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

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We . ffiglnligla M The Fifties opened a new era I in Polish-American annals - mass folk immigration and group H854 1914, settlement which produced the Polonia Amerykanska . . . The first community sprang up at Panna Maria, Texas, in 1854, the second at Poland Corner, Wisconsin, in 1856, the third at Parisville, Michigan, in 1857 . . . Father Leopold Moczygemba, 0. F. M. C. blessed the Church of the Immaculate Conception at Panna Maria in September, 1856 . . . J. Jaworski in 1863 began editing the Echo z Polski in New York City . . . In 1873 the Polish Roman Catholic Union was organized in Detroit, and seven years later the Polish National Alliance in Philadelphia . . . The Felician Sisters opened their first school in 1874 at Polonia, Wisconsin, while the Nazareth Sisters made their be- ginning eleven years later in Chicago . . . In the Eighties Poles came by the thousands, and in the Nineties by hundreds of thousands . . . Father Joseph Dabrowski founded SS. Cyril and Methodius Semi- nary in 1885 . . . In the first decade of the XX century over 870,000 Poles arrived . . . The Polish Women's Alliance was organized in 1898 . . . In 1908 Rev. Paul Rhode of Chicago was consecrated the first Polish-American bishop , . . In 1913, after Il decade of concerted efforts. the Polish National Council in America was organized . . . Tl-IE GREAT MIGRATION . l7oliAlu-idmerlcan Of the first 100,000 volunteers who answered the can in 1917, THE NEW 40,000 were of Polish extraction LIFE . . . The first American soldier 41914 - 19463 to die in France was Joseph Czajka of Milwaukee . . . An estimated 300,000 Polish Americans saw service in 1917-18 . . . Besides, a spe- cial Polish Army of nearly 30.000 was organized at Niagara-on-the-Lake to assist in the liberation of Poland . . . In 1925 the Polish-American convention in Detroit organized the Polish Council for Social Advancement . . . That same year the Kosciuszko Foundation for the exchange of students between America and Poland came into existence . . . Polish- American Chicagoans in 1926 founded the Polish Arts Club . . . At the World Convention of Poles in War- saw in 1934 Polish Americans issued their famous declaration of independence . . . Joseph L. Kania and Miecislaus Haiman established the Polish -Roman Catholic Union Archives and Museum in 1935 . . . The Polish Council in America in 1939 galvanized Polish-American aid for stricken Poland . . . In 1941 Polish Americans responded to Pres. Roosevelt's call with a mighty surge to the colors . . . The first annual meeting of the Polish-American Historical Commis- sion was held in New York in 1943 . . . In 1944 Polish Americans convened at Buffalo to organize the Polish- American Congress. .A'IfAt7ll1! J6'tlIl1tlI'I

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PoliAk-lmerican The first Poles came to Amer- ica in 1608 together with the first white women to reach James- town . . . Polish artisans helped lay the foundations of American industry by building the first glass, tar and soap works in Virginia . . . In 1619 the Polonians resident in Virginia struck a pioneer blow for American demo- cracy by their successful demand for equal civic rights . . . An unidentified Polish youth in 1643 hailed Father Isaac Joques on the streets of New Amster- dam as a martyr of Jesus Christ . . . Upon the request of the Dutch, Dr. Charles Curtius established the first Latin School in New Amsterdam 1New Yorkj . . . Albert Zaborowski was commissioned the first justice of the peace in Upper Bergen County, New Jersey, in 1682 . . . His descendants, the Zabriskies, pioneered several New Jersey communities . . . Anthony Sandusky was one of the first white men to push beyond the Alleghenies about the middle of the eighteenth century . . . The Sadowski, or San- dusky, brothers were among the early pioneers of Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee . . . Charles Blasko- wicz draughted the first reliable map of The New Eng- land coast in 1762 . . . By 1776 nearly every colony could boast of being, or of having been. the haven of a Polish immigrant . . . TRAIL BLAZERS 11608 - 17763 Iii torical During the Revolution, Thad- deus Kosciuszko, The Father of the American Artillery , was the first prominent alien to join the American Patriots . . . His engineering skill ensured the victory at Saratoga in 1777, the turning point in the Revolution . . . Casimir Pulaski, The Father of the American Caval- ry , helped save Charleston in 1779 . . . Peter Stad- nitski, called by Jefferson, the principal broker of the United States , assisted in the financial recon- struction of the nation in the 1780's . . . In the War of 1812, in which Lt. Jan Kamiriski and Lt. Stefan Laske served honorably, Kosciuszko's book on The Manoeuvers of the Horse Artillery published in 1808 was used as the official manual for the training of American artillery officers . . . F. Piotrowicz and Felix Wardzinski fought for Texan Independence in the 1830's . . . In the Mexican War of 1846 Capt. Charles Raidziminski and Capt. Napoleon Kosciolow- ski won distinction . . . Dr. Paul Wierzbicki helped in the winning and building of California . . . During the Civil War, the first officially recorded fatality was Thaddeus Strawinski who fell in the attack on Fort Sumter in January 1861 . . . Gen. Vladimir Krzyianowski distinguished himself at Gettysburg in 1863, and eventually became the first governor of Alaska . . . CHAMPIONS of DEMOCRACY 11776 - 18657 .J4nfAony .!6alu,arz

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..-maui lCv1-iwllviu'-I 1'fvllx'Iv- I l..1-.ns limm Inmiml, tnpumlil lin- funn- Iulv ln lui, Polonian The Pal-iAln Nearly 1,000 parishes form the cornerstone of the complex social structure called POLONIA AMERYH KANSKA, exerting a profound social and cultural as well as a religious influence on their members. An estimated two million Roman Catholics are grouped in 831 parishes staffed by 1,503 priests. Six male religious communities. led by the Franciscan Friars Minor Conventual, the Franciscan Friars Minor and the Resurrectionists. make up a third of the parochial clergy. The Polish National Catholic Church of America claims 118 parishes with 63,366 members. Several Protestant and independent congregations, about one fourth the numerical strength of the Polish National Catholic Church. complete the pa- rochial organization of Polish Americans. The FPGA! In New York appeared the first Polish-American Magazine, POLAND. HISTORICAL, LITERARY. MONUMENTAL AND PICTURESQUE, 118426 and the first newspaper. ECHO Z POLSKI, 118631. Since then over 600 publications. mostly Polish, have been launched in 97 cities. Today about 150 function for an estimated one million readers. headed by 9 Polish dailies and 36 weeklies. The oldest daily is Milwaukee's 58-year old KURJER POLSKI. but perhaps the most influential is the 54-year old DZIENNIK CHICAGOSKI. The oldest weekly, 65- year old ZGODA, appears in Chicago. Outstanding English language publications are the POLISH-AMERICAN STUDIES and the ANNALS OF THE P. R. C. U. ARCHIVES AND MUSEUM.