Photo Gallery

Don Pienkos at Lyczakowski Cemetary in Lwow (Lviv), Ukraine; site of monument to The American fliers were killed fighting for Poland in its 1919-1920 war against Soviet Russia.

Ninth Annual Polish Independence Day/ Veterans Day Luncheon, November 12, 2006.

Special Honoree Thomas Barrett of Milwaukee. From left to right: Milwaukee Alderman Joseph Dudzik, PAC Secretary General Carole Gillette, Milwaukee County Supervisor Mark Borkowski, Mayor Barrett, Milwaukee Alderman Terry Witkowski.

Angela and Mark Pienkos at Ostrobramska gate in Wilno (Vilnius), Lithuania (June 2007). Don Pienkos lectured in Poland during thier three week visit in East Central Europe.

The Paderewski Room in the Paso Robles Inn. Located in Paso Robles, CA. Recalling one of Poland's "Greats".

Rosemarie Ewald (right)

Past national women's Vice President of the Polish Legion of American Veterans, the second of the Recipients of the 2006 PAC Civic Achievement Award. Polonia activist Anne Wal was this year's third PAC award recipient.

Mark Borkowski, Carole Gillette, and Rev. Andrzej Galant, Pastor of St. Maximilian Kolbe Parish and one of three Civic Award Recipients for 2006.

A typical meeting of the Board of Directors of the Wisconsin PAC.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright speaks in Milwaukee, October 2006.

To the right: Governor James Doyle of Wisconsin and Lt. Governor Barbara Lofton.

Don Pienkos as the Polka Police, with some guests at Polish Fest 2006.

Don Pienkos as the Polka Police at Polish Fest 2006!

Father Andrzej Galant, Pastor of Milwaukee's St. Maximilian Kolbe Parish opens

the Informational Program on Services for Immigrants

co-sponsored by

the Wisconsin PAC on April 23, 2006. To the right are: PAC Director, Waldemar

Biniecki, MC for the program, Immigration Law Atty. Mary Radzimowski, Executive

Director of Catholic Charities Diane Knight, and Educational Credentials

specialist Majka Drewitz.

Part of the interested audience for the Informational Services program on April

23, 2006.

Our PAC strongly supported the annual "Bal Maskowy" (pre-Lenten Masked Ball) in

February 2006. The event is organized by Wisconsin's famed Syrena Polish Dance

Ensemble. From left: Atty. John Pienkos, PAC National Director; Mrs. Ada

Dziewanowska, renowned Artistic Director of the Syrena Dancers; Mr. Bob Leonard

(in classic Szlachta attire), Syrena activist and PAC member; and Sgt. First

Class Glenn Ramski, past Syrena president just returned from active military

duty in Iraq and work with the Polish units there with our forces.

Greetings from Poland! Our Wisconsin PAC Webmaster, Mr. Daniel Dudzik, was in

Warsaw in January. Here's Dan, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside,

near the heart of the capital, the corner of Marszalkowska Street and Al.

Jeruzelijmskie. Needless to say, Dan had a great time in Poland.

Wisconsin PAC and Polonia representatives at the February 10, 2006

Banquet in Niles, Illinois to honor Polish President Lech Kaczynski.

PAC President Frank Spula

Wisconsin PAC and Polonia representatives at the Banquet

President Lech Kaczynski of Poland

Polish Constitution Day 2005: Heritage Award Recipient Mr. Tadeusz Cisek

right), Treasurer of Wisconsin PAC, with Atty. John Pienkos, PAC National

Director.

One of this year's Civic Achievement Award Recipients, Bernice Mironski

(right), with Wisconsin PAC General Secretary Carole Gillette, at the PAC's

eighth annual Independence Day banquet. Congratulations to Mrs. Mironski,

Mr. and Mrs. Chris Hoar, founders of Caritas for Children, and Dr. Neal

Pease, historian of Poland!

Mr. Frank Spula, the newly elected President of the Polish American

Congress is a special guest and speaker at the 8th annual Polish

Independence Day/Veterans Day banquet sponsored by the Wisconsin State

Division of the Polish American Congress on November 13, 2005 at the

Polish Center of Wisconsin. His thoughtful and upbeat message was very

well received. Mr. Mariusz Gbiorczyk represented Mr. Jaroslaw Lasinski,

Poland's Consul General in Chicago and also spoke at the banquet.

Dr. Neal Pease (right) with City of Milwaukee Alderman Joeph Dudzik,

presenter of one of the plaques honoring this year's Civic Award recipients.

November 2002: Reception for the Board of Directors of the Polish Institute of

Arts and Sciences at the Polish Center of Wisconsin. This event was the night

before a public program featuring PIASA members at the great "Leonardo da Vinci

and the Splendor of Poland" Art exhibition in Milwaukee. Pictured from left to

right are: Prof. Emeritus Harold Segal(Columbia University), John Walloch,

President of the Polish Heritage Alliance of Wisconsin, Dr. Zbigniew

Brzezinski, former U.S. National Security Advisor and PIASA Vice President,

Bernie Jendrzejczak of Polanki, Polish Women's Cultural Club of Milwaukee, and

Dr. Angela Pienkos, Executive Director of the Polish Center of Wisconsin.

November 19, 2005: Wisconsin PAC President Don Pienkos, Dr. Karen Majewski, and

Dr. Piotr Wandycz at the Polish Consulate in New York City. They were at the

annual Awards ceremony of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America

(PIASA)at the Consulate. Dr. Majewski, who is also the newly elected mayor of

Hamtramck, Michigan, received PIASA'a award for her book, TRAITORS AND

TRUEPATRIOTS. It deals with the popular literature of pre-1940 Polonia. Prof.

Wandycz is PIASA's President; Prof. Pienkos is on its Board of Directors.

April 2005: Honoring the memory of Pope John Paul II at the Polish Center.

Dr. Pienkos opens the October 1, 2005 program, "Poland, the U.S., and Polish

Americans: Breaking New Ground" at the Polish Center.

"Breaking New Ground" panelists (l to r): Atty. Chris Kurczaba, President of Illinois Polish American Congress, Mr. Waldemar Biniecki of Wisconsin PAC, Mr. Jaroslaw Lasinski, Consul General of the Polish Republic in Chicago, and Mr. John Katzka of the U.S. Department of State (ret.)

Consul General Lasinski addresses his audience.

Mr. Biniecki speaks to the audience.

June 2005:

Don Pienkos and Milwaukee friend Bill Roche at the tomb of Agaton Giller in Warsaw's Powazki Cemetery. Giller was a leader of the 1863 Polish uprising for freedom. He later was the "godfather" who helped inspire the creation of the Polish National Alliance in 1880.

June 2005:

Wisconsin PAC member Paul Pienkos standing in front of a Polish tank at the Museum of the great battle of Falaise Gap Of August 1944, in Normandy. In This battle, the heroic soldiers of the 1st Polish Armored Division played a decisive role in causing the near total defeat of the Nazi German army trying to retreat eastward to Paris. 50,000 German soldiers were either killed or captured in this battle, along with nearly all their tanks and field weapons. The 1st Polish Armored Division was part of the great 2 million man Allied Army made up of soldiers, sailors and airmen from the United States, Britain, Canada, and France whose victory in the great Battle of Normandy signaled the end of WWII in Europe.

PAC Secretary General Carole Gillette is one of the presenters of Civic

Achievement Award plaques to Mr. Al Prabucki at the Wisconsin PAC's Polish

Independence Day/Veterans Day Banquet this past November. Other presenters are:

Milwaukee Alderman Joseph Dudzik, County Supervisor Mark Borkowski, and Judge

Francis Wasielewski, President of the Polish Heritage Alliance of Wisconsin.

Our 2004 Civic Achievemnet Award Recipients: from left; Claire Marie Anderson, Al Prabucki, and Diane Holytz, All are wonderful activists in our Polonia.

Among the many happy faces at this years banquet! Sto lat!

President Don Pienkos and Banquet Chair Sharon Haberski welcome over 175 guests to the seventh annual Polish Independence Day/ Veterans Day Banquet

Fourth District U.S. Congressional Candidate Matt Flynn (Second from left), PAC National Director John Pienkos (Second from right) and other attendees at February 2004 meeting with the candidate.

Former President of Poland and Solidarity leader Lech

Walesa and Wisconsin PAC President Don Pienkos. President Walesa visited Milwaukee in March, 2004.

Wisconsin PAC Vice President and National Director Clare Anne Gaouette (right) with past executive Director of the Polish Center of Wisconsin, Dr. Angela Pienkos, at the Polish Constitution Day Banquet in May 2004.

Polish Constitution Day Mass at St. Maximilian Kolbe Church. From left: Wiliam Kowalkowski, Don Pienkos, Congressional Candidate Matt Flynn and Mrs. Flynn, Sharon Haberski, President Council, and Mieczyslaw Protasiuk, Polish Army Veterans Association.

Professor Emeritus/PAC member Kamil Dziewanowski and Ada Dziewanowski with Don Pienkos and grandson Alex, Polish Fest 2004 in Milwaukee.

Altar panel of Polish Saints, 2004 Polish Fest, Milwaukee.

Vice President Clare Gaouette, Secretary General Carole Gillette, and Treasurer Ted Cisek, PAC meeting at Polish Center of Wisconsin.

Directors Jan Pikula and Bill Kowalkowski, Veterans Room, Polish Center of Wisconsin.

Director Waldermar Biniecki at E.U./Poland Exhibit at 2004 Polish Fest, Milwaukee.

L-R: Henry Matecki, PAC Sgt-at-Arms Mike Protasiuk and Director Bill Kowalkowski.

Directors Sophine Thom (left) and Regina Sobczak.

Wisconsin PAC Vice President Al Prabucki and Wife Florence Happy 50th Anniversary!

Wisconsin Pac Director Sharon Haberski, recipient of the Heritage Award of the Pulaski Council of Milwaukee. Polish Constitution Day 2004. Seated from left: Sharon's husband Steve, Mr. and Mrs. William Kowalkowski, and Conrad Kaminski of Lincoln State Bank, Master of Ceremonies.

Attorney Les Kuczynski, Executive Director of the Polish American Congress, with Don Pienkos, after Mr. Kuczynski's presentation on "U.S.- Poland Relations Today" at the 62nd annual national meeting of the Polish Institute of Arts and sciences of America, June 5, 2004 in Boston.

Boguslaw Winid, Deputy Ambassador of the Polish Republic to the United

States of America, spoke in Milwaukee in April, 2004 on Poland-U.S.

relations. His speech was sponsored by the Wisconsin PAC and the University

of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

President Clinton, National PAC President Edward Moskal, and Wisconsin PAC

President Don Pienkos at the White House in talks on Poland's entry into NATO

Polish American Congress of Wisconsin