Glen Cove, N.Y. … Officials of the Downstate New York Division of the Polish American Congress visited the Polish National Home of Glen Cove & Vicinity to convey their congratulations to the Home’s president, Elzbieta Majewski (seated center) and to the members of her executive board on the organization’s 90th anniversary in 2012.
Photo by Downstate NY Polish American Congress
Seated alongside President Majewski are Frank Milewski, president of the PAC’s Downstate N.Y. Division (left) and Chet Szarejko, chairman of the Division’s Political Activities Committee and head of its Long Island Chapter.
Standing behind them are the members of the Polish Home’s executive board: (from left to right) Tomasz Konieczny; Marta Madej; Tadeusz Jasinski; Bozena Kuzma; Zdzislaw
Backiel; Anna Czerwonka and Stanislaw Kuzma.
The Home began serving the Polish Americans of Glen Cove in 1922 when the area still was largely one of Long Island’s numerous farming communities.
The Downstate N.Y. Congress will give special recognition to the 90th anniversary of the Glen Cove Home’s establishment when it honors its long record of success at the PAC’s Annual Awards Banquet on Sunday, October 30th at Greenpoint’s Polonaise Terrace.
In many Polish American communities, the local parish and a Polish national home had been the usual places where the immigrants and their families met together to preserve their ethnic identity and culture, according to Frank Milewski.
“Unfortunately, many of them no longer exist. But, the Polish National Home of Glen Cove continues to prosper and sets an example for everyone else,” he said.