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Moving Polish American History into the Mainstream by James S. Pula NOTE: When I was asked to make this presentation, it was suggested that I speak a little abut Polish American contributions to the US and how we might better integrated

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Moving Polish American History into the Mainstream

by James S. Pula

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NOTE: When I was asked to make this presentation, it was suggested that I speak a little abut Polish American contributions to the US and how we might better integrated material on Poland and Polish America into the American mainstream. So, this presentations begins with an example of an opportunity missed – the recent Year of the Woman celebration – and an example of Polish American contributions to just the STEM field. Then I give some examples of strategies that can be used to inject information on Poland and Polonia in the American mainstream.

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Women’s History

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Founded First Teaching Hospital for Women Enrolled First African American Female Student Close friend of William Lloyd Garrison and German radical Karl Heinzen.

Marie Elizabeth Żakrzewska

Berlin, Germany

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Women’s Rights Activist. Abolitionist. Responsible for first married women’s property rights law in the United States.

Ernestine Potocka Rose

Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland

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Polish Women’s Alliance

Founded May 22, 1898 in Chicago Fought for women’s right to: Vote Higher Education Pursue Professions Purchase Insurance in their Name

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STEM Programs

Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics

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Information Technology

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Jack Tramiel

Łódź, Poland Invented the Commodore Computer

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Steve Wozniak

California Developed the Apple I Computer

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Wrote the first Macintosh User Interface Guidelines. One of the original members

  • f both the Apple Macintosh

team and the Computer NeXT teams.

Joanna Hoffman

Poland

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Paul Baran

Grodno, Poland Invented distributed networks “Grandfather of the Internet”

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Engineering

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Stephan Poplawski

Poland Invented the Electric Blender

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Edward Pulaski

Ohio The “Pulaski Tool,” the modern firefighting axe

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Henryk Magnuski

Warsaw, Poland Invented first walkie-talkie used by US army in World War II

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Kazimierz Gzowski

  • St. Petersburg, Russia

Engineered the first bridge across the Niagara River from the U.S. to Canada

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Joseph Tykociński-Tykociner

Włocławek, Poland The first person to reproduce synchronized sound on a motion picture film.

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Józef Kazimierz Hofmann

Kraków, Poland Inventor of windshield wipers, shock absorbers,

  • il burning furnace.
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Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski

Lwów, Poland Designer of the hexagonal-based oil drilling platform.

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Rudolph Modrzejewski

Bohnia, Poland Engineered Benjamin Franklin Bridge in Philadelphia and others

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Frank Piasecki

Pennsylvania Pioneer in helicopter engineering and design

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Tadeusz Sendzimir

Lwów, Poland

120 patents in mining and metallurgy revolutionized US steel industry

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Gustaw Mokrzycki

Lwów, Poland Autopilot Technology

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Mieczysław Bekker

Strzyżów, Poland Invented Lunar Rover

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Polish Americans Who Are “Out of this World”

Karol Bobko

Veteran of 3 space flights

Christopher Ferguson

(Polish/Scots) Piloted Space Shuttle Atlantis

Scott Parazynski

Over 8 weeks in space, 4 space walks

James Pawelczyk

6.3 million miles in space

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Former vice president in charge of product management and engineering at Google. Since 2014, CEO of YouTube. Net worth of $480 million.

Susan Wojcicki

California

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Casimir Żegleń

Tarnopol, Poland Invented the bulletproof vest in 1897

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Stephanie Kwolek

New Kensington, PA Invented Kevlar National Medal of Technology and Innovation

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Mathematics

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Jerzy Neyman

Bendery, Poland Developed statistics cluster sampling used in Gallup poll

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Stanisław Ulam

Lwów, Poland Mathematician who worked on the Manhattan Project and became one of the most famous US mathematicians.

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Alfred Tarski

Warsaw, Poland Logician and Mathematician Famous for work on theory of mathematical modeling

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Health Care

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Leo Gerstenzang

Warsaw, Poland Invented the Q-Tip

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Kazimierz Funk

Warsaw, Poland

Discovered Vitamins

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Albert Sabin

Białystok, Poland Invented the polio vaccine formula credited with eradicating polio

Hilary Koprowski

Warsaw, Poland Invented the oral polio vaccine

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Co-founder of 23andMe, a personal genomics and biotechnology company. Genetic testing, genealogical DNA testing, medical research.

Anne Wojcicki

California

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Krzysztof Palczewski

Syców, Poland Breakthroughs in understanding hereditary blindness and developing treatments to slow retinal degeneration.

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Maria Siemionow

Krotoszyn, Poland Commander’s Cross Polonia Restituta (2009) Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Research Award from the Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation (2010) Casimir Funk National Science Award (2013) Performed the world’s first face transplant in Cleveland.

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Strategies

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Wacław Kruszka

Sławomierz, Poland Learning Polish history would be “beautiful, absorbing, and useful.” But it is most important that they learn the history of their ancestors “who have lived on the same soil ... and functioned in the same geographic, economic, political, and religious conditions” because that “will be of more concern to him and a hundred times more useful.”

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  • What upcoming events or anniversaries could be

used to promote Polonia?

  • Must plan ahead including how to market the events.
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Local Museum Exhibits, or Virtual Exhibits

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Videos

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Published Guides with Bibliographies

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Teaching Modules

0.18 percent of the US population speaks Polish

  • 1. Learning Objectives
  • 2. Text (for content reading)
  • 3. Original Documents
  • 4. Videos
  • 5. Questions for Dicussion
  • 6. Questions for Quizzes
  • a. Multiple Choice
  • b. Short Answer
  • c. Essay
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T H A N K Y O U