Students of one of the oldest Polish schools in the Chicago metropolitan area ended the school year with a solemn mass and a banquet.
On May 20, 2017 – for the 66th time – the school year at the Polish school ended. Gen. Casimir Pulaski.
The rich program of the school’s end-of-year celebration began with a morning performance in which preschoolers performed. After the performance, the children received diplomas of completion of kindergarten.
Another, permanent point of farewell to the school was the thanksgiving mass in the church of St. Rozalia. Traditionally, students, teachers and parents participated. Eighth graders entered the temple – behind the flag post and high school graduates, assisted by educators, the headmaster and the president of the school – in blue gowns and biretas. Students of grade 8. they prepared the readings of the Holy Mass and the Universal Prayer, the high school graduates brought gifts to the altar. The sacrifice of the Holy Mass was celebrated by Father Tadeusz Olzacki OSPPE and Father Marcin Mikulski OSPPE.
After the Holy Mass, the high school graduates handed over a banner to their younger classmates from class III of high school.
On the other hand, eighth-graders, in order to celebrate the completion of a Polish school at the primary level, invited their parents to an occasional academy.
The remaining students – after the teachers handed out their certificates – participated in a school picnic, during which grilled hot dogs were served.
The evening attraction was the matriculation banquet. The guests of the banquet were: Frank Spula – president of the Polish American Congress and the Polish National Union, Ewa Koch – president of the Association of Polish Teachers in America, Zofia Biernadska – veteran of the Battle of Monte Cassino, associated with the school for several years and Anna Sokołowska – former vice-president of the Polish Film Festival and a graduate of the Polish school. General K. Pulaski.

Jola Plesiewicz
Photos: Dariusz Piłka
* We recommend Andrzej Baraniak’s report on the end of the year by eighth-graders, to which the link is below:
http://deon24.com/koniec-roku-szkolengo-najstarsza-polonijna-szkola-sobotnia-pozegnala-swoich-osmoklasistow/