Life Members to be Honored at Polish Museum

The New Millennium Life Member Plaque is not complete with 100 members.  A new plaque, the Legacy Life Member Donor Plaque, was recently established with 50 donor plates to be filled.  Legacy Life Members will receive an individual plaque and a lapel pin.  The new plaque will be blessed in November and all who become Legacy Life Members from now until November 1, 2008 will be honored at this year’s Benefit Event.

The Legacy Life Membership also has a $10,000 donation category for which the member will have their name engraved on a separate 4’ x 6’ plaque that will be placed alongside the general plaque. Who will be the PMA’S first $10,000 Legacy Life Member –  an individual or an organization?

Anyone interested in attending the Benefit Event can call 847-394-2520. Those who cannot attend are urged to sponsor the event. Sponsorship forms can be obtained by calling 1-773-384-3352 Ext. 104 or go to www.prcua.org; click on News & Events; click on First Ladies Page and then scroll down to Calendar of Events-November 7. With escalating operational costs in today’s economy, your support, whether large or small, is greatly appreciated to make Benefit Event 2008 successful for one of the oldest ethnic museums on America – the Polish Museum of America – where the past is preserved for the future.

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Persons being honored include:

NEW MILLENNIUM LIFE MEMBERS-Class of 2008

Helen Damsz Wojcik (Chicago IL.), PNA of Brooklyn, USA, Christine McMullen, Past President (Brooklyn, NY),PRCUA #542, St. Peter & Paul Society (Chicago, IL), Michael L. Krajewski (Toledo, OH), National Advocates Society (Schererville, IN), Polish American Medical Society, Bronislaw Orawiec, MD, PH.D., President (Chicago, IL), Annette Grodecki-Stone (N. Olmsted, OH), PRCUA #308, Sacred Heart Society (Chicago, IL), Geraldine & Donald Kearns Sr. (Elk Grove Village, IL), John & Kathy Tylka (Chicago, IL), Thomas & Ann Burzycki (South Bend, IN), PNA of the US of NA, Frank Spula, President (Chicago, IL), Helen Kutza (Chicago, IL), Edmund Kotowski (Dearborn Hts., MI), Dr. & Mrs. Robert Dutka (Inverness, IL), Joseph Conrad Yacht Club (Chicago, IL), Bernard Naborowsk, in memory of the Gabrysiak & Naborowski families (Buffalo Grove, IL), Bernard Naborowski in memory of Josephine Ma tejko Smagon (Buffalo Grove, IL),L. Jessica Jagielnik in memory of Lydia Lejman Jagielnik (Chicago, IL), Eugene Trela (Willoughby, OH), Wallace Zielinski (Monongahela, PA), Henrietta Nowakowski (Dearborn Hts., MI), Edward & Dee Blicharski in memory of Frank & Alice Blicharski (Deerfield, IL), United Polish Club of Elyria, OH, Tom Barnes, President, Sharon Zago (Chicago, IL), Hon. Thaddeus S. Machnik in loving memory of parents, Jozef & Janina Machnik (Chicago, IL), Carleen Lorys (Chicago, IL), Polish Roman Catholic Union of America, Wallace M. Ozog, President (Chicago, IL), In memory of Adele Sularski (Chicago, IL), Renee Krupinski Lameka (Placitas, NM), Jerzy, Lidia & Krzysztof Filus (Park Ridge, IL) and James & Czeslawa Kolak (Chicago, IL).

LEGACY LIFE MEMBERS-Class of 2008

Mike, Mark, Chris, Tina, Ryan & Grace Ozog (Warren. MI), Catherine Sularski (Chicago. IL), Stephen Sularski (Chicago. IL), Robert Sularski (Chicago. IL), Cynthia Piech (Northbrook .IL), Claire Kania Krol in memory of Joseph (PMA Founder) & Sophia Kania (Niles. IL), Maria Lorys (Raclawice K/Nisko. Poland), Polish Genealogical Society of America, Edmund Iwanski, President (Chicago. IL) and Richard P. Poremski (Baltimore, MD). Congratulations to one and all.

Contact: Joann Ozog, Chairperson 1-773-384-3352 Ext. 104