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

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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.

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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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Tice Society With 104 years of creditable achievement, and serving almost every imaginable purpose, an estimated 110.000 Polish-American societies attract about one million members. Founded three decades after the short-lived TO- WARZYSTWO POLAKOW W AMERYCE of 1842, the 73-year old POLISH-ROMAN CATHOLIC UNION is today the oldest and second largest organization, exceeded only by the POLISH NATIONAL ALLIANCE which has over 275,000 members. THE POLISH AMERICAN HISTORICAL COM- MISSION, the KOSCIUSZKO and PULASKI FOUN- DATIONS. the CHICAGO ARTS CLUB and the POLISH MUSEUM AND SOCIETY OF HISTORY IN AMERICA represent new directions. The most influential and representative, however, is the na- tional federation, THE POLISH-AMERICAN CON- GRESS. JM titutionA The School Eighty years ago in Panna Maria, Texas, the Re- surrectionist Adolph Bakanowski gave rise to the edu- eational institutions which today number some 700 units covering the whole school system. As integral parts of the parish, Polish-American schools are predominantly Roman-Catholic, compris- ing 553 grade and 70 high schools, 6 colleges and 4 seminaries with an estimated personnel of 175,000. Their crowning achievement is SS. Cyril and Metho- dius Seminary at Orchard Lake. Michigan which has given America several hundred priests. Eleven Polish-American Sisterhoods numbering over 9,300 members supply most of the teachers, the Felicians, the Nazaratenes and the Josephines being most active. Mnf'ul111'l1 ' JZlll1ll-Pl'.1Ll. Alliance College s. W .- ' S' '-. F ,.f-.552 , ami, 4 Kip ex .Q ,Y W A4 . SS. Cyril and Methodius Seminary St. Hyacinth Seminary E - 5 ,-sg f- ,, ffl 'W 5 f . . s , ., vo, , , g N ' ,. SA E ' ,,-,,,,, N, ,,,, ,,,,.,Q,, ..,.. .- N .......l.'2f.i'i ...W.,.. ' A Q M --f-H!-M 1'-'Ny-H! 2'.VV,E 'ii' n I, 5 3 :zz xg Hz ri 75,5 if fl I 'lf - , 5.