POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL • JUNE 2014 www.polamjournal.com 1 JUNE 2014 • VOL. 103, NO. 6 $2.00 PERIODICAL POSTAGE PAID AT BOSTON, NEW YORK NEW BOSTON, AT PAID PERIODICAL POSTAGE POLISH AMERICAN OFFICES AND ADDITIONAL ENTRY ESTABLISHED 1911 www.polamjournal.com JOHN PAUL JONES JOURNAL AND POLAND DEDICATED TO THE PROMOTION AND CONTINUANCE OF POLISH AMERICAN CULTURE PAGE 9 TIME TO START HELPING OUR OWN • COMMITTEE FORMED TO SAVE PHILLY’S HISTORIC ST. LAURENTIUS CHURCH 14TH ANNUAL KATYN REMEMBRANCE • COMMITTEE SEEKS ANSWERS TO AIR DISASTER • CLUB ORGANIZED AT GMU JOHN PAUL II’S INFLUENCE CONTINUES • KARSKI CENTENNIAL COMMEMORATED • THE KICK-OFF OF FESTIVAL SEASON NEWSMARK 25 Years Ago “It’s like winning the Oscar” Poland Comes Poles Voted to Aid of MISSION ENDS IN GHAZNI. Ceremonies held May 4 at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, marked the offi cial act to for Freedom Future Leaders recognize the end of mission for the Polish army in Ghazni province, Afghanistan. Partially-free New Scholarship The mission began in 2008, with soldiers of the 12th Elections got Program Available Polish Mechanized Division, and ended with soldiers of the Ball Rolling For Undergraduate the 10th Polish Armored Cavalry Brigade. For more than OBAMA TO HELP POLES Students six years, Polish soldiers of Task Force White Eagle have CELEBRATE THE OCCASION been patrolling the Ghazni province along with Afghan Na- of Polish Origin tional Security Forces and coalition partners. At its peak, by Robert Strybel NEW YORK — The there were almost 3,000 Polish soldiers assigned to TF WARSAW – The silver an- Kosciuszko Foundation an- White Eagle. niversary of Poland’s regained nounced the opening of the During the ceremony, Townsend and Task Force White independence is being cel- application process for a Eagle commander Polish army Brig. Gen. Cezary Podla- ebrated with heavy TV cov- special tuition scholarship sinski recognized both U.S. and Polish troops with awards erage including documentary program for undergraduate and certifi cates, symbolizing the six-year partnership be- footage and interviews with students of Polish origin. A tween the two countries. prominent fi gures who helped $2,000 scholarship will be The Polish army recently relinquished their battle space topple the communist regime. offered to 30 promising un- in Ghazni, but they will continue their commitment to Af- “Oaks of Freedom” have been SOKOLOWSKI SIBLINGS Bernie, Mike, and Mary Balbier dergraduate students studying ghanistan through Operation Resolute Support, that is ex- planted in 25 different Polish at the James Beard Foundation Awards Ceremony and Gala in the United States and pur- pected to begin on Jan. 1, 2015. localities, and the festivities Reception, May 5, at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln suing degrees at the intersec- Center in New York City. MICGIEL NEW KF PRESIDENT. Dr. John S. Micgiel of will include exhibitions, con- tion of media, communica- Columbia University has been elected the seventh presi- certs and patriotic programs. CLEVELAND — Sokolowski’s University Inn, Cleve- tion, political science, social dent of the Kosciuszko Foundation. World media interest will be land, was named a 2014 winner of the James Beard Founda- studies, law, and administra- Micgiel taught for twenty-fi ve years at Columbia’s greatly heightened by Presi- tion’s “American Classics” Award. tion. Students seeking careers School of International and Public Affairs, where, for many dent Barack Obama’s par- “Every year, the American Classics Awards are a favorite in media, government, and years, he directed the Institute on East Central Europe, the ticipation in the observances. part of the [Beard Awards] ceremony,” said Susan Ungaro, public affairs are particularly East European, Russian, and Eurasian National Resource Ukraine is expected to domi- president of the James Beard Foundation, in a press state- encouraged to apply. Applica- Center, and several other Institutes and Centers. He is on nated the agenda of Obama’s ment. “These honorees represent the unique American dream tions will be accepted through the faculty of Warsaw University’s Eastern Studies Center talks with Polish leaders. of people who have created enduring, quality restaurants and July 31, 2014 and scholarship and the Estonian School of Diplomacy in Tallinn. Micgiel Since so much has oc- food establishments that refl ect the character and hospitality awards will be distributed for was instrumental in organizing the campaign to raise an curred world-wide over the of their cities and community.” the fall semester of the 2014- endowment, now valued at $5.2 million for a newly-fi lled past 25 years, many people “It’s like winning the Oscar, you know?” said Mike 2015 academic year. Professorship in Polish Studies in Columbia University’s See “25 Years ...,” page 10 See “Sokolowski’s,” page 4 See “Scholarship ...” page 5 History Department. (See next story). Micgiel has been recognized by the governments of Po- SPOTLIGHT / Poles in Britain land and Romania for his work on behalf of educational exchange and cooperation, and has been the recipient of numerous fellowships and scholarships awarded by vari- ous institutions including the Kosciuszko Foundation. Britain’s Polish Workers Poles That Have and MAZUREK FIRST POLISH STUDIES PROFESSOR AT An Interview with Dr. Anne White on Have Not In England COLUMBIA. Dr. Małgorzata Mazurek has been selected Poles, Immigrants, and England by Columbia University as the fi rst incumbent of the Pol- Dr. Michał Garapich of the An expert on contempo- ish Studies Professorship in the university’s Department of University of Roehampton, UK History. Mazurek will assume the position on July 1, 2014. rary Polish migration trends to The task of establishing the professorship began in Great Britain, Dr. Anne White Dr. Michał Garapich, who holds his doctorate from the 2003, in talks between Kosciuszko Foundation then-Pres- teaches sociology and politics Jagiellonian University in Kraków, is a research fellow and ident Joseph Gore, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Wi- of central and eastern Europe social anthropologist, specializing in migration studies, at the told Sulimirski, and Professor John S. Micgiel of Columbia at the University of Bath. University of Roehampton in University’s East Central European Center She has written a full-length London. The Polish Studies Professorship at Columbia Univer- study of recent Polish migra- His research has also fo- sity was subsequently established by donations from insti- tion to the UK and Western cused on the phenomenon of tutional, corporate, and academic organization, as well as Europe, Polish Families and dispossession among immi- individual donors. Migration Since EU Accession grants, as well as comparative (Bristol: Policy Press, 2011), studies of Polish immigration POPE FRANCIS MET WITH POLISH PM DONALD contributed research on Eng- to the UK and to Italy. TUSK, May 19, for a conversations ranging from the can- land-bound Polish migrants to He spoke with Dr. John onization of St. John Paul II and the plans for World Youth three scholarly collections published in the UK and Poland, Grondelski: Day 2016 to current political tensions in eastern Europe. and published seven scholarly articles on the subject. Dr. In related news, the pope has appointed Bishop Wojciech White holds a bachelor’s degree from the Oxford University British PM Cameron ig- Polak, who is currently serving as an auxiliary in the and a doctorate from the London School of Economics. nited a controversy when, on Gniezno archdiocese, to become Archbishop of Gniezno She spoke with the Polish American Journal regarding re- the eve of the UK opening its and Primate of Poland. He will replace Archbishop Jozef cent controversial remarks by British Prime Minister David borders to workers from Bulgaria and Romania, he attacked Kowalczyk, who is retiring at the age of 75. Cameron about “Polish workers” in the UK: “Polish workers” who immigrate to England but apply for The Archbishop of Gniezno has traditionally held the At the begining of the year, British Prime Minister Cam- child benefi ts for their children in Poland. Can you tell us the title of Primate of Poland. That tradition was interrupted eron ignited a controversy, on the eve of the UK opening its particulars of the controversy, and what set it off? for a short time, from 1992 until 2007, when Cardinal Jozef borders to workers from Bulgaria and Romania, by attacking Well, as often happens, this incident had little to do with Glemp was Archbishop of Warsaw and Primate of Poland. “Polish workers” who immigrate to England but apply for Polish migrants as such. Cameron knows well the statistics Cardinal Glemp had inherited the latter title when he was child benefi ts for their children in Poland. Can you tell us the that in fact migrants from Poland are less likely to use govern- appointed installed as Archbishop of both Gziezno and details of the controversy? ment assistance than the native British. He used the Poles sim- Warsaw. In 1992, when he approved a restructuring of the BBC reporter Andrew Marr on January 5 asked Cameron ply as an illustration of his, and much of his party’s, discontent Polish hierarchy that separated the two archdioceses, Pope whether it was “acceptable that Romanians or Bulgarians over the EU freedom of movement principle. His comments John Paul II stipulated that Cardinal Glemp would remain or anybody else working here who maybe have four or fi ve refl ect also his party’s worry about the UKIP [United King- the Primate until his retirement from active ministry, which occurred in 2007. (CWN) See “Britain’s Polish Workers,” page 4 See “Have and Have Not,” page 4 2 www.polamjournal.com POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL • JUNE 2014 ALMANAC VIEWPOINT / Christopher West Follow us on Facebook or visit us 1938 – Revisited on the internet at: polamjournal.com On September 30, 1938 with the an citizens clamoring for a mother signing of the Munich Pact, Adolf Russia seek more than economic Q Hitler began his reign of terror and aid.