PNA REPRESENTED AT SYRACUSE
POLISH HOME 90TH ANNIVERSARY

Syracuse, New York - Representatives from PNA Lodges 271, 2517 and Council 44 attended the Syracuse Polish Home's 90th Anniversary on Sunday, September 20, 2009.

The Syracuse Polish Home was founded in 1919 as a cultural meeting place for Polish immigrants in Syracuse. Over the past 90 years, the Polish Home has served as a cultural hub for first generation Polish immigrants and subsequently American citizens of Polish decent. It started as a club and a community center, and it still exists as such today. The neighborhood around the Polish Home has diversified since its days as an enclave of Polish immigrants of Syracuse's near West Side. The Polish Home changed, too, adapting to meet the needs of the evolving greater community while retaining its roots in Polish and Polish-American culture. In 2009, many ethnic groups, religious organizations and societies utilize the Polish Home. Presently the Polish Home boasts of approximately 700 individual members and serve to unite the Polish-American community with the more recent Polish immigrants to promote our shared Polish heritage with the surrounding community. The Polish Home strives to uphold and promote the culture of our ancestors not only to our future generations, but also to American society as a whole.

The representatives from the PNA included; Helen Bagenski, Helen Lukasiewicz, Celine Pelc, Theresa Kociencki, Mania Gaske, Lottie Starowicz, Genevieve Purchiaroni, Mary Bartkowski, Helen Kowalczyk, Janet Cormier, and Stella Pilat. Other organizations in attendance were the White Eagles, Sacred Heart Basilica Choir, and Polish Roman Catholic Union of America. The Syracuse PNA lodges and councils along with the Polish Home, have a long history of working together to maintain our Polish Heritage. It was an honor for us to celebrate this momentous anniversary together with our Polish brothers and sisters. Sto Lat Dom Polski!

Submitted by:
Pam Newton

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(from l-r) Helen Bagenski, Helen Lukasiewicz, Celine Pelc, Theresa Kociencki, Mania Gaske

(from l-r) Lottie Starowicz, Genevieve Purchiaroni, Mary Bartkowski, Helen Kowalczyk, Janet Cormier, Stella Pilat