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

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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

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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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Cu tvnw Iu'pi'mI11cv1l tmlrlesy uf I.:i.Li1-s' llmlle -Ivvlllwml. f'nlu51'iyl1t The Vurlis l'x1i-. 1' I procession of all the parishioners marching thrice around the church. In June, Polish Americans celebrate Corpus Christi with open-air processions to four different altars, at each of which one of the four Gospels is read and Benedietion given. June is also the month of many weddings and colorful open-air picnics. August 15th, the Feast of the Assumption, is popu- larly known as the Feast of Our Lady of the Green- ery because bouquets of flowers are brought to church to he blessed. October and November give many Polish Ameri- cans, especially the Jadwigas, Jan Kantys. Stanislavs. and Jozafats, a chance to celebrate namesdays for namesdays enjoy greater popularity than birthdays. December brings Christmas. On Christmas Eve, all the members of the family share the opwahtek - token of brotherly love and mended friendship. This takes place at the evening feast, the Vilia , after which gifts are exchangedg then all attend the Pa- sterka. 1Midnight Massl. singing the beautiful Ko- lendy. l'.5lll ll Ill! YW'w'.7uf1'rr 1 ' L Ke. 'W 1 s T3- S .NNN