creams. 14 www.polamjournal.com POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL • FEBRUARY 2011 • OUR 100th ANNIVERSARY YEAR Gen. Zdzislaw Starostecki, Polish War Hero, Ed Chlapowski, Informed Designed Anti-ballistic Missile Warhead World of Pearl Habor Attack SARASOTA, Fla. — Gen. Zdzi- ing degree in from tion Cross and was BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Ed Chlapowski said he ran to the ra- slaw Starostecki died at age 91 at his Stevens Institute of appointed to the rank Chlapowski, the man who notified dio room, where he knew the crew home in Sarasota, Florida, moments Technology and then of General in 2009 by the world that Pearl Harbor was be- was short on Sundays. A supervi- before beginning of the New Year worked at The De- then Polish President ing bombed by the Japanese, has sor handed him a message, and in 2011. Considered a Polish hero, Sta- partment of Defense Lech Kaczynski. died at 88. Morse code, he sent out word that rostecki designed an anti-ballistic Research and Devel- “I was at the death The former Navy radio man died Pearl Harbor was under attack. missile warhead used in the Patriot opment Center in New of my father, who died January 16 at his home in Billings He said he saw the smoke begin system. Jersey, constructing peacefully in the arms a few weeks after being diagnosed to rise from the battleship Arizona Born in Lodz, Poland in 1919, missiles capable of of his wife, 64-year- with cancer, his family said. after she took her first hit. Then, at he fought the Germans in the Sep- carrying nuclear war- old Irene,” said the Chlapowski was a member of the 8:06 a.m., a bomb struck the ship’s tember Campaign in 1939, was heads. During the general’s son Andrew. Pearl Harbor Survivors Association starboard side, about where Chl- captured by Soviet secret police, 1980s he led a forty- “He was a true Polish and was frequently asked to speak apowski’s duty station was. charged with spying for the United person group tasked patriot, loyal to the about his experiences. In a 2007 in- The bomb exploded the Arizo- States and sent to a Soviet gulag in with designing the end.” terview, he told a reporter that it was na’s ammunition magazine. Siberia. He joined the Polish Army radar and warheads As per Sta- his job to report the deaths of Pearl “The first thing I saw afterward after the 1941 Polish-Soviet agree- missiles combating air rostecki’s will, his Harbor survivors to the association was the ship was gone where the ment. He fought Germans at the bat- targets at high altitudes. The system remains were cremated. His ashes and see that plaques were presented No. 1 and 2 turrets had been,” he tle of Monte Casino and was seri- (Patriot Missile System) was used were placed in two urns; one rests in to their families. recalled. ously wounded in Bologna in 1945. initially during Operation Desert the Polish American Czestochowa At a 2009 commemoration of the Chlapowski was born in Web- At war’s end, Starostecki settled in Storm. Starostecki was awarded the National Cemetery in Pennsylvania attack on Pearl Harbor, Chlapowski London and in 1952, emigrated to Virtuti Militari, the Cross of Valor, and the other will go to Poland and told the Downtown Billings Rotary ster, Mass., on June 5, 1922, and at- he United States. the Order of Merit of the Republic will rest in the family cemetery in Club his story about the Dec. 7, tended school through eighth grade. In 1960, he earned an engineer- of Poland, the National Military Ac- either Lodz or Warsaw. 1941, attack that propelled the Unit- He spent five years in the Navy. He ed States into World War II. had wanted to be a pilot and after his He said he had worked an early discharge he combined his love for Edward Czyzyk, Pulaski Days Co-Founder watch at the submarine base, had flying with his skill as a radio man eaten breakfast and had just sat and became an air traffic controller. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Days, which he helped found with Gerald Czyzyk described his fa- He worked for the Federal Aviation While many in Grand Rapids will friend Walter Ulanch in 1973. ther as “a quiet, behind-the-scenes down on his bunk in the barracks when he looked out the window Administration for 34 years, retiring remember Edward Czyzyk as co- Pulaski Days is the city’s largest guy,” he said. “He might come up and saw a hangar roof blown away. in 1975. founder of the annual Pulaski Days ethnic celebration. It’s named after a with an idea that takes off, then he Then he saw the Japanese planes. Chlapowski married Marga- Celebration; his son, Gerald, re- Polish American war hero killed in could gather the support for it.” “The hair on the back of my neck ret Betty Thomson in 1943. They members him as a loving father who the American Revolution. Czyzyk was a steady, traditional stood up, just as it still does today moved to Montana in 1946 and taught his family to be proud of their Czyzyk and Ulanch started it as type of father, he said, who was al- when I think about it,” Chlapowski spent most of the past 65 years in Polish heritage. a one-day celebration of Polish heri- ways there for his children and liked said at the time. Billings. “He wanted all of us kids to be tage at Diamond Street/St. Isidore’s to tell stories about the ethnic make- proud of where we came from, but Aid Society. The event has grown up of neighborhoods on the city’s not to the exclusion of others,” said to include 15 Polish clubs that open Polish Christmas in Kabul west side, where the elder Czyzyk Gerald Czyzyk, of his father, Ed- their doors to the public over a was born in 1920. KABUL, Afghanistan (military- “I wasn’t expecting this; it’s re- ward Charles Czyzyk, 90, who died three-day weekend. web.com) — “Wesolych Swiat” ally nice to do something that is our He met Cecilia at a youth club- Dec. 18, 2010, in Grand Rapids “He was very proud of his heri- means Merry Christmas in Polish. tradition even though we’re here in from heart failure. tage and thought people should sponsored polka dance in 1940. Af- On Christmas Eve at Camp Eggers, Kabul,” said Sobczak. A former U.S. Marine who saw know more about the Polish peo- ter coming back from the war, the Polish soldiers and their U.S. co- Brig. Gen. Jozef Nasiadka, action in the Pacific theater during ple,” said Czyzyk’s wife, Cecilia, two married in September 1945. workers celebrated the holiday with Deputy Commanding General, In- World War II, Czyzyk’s legacy can 91. “We were surprised how it grew Czyzyk was a retired U.S. Post- traditional Polish foods, Christmas ternational Security Cooperation be seen on the streets of Grand Rap- after the first few years. He was hap- master and at one time hosted a ra- trees and presents, and gifts from expressed his gratitude for the kind- ids every October during Pulaski py with the way things turned out.” dio program. various Polish American groups in ness of their co-workers and his ap- the states. preciation for the hard work and ac- The soldiers make up the Person- complishments of the unit. IN MEMORIAM / Jennifer Moskal Trowbridge nel Security Detachment for Deputy — Petty Officer 1st Commander International Security Class Denise Alford NTM-A THEODORE S. GUTOWICZ, 90, was a FRANK J. NIEMIEC, 89, was retired Born in Ham- Cooperation and all of them volun- longtime Common Pleas Court judge, from ACME Steel Co. of Riverdale, af- tramck, Mich. on teered to deploy to Afghanistan. JUREK-PARK SLOPE who made headlines as the first Polish ter 42 years of service. Niemiec was October 15, 1918, “I volunteered out of a sense of FUNERAL HOME, INC. American named to a cabinet post in a member of the ST. John the Baptist Turkiela was duty, it just felt like what I should Harrisburg, Pa. Judge Gutowicz trained Church Holy Name Society, Golden Hamtramck High do,” said Warrant Officer Lukasz in the law and quickly mastered local Agers Society, PLAV Post 39, and PNA School’s most en- Sobczak. politics and held various state jobs Lodge 2003. He was also a veteran of thusiastic alum- Due to a complicated postal sys- na. She attended before serving as state insurance com- the U.S. Army Air Corp. tem at home, receiving mail while missioner in 1962 and 1963. He was each and every deployed is somewhat difficult. U.S. named to the Common Pleas Court ZYGFRYD L. OBORSKI, of Chicago, class reunion, in- bench in 1965. He served as an avia- was the past owner of Chicago Tool & cluding her 65th military co-workers reached out to tion cadet in the U.S. Navy Reserve dur- Die. Oborski was a deacon at St. Stanis- reunion. Turkiela was a gourmet Polish various Polish American groups in ing World War II. las B & M Church, and a past president American cook who used that talent the States and the groups responded 728 4th Ave., Brooklyn, NY to surprise dinner guests, even when with individually-addressed Christ- DORIS V. AMEN of St. Stanislas B&M Church Holy Name LICENSED FUNERAL DIRECTOR PETER M. KUTZA, 81, was an Oak- Society. He also was active in the Lafay- she was not the hostess. 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Her funeral PROMPTLY EXPEDITED versity, and taught science and math- many boxes all in one place,” said MONUMENT INSCRIPTIONS ASCERTAINED ematics at Morton East High School JOSEPHINE PASTERNAK, 89, of Les- Mass was held in Detroit at Our Lady Captain Andrez Kucharski assistant prior to his 30-year career at Merrill ter, was a retired chemist who earned Queen of Heaven. She is survived by to the general. (718) 768-4192 Lynch. He was active in the Polish Na- a degree from Temple University when her husband, Chester, and children tional Alliance and a veteran of the U.S. she was 60, graduating with a bach- Patricia Bosch and Robert Cole, along (718) 383-8600 Army. elor’s degree in education and earn- with six grandchildren and 10 great-  ing Temple’s W.E.B. DuBois Award for grandchildren. (GBC). A.K. No. 383-0320 MARCELLUS “MARC” F. LIPINSKI, Academic Excellence. In the 1950s  Peter Rago 86, received a philosophy degree from and 1960s, Pasternak worked in phar- CHESTER TUSZYNSKI, 92, was an  Lic. Mgr. the University of Chicago and received maceutical research at Smith, Kline & inventory aeronautical engineer and Leslie P. Rago a law degree from St. Mary’s Univer- French Laboratories. She was a gradu- retired electrician. Born in Inowroclaw, sity in San Antonio, Texas. Lipinski was ate of the former Eddystone High Poland. Tuszynski was in the Polish F.D. born in White City, Illinois, but spent School. When World War II broke out, Underground at the start of World War most of his life in Parma, Ohio. He was she worked at Westinghouse Electric II and was interrogated by the Nazis an usher for many years at St. Anthony Co., helping to build ship engines. and sent to Siberia. When released, FUNERAL HOME, INC. of Padua parish where he also coached he joined the Royal Air Force, and was  baseball and wrestling. He was a World IRENE (KONCZAK) PENTZ, 76, of awarded several medals, including 131 Nassau Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11222 War II veteran, 95th Infantry Division. Johnstown, Pa. was the choral director one for wounded service. He came to of KMP Singing Society, Choir 117 of the United States and worked as an JOHN WILLIAM MACKIEWICZ, 77, at- the Polish Singers Alliance of America. electrician in Chicago for more than 50 “A tradition of local & long distance service continues!“ tended St. Dionysius Catholic School For well over 26 years, Pentz was also years. He also wrote several books and and J. Serling Morton East High School the choir director of St. Casimir Church. designed several inventions over the in Cicero. He joined D&S Electric Sup- She was devoted to the promotion of course of his career. ply Co. in La Crosse, Wisconsin and rose Polish music and Polish culture and Stobierski Lucas to become President and GM before was recognized by many national Pol- retiring in 1996. He also joined the Air ish organizations for her lifelong ser- Gardenview Force in 1951 and was awarded three vice. Help severely autistic Battle Stars during the Korean War. He Funeral Home, Ltd. and his wife, Ruth, were married for 54 ESTELLE TURKIELA, nee Drąg, 92, adults. Buy a book at Rita A. Lucas 161 Driggs Avenue years. passed away suddenly on December douglasacres.com. Jude P. Lucas (Greenpoint) Brooklyn, NY 11222 24, after attending the family wigilia. George J. Mueller (718) 383-7910 • (718) 383-2737 POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL • FEBRUARY 2011 • OUR 100th ANNIVERSARY YEAR www.polamjournal.com 15

BOOKS IN BRIEF / Florence Waszkelewicz Clowes BOOK REVIEW / John Grondelski Europe Between Hitler and Stalin The Legendary Battle of Britain Fighter Squadron BLOODLANDS, EUROPE body and is determined to investi- 303 SQUADRON: THE the experiences of 303 Squadron in charitably, “unconventional” (to put BETWEEN HITLER AND STALIN gate further. LEGENDARY BATTLE OF September 1940 —the month that it uncharitably, “crazy”?) Whatever by Timothy Snyder When the police accompany her BRITAIN FIGHTER SQUADRON would make or break Hitler’s plans doubts existed at the end of August, Basic Books, 2010 to the salvage yard, she discovers By Arkady Fiedler, translated by to march through London, just as he however, were thoroughly dissi- abstract, bibliography, notes, her old boyfriend, who betrayed Jarek Garliński had already marched through Vien- pated by the end of September. The index, maps, 544 pp. $29.95. her when he had a sexual relation Aquila Polonica. 2010, Hardcover/ na, Prague, Warsaw, Oslo, Copen- Poles had proportionately downed This book concentrates on the with her best friend ten years ago, Softcover, $27.95/$21.95, pp. 331. hagen, Brussels, and Paris. the most German planes with the Eastern Europe killing fields which has been assigned to locate a miss- To Order: info@aquilapolonica. Fiedler’s writing gives readers a least losses of men and equipment. includes Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, ing person and help in the identity com, tel: (310) 470-0770; Readers feel they’re in those the Baltic States and western Rus- of ten women who had been buried aquilapolonicapublishing.com/ planes. Consider this excerpt of sia, in which over 14 million people in a mass grave. The police want to one Polish flyer, in hot pursuit of a were victims of the Soviet and Nazi keep the mass murders quiet until In 1943, the Polish Underground German returning to France, whose regimes. No U.S. troops fought in they determine if they have a serial received an Allied parachute drop. plane was crippled by enemy fire. these lands; they liberated prisoners killer on their hands. Francesca is In addition to anticipated supplies Having changed course back to of concentration camps, but never forced to work with Jonah Young, came a canister with a manuscript, a England, he is aware that his plane reached the death factories, killing and they find themselves in a love/ manuscript subsequently duplicated had no engine power. His survival fields and starvation sites in which hate relationship. and circulated throughout Occupied depended on whether the aircraft Snyder calls the Bloodlands, an area Butch Vaughn, the salvage yard Poland. After the war, the manu- would stay airborne long enough to where most of Europe’s Jews lived. owner, and his family have secrets script was printed and became part glide back. “The altimeter was mer- The book is a history of political to hide. His wife knows of his of the prescribed reading list in Pol- ciless: 5,500 feet, 4,500 feet, 4,200 mass murder, victims of a Soviet sexual dalliances with women he ish schools. That manuscript was … Still four miles to go, three miles and Nazi killing policy, not of the meets on the internet; his brother Dywizjon 303. … The English coast was becom- war, itself. is considered weird by the family The work had previously ap- ing clearer: 4,000 feet, 3,000 … A Hitler and Stalin began their mass and his parents do not want to hear peared in 1942 in English as Squad- thrilling race between two rivals: murders long before the Second of any wrongdoing. When a body ron 303. Written by a talented Pol- distance and height. Which would World War, from the Kristallnaucht is discovered propped up outside a ish travel writer then serving in the win? The sea was coming ever clos- in Austria and Germany to the star- downtown shop, she is convinced it Polish Armed Forces in the UK, the er, now Ferić could see individual vation and slaughter in the Ukraine. is the body she saw at the salvage book detailed the substantial and waves — but he could also see little Both leaders had no qualms in or- yard. Jonah and Francesca work to- heroic contributions a band of Pol- houses on land. A few minutes more, dering thousands of people deport- gether to identify the body and the ish fighter pilots made towards win- thorough feel for the moment and and the wings seemed to be winning ed, slain, gassed or starved. serial killer. ning the Battle of Britain. The story the action. Here’s how he describes the race. Yes, they were. The wings The Germans and Soviets coop- Novak is able to create tension of the Royal Air Force’s (RAF) de- the gravity of England’s lot at that were winning, those good, honest, erated in the destruction of Poland and suspense in miniscule incidents fense of England, which stopped a particular turning point: “ … the and faithful wings” (p. 39). Equal- and its educated classes when they and ends up with a great read. German invasion of Britain, is leg- summer of 1940 was horrific. The ly poetic action is found in “The divided the country. The Germans endary. What is not as well known is whole free world rubbed frightened Enemy’s Dance of Death” (which shot and gassed 5.4 million Jews OUT OF THE CROSS that, during the height of the Battle eyes to dissolve a nightmare, but describes a Polish pilot’s satisfac- along with non-Jews, and carried by Rev. Charles Jan Di Mascola of Britain in September 1940, Poles awoke to a reality even more dire. tion with shooting down a German out the mass starvation of Soviet Eternal Lamp Press, 2009, 137 pp, downed one out of every eight Ger- The world was shaken with hitherto bomber, mixed with respect for a prisoners of war. Hitler allowed Sta- $10.00. man aircraft shot down using RAF unknown convulsions, the hearts fellow airman’s futile gyrations to lin’s Terror on seven hundred thou- This collection of short biogra- planes. Of the 967 German planes of billions of people trembled from keep his mortally wounded plane sand in Leningrad while beginning phies of Polish martyrs is prefaced brought down that month, the Poles the worst premonitions, from anxi- aloft). his own campaign of killings of Pol- by a timeline of events in Poland, bagged 121. ety, despair, doubt. Everyone … the The original text of the book is ish citizens. beginning in 1791. These Polish Unfortunately, like the Polish cockney on the Thames, the native supplemented with a chapter on Most of the deaths during World martyrs of World War 11 lived and contribution to breaking the Enigma from Brazil, the miner in Pennsylva- how Polish forces came to be in War Two were caused by ethnic suffered excruciating deaths. In Po- Code, the Polish legacy in the Bat- nia, the rancher in Australia, and the England, individual biographies cleansing, gassing, starvation, and land, where Catholicism and culture tle of Britain has also been largely planter in Java, everyone watched of the distinguished airmen of 303 deportation. There were concentra- are intertwined, and Nazi Germany forgotten in the West. Although the as if transfixed. All hope was lost. Squadron, and the Squadron’s own tion camps in which people were and the Soviet Union attacked the Polish edition has been part of the They lived in anticipation of even- history (another untold story — the executed or starved and killing sites Church relentlessly, it is not surpris- reading canon in Polish schools, tual defeat — the defeat not only of Kościuszko Squadron originated where death came from gas or bul- ing that so many would be willing English editions have not appeared Great Britain, the last free bastion with American airmen who volun- lets. to give up their lives for their faith. since the 1940s. (We Poles have an of Western Europe, but of the whole teered to fight for Poland during the While not a subject most people This collection provides a short amazing propensity to talk to our- civilised [sic] world” (p. 1). Polish-Soviet War of 1920, three would be drawn to, this book pro- biography of the 108 religious men selves while adopting a false hu- In the midst of despair, the RAF of whom lie in the famous Eagle’s vides a disturbing, documented his- and women who had the courage to mility when it comes to telling the created a squadron of Polish fliers Cemetery in Łwów/L’viv). Over tory of the horrors of the twentieth carry the cross and sacrifice their outside world). who, having faced the Germans 200 black and white photos fill its century. It provides information on lives for their faith in God. Kudos, then to Aquila Polonica, in their own country and later wit- pages. the Eastern European Bloodlands a new California-based publishing nessed the fall of France, were A “History Book Club” choice, that have never before been docu- MEMORIES OF MAMUSIA house whose mission is to tell Po- ready to stand with their British ally the book is for history buffs, those mented in this manner. Historians Father’s Mother’s Dessert Book land’s story in World War II. Aquila against the Bosch. Many in Britain who like a well-written action book, will appreciate the work of Snyder by Parish Council of Our Lady of Polonica has truly found a lacuna entertained doubts about them in and those proud of Polish accom- and the general public will try to Czestochowa Church to fill; the major Allies all have se- August 1940. Had they not been plishments. As Churchill said, “nev- comprehend the heinous actions of Fundcraft Publishing, 2010,104 lective memories about the Second defeated at home? Were not some er was so much owed by so many to others. pp, $10.00. World War, and their selectivity, to of their flying techniques, to put it so few.” An interesting collection of old a greater or lesser extent, tends in KILLER HEAT and new recipies of a mother who practice to Poland’s detriment. Po- by Brenda Novak loved to cook for the family and the land needs to be heard in its own 14KT. 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A story of the life great turmoil. Vivid, romantic, and thrillingly For Liberty and Justice tells the story of a Pol- and times of these airmen stationed in Britain. paced, the novel paints the emotional and ish revolutionary exiled to America where he rises from private to memorable portrait of the metamorphosis of a nation—and of general during the Civil War. Following the war he becomes a fed- NIGHT OF FLAMES: Anna. a proud and resilient young woman, and Jan, her soldier- eral agent, helps Helena Modjeska begin her American career as a A Novel of World War Two husband. Critics have called the story Poland’s Gone with the Wind. Shakespearean actress. by Douglas W. Jacobson AGAINST A CRIMSON SKY $16.95 by James C. Martin THE MAYOR’S DAUGHTER 384 pp. pb., McBooks Press by Delores Gapanowicz “The most powerful weapon on earth is the $15.95 $12.95 human soul on fire.” St. Martin’s 369 pp.pb. Map & wycinanki il- Edition illustrated In 1939 the Germans invade Poland, set- lust. 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These tales show that young people on farms didn’t KATYN: STALIN’S MASSACRE rowly escaped death amidst the chaos caused by the violent dis- spend all their time milking cows and picking potatoes. AND THE TRIUMPH OF TRUTH solution of their homeland. by Allen Paul “A sprawling epic . . . entertaining.” — Publishers Weekly. THE FINCHLEY HOUSE MYSTERY $24.95 by Delores Gapanowicz Northern Illinois University Press TWO FRIENDS, THEY WENT $13.95 2010. 430 pp. pb. 9“x6.5“ A’ DANCING Nightingale Press, 2005 Marking the 70th anniversary of the by Maria Bielski and Janina Dobkowski For Ages 9-12. 132 pp. pb. Katyn Forest massacre, this edition exposes the crime and its cover-up. Twenty years ago, $20.00 Is the Finchley House haunted or not? Are Singing games and Children’s Allen Paul wrote the first post-communist ac- those ghosts flitting from room to room after Dances from Poland count of one of the greatest but least-known dark? 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DATE CARD SECURITY CODE the eyes of Paul and Jadwiga Adamik and what The premise of this book is the prevalence of they went through to make America their new DAYTIME PHONE ( ) threes in our world and how apparent these home. Appropriate for all ages 12 and up. triadic aspects are if one takes the time to observe them. POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL • FEBRUARY 2011 • OUR 100th ANNIVERSARY YEAR www.polamjournal.com 17 World War II Museum SPORTS / Tom Tarapacki to Open in Gdansk GDANSK, Poland — The Pol- Making a Difference ish government said it will build a PHOTO: LIFE World War II Museum here, with Lou Creekmur was an outstand- research director of the Center for Very active in the community, the aim of increasing knowledge of ing offensive lineman for the Detroit the Study of Retired Athletes at the Wisniewski has participated in the World War II and cherish the mem- Lions in the 1950s, playing in eight University of North Carolina. He re- Student-Athlete Advisory Board’s ory of victims and heroes of that Pro Bowls and eventually earning cently received matching $100,000 Autism Awareness reading pro- tragic time. Through the establish- enshrinement in the Polish Ameri- grants from the NFL and NFLPA for gram, THON Make-A-Wish pro- ment, Poland hopes to successfully can Sports (his mother’s name was concussion research. gram, Pennsylvania Special Olym- Rose Kaminski) and Pro Football Guskiewicz has been working fight unjustly and falsely used terms pics State Summer Games, Habitat like “Polish concentration camps.” Halls of Fame. In ten full seasons with retired NFL players since 2001, for Humanity, Athletic Directors he never missed a game, despite studying the life consequences of The idea of the museum’s cre- Leadership Institute, Athletes In Ac- ation dates three years back, when suffering 14 concussions and nu- concussions. Guskiewicz’s research tion, The Second Mile and has tu- merous broken noses. However, in includes neuro-imaging scans to in December 2007, Polish Prime tored local high school students. Minister Donald Tusk mentioned retirement he suffered, and doctors study brain activity and also atrophy Stefen’s father was a standout couldn’t explain his frequent bouts of the brain and the link between the there was a necessity of establishing defensive lineman for the Nittany the institution that would show the of anger and forgetfulness. Near the head injuries and the development Lions, lettering from 1979-81 and end of his life he would even chase of dementia and depression. war from the common perspective: serving as a tri-captain in 1981. He both Polish and European. his wife in a rage, only to apologize The center has already studied was selected by the Baltimore Colts later. He died at 82 in 2009. 41 retired NFL players, Guskiewicz Apart from exhibition activities, in the 2nd round of the 1982 NFL the museum will also engage in edu- Then Chris Nowinski called. He said. The new grants will enable the SWIACKI. Catch that helped Co- Draft and played 4 seasons with wanted Creekmur’s brain. Nowinski center to study another 45 former cation and research actions. Polish lumbia defeat Army is still regarded Baltimore/Indianapolis. An uncle, authorities hope it will promote Po- is co-founder of the Boston Univer- college players - who didn’t play as one of the greatest ever. Steve Wisniewski, was a two-time sity School of Medicine Center for in the NFL - and compare the data. land as a state of values and active first-team All-America guard during the Study of Traumatic Encepha- “That will help us answer the magic civic attitude. The museum is also He also played Canadian pro his Penn State career (1985-88) and lopathy (CSTE), and has collected question: What is the effect of the expected to contribute to increasing football, and spent two seasons was selected All-Pro eight times in the brains of athletes to assemble additional exposure?” Guskiewicz as head coach of the Toronto Ar- tourists’ interest in both Gdansk and his 13 years with the Raiders. Ste- physical proof for his belief that said. gonauts. He was later an assistant Pomeranian Region. fen, a 6-3, 306-lb. guard, will likely permanent brain damage is perva- coach for the Giants and Rams be- The project is scheduled for be drafted in the 1st or 2nd round as sive among athletes who suffer con- WHAT A CATCH! It happened over fore establishing a real estate busi- 2011- 2014 and will cost about a center. cussions. six decades ago, but the dramatic ness in Sturbridge, Mass. He was $121.1 million. Caroline Creekmur agreed to catch made by Bill Swiacki to help named to the College Football Hall donate Lou’s brain to the CSTE. Columbia defeat Army is still re- of Fame in 1976. He died tragically She said: “My husband died a hard garded as one of the greatest ever. that year, at the age of 52, when a What Does Your Polish Name Mean? death, and I did not know what was It happened on October 25, 1947. rifle he was cleaning in the base- Everyone has heard about Har- Whether your Polish name is of wrong. I wanted to know why this Columbia faced the task of trying to ment of his home accidentally fired. ry Potter, the boy hero of today’s occupational, patronymic (father’s happened. The CSTE examined end the defending national champi- Swiacki is best remembered for pre-adolescents. His surname in name), toponymic (place-name) or Mr. Creekmur’s brain and found no on’s 32-game unbeaten streak. Not that spectacular catch against Army, England once identified someone other origin, you can order a cus- evidence of Alzheimer’s disease or surprisingly, the service academies but his athletic career was one of who made clay pots and bowls, and tom-researched analysis thereof of any other neurodegenerative dis- had very powerful football pro- consistent excellence. its Polish equivalent is Garncarz. by airmailing a $19 personal or ease. Instead, Creekmur was with grams during the war years. Army Many other Polish surnames were bank (cashier’s) check or money an advanced case of Chronic Trau- been undefeated over the previous 4 PERKOSKI’S NOTEBOOK. Short- also derived from occupations, the order (adding a cut-rate $10 for matic Encephalopathy CTE, a pro- years, and no team had even scored ly after being traded by Orlando, most common being Kowalski each additional surname you wish gressive degenerative disease found a point in its 4 previous games that Marcin Gortat started for Phoenix (blacksmith) and Wójcik (village researched) to: Robert Strybel, ul. in individuals who have been sub- season. and had 12 points, 9 boards, a steal mayor). Kaniowska 24, 01-529 Warsaw, jected to multiple concussions and Army took a 20-7 lead into the and a block in the home loss to the Others include, Piekarz (Bak- Poland. other forms of head injury fourth quarter, and a missed extra Lakers … Patriots kicker Stephen er), Stelmach (Carthwright), Included at no extra charge is So Nowinski has taken on the point by the Cadets seemed unim- Gostkowski went down with a Cieśla (Carpenter), Kucharz an illustration of the coat of arms task of calling up the survivors of portant. Columbia trailed Army, 20- season ending injury … In the Un- (Cook), Rybak (Fisher), Młynarz (where applicable) and a contact athletes who have died, within 48 14 late in the fourth quarter when der-20 European Championships in (Miller), Tokarz (lathe operator) sheet full of valuable genealogi- hours of their deaths, to ask for their quarterback Gene Rossides dropped Austria, Olek Czyz averaged 16.1 and Ślusarz (Locksmith). Each cal leads, data bases and research- brains. He also requests that living back to pass from the Army 29. points and 8.1 rebounds per game produced numerous spin-offs such ers able to explore your ancestral athletes agree to donate their brains He fired a low pass short of the for Poland, which won bronze. Olek as Piekarski, Stelmachowski, roots. to his research. So far 270 have goal line. It looked uncatchable. transferred this season from Duke Ciesielski, Ślusarczyk, Tokar- For more information please done so. Swiacki stretched both arms and to Nevada … James Wisniewski czuk, etc. contact: [email protected]. Nowinski is a graduate of Har- laid his body out horizontally, grab- capped a three-point night with a vard, where he played football. bing the pass just above the ground. goal in overtime to give Montreal Afterwards he wrestled for World It was a 26-yard gain to the three. a 3-2 win over Florida a week af- Wrestling Entertainment until head- Two plays later, Lou Kusserow ter being traded from the Islanders POLAM HERITAGE QUIZ aches (he sustained two concussions ran it in from the two and Ventan … Buffalo Sabre Patrick Kaleta while playing college football and Yablonski kicked the go-ahead ex- has formed the HITS Foundation four concussions as a pro wrestler) tra point to put Columbia up, 21-20. (Helping Individuals To Smile) to Win one of Three Polish Cookbooks Diagnosed with post-concussion That’s how the game ended, and it give families the opportunity to in English in our Annual Quiz syndrome forced him to retire from still ranks as one of college foot- participate in organized sports … the ring at age 24. Following his ball’s most memorable upsets. The New York Rangers acquired By taking part in this year’s Pol- New York State. wrestling career, he wrote Head Swiacki caught nine passes that forward Wojtek Wolski from the Am Heritage quiz, you will be eligi- 5. In Polish tradition, herring and Games: Football’s Concussion Cri- day, one for a touchdown. He fin- Phoenix Coyotes for veteran de- ble to win one of three Polish cook- żur (meatless ryemeal soup) sis, which examined the long-term ished the season with Columbia fenseman Michal Rozsival. The books in English. Simply write your would be served mainly: a) at effects of head trauma among ath- records for receptions and yards, to 24-year-old Wolski, a left wing, had name and mailing address at the top weddings, b) on New Year’s letes. he is also the co-founder and go with his 23.6 yards per catch in had career highs with 23 goals, 42 of a clean sheet of paper, number it Day, c) on Easter Sunday, d) president of the Sports Legacy Insti- 1946, still the Lions’ all-time record. assists and 65 points in 80 games from 1 to 5 and indicate the correct during Lent. tute (SLI), a non-profit organization His 18.6 career yards per catch also split last season between Colorado answer (a, b, c or d) to each of the dedicated to solve the sports con- ranks as a Columbia record. He was and Phoenix … Vancouver Canuck following five questions: Airmail your entry without delay cussion crisis. a first team All-American, and was Rick Rypien is a cousin of former to: PolAm Heritage Quiz, ul. Kanio- Nowinski also played an inte- eighth in the voting for the Heisman NFL QB Mark Rypien … former 1. In 2012, Poland and Ukraine wska 24, 01-529 Warsaw, Poland; gral role in the discovery of CTE Trophy. Montana State University standout will co-host: a) European Soc- or e-mail the correct answers to: re- in former Pittsburgh Steelers of- Swiacki had actually begun his Beata Bak is now playing for Mon- cer Championship Finals, b) [email protected]. fensive lineman Justin Strzelczyk. college career at Holy Cross, not far tana State Billings. International Strongman Com- All correct entries will take part Strzelczyk was killed in a fiery au- from his Southbridge, Mass., home. petition, c) World Cup Soccer in a random drawing to select the tomobile crash in 2004 at age 36 After one season he enlisted in the TOP PROSPECT. Stefen Wis- Finals, d) World Skeet Shoot- winners. The first prize is the 900- after a bizarre 37-mile police chase U.S. Army Air Corps, serving three niewski became the first Penn State ing Championships. page “Polish Heritage Cookery”, at speeds up to 100 miles per hour and a half years as a second lieuten- football player to earn Academic 2. Poland’s presidential election on the wrong side of the highway. ant and navigator on a B-17. He at- All-America honors three times. held in summer 2010 was won the biggest Polish cookbook ever It was widely believed that Justin’s tended Columbia after his discharge Wisniewski, a secondary education by: a) Bronisław Komorowski, published in the English language. behavior was caused by bipolar dis- for two years. major, is a first-team selection this b) Donald Tusk, c) Jarosław Second prize is “Polish Holiday order. However, Nowinski called A fine all-around athlete, - Swi year, was first team last year and Kaczyński, d) Waldemar Paw- Cookery” (248 pages) focusing on Mary Strzelczyk, Justin’s mother, to acki was signed as a catcher by the second team in 2008. He also fin- lak. the traditional foods of Christmas, ask for permission to have it exam- Boston Red Sox while still an un- ished second in voting for the Aca- 3. Poland became a Christian na- Easter, weddings and other special ined for CTE, which was eventually dergraduate. He later went into pro demic All-American of the Year, tion after Duke Mieszko I mar- occasions. Third prize is “Culinary confirmed. football, playing with the New York behind only Alabama quarterback ried a: a) Czech, b) Lithuanian, Traditions of Mazovia, Silesia and The NFL and other major sports Giants from 1948 through 1950, and Greg McElroy. c) Hungarian, d) Russian prin- Kashubia” (60 pages), whose re- leagues are starting to realize that the Detroit Lions for the next two Wisniewski carried a 3.91 GPA, cess. gional favorites are printed on op- concussions are a very serious prob- seasons. His 550 receiving yards even knowing that he likely has a 4. America’s first permanent Pol- posing pages in both English and lem, and a change of policy regard- in 1948 set a Giants record and he lucrative NFL career to look for- ish community was set up in the Polish. It should be helpful to those ing recovery time and education is set two new marks in 1949, when ward to. “Just because I might not mid-19th century in: a) Texas, trying to learn Polish or English needed at all levels of sport. Nowin- he caught 47 passes in 12 games be using my degree in education any b) Illinois, c) Pennsylvania, d) Powodzenia! Good luck! ski is widely credited with putting for 652 yards and four touchdowns. time soon, I really feel like it’s my the concussion issue on the map. He caught 11 passes for Detroit in responsibility to do the best that I Another strong advocate in this 1952, helping the Lions to the NFL could with those talents in order to Visit www.polamjournal.com for your Easter Needs • Butter and arena is Kevin Guskiewicz, the championship. bring glory to God,” said Stefan. Chocolate Molds • Easter Cards • Imported Wooden Eggs and more! 18 www.polamjournal.com POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL • FEBRUARY 2011 • OUR 100th ANNIVERSARY YEAR

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PRAYERS ANSWERED BY OUR LADY OF CZESTOCHOWA. Jasna Gora, Pączki and Chruściki Poland. May 24, 1976. PĄCZKI, POLISH DONUTS serves, rose-petal jam, plum butter (pączki). Mash 1¾ oz fresh yeast (powidła) or other thick fruit fill- TRIVIA TIME / Ellye Slusarczyk with 2 T sugar and dissolve in 5 T ings. milk. Set aside to rise. Beat 4 egg 1. “The Partisans” by Andrew don b. Salisbury c. Exeter yolks and 2 whole eggs with 6 T UNFILLED COUNTRY-STYLE Pitynski is a: a sculpture b. 7. The largest painting in the PĄCZKI (pączki wiejskie bez sugar and grated zest of half a small a historical play c. a Polish- United States depicting the lemon until fluffy, add yeast - mix nadzienia): After your pączki themed operetta crucifixion of Jesus is found ture, 7 c flour, ½ t vanilla sugar or dough (prepared as above) has risen, 2. Stanislaus Dziwisz was Pope in: a. Chicago b. Glendale, extract, 1½ c milk, 1 t salt and work tear off pączki-sized pieces and roll John Paul II’s: a. physician b. by hand into a uniform dough. Mix them into a ball snowball-fashion. Calif. c. Buffalo, N.Y. aide c. legal advisor 8. A panorama painter is: a. in 2 T rum, beat well by hand and Let rise in warm place. Fry as above 3. In 1794, Thaddeus Kosciusz- gradually add 9 T melted butter on both sides and drain on absor- Adam Styka b. Josef Franczyk ko was victorious in the battle c. Julian Chrobny and continue beating until dough is bent paper. When they cool, serve of: a. Torun b. Gdynia c. Ra- 9. A tablecloth is a: a. ilyzka b. glossy and no longer sticks to hand. just as they are – unfilled, unglazed clawice talerz c. obrus (Note: A less messy way is to use and unsugared. These plainer, less 4. Stanislaw Ulan, a mathemati- sweet, more irregularly- cian, worked on the: a. atom 10. One puts water in a: a. szklan- shaped pączki would be bomb b. hydrogen bomb c. ka b. flaga c. mewa more typical of what the nuclear missile rural-dwelling Poles of yes- 5. Leopold Stokowski was a: a. ANSWERS. 1.a-sculpture; 2.b- teryear feasted on. conductor and composer b. aide; 3.c-Raclawice; 4. b-hydro- scientist c. Solidarity leader gen bomb; 5.a-conductor and FAVORS, ANGEL- 6. Number 307 Polish Squadron composer; 6.c- Exeter; 7.b- Glen- WINGS, BOW-KNOTS. of the Royal Air Force had a dale; 8.a-Adam Styka; 9.c-obrus; (faworki, chruściki): Sift two-year defense of: a. Lon- 10.a-szklanka. 2 c flour onto board. Make well at center and deposit therein 5 egg yolks, 1 T but- ter, 2 T sour cream, a pinch HERITAGE / Ellye Slusarczyk bread-hook-equipped electric mix- of salt and 1 T 190-proof grain alco- er). Set aside in warm place to rise. hol or 100 proof vodka. (Optional: Palace on the Water When dough doubles in bulk, divide ½ t vanilla or rum extract may be into 4 parts. Roll out each part on added if desired.) Work into a dough Of neoclassical architecture is Coat-of-Arms is most impressive. floured board to a thickness of ⅓”. and knead well (about 15 min) un- Lazienki Palace, often referred to The grotto garden is a perfect place Cut dough into rounds with glass or til dough is glossy and full of small as “Palace on for reflection. biscuit-cutter and place a spoonful holes when cut in half. Beat dough the Water” and Stanislaw of filling* at center, cover with an- with rolling-pin on all sides – the “Palace on the August Po- other dough round and pinch rounds more air forced into the dough, the Isle.” The cas- m a t o w s k i together with fingers and roll snow- lighter the pastries will be. Roll out tle is situated delighted in ball-fashion into balls. Place pączki as thin as possible on lightly floured on an artificial the beauty of on flour-sprinkled surface in warm board, sprinkling top of dough sheet island. This the palace. place, cover with cloth and let rise. with a little flour. With pastry-wheel island divides He made the Heat lard or oil in a fairly wide pan. or knife cut dough sheet into 1½ the lake into structure into It is hot enough if a piece of dough ” strips, then cut strips at an angle two parts. The a private resi- floats to top immediately. Brush ex- into 5” pieces. Cut a 1½” vertical northern part dence. The cess flour off pączki and fry in hot strip down center of each piece and of the lake is palace was in fat deep enough so they can float gently pull one of the ends through much smaller than the large south- need of remodeling and Domenico freely. When one side is browned, the slot to form a bow. Heat at least ern part. Located in Warsaw’s Royal Fertini was commissioned to do the turn them over and brown the other 1½ lb lard, shortening or oil in deep Bath Park, the castle was built in work. The remodeling was done side. Transfer to absorbent paper pan or electric skillet to 350°. Deep- 1683 and completed in 1689. How- from 1764 to 1795. and dust with confectioner’s sugar. fry to a light golden-brown on both ever, this structure was originally In World War II, the Germans Variation: For smaller pączki, use sides and remove to absorbent pa- a bathing pavilion for Stanislaw nearly destroyed the palace. In fact, only one dough round per pączek, per. Fry in batches so they are not Lubomirski. Lubomirski was also at one time, the palace even served fold it over filling, pinch edges shut crowded and can float freely. When the owner of an adjacent castle — as a barracks. and form into a ball. slightly cooled, dust with confec- Ujazdow Castle. Two Ionic colonnaded bridges *Fillings include rose-hip pre- tioner’s sugar. Four park pavilions were added connect to the mainland. The main namely Arcadia, Hermitage, Fra- floor of the palace is worth touring. STO LAT! STO LAT! 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AMERICAN POLONIA AT A GLANCE The World’s CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill. — lights the area’s rich Polish heritage. the 15th World Polish Folk Danc- In observance of Polish Heritage To help the committee reach its ing Festival, which will take place His Oyster Month last October, the Chicago goal, donations are being accepted. in Rzeszow, Poland, July 21-28, DON NORKOSKI, president and Heights-Wadowice Sister Cities Send your tax-deductible dona- 2011. The festival is an excellent hall manager of the Polish Club Committee presented a pictorial dis- tion to: Twin Cities Polish Festival, opportunity for PAFDC dancers to in Aberdeen, Washington, gives play honoring the history of the Pol- P.O. Box 19312, Minneapolis, MN perform at an international level and the “thumbs up” after the club’s ish community, and noted men and 55419. All donations will be ac- forge bonds with members of other 20th Annual Oyster Feed. A women of Poland. The display was knowledged by letter and publicly, folk dance ensembles. Members crowd of 125 members enjoyed viewed in the foyer of City Hall. unless indicated otherwise. will have the chance to learn Polish an “all-you-can-eat” feast of raw The display was organized folk dance from some of the great- oysters, oyster stew, grilled and ST. PAUL, Minn. — On Sunday, through the efforts of the Chicago est choreographers in the world. The pan-fried oysters, spaghetti, February 6, 2011 at 3:00 p.m., the Heights Polish Sister City program. group needs to raise over $32,000 in salad, garlic bread, and more. The Frederic Chopin Society (www. Wadowice, which became Chicago order to attend. preparation, cooking, serving, chopinsocietymn.org) will present Heights’ Sister City in 2001, is the Tax-deductible donations may and clean-up is done entirely by the Minnesota debut of the youth- birthplace of Pope John Paul II. be sent to: Polish American Folk the men of the club. ful but renowned Polish pianist Ra- Eugene Sadus, a former Bloom Dance Company, attn: PAFDC Rz- The club, dedicated in 1916 fal Blechacz, Gold Medal Winner High School teacher and city offi- eszow Festival 2011 Donation, 261 and restored in 1996, is located of the 2005 International Chopin cial, is chairman of the organization. Driggs Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11222. at 823 W. First St. in Aberdeen, Competition in Warsaw. The con- There are approximately ten active For more information, call (718) near the Pacific Ocean. cert will take place at Sundin Music members on the committee. 907-6199. —James Hicker During the month, a special City Hall at Hamline University, 1536 Hewitt Ave, St. Paul. Single tickets CLEVELAND — WKYC-TV Council Meeting was held to honor and included the 1899 cannon. International Affairs (PISM) in War- Poland and the local Polish com- are $23 each, or $20 for Chopin So- reports that Pulaski Plaza will have ciety members and $12 for full-time to make way for the Medical Mart The plaza was moved and re- saw, Marcin Zaborowski, has joined munity. A proclamation was signed dedicated on Mall C in 1968 by the Center for European Policy by the mayor, and throughout the students 21 and under (with student and Convention Center, but will be ID). An early sellout is expected. returned and restored after construc- Mayor Carl Stokes. It was moved Analysis (CEPA) as a non-resident month, the Polish flag was flown in to make way for an urban renewal Senior Fellow. There he will as- front of City Hall. To reserve, call (612) 822-0123 or tion. e-mail [email protected]. Pulaski Plaza is at the north end project. sess the impact of the back-to-back EAST POINTE, Mich. — The of Mall C, one of several public Polish City Council members Ed European Union (EU) Presidencies American Polish Assistance Asso- ST. PAUL, Minn. — Bal Kar- parks in the city’s downtown. Katalinas, Henry Matt and Ted Sli- of Hungary and Poland as part of ciation is in dire need of volunteers. nawalowy will be held on February The so-called “Polish Rifle,” a was protested the possible destruc- CEPA’s latest program, Visegrád to Past pleas have largely gone unan- 12, 2011 at The Historic Saint Paul long slim, black, naval cannon, plus tion of the plaza and helped get it Weimar: Measuring Post-Commu- swered, says the organization. Hotel. A social hour with incidental plaques honoring American Revo- moved. MMPI will have the plaza nist Europe’s Transformative Poten- Some volunteers are at APAA’s music provided by piano virtuoso lutionary war hero Casimir Pulaski, dismantled, stored and reinstalled tial in the EU, 2010-2020. office many hours each week; oth- Bonnie Frels will start at 5:30 p.m., are featured exhibits. intact once construction is complete. Dr. Zaborowski received his ers, only a few hours each year. followed by a gourmet meal in The There were no formal plans to PHILADELPHIA — The Mu- Ph.D. in International Studies from You can help in a number of Grand Ballroom. Edziu Rajtar will preserve the plaza in the original seum Without Walls audio pro- the University of Birmingham in ways, including: collecting clean be honored for his many contribu- Medical Mart/Convention center gram was created to be used like a Great Britain and was awarded a clothes, shoes, and school supplies; tions to the Polish American com- proposal. customizable museum that’s free Chevening Fellowship by the UK advertising in church bulletins; sell- munity. Entertainment will be pro- Gary Kotlarsic, of the Polish and never closes. Its self-guided au- Foreign and Commonwealth Office. ing folk items; transporting, load- vided by the Dolina Polish Dancers American Congress, expressed dio tours are available 24/7 in sev- Before assuming his current post at ing, sorting, or packing clothes; and dance music by The Retractions concern that the plaza was at risk. eral different formats. the Polish Institute for International computer skills, fundraising, Polish with amplified carnival music from The Landmarks Commission later The project’s first phase includes Affairs, Zaborowski served as Di- translations, and newsletter produc- Midnight to 1:00 a.m. Tickets will approved the redevelopment firm’s 51 outdoor sculptures at 35 stops rector of the Transatlantic Program tion. be available soon for online pur- (MMPI) request to demolish the top along a three-mile stretch of the and Senior Research Fellow at the APAA was founded in the late chase at $60 per person or $440 per of Mall C. But it included a require- bustling Benjamin Franklin Park- European Union Institute for Secu- 1960s to assist the people of Po- table of eight. A Silent Auction will ment that Pulaski Plaza be disman- way from downtown to leafy Fair- rity Studies in Paris. Early in his ca- land, then living under the totalitar- be part of the evening’s festivities. tled, stored, and reassembled once mount Park. The Marian Konieczny reer he was Assistant to the Under- ian regime of the communist party. BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Polish construction is complete. sculpture of General Tadeusz Kos- Secretary of State at the Ministry of The mission of APAA has evolved Genealogical Society of New York MMPI’s representative and May- ciuszko is part of the new project. Economics in Warsaw. throughout the years. Today it con- State meets monthly every second or Frank Jackson’s team agreed to Three-to-five minute segments As part of his CEPA Fellowship, tinues its efforts to help the people Thursday at 7:00 p.m. in the Villa the proposal by City Councilman are voiced by people connected to Zaborowski will be paired with a of Poland as well as other countries Maria College cafeteria, 240 Pine Tony Brancatelli. the works — historians, curators, Hungarian scholar as well as CEPA of Eastern Europe Ridge Road in Cheektowaga. The “We don’t know what would the art honoree, or a living relative Senior Fellow and Head of Euro- If you can help this charitable meetings are free and open to the have occurred. The concern was it — to explain each piece and give pean Regional Analysis at the State organization, contact APAA at P.O. public. For membership informa- would be taken down , stored, put context. Visitors can upload their Department’s Bureau of Intelligence Box 116, Eastpointe, MI 48021; tion, call (716) 652-9120, or visit away and long forgotten. And they own pictures and thoughts to the and Research, David Armitage. website, museumwithoutwalls.org. (586) 778-9766; www.apaa.us. www.pgsnys.org. didn’t want the memory of Casimir WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Pulaski to be forgotten,” Brancatelli MINNEAPOLIS — The Twin FRONT ROYAL, Virg. — Al- Kosciuszko Foundation (2025 O said. lyson Doran, 17, a member of the Street NW, Washington, DC 20036, Cities Polish Festival is the re- Ironically, the decision to pre- cipient of a $10,000 matching grant Polish Roman Catholic Union, is the between 20 and 21st Street) will serve the plaza was made on the first female cadet to be appointed as soon begin its Spring semester of from the Minnesota Arts and Cul- same day — Dec. 9 — that new tural Heritage Fund. As a match- Corps Commander at the Randolph- Polish Language and Culture Polish President Bronizlaw Ko- Macon Military Academy. classes. ing grant, TCPF must raise up to morowski was visiting Cleveland. $10,000 to receive the full grant. NEW YORK — The Polish The Academy began accepting Four levels of classes are being The original Pulaski Square was female cadets thirty-six years ago. offered: Beginners I (Thursdays, After a ten-year absence, the American Folk Dance Company dedicated in 1937. It was at East festival was reborn in 2008. It high- is fundraising to send members to Feb. 3-May 12); Beginners I Second 12th Street and Superior Avenue WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Semester (Wednesdays, Feb. 2-May Dan Lipinski (right) was one of 11); Beginners II (Tuesdays, Feb. 19 House Democrats who declined 1-May 10); and Intermediate/Ad- Artwork of Arthur Szyk Showcased in California to vote for Nancy Pelosi as Demo- vanced (Mondays, Jan. 31-May 9). cratic leader. Lipinski, one of the SAN FRANCISCO — An exhibit of artwork cre- All classes start at 6.30 p.m. and most conserva- end at 8.10 p.m.. There will be 15 ated by Poland-born Jewish artist Arthur Szyk will be tive Democrats on display at the Legion of Honor through March 27. sessions during the spring semester. in the House, Please visit www.learnpolishdc. Showcased are two decades of news-magazine covers has long been at Szyk created for Collier in the 1930s and ’40s. com for all the other information, or ideological odds e-mail [email protected]. Some 70 works covering a great range of subjects with Pelosi dur- make up the exhibit, which includes illustrations of tra- ing her time as MILWAUKEE—Prof. Michael ditional Jewish and Polish folk tales and religious texts, House speaker. Mikos is leading the University of and watercolors of political cartoons. Also included in Pelosi, the Wisconsin/Milwaukee five-week the illustrations are those of Revolutionary War heroes, first female Summer Study-Tour at the Cath- representations of World War II, and the Holocaust. Speaker of the House, ended her olic University of Lublin, Poland. The Polish American artist, who lived from 1894 tenure when she turned over the The July 2-August 9 tour in Lublin, to 1951, created remarkable portraits of two important gavel to new Speaker John Boehner is a course on the Polish language Polish American soldiers. A painting of Casimir Pu- (R-Ohio). Lipinski said in a state- (100 hours) at beginning, intermedi- laski, who became a general in the Continental Army ment that since the selection of Pe- ate and advance levels. Also avail- and is credited with saving President George Washing- losi was a foregone conclusion, the able are three weeks and six credits ton’s life, is memorable. (The soldier died in the Battle vote was “largely symbolic.” in Polish Culture and Polish lan- of Savannah, becoming one of only five people to be With that in mind, Lipinski, who guage, July 4-23. Lectures, films, posthumously awarded honorary American citizen- is Polish American, cast a vote for excursions to Warsaw, Kazimierz ship.) Another notable subject is Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Rep. Marcy Kaptur, who he called, and other places of interest are part a Polish colonel in the Continental Army, eventually in his statement, “a Polish American of the trip. For detailed informa- promoted by the Continental Congress to the rank of Democrat from Toledo who is the tion, contact Prof. Mikos at (414) brigadier general. most senior woman in the House.” 229-4313, Dept. of Foreign Lan- The California Legion of Honor is located in Lin- Lipinski did not detail his beefs guages & Linguistics, University coln Park, 100 34th Ave.. Show hours are 9:30 a.m. with Pelosi. of Wisconsin/Milwaukee, P.O. Box to 5:15 p.m. Tuesdays-Sundays. Tickets are $7.75 to SZYK’S allegorical illustration of General Pulaski. 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201; e-mail $11.75. Call (415) 750-3600 or visit legionofhonor. 1938. The artist’s work covers many Polish and Jew- WASHINGTON. D.C. — The [email protected]; www.lrc.umw. famsf.org ish themes. Director of the Polish Institute for edu/tour/. 20 www.polamjournal.com POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL • FEBRUARY 2011 • OUR 100th ANNIVERSARY YEAR

REFLECTIONS / OUR CHURCHES From the Pages of the ANNIVERSARY COUNTDOWN Polish American Journal St. Stanislaus Kostka Church 100 Things Every Polish 1124 HUDSON AVENUE, ROCHESTER, NY 14621 Historical highlights from FR. ADAM OGORZALY, PASTOR the newspaper and its predecessors American Should Do The Polish American Journal traces its history back 100 FOR 100. We continue our countdown to our to the Polish-language newspaper, Zorza (The Dawn), 100th Anniversary with another 10 items this month. which was published in Pittston, Pennsylvania. Since its In today’s world of lost identity, it is important to know founding, Zorza and its successors — Republika (The who you are, the roots from which you come, and what Republic), Gornik Pennsylwanski (The Pennsylvania your background represents. Show pride in your Polish Miner), Republika-Gornik and the Polish American and Polish-American heritage Voice — have provided newly-settled Poles and their ancestors with news about life in America and events in FEBRUARY the Old Country. 11. Relate your love to your The Polish American Journal is — in effect — the wife/husband, girl- Polish immigrant’s logbook. The paper has documented friend/boyfriend by fre- virtually every major event in the history of 20th and quently stating “Ja cię 21st century Polish Americana, from the arrival of those kocham,” and encour- came here dla chleba (as well as the post-World War age them to return the II and Solidarity-era immigrations), to the successes of gesture, even if they are ¤ their descendents, who today enjoy a life style unimagi- not Polish. nable by parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents. 12. If no longer needed, donate your collection of Polish books 1916. Death of Henryk Sienkiewicz, 70, Polish novel- and archives to a well-known and respected Pol- ist (“Quo Vadis”), 1905 Nobel literature prize winner, in ish archive, such as the Polish Mission at Orchard Vevey, Switzerland. Lake Schools’ Polish and Rare Book Collection. 1917. United States enters into World War I. 13. Support Polish and Polish American authors by 1918. Independence of Poland is reestablished by the buying, reading and promoting their books. Central Powers during World War I. 14. If not stocked by your grocer, ask them to carry 1918. Republika’s editor Haduch moves to Scranton, Pa., quality pierogi – a significant step above mass- ST. STAN’S, 2010 home of another Polish-language newspaper, Gornik Pennsyl- produced brands. wanski (The Pennsylvania Miner). Haduch’s offices are located 15. Invite your neighbors, friends or business associ- St. Stanislaus Kostka Church is situated at a busy intersection on Roch- in the Farr Building, 127 Adams Ave. ates for a dinner of traditional Polish favorites, or ester’s northeast side, in a neighborhood whose streets were literally carved 1918. President Wilson announces his “Fourteen a sampling of Polish liqueurs with Polish desserts through fields by Polish immigrants at the end of the nineteenth century. Points,” the 13th calling for a free Poland. and coffee. Constructed in 1909 for the parish that was established in 1890, the church 1919. League of Nations is formed primarily through 16. Conduct, record and document an oral history of a has served throughout its history as the spiritual heart of Rochester’s Polo- the efforts of President Woodrow Wilson ... Treaty of relative or another person regarding their Polish or nia. Today, under the leadership of Rev. Adam Ogorzaly, cherished Polish Versailles, making Poland a free nation, signed by I.J. Polish-American experience. traditions are joined with new initiatives of ministry and community life. Paderewski, the first premier of the newly created Re- 17. The next time you call your Polish grandparents, The church’s interior is rich with Christian imagery and evidence of public of Poland. uncles and aunts, address them with their Polish Polish heritage, featuring many beautiful details including an ornate high 1920. John Dende, a recent arrival from Poland, purchases titles – babcia (grandmother), dziadziu (grandfa- altar, vivid stained glass windows, intricate stenciling, and murals and stat- both the Gornik Pennsylwanski and the Republika. He re- ther), wujek (uncle), or ciocia (aunt), as appropri- names his new publication Republika-Gornik Pennsylwanski ate ues of saints well loved in Polish tradition. A new shrine, added in 2008, (The Republic Pennsylvania Miner). The name of the paper honors Our Lady of Częstochowa and her faithful servant Pope John Paul would later be shortened to Republika-Gornik. 18. Pay homage to deceased members of your family II. Designated a local landmark by the Rochester Preservation Board in 1922. Buffalo, N.Y. area now has 34 churches estab- by arranging a requiem mass at your parish, and 1992, St. Stanislaus Church has been honored for architectural and historic lished by Polish Americans ... The Polish Welfare Asso- attend the mass. Arrange that a Polish choir or so- significance by the Landmark Society of Western New York and the Pres- ciation founded in Chicago, later to become the Polish loist sings, or that the organist plays Polish hymns. ervation League of New York State. American Association ... On June 9, Joseph (Tykocin- 19. Read a book on Polish history or check an internet site documenting Polish history. As part of our 100th year observations, we would like to reflect on the great houses ski) Tykociner publicly demonstrated for the first time a motion picture with a soundtrack optically recorded 20. Preserve your lineage by designing a family tree of worship built by Polish Americans. We ask our readers to provide us with a photo chart, or join a Polish genealogical society to assist and a paragraph or two on the parish. While we appreciate full histories, we do not directly onto the film. have space to print them. Please provide us with a photo or two of the interior and/ 1924. Death of author Jozef Conrad Korzeniowski (Jo- with the discovery of your roots in Poland. or exterior. We can accept digital photos via e-mail if they are of high resolution (300 seph Conrad). For tips on how to accomplish these items: recipes, dpi or greater). Please include: Name of church, year opened (year closed if no longer 1925. Founding of the Kosciuszko Foundation in New music, lyrics, online and store contacts inquire at: PAJ- open), street and city, any identifiable people in the photo, and any special memory York City. [email protected] or check: www.pajtoday.blogspot. you may have of the church. Additional information may include: pastor, school sta- 1926. John Dende purchases and remodels a building at com. tus, or, if closed, name us last pastor, name of new merged parish, etc. All denomina- 409 Cedar Ave. in Scranton, Pa. and makes it the new home of Edited and compiled by Staś Kmieć from contribu- tions welcome. Dende Press. tions to be announced in the anniversary edition.

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