St Marys High School - Salute Yearbook (New Baltimore, MI)

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ne moment Plame . . . The POLONIAN PANORAMA is a miscellany prepared by the graduates of St. Mary's College during their senior year 1945-1946. While it contains no new factual data beyond what is already available in Polish or in English, it has Qwe hopej some original pictures and comments. Above all, it tries to suggest a different approach to Polish- American life-a telescopic presentation of facts and photos, empha- sizing not so much the storied past either of the Polish heritage or of Polish heroes in America as the living present of Polish-American in- stitutional as well as personal achievement and promise. An undertaking of this kind implies selection of material dictated by personal preferences as well as by limitations of space. Of the two restrictive influences, the former perhaps has been more operative: it has been our set purpose to feature the Polish-American Community, THE POLONIA, with its characteristic institutions, its builders and its present-day maintainers. If we have stressed, at times exclusively, the achievements of American born or bred individuals, we have done so, not with any intent to slight or depreciate the tremendous contri- butions of immigrant Poles, but rather to bring our theme more clearly into focus and to suggest newer avenues of research and study. The materials that have gone into the making of this panorama are twofold: pictorial and documental. The essays and comments derive from sources indicated in the selected bibliography, which is also intended to point out further topics of interest. The illustrations, taken from photographs supplied almost entirely by students and friends, are all authentic-real pictures of real Polish-Americans, actual views of extant Polish-American institution and achievements. In the preparation of this close-up of Polish-American life, we have naturally incurred many debts which we most gratefully acknowledge. And we sincerely hope that this finished product, the result of numerous efforts and suggestions, will iustify the expectations of the many gra- cious friends who have favored us with their help, the Director of St. Mary's College Library whose facilities have been at our disposal, and the authors whose studies have provided us with invaluable informa- tion and ideas. BOG ZAPLAC! HIV. Joselod .gjwvmfed Faculty Director. Mrnarz! jb0l1'I.l'l'll'CA Student DiI'6Ct0I'.

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l7oliAln p4me1-icanA .7 img People Giant United States has a population of 132 million. In this vast human family, Americans of Polish descent are a comparatively small group. Estimates of their number vary from 3 to 9 million. If the truth lies somewhere in the middle Land 6 million is the most popular estimateb, then 1 out of 22 Americans walking down the street is likely to be of Polish stock. Polish Americans come in all sizes and shapes. You will find among them tall blond farmers and steelworkers, short stocky miners and ma- chinists, dark fat butchers, bakers and grocers, fair -skinned dentists, doctors, bishops and undertakers. Polish Americans do not specialize in any particular trade, profession or avocation. Like you, they take a bit of everything - from sports to opera and higher mathematics. But sweat- ing in mills and mines, raising food, running businesses and offices, attending church and school, writing, painting, composing, they work side by side with you in the building of a better America. You may run into a Polish-American girl or matron at Marshall Fields', Hu'dson's ur Macy's. She will be as pretty, or as plain, as the woman sitting beside you on the bus or beating you out of a seat on the street-car. Polish Americans speak Broklynese in Brook- lyn. In Boston, their accent is as precise as Emerson's ever was. Most of them, however, speak the general American of the Middle West. Some few below the Mason-Dixon out-you-all the Georgia Yanceysg others, out where the West begins, can yippee-aye-yay with the most voluble cowboy. Polish Americans are simply people like yon. intensely devoted to America, the mother country of 5 out of every 6 of them. If they differ from you at all, it is only in the spelling of their names fthough not always! and, per- haps, in the attachment they cultivate for the heritage of their forefathers, which they re- gard as a precious trust to be further enriched and gratefully deposited at the feet of the Lady of Liberty, whose light once guided their oppressed ancestors to America. .x4nfAon7 .A gl AIZLU1,