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A PICTORIAL REVIEW OF THE
PNA STORY, 1980-2000

Part 1


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).


Lech Walesa and Aloysius Mazewski


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.



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.




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.



Delegates to the 40th PNA National Convention in Chicago, September, 1987.


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.


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.



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).





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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