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FOR NOVEMBER 2010
Phone: 602-275-9329
Pulaski Club is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization. All donations are tax deductible.
*From the President*
Dear Fellow Members and Friends,
It is November already and our Officer’s Elections are upon us.
We are going to elect or re-elect most officers except those on the Board of Dir. and the Board of Trustees who are in the course of their terms of office.
I urge everyone who’s able to contribute their energy and talent to this very worthy cause, which is to keep this club viable and beneficial to our community and to uphold the ideals that were set forth in our mission statement and by our By-Laws.
As many ethnic social organizations, like ours, are in grave financial difficulties and some have been forced to close their doors, we have managed to survive and thrive in a mostly retired but active community.
We need to try and secure our continued survival by, not only, changing the way we operate but also by infusing new blood into the organization as well as our Executive Board.
I have served this club as a member of the board for six years and plan on stepping down at the completion of this term of office.
I’m taking this opportunity to express my sincerest appreciation to all of you, devoted members and friends of Pulaski Club and all the members of the Executive Committee that I have worked with including all the folks who so generously volunteered to help our club turn the corner into the 21 Century.
I am proud of taking part in this club’s accomplishments, in the past 6 years, and look forward to its continued successes.
It was started way back in 1939 when this area was the “wild frontier” and it survived and prospered until this day, for over 70 years.
Please continue to support it and cherish it for the great and lasting institution that it has been in our great City and State.
What a legacy to leave for those who will come after us to continue guiding this club to its destiny.
As this will be my last column in this publication, I wish the newly elected Executive Committee and all the members and friends of the Pulaski Club, a fond farewell and continued successes.
Your President, Casimir Kosinski
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As this is the last issue of our Newsletter for 2010, I'd like to take the opportunity to with everyone at Pulaski Club and around the World a
Happy Thanksgiving
and
A Very Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year 2011
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*OFFICERS 2009-10*
PRESIDENT: Casimir Kosinski 623-487-9822
1st Vice President: Chez Falkowski 480-892-0737
2nd Vice President: Halina Kosinski 623-487-9822
Sergeant At Arms: Norm Fritchie 623-974-4435
Recording Secretary: Princess Bonczkiewicz 480-380-8887
Financial Secretary: Dennis Pachura 480-802-0775
Treasurer: Mary Kiselus 602-526-7321
*BOARD OF DIRECTORS*
CHAIRMAN: David Bonczkiewicz 480-380-8887, ends 12/31/10
Paul Chojnacki 480-961-4180, ends 12/31/12
Bob Keith (resigned) 602-510-7435, ends 12/31/10
Bruno Klus 602-558-2626, ends 12/31/12
Frank Tomaszkowicz 480-539-1995, ends 12/31/10
*TRUSTEES*
Jim Cioper 480-838-7073, ends 12/31/12
Henrietta Nemecek 602-955-5509, ends 12/31/11
Shane Prosser 480-814-9240, ends 12/31/10
*COMMITTEES*
Publicity: Paul Chojnacki 480-961-4180
Sunshine: Shirley Sztuk 480-964-8275
Entertainment: Chair Halina Kosinski 623-487-9821
Rose Pachura 480-802-0775
Rose Offerman 480-373-9910
*NEWSLETTER*
Editor/Publisher: Chez Falkowski 480-892-0737,
E-Mail: chezf@yahoo.com
*WEB SITE*
Original Web-Designer:Sylvia Kosinski beatnikcrab@google.com
Webmaster: Casimir Kosinski 623-487-9822
or E-Mail Pulaski Club: PulaskiClubAZ@yahoo.com
our website: www.PulaskiClubAZ.org
Pulaski Club Phone: 602-275-9329
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1st VICE PRESIDENT - Chez Falkowski:
I would like to encourage every member to attend the meeting on Sunday, November 7th, 2010. We will elect the Club’s officers and appropriate money for approved improvements. John Twarog is leading the nominating committee. He is a seasoned veteran of this difficult task.
We also plan to initiate new several new members to our Club during the meeting. I will be calling the candidates as a reminder. Please, extend your friendship and warm welcome to them all. Also, please, consider getting involved in running the Club. The Club needs more volunteers for all kinds of projects.
It is interesting that we have twenty-five “life time” members in our Club. They have been members for many years and did a lot of volunteer work for the Club.
Now I would like to apologize to the readers and Bruno Klus for putting inaccurate information in the previous edition about Bruno’s donation of chairs, couches and tables to the Club. It improved significantly the look of club’s interior. Well, I wrote what I remembered from a short conversation and my memory did not serve me well. It is all Bruno’s personal donation. Bruno gracefully accepted my apology already. If you like the new look, please, mention it to Bruno.
A few members asked me where they might get t-shirts with Polish Eagle etc. I would recommend checking our local Polish businesses – I mean deli/bakery places. Usually they stock a few of them. I personally purchased some books and other items on the Internet. The transactions went very smooth. Here are the homepages I used: www.polonia.com, www.polart.com . Of course, you may browse on the Internet and find more outlets like that.
Finally, I am glad to announce that Pat Jayo volunteered to be the newsletter editor next year. Thank you, Pat. We will make sure that the transition will be smooth.
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2nd VICE PRESIDENT – Halina Kosinski
No Report
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Treasurer – Mary Kiselus
No Report this month.
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FINANCIAL SECRETARY – Dennis Pachura
At our membership meeting in November 2009, a motion was made, seconded, and approved by members to increase our dues from $24.00 to $30.00 per year, effective January 1, 2010. Please, check your membership cards and mail a check to the Pulaski Club or pay me your dues in person. Remember, membership dues are now $30.00 per year. If you know of any member who has an address, phone or e-mail change, have them fill out the form in the newsletter or contact me by phone at 480-802-0775. Thank you for paying dues timely.
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RENT THE HALL: The Pulaski Club is available for all your social events. Basic club price package is $1,200.00; this includes a 6 hr. rental, cleaning fee, damage deposit (refundable). In addition, we offer full bar service, a house “DJ” service (Nickelcity Dave), security, kitchen, and a list of available catering services for your event. Call to reserve the club for your special event. (602) 275-9329
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ACCORDION CLUB
Meets every 3rd Monday 7:00 PM at
St. Stephens Church
16th and Northern Ave.
Phoenix, Arizona
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ACTIVITIES
Band and times are subject to change without notice.
Saturday, October 30: Halloween Dance -
music by Bob Doszak 5 – 9pm
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Sunday, November 7: Meeting 12:30pm;
Dance – John Smoltz 2 –6pm
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Saturday, November 20: Dance – John Filipczak 5 –9 pm
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Saturday, December 11:
Christmas Buffet Dinner 4-6 pm;
Dance – The Varitones 3 –7 pm
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Special Fundraiser for Pulaski Club
HOLIDAY JINGLES DANCE
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Doors open at 1:00 pm
Dancing 2:00 to - 5:00 pm
PULASKI CLUB - 4331 E. MCDOWELL RD
$10.00 PER PERSON
Includes hors d'oeuvres
Music By The Varitones
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Friday, December 31:
New Year Eve Party (“Zabawa Sylwestrowa”) to pop music –
more info will be published in December
(pop music)
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January 1, 2011
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Pot-Luck Party at Pulaski Club
Door open at 1PM
Polka Music Jam
Musicians! Bring your instruments and join in the fun.
Qualifications
After initial selection based DVD recordings of the compulsory repertoire, the jury chose 215 contestants to take part in further auditions in Warsaw. The group features 24 Poles, 23 Chinese representatives, one person from Hong Kong, five pianists representing Taipei, 22 from Russia and 20 from the USA. The most numerous group – 40 pianists – comes from Japan. The performances were evaluated by a 17-member international jury. On April 24th, they announced the names of around 80 pianists to compete in the actual competition from October 2nd to 23rd, 2010, in Warsaw. The qualifications’ rules have it that each participant has to play three Fryderyk Chopin’s etudes, one mazurka, and one other composition – a nocturne, ballade, fantasy, barcarolle or etude – chosen from a separate list.
Source: http://www.pianostreet.com/blog/piano-news/qualifications-to-the-16th-international-chopin-competition-october-2-23-2010-1899/
Finals
Russia's Yulianna Avdeeva won the prestigious 2010 International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition Wednesday after a three-week musical marathon followed by classical music lovers around the globe.
The competition, the oldest of its kind in the world, is held every five years in the Polish capital and has built up an especially enthusiastic following in Asia.
A jury that included several world-famous pianists such as Martha Argerich and Kevin Kenner chose Avdeeva, 25, from among 10 finalists after lengthy late-night deliberations at the end of a competition marked by the high quality of its performances.
Ingolf Wunder of Austria and Lukas Geniusas of Russia/Lithuania won joint second place, Russia's Daniil Trifonov came third and Bulgaria's Evgeni Bozhanov fourth.
Avdeeva, whose expressive and mature performance of Chopin's Concerto in E minor drew a standing ovation Tuesday evening, studied in Moscow and is now working as an assistant to a Russian professor at the Hochschule fuer Musik und Theater in Zurich, Switzerland.
Avdeeva has performed in more than 20 countries including the United States and Japan and has won a number of prizes.
This year's 16th Chopin competition attracted especially strong interest because it coincided with the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth -- to a Polish mother and French father -- in a village near Warsaw in 1810.
There were some 3,000 events including concerts dedicated to Chopin's bicentenary worldwide in the first half of 2010 alone.
"MYSTIC QUALITY"
Of the 81 original finalists in this year's Chopin Competition, selected after preliminary auditions in the spring, 16 were from Japan and 13 from China, highlighting Asia's increasing clout in the field of Western classical music.
However, no Asians were among the final 10 frontrunners playing before the 13-member jury in Warsaw's National Philharmonia this week. That did not seem to cloud the excitement of the many Japanese, Korean and Chinese visitors to Warsaw.
"I have come here (to the Philharmonia) every day since I arrived in Poland. The level of playing is so high," said Misato Ota, a piano teacher from Japan. "We Japanese love Chopin for the delicacy and the mystic quality of his music," she said, adding that she had wanted Polish finalist Pawel Wakarecy to win the competition.
The oeuvre of Chopin, called "Prince of the Romantics" by his most recent biographer Adam Zamoyski, ranges from elegiac sonatas to lively Mazurka folk dances.
Chopin left Poland at the age of 20 and spent most of his adult life in Paris but he remained a staunch patriot and his work is suffused with nostalgia for his homeland, at that time partitioned between Russia, Austria-Hungary and Prussia. In exile, he counted fellow composers Franz Liszt and Hector Berlioz and artist Eugene Delacroix among his friends. He had a turbulent love affair with the female novelist George Sand. Dogged by poor health, he died in 1849 aged just 39.
Source: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/entertainment/2010-10/21/content_11440645.htm
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EXTRA ! EXTRA !
ADDED AFTER NOVEMBER MEMBERS MEETING AND OFFICERS ELECTION
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Results of 2010 Officers Elections for 2011-2012
2 year term for all officers accept as noted
President Mary Kiselus
1st Vice Pres. Chester Falkowski
2nd Vice Pres. Barbara Falkowski
Rec. Secretary Jeanette (Princess) Bonczkiewicz
Financial Secretary Dennis Pachura
Treasurer Jack Konopski
SGT at Arms Chris Peterson
Board of Directors David Bonczkiewicz ---- 3 yr term
Shane Prosser ---------- 3 yr term
Frank Tomaszkowicz -- 2 yr term remaining
Paul Chojnacki --------- 2 yr term remaining
Bruno Klus --------------- 1 yr term remaining
Trustees Tami Skulski-Smith – 3 yr term
Jim Cioper ---------------- 2 yr term remaining
Henrietta Nemecek ---- 1 yr term remaining
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE OFFICERS
Many Thanks to John Twarog - Chair. Nominating Committee
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Pulaski Club is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization.
All donations are tax deductible.
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