2006 Annual Meeting Program

Polish American Historical Association
Philadelphia, PA January 2006
All meetings and sessions are held in the Marriott Hotel

THURSDAY, JANUARY 5

12-3 p.m. Encyclopedia Meeting Room 301

3-6 p.m. Executive Committee and Council Meeting Room 302

6-7 p.m. Annual business meeting Room 302

FRIDAY JANUARY 6

9:00-9:30 a.m. Registration Outside Room 412

9:30-11:30 a.m. Session 1 : Polish Americans Across the Centuries Room 412

Chair: M.B. Biskupski, Central Connecticut State University

Kosciuszko at Saratoga, James Pula, Purdue University North Central

Big Game on the South Side: Early 20th Century Polish-American Baseball in
Milwaukee, Neal Pease, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Mapping Polish Americans and the Civil Rights Movement in Milwaukee, 1960-1970. Stephen Leahy, University of Wisconsin, Fox Valley

Father Franciszek Trawniczek an Unknown Painter, Regina Gorzkowski-Rossi, Nowy Dziennik

Comments: Audience

2:00 - 2:30 p.m. Registration Outside Room 412

2:30-4:30 Session 2: Crafting Ethnicity: Polish American Mixed Media Artists
Room 412

Chair: Ann Hetzel Gunkel, Columbia College Chicago

Papers:
Ethnic Aesthetics: Considering Polish American Art, Ann Hetzel Gunkel

Mixed Media Heritage Work, William Grabowski, Huntington Arts Council, Hofstra University

Contemporary Polish American Artwork, Katharine Henryka Schutta, School of the Art Institute

Comments: Audience

SATURDAY JANUARY 7

9:00-9:30 a.m. Registration Outside Room 412

9:30-11:30 a.m. Session 3: Polonia in the First Half of the 20th Century Room
412

Chair: Anna Jaroszynska-Kirchmann, Eastern Connecticut State University

Papers:

Mining Masculinities and Femininities: Gender Relations within Polish Immigrant Communities in Germany and Pennsylvania, 1890-1930, Brian McCook, University of Cologne

The Polish Peasant's Other Letters: Polish Immigrants Write to the Press, Anna Jaroszynska-Kirchmann

An Unremembered Movement: Abstinence among Poles, William Galush, Loyola University

The Relationship between Haiman and Halecki, Thaddeus Gromada, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences

Comments: Audience

9:30-11:30 a.m. Session 4: Polish American Memoirs and Biographies Room413

Chair: Tom Napierkowski, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

Papers:

Pictures of Home: Polish Americans Memoirs and Biographies, Tom Napierkowski

Heritage Memoirs of Polish WWII Emigres, Peter Obst, Lasalle University

Polish Patriot, American Dreamer: The Memoirs of Maria Lewandowska, Harriet Napierkowski, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

Comments: Audience

2:30-4:30 Session 5: Post-WWII and Contemporary Polonia Room 412

Chair: Joseph Wieczerzak, PNCC History and Archives Commission

Papers:

Cold War Political Culture, Polish American Politics, and the Victory Thesis, Bob Ubriaco, McKendree College

The 1963 Appointment of John A. Gronouski as Post Master General of the United States. Philip A. Grant, Pace University

Channeling Church Change: Polonian Consequences, Eugene Obidinski, State University of New York, Oneonta

Solidarity Activists in Poland and America, Shana Penn, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley

Comments: Audience

2:30-4:30 Session 6: Family Memoirs as Ethnic History Room 413

Chair: Thomas Gladsky, University of Rzeszow

Papers:

Ray Ray's Rag Ball League, Thomas Gladsky

A Father's Boyhood Memories: Purple Passages in Polish Boy, Polish Girl, Marge Salewic, Independent Scholar

Turning Point: A Memoir, Eugenia Pawlik Zeitlin, Independent Writer

Returning to the Old Country: Hilliards, Michigan, Mary Patrice Erdmans, Central Connecticut State University

Comments: Audience