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

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lmerican Ilia ic More than painting, music is fast becoming the leading artistic preoccupation of Americans of Polish descent, born or bred in the United States, awakening to the creative possibilities of their European herit- agc. Much credit for this must go to the Chicago Polish Arts Club, which has three decades of splendid cultural achievement in the fine arts behind it. Among Polish-American pianists 15-year old Sylvia. Zaremba of Springfield, Mass. reveals extraordinary talents which have won critical acclaim in New York and Boston. Another concert favorite is prodigiouslv versatile 21-year old California-born Ruth Slenczyn- ska. The latest and youngest prodigy is a 12-year old Chicagoan. Zenon Tuczynski. Established pianists of note are: the brilliantly sensitive Chicago-born Thaddeus Kozuch: the versa- tile poetic New Yorker. William Koprowskig Raymond Dyczkowski of the Buffalo Philharmonic: and Alex- ander Brachocki a pupil of Paderewski. Concert violinists of 'distiction include: Antoinette Zebrowska acclaimed as the world's best woman violinist and finest interpreter of W'ienia.wskig Stephen Hero of the Dayton Symphony Orchestra: and Anthony Wanat of Maryland. Leading vocalists are: Virginia 1Wallacel Wleklin- ska of concert and radio fame: Paula. Zwane and Harriette Konopka sopranos: Tadeusz Sztuka concert tenor: radio singers Caroline Urbanek and Genia Zielinska: and Ann Kuzak of the New York Opera Co. Of special interest is Rev. Henry Waraksa's direc- tion of the SS. Cyril and Methodius Seminary Schola Cantorum in the annual N. B. C. broadcast of Polish Kolendy. Also active director-composers are the Feli- cian Sisters M. Bonaventura. M. Caecilia, and M. Elzearia. , !A'ltllIl!PI' llflglffllfllf L SS. Cyril and Methodius Seminary's l'Vitkowski's Silver Bell Schola Cantorum Virginia fWallace9 Wleklinska Thaddeus Kozuch Rev. Henry Waraksa .5 William Koprowski Sylvia Zaremba

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if-v Flight to Egypt S. M. Fabia, l7oliAlc P in ting There is validity for the phrase Polish-American Painting: not in the sense that there exists a spe- cial school or technique, but in so far as there ara- Americans of Polish stock, born in the United States, who have won artistic distinction. Perhaps the most promising Polish-American artist is New York-born Pulitzer prize winner Sig- mund Kozlow iliozlowskib. whose impressionist land- scapes, The Country Road and The Covered Bridge have won warm praise. Other American- born painters of Polish ancestry are: The securely established Makielski brothers - Leo, sensitive por- traitist, and Bronislav, talented landscapist whose Clouds and Cypresses are in the Detroit Institute of Artg the robustly original Jozef Bakos whose Santa Fe Canyon reposes in the Whitney Museum: the pleasingly unassuming Stanley Twardowicz whose Shoemaker W6jcik promises much. Rudolf Pen. Michael Reducki, Vetold Pasternacki. Boleslav Ja- blecki, Stefan Bielaski, Peter Dubaniewicz, Edmund Lewandowski and Antoni Hunter complete this talent- ed group. Less known but equally interesting are the paint- ings of Polish-American women. Delicately spiritual- ized is The Flight to Egypt by the recently de- ceased student of Jan Styka, Sister Mary Fabia, Feli- cian. The expressive portraits - and especially that of Pius XII - by Sister Mary Stanisia. S. S. N. D.. and the poetic still-life studies of Chic-ago's Jadwigzx Krawiec also exercise a real appeaL Among Polish-born but American-bred artists, Theodore Roszak, winner of seven art institute scholarships, and Chicago's Walter Krawiec are most versatile Warsaw-born, Boston-bred Janina Federkic- wicz ranks first among the women. Perhaps the most significant development among Polish-American painters today is that expressed by Sigmund Kozlow: As an American with a Polish background, I would like to show the beauty of Polish folk art to the people of America . Prof. W. Pawlowski Shoemaker Wojcik L. Makielski S. J. Twardowicz , W f n ffm- ilu ouufi Clouds Covered Bridge Santa Fe Canyon B. Makielski S. Kozlow J. Bakos

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St Hyacinth - Detroit, Mich. It is no exaggeration to say that in its churches is enshrined much, if not most, of Polonia's glori- ous achievement. Through the years Polish Ameri- cans have built many churches -- large and small. ornate and simple, but all testifying to the deep faith and earnest sacrifice of the builders. These churches also best exemplify the architectural beauties of Polonian communities. The first original Polish-American church no longer exists. Destroyed by fire in 1877, its site is presently occupied by the second church of the Im- maculate Conception at Panna. Maria, Texas, de- signed, financed and built by the parishioners them- selves. A splendid Romanesque structure of yellow brick is St. Hyacinth's Church in Detroit. The seat of auxiliary bishop Stephen VVoinicki, it is a Polish- American landmark as well as an outstanding edi- fice in the city. Two fine examples of the Polish-American Gothic are found in the Sacred Heart Church at Syracuse St. Adalbert - Buffalo, N. Y. uy. gk . sl -- -1 .- I 5 - 5 ' I' Map: - ,SA 53 'V 5 . -f'f..,j'y O ' ', , ,WEE-5 'lffia-wsgfilefgligg I 'S A .,g. 'D 1 . V 'rs L : f ,ze : 5, if ' ' I :Q yU',f'.,,, 2? .EQ 5 w,,,,z - 5 i 1 .hunger '11, 5 1 iw D E, 3?,c,...a-'M' '1 5-27 Q z , . 4' w 13. , 1. Poloni n St. Casimir - Baltimore, Md.