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

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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.

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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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gg? Q lam!-WI I ix lu--UI tnnlxl' .lx l,.n.n--' llnuuw -l..u1n.xi 11,5-ivxuixl 'iiilx' tiuriis l'vli ti IW? We came not cmpty-handed here but brought :1 rich inheritance, writes an immigrant poet. That these words are no empty boast is perhaps most vivid- ly portraymd by thc colorful pageantry of Polish- Ann-rican customs. In January, on the Feast of the Epiphany, Polish Americans write on doors the initials KYLMJ B and the current year with especially blessed chalk to honor the Three Wise Men - Kasper, Melchior, and Baltazar. March usually introduces Punchki Day and the devotion of Christ's Passion, Bitter Sorrows , with its touching hymns and meditations on the sufferings of Jesus. With April comes Easter. On Holy Saturday. young and old hurry to church with huge baskets of holiday food under their arms. This is the Shvyentsonka or Food-Blessing - the blessing by the priest of victuals for holiday consumption . . . Easter Sunday services begin at dawn with a solemn Pvlonian W ..s,. Q . VW? ,QQ-....M823u We 3 Www W . .,.. e ,' s e v Ng ms, A We xx . is ' Q sa ix vb