Annual Tadeusz Kosciuszko Conference and Kosciuszko Day Observance at West Point, NY

1. 11th Annual Tadeusz Kosciuszko Conference to be held on Friday, May 2, 2014 at the Thayer Hotel, 674 Thayer Road, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY.
2. 12th Anniversary Year of the Founding of the American Association of the Friends of Kosciuszko at West Point
3. 101st Anniversary Year of the Kosciuszko Statue that was added in 1913 to the Original Kosciuszko Monument of 1828
4. 186th Anniversary Year of the Dedication of the Kosciuszko Monument by the United States Military Academy
5. 186th Anniversary Year of the United States Military Academy\'s 1st Annual National Tadeusz Kosciuszko Observance to be held on Saturday, May 3, 2014 at the Kosciuszko Monument

Kosciuszko Conference Schedule at the Thayer Hotel, Eisenhower Room (Friday, May 2, 2014):

• 9:30 - 10:00 a.m. Registration
• 10:00 - 10:15 a.m. Welcome and Overview (Dean Anthony J. Bajdek, President)
• 10:15 - 05:30 p.m. Conference: "Kosciuszko, Poland\'s Constitution of May 3, 1791, and the Political, Social, and Security Climate in Europe from 1791 through the Congress of Vienna"
• Conference Featured Participants:
• Keynote Speaker and Panelist: Thaddeus M. Buczko, J.D., Hon. LL. D., Salem, MA, Former Massachusetts legislator, State Auditor, First Justice Essex County Court, Colonel U.S. Army Reserve, Overseer of the Peabody Essex Museum, Member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts
• Panelist: Mieczyslaw B. B. Biskupski, Ph.D., New Britain, CT, Professor of History and Blejwas Chair of Polish and Polish American Studies, Central Connecticut State University
• Panelist: James S. Pula, Ph.D., Chesterton, IN, Kosciuszko Biographer, Professor of History, Purdue University, Westville, IN
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• Moderator: Anthony J. Bajdek, Hudson, NH, Associate Dean (ret.) and Senior Lecturer in History, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
• Moderator: Stephen N. Olejasz, Wheeling, WV, Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army (ret.), and Former Assistant Professor of History, USMA, West Point, NY

Kosciuszko Day Observance (Saturday, May 3, 2014)

• 09:45 a.m. Annual Kosciuszko Memorial Mass in the Catholic Chapel of the Most Holy Trinity, USMA, West Point, NY
• 11:30 a.m. USMA Cadet Review on The Plain (i.e., parade ground)
• 12:30 p.m. Annual Kosciuszko Observance at the Kosciuszko Monument, USMA, West Point, NY
• 02:00 p.m. Annual Kosciuszko Day Memorial Luncheon, George Washington Room, Thayer Hotel, 674 Thayer Road, USMA, West Point, NY (By prepaid reservation only. See below). Host and Speaker, AAFKWP President Anthony J. Bajdek, along with a presentation by a Cadet member of the Kosciuszko Squadron of West Point.

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