[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 137 (Saturday, September 28, 1996)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1777]
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                      TRIBUTE TO POLISH-AMERICANS

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                          HON. MARK ADAM FOLEY

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                       Friday, September 27, 1996

  Mr. FOLEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today, Pulaski Day, to pay tribute not 
only to Kazimierz Pulaski but to all men and women of Polish descent 
who have helped to make this Nation the greatest in the world.
  Kazimierz Pulaski was an energetic and fiery soldier who, in July 
1777, came to America to offer his services in the Revolutionary War. 
As a cavalry general he fought courageously and won distinction in 
several campaigns.
  Pulaski was to the American Revolution what Patton was to World War 
II. Though he was mortally wounded in the Battle of Savannah, he left 
behind a cavalry unit that earned him the title ``Father of the 
American Cavalry.''
  Mr. Speaker, Kasimierz Pulaski knew, just as the following famous 
Polish-Americans, that freedom isn't free and that America is a great 
nation because it provides an opportunity for every person regardless 
of ethnicity:

                        Famous Polish-Americans

       Mieczyslaw G. Bekker--scientist; built the first vehicle 
     used on the moon (moon rover used by Apollo 15 in 1971).
       Zbigniew Brzezinski--professor of political science; 
     National Security Advisor in President Carter Administration 
     (1977-1981).
       Stanislaw Burzynski--physician, cancer specialist.
       Adam Didur--opera singer; at the beginning of the 20th 
     century was for 25 years principal bass of the Metropolitan 
     Opera.
       Mieczyslaw Haiman--historian; the first curator of the 
     Polish Museum of America in Chicago.
       Bronislaw Kaper--composer; composed for nearly 150 
     Hollywood movies, won Oscar for ``Lili.''
       Jan Karski--diplomat and professor of political science; 
     author of the report concerning conditions in the Warsaw 
     Ghetto and concentration camps in the early World War II, who 
     tried to bring to the attention of unwilling-to-listen Allied 
     governments and societies the atrocities committed by Germans 
     in Europe.
       Jan Kiepura--opera singer; star of the Metropolitan Opera 
     and Broadway.
       Tadeusz Kosciuszko--political leader and philosopher; 
     brilliant military strategist, a Revolutionary War hero, 
     built West Point.
       Jerzy Kosinski--writer; author of ``The Painted Bird.''
       Jan Krol--the first Polish-American cardinal (from 
     Philadelphia).
       Wladimir B. Krzyzanowski--soldier; organized Polish Legion 
     that fought in the Civil War; the first Governor of Alaska.
       Bronislaw Malinowski--anthropologist; a founder of cultural 
     anthropology; famous for his research in Trobriand Islands.
       Czeslaw Milosz--poet and writer; won Nobel prize for 
     literature (1980).
       Helena Modrzejewska--actress; famous in the 19th century 
     America for her appearances in Shakespeare's plays.
       Ralph Modjeski--engineer; specialized in building bridges 
     (Themes Bridge over Mississippi, Delaware River Bridge, 
     Trans-Bay Bridge in San Francisco, Blue Water Bridge in 
     Michigan).
       Stan Musial--baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals); 
     Sportsman of 1957, Baseball Player of the Decade, 1946-56.
       Edmund Muskie-Marciszewski--U.S. Senator from Maine; 
     Democratic candidate in the presidential elections of 1968 
     and 1972.
       Pola Negri--actress; star of many films in the early era of 
     Hollywood.
       Ignacy Jan Paderewski--pianist, composer and statesman; 
     loved by the American audience, played an important role in 
     establishing free Poland after the World War I, Prime 
     Minister.
       Ed Paschke--contemporary painter; representative of the 
     Chicago Abstract Imagists.
       Roman Polanski--film director; famous for ``Rosemary's 
     Baby,'' ``Chinatown'' and other movies.
       Tadeusz Sendzimir--engineer; author of over 50 inventions 
     in mining and metallurgy.
       Leopold Stokowski--conductor.
       Leopold Tyrmand--writer, editor of ``Chronicles of 
     Culture.''
       Stanislaw Ulam--mathematician, cocreator of the atomic and 
     H-bombs.
       Korczak Ziolkowski--sculptor, creator of the statue of 
     Crazy Horse in the Dakota Black Hills; member of the team of 
     artists that carved head of presidents in Mt. Rushmore.
       Florian Znaniecki--sociologist; coauthor of ``The Polish 
     Peasant in Europe and America, 1918-1920; considered the 
     foundation of modern empirical sociology.

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