50th Anniversary Ball of the Modjeska Club, 10.10.21 at 5pm, University Club of Pasadena

INVITATION 

The Board of Directors of the Modjeska Club 

is  honored to request your company at the

50TH ANNIVERSARY BALL 

OF HELENA MODJESKA ART & CULTURE 

CLUB IN LOS ANGELES

Sunday ● 10 October 2021 ● 5-10 pm ● University Club 

of Pasadena, 175 N. Oakland Ave. ● Pasadena, CA 91101

PROGRAM

• ● Cocktails (5-6pm) Gala Dinner (6-7:00pm) 
• ● Diplomas for the Club from the City, County and State of California (6:45pm) 
• ●Chopin’s Music by Wojciech Kocyan (7:15pm)
• ● Presentation of the Helena Modjeska Prizes 2021 for Jan Englert & Beata Poźniak (7:30pm)
• ● The 50-Year Polonaise (8:00pm) 
• ● Two Hours of Dancing 
• ● Champagne, Wine, & Cash Bar 
• ● Evening attire required (Black tie)

 

TICKETS

 

Seating is limited. Please order your tickets early.

To 9 September 2021: $90 per person for members, $120 for guests. 

From 10 September 2021: $120 for Club members, $140 for guests.

Donations for the tickets of our distinguished guests are welcome.

Paypal: Prezes@modjeska.org, plus $5 per ticket for transaction costs. 

Checks issued to “Helena Modjeska Art and Culture Club” 

should be mailed to: Maja Trochimczyk, President, 

8644 Le Berthon St. Sunland CA 91040, 

along with a reply card specifying “chicken or salmon” 

for the main course, and donations for VIP guest tickets.  

More information: Prezes@modjeska.org. 

https://www.universityclubpasadena.com/

Health Advisory from the City of Pasadena

https://www.universityclubpasadena.com/files/Mask%20Mandate%20-%207.22.21.pdf

SPONSORS OF 50th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS

CLUB HISTORY

 

A book about the history of the Club will be available for review with discounts for purchase, so there are no speeches or presentations planned on this topic. 

Album 50-lecia Klubu Kultury im. Heleny Modrzejewskiej (in Polish) may be pre-ordered for $100 (list price $164 online); hard-cover, large volume (380 pp.), with color photos, or for $40 (list price $55 online) for the paperback edition, large size 8.5x11 with color photos. 

Free download of PDF version: 

http://moonrisepress.com/album-50-lecia-klubu.html.

More information in Polish: 

https://klubmodrzejewskiej.blogspot.com/2021/07/album-50-lecia-klubu-kultury-im-heleny.html

Poster, program and invitation design by Elzbieta Czajkowska

 

Happy Independence Day 2021!

 Happy Independence Day!

We call it the "4th of July" but it really is Independence Day. A celebration of freedom, joy and truth. A holiday of individual and national sovereignty, a celebration of human rights. . . As immigrants from Poland in America, we enjoy the freedoms that we lacked in the past in the Polish People’s Republic (PRL) with a puppet government controlled by communists in Moscow – freedom of speech, faith, assembly, the right to build your own life, pursue your own happiness, create your own companies, publish your own ideas ...

Our founders, the Founding Fathers, won these freedoms in the American Revolution, in which Polish heroes – Tadeusz Kościuszko and Kazimierz Pulaski – also took part. The model of the American republic inspired Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, who came to America as Kościuszko's secretary in 1796, straight from a Russian prison, released by the Tsar after two years behind bars, after the fall the Kościuszko Insurrection. They liked equality; having no aristocracy to rule over a country built by everyone's hard work. They didn't approve of slavery. Kosciuszko even designated his estate to buy out slaves and grant them freedom.

Niemcewicz decided to take the American model as an example for the patriotic education of the nation after the fall of the country and its partitions. Out of this idea emerged the Historic Chants, describing the history of Poland's national heroes, with music and illustrations. The great ladies of the Czartoryski family, including Countess Chodkiewicz describing the heroic deeds of General Karol Chodkiewicz in the 17th century, participated in the preparation of this 19th-century hit (over 30 editions).

We had among us in the Helena Modjeska Art and Culture Club, a great-great-great-great-granddaughter of the great general, Ewa Chodkiewicz-Świder, an excellent artist. Like her, we are the continuators of the great patriotic tradition of Poland, but also of the great patriotic tradition of the USA, our second homeland.

All the best wishes to our members, guests, and friends on the occasion of Independence Day!

Dr Maja Trochimczyk, President