Pulaski Parade in New York this Sunday

2016 Theme for the Pulaski Day Parade: "Celebrating Polish-American Youth in Honor of World Youth Day, Krakow, Poland".

Honorable Dr. Donna M. Koch-Kapturski - 2016 Grand Marshal

Special guests:

• Anna Maria Anders - Polish Senator and Minister for International Dialogue
• Anita Wlodarczyk -  the women's hammer throw world record holder and the first woman to break the 80m barrier.
• Rafał Milczarski - CEO & President of the Management Board of LOT Polish Airlines
• Bill Shibilski - broadcaster, Polka Party, President of AMPOLA

 SAVE THE TIME:

• October 2nd, 2016 Parade Mass 9:00 AM St. Patrick's Cathedral - New York, NY
• October 2nd, 2016 Parade Breakfast 10:30 AM 3 West Club - New York, NY (between 5th & 6th Avenues)
• October 2nd, 2016 Pulaski Day Parade 12:30 PM Marching up 5th Ave. - New York, NY (from 36th St. to 53rd St.)

Check us out on the web: www.pulaskiparade.org

If you have any questions, please contact Richard D. Zawisny at 718-499-0026 or via e-mail at pulaski_parade@verizon.net, https://www.facebook.com/PulaskiParade/

79th Annual Pulaski Day Parade Set for Sunday, October 2, 2016 on Fifth Ave, New York City
The Honorable Dr. Donna M. Koch-Kapturski  2016 Grand Marshal, of Garfield, NJ will be accompanied by numerous dignitaries from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, will lead over 150 Polish-American organizations marching up Fifth Avenue along with veterans’ organizations; members of the Boy and Girl Scouts; and members of cultural organizations attired in colorful folk dress representing the various regions of Poland. Local Polish communities, each led by their local Contingent Marshal, will feature 25 floats and 30 marching bands.

President Richard D. Zawisny has announce that following dignitaries will serve as Honorary Grand Marshal:

• Anna Maria Anders
  Daughter Of General Wladyslaw Anders
  Polish Senator And Procurator Of The Secretary Of State Of The Council Of Ministers For International Dialogue
   
  
• Stanislaw Karczewski
  Marshal of The Senate of The Republic of Poland
  
  
• Bill Shibilski
  Radio Host, Broadcaster and Past MC of The Pulaski Day Parade

Prior to the parade, there will be a con-celebrated Liturgy at 9:00 a.m. at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Fifth Avenue, New York. Clergy from Polish communities in the tri-state are invited to con-celebrate.

To view the Parade from the reviewing stands at 40th and 41st Streets, in front of the New York Public Library, tickets are free by contacting Peter J. Walentowicz at (973) 432-8841.

Major parade sponsors include the:

• Polish & Slavic Federal Credit Union
• Polish Army Veterans of America, District 2
• Weill Cornell Medicine
• Syrena Bakery
• The Kosciuszko Foundation
• Con Edison
• Lot Polish Airlines
• Rahway Pathology, P.A.
• Anil Agarwal, M.D.
• Spencer Savings Bank
• Pol Investment - Janosik Market
• West Virginia Paint & Tank Co. and
• Elavon

Stanisław Karczewski, Marshal of the Senate of Poland

Born in 1955 in Warsaw. Attended the Joachim Lelewel High School in Warsaw, graduated from the Second Faculty of Medicine at the Medical University of Warsaw in 1981. Obtained the second degree of specialization in general surgery in 1993.

Since 1981 works at the Regional Hospital at Nowe Miasto on Pilica (Independent Public Healthcare Unit). Was consecutively an intern, junior assistant, assistant, head of the emergency ward, director of a hospital, head of the surgical ward.

During the year 1989  Marshal Karczewski– helped to establish the Civic Committee in Nowe Miasto on Pilica and for  many years headed the Solidarity Trade Union committee at the hospital.

From 1998 till 2002 was a member of the Grójec District Council. 2002–2005 – a deputy to the Mazowieckie Provincial Parliament and was a Member of the Polish Surgeons’ Society, Society of Videosurgeons and Society of Cancer Surgeons. Was the head of the Law and Justice electoral campaign in the 2015 parliamentary election.

Senator from 2005; and served as  deputy chairman of the Health Committee in the Sixth and Seventh Term Senate, a member of the Local Government and State Administration Committee in the Sixth Term and a member of the Emigration Affairs and Contacts with Poles Abroad Committee and the Budget and Public Finance Committee in the Seventh Term. Deputy Marshal and a member of the Health Committee and the Rules, Ethics and Senatorial Affairs Committee in the Eighth Term Senate. Since 2010 was the head for Senate Section of the Law and Justice Parliamentary Club.

ANNA MARIA ANDERS

Born on 22nd November 1950 in London. Daughter of Gen. Władysław Anders and singer Irena Renata Anders. In 1973 she graduated from Bristol University in the United Kingdom and in 1992  with a  MBA degree in economy and business from Boston University in the USA.

Worked, for the UNESCO Press Office in Paris, France (1978–1979), in an oil
industry company and in real estate companies. She also was Secretary of State at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister as the Prime Minister’s Plenipotentiary for international dialogue since 2016. Chairwoman of the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites before being elected to the Senate in Poland.

BILL SHIBILSKI

Bill Shibilski began his broadcasting career as a college student in 1963. An Irish Jesuit priest who headed the college radio station, suggested since Bill was 100% Polish American, he should broadcast to the interests of the widespread NYC Metropolitan area community of Polish Americans and Bill’s first broadcast was in November 1964. It was meant to be an entertainment program and it featured Polka music. Through the years however, it became much more than that.

The audience grew to a significant size due to Bill’s style of presenting the music. In fact, it was the top rated program on the station. A short time after he started broadcasting, budget cuts at the station threatened the actual continuation of the facility until Bill started the very first fund raising broadcast of its’ kind in the USA. Through the generosity of his audience, the station was able to continue broadcasting and actually paid for a power increase to 50,000 watts and later, a stereo radio transmitter and new broadcast equipment. Radio stations throughout the country contacted the station and Bill, resulting in many copying the fund raising concept which continues to this day.

Bill’s contributions to the Polish American Community were numerous. He publicized many community events and was instrumental in the continuation of the Pulaski Day Parade in 1978. That year, Tom Poster was elected Grand Marshal and he approached Bill for help, since the Parade Committee had run out of funds. Up to that point, there had always been entertainment at the Official Reviewing stand. Bill and Grand Marshall Tom (who was a widely read NY Daily News columnist), borrowed public address sound equipment from the New York City radio station WNYC. They even provided engineering people to deliver and set up the equipment.

Thus began an extremely successful feature in the Parade. Bill Shibilski announced all the contingents, Marshalls and various dignitaries and could be heard for a few blocks north and south of the reviewing stand’s location at the Public Library on Fifth Avenue. He continued as the Parade Announcer until 1998. He would also announce Parade starting locations on his radio broadcasts so participants would know where to assemble. Bill’s list of accomplishments also includes Master of Ceremony duties at Polish cultural events at many venues, among them; Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Manhattan Center, The Garden State Arts Center and others. He even dabbled in Television and helped produce the widely acclaimed PBS film “Polish Americans”.

He continues his broadcasts featuring Polka music over 50 years since that first broadcast. He presently can be heard Sundays 5PM on WFDU 89.1 FM and www.WFDU.FM (Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ) and Saturdays at 6 PM on www/Polkajammernetwork.org He’s the latest in a long list of Polish Americans who were honored by the Parade Committee, following in the footsteps of renown Honorary Grand Marshals that included Statesman Zbigniew Brzezinski, entertainer Bobby Vinton, screen actresses and TV stars Stephanie Powers and, Loretta Swit.