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Copyright 2005
Polish National Alliance
of U.S. of N.A.
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A PICTORIAL REVIEW OF THE PNA STORY, 1980-2000
Part 1
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At right: PNA/Polish American Congress President Aloysius A. Mazewski
meets with Solidarity leader Lech Walesa in Warsaw at the time of the
funeral of Poland's leading churchman, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski (July,
1981).
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At left: President Ronald Reagan meets with
President Mazewski in the White House in February, 1987. There our
government ends its five year long economic embargo protesting the
communist regime's suppression of the Solidarity movement.
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With Pope John Paul II in Rome, November 1987: President Mazewski heads
a delegation of Polonia loaders to speak with the Holy Father. In the
photo are Polish Roman Catholic Union of America President and Polish
American Congress Treasurer Edward Dykla and Polish Women's Alliance of
America President and PAC Vice President Helen Zielinski.
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Signing ceremony establishing WPNA Radio in April, 1987. Among those in the photo (l. to r.) are Chet Gulinski, the station's
first manager (second from left), Vice President Anthony Piwowarczyk,
National Secretary Emil Kolasa, President Mazewski, Vice President Helen
Szymanowicz, Controller Alex Przypkowski, Counsel Les Kuczynski and (far
right) Treasurer Edward Moskal.
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Delegates to the 40th PNA National Convention in Chicago, September,
1987.
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 May
3, 1988: PNA national officers and friends at Chicago's Kosciuszko
monument for the annual observance of Polish Constitution Day. At left
former U.S. Congressman Roman Pucinski; Commissioner Halina Wojnar
(third from left); Commissioner Jean Binkowski (fifth from right);
Wojciech Wierzewski, Editor of Zgoda; Commissioner Joseph Calka (third
from right); and former U.S. Congressman Edward Derwinski, in
mountaineer attire.
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 August,
1988: Guests at the annual Districts 12 and 13 Polish Day in Yorkville,
Illinois, just after the death of President Aloysius Mazewski. In the
center is President Helen Szymanowicz. To her right are Mrs. Florence
Mazewski and her daughter Marilyn. To her left are Directors Genevieve
Wesolowski and Casimir Musielak. Others in the photo are Vice President
Piwowarczyk and Commissioners Calka, Binkowski, Wojnar and Sciblo.
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PNA
Censor Hilary Czaplicki administers the oath of office to President
Helen Szymanowicz, the first woman president in the history of the
Alliance, as Adam Tomaszkiewicz, Chairman of the 1987 convention, looks
on (August 9, 1988).
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October 12, 1988: Edward J. Moskal takes the oath of office as
President of the Polish National Alliance from Censor Czaplicki
following his election by the PNA Supervisory Council in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
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