i i r l Andy Smoker Donald Clinker We spent more than two hours talking over our past experiences. Prior Michael Bienia, O.F.M., was engaged in conversation with Mr. Leonard Paula, Professor of Music at the University of Detroit. Mr. Ronald Bulas, an Aeronautical Engineer, found him- self surrounded by Messrs. Edward Kuligowski, Ar- chitectural Designer, and Alfred Serowik, President of the American Engineers' Association. Near the mantel piece, Reverend Bernard Przybocki, Procurator at St. Mary's College, Orchard Lake, Michigan, Gerald Smolka. Professor of Biology and Chemistry, .Gerald Piekarski. Athletic Director and Coach of the invin- cible Polish Eagles, Henry Kus, well-known Polish Historian and Jerome Herman, Professor of Mathe- matics, were reminiscing with Reverend Walter Szumlinski, a Maryknoll Missionary, who iust re- turned from China. Right Reverend Monsignor Don- ald Rusch, newly appointed Rector of St. Mary's, be- sought the advice of Bishop Walter Lebuchowski, Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit, regarding administrative matters. Near the bookcase, Messrs. Theodore Cichecki, Director of a famous South American Band and Joseph jakubowski, world renowned Comedian of Screen and Radio, were signing contracts with Mr. Eugene Ciolek, Proprietor of the Waldorf-Astoria of New York. Directly parallel to an enormous bust of Cicero, which stood in the right corner of the room, Messrs. Joseph Wejroch, United States Senator from Michigan, Francis Padzieski, F.B.I. Criminologist, Lucian Sawicki, Surgeon at the Mayo Clinic, Richard Kueber, Cattle Rancher of Texas, Stanley Stone, Manufacturer of the Stanley Jetmobile and Lawrence Kolito, Research Scientist at Oak Ridge, were con- ferring with George Kowalewski, newly appointed Ambassador to Poland. The subiect of their conversa- tion was the problem of raising economic standards in Asia. Messrs. Vernon Norkiewicz. Owner of the Monte Carlo Club, and Stanley Walentynowicz, Chicago Chemist, were busy discussing the newly found cure for cancer with Doctor Harry Komaida, Chief Sur- geon at the Henry Ford Hospital of Detroit. Standing beneath the alcove. Messrs. Alfred Fuchs, Wall Street Banker. Donald Garnalski. Chain Hard- ware Store Owner, Leo Kokosinski. Owner of the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York, and Felix Olekszyk, Canadian Lumber Distributor, were trying to devise wavs to make known their enter- prises to an ever wider public. r Near a statue of Hercules, Mr. Eugene Wilk, National Wrestling Champion, was displaying his new strangle hold on Archbishop Tychulski. Messrs. Leonard Topik and Stephen Stemp, Jewelers with the Lloyds of London, were the interested and amused spectators. Beneath a portrait of Pius XII, Mr. Richard Sikora, U.N. Mediator to Russia, and Gerald Cardinal Wasielewski, Archbishop of Detroit, were being in- terviewed by Eugene Sikora, noted Paris Commen- tator and Journalist for the New York Times. Sitting in Ottoman Chairs, Messrs. Eugene Gabalski and joseph Czapski, Dentists, were discussing their profession. To one side of a marble statue of the Big Fisher- man, Mr. Richard Gurzyski, a famous deep sea angler, was explaining the proper ways of casting and baiting 'to Mr. john Koczkodan, National three- cushion Billiard Champ. Time went by so quickly and no one bothered to inquire of their whereaboutsg no one realized that they were assembled in Pope Pius XIV's reception room at the Vatican. At the sound of a clarion, all 'conversation dwindled and ceased. All eyes turned, to the place from where the sound came. There in the doorway stood His Holiness, Pope Pius XIV,,the former Papal Nuncio to Poland. All assembled were astounded and awe- stricken. He addressed us in a simple way, extending greetings and blessings. He requested us to go to St. Peter's Basilica for Midnight Mass. lt was now Christ- mas Eve of the 1975 Holy Year of Jubilee. Slowly the cortege wound its way into the cathe- dral. There we waited for the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass to commence. The basilica was resounding with splendid voices of the Vatican Choir, when each member of the Class of '50 went to the rail to receive the Sacred Host. After the Pontifical Mass was celebrated, we, with the multitude, went out of the titanic church into St. Peter's Square. Thence, with a last backward glance, we returned to our lodgings in peace, joy and con- tentment. And so. ended the mysterious excursion and another Holy Year. Snuffy njoen uLenn Walenty 73 Wee Willie Stan
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