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2009
Pulaski Day
Celebration 2009
at The Polish
Museum of America.

The winners of our essay
and talent competitions
were recognized.
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn
and Ulani Generala Kosciuszko
Recording Secretary Kenneth Gill,
Gov. Quinn & President Lidia Filus

Vice President Czeslawa Kolak
& Gov. Quinn
Joanna Bujena, Membership
Secretary Hanna Kapica
& Maria Pappas
Justyna Terlecka,
V.P. Czeslawa Kolak, Gov. Quinn
& Joanna Sasara



St Joseph's Day
Dinner 2009

at the Lone Tree Inn
organized by Director
Josie Nocula
Hanna Kapica & Award Recipient
Joanna Bujena
Winner of Fine Arts
Nathalie Kacik (Honorable
Mention for Performing Arts)
& Jadwiga Pytlik

Pres. Lidia Filus, Award Recipient
& Rec. Secretary Kenneth Gill
Officers & Award Recipients
Pres. Lidia Filus, Kenneth Gill
& Award Recipient

Czeslawa Kolak, Lidia Filus &
the Polish Consulate Pietrasienski
Michal Lupa
Talent Award Recipient
Winner of Performing Arts
Michal Lupa checking out the
Raffle Table




2008

Council Members and Award
Recipients
Group photo with Mayor Daley
Kristian Zadlo

Ken Gill, Czeslawa Kolak,
Lidia Filus, Hanna Kapica
and Sister M. Edward Gira
Bishop Parpocki, Kristian Zadlo,
Malwina Sasara
Membership Secretary
Hannah Kapica




2007

NEIU Polish Heritage
Alumni Celebration
Presentation of awards
Wojciech Wloch & Arina Kuroczycka

Consul Mariusz Gbiorczyck
Scholarship Award Receipients
with Lidia Filus and Czestara
Kolak, Chior of the Scholarship
Consulate
Special Award Presented to
President Lidia Filus

Natalia Szadkowski; Violinist
Polish Folk Dance Ensemble
Polish Folk Dance Ensemble




2006

CEP President Lidia Filus
October 20, 2006
Polish-American Heritage
Celebration at Northeastern
Illinois University
Larry Frank, Provost NEIU,
& Czeslawa Kolak
"Educator of the Year"

Future Teachers Scholarship
Winners Leszek Bielko,
Miriam Sterniuk and Leslie Plewa
Mary Anselmo, L. Plewa, C. Kolak,
M. Sterniuk, L. Bielko, Sr. Edward,
Josephine Nocula and L. Filus
Community Service Award
Recipient Kasia Bober
and CEP Director Marlene Gill

Polish Folk Dance Ensemble
Polish Folk Dance Ensemble
CEP Director Leonard Rink
St. Joseph's Celebration 





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