October 4, 1998
Fifth Avenue in Manhattan

Pulaski Day Parade 1998
Miss Polonia Presentation 1998
Maria Sklodowska-Curie
Pope Jan Paul II

The annual Pulaski Day Parade which is held annualy on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan by its name alone, commemorates the Revolutionary War general, Casimir Pulaski. Yet for the past few years the American Polonia in its desire to demonstrate to the world its fine attributes practiced in national tradition, arts, science, history and humanity, and the Catholic faith, also used the Parade as a forum to put on public display their inner-self. Anniversaries are the soul in a daily living.

In 1998 we were celebrating the 100th anniversary of the discovery of polonium and radium by the Polish scientist, Marie Sklodowska-Curie. Last year's Pulaski Day Parade commemorated also the twentieth anniversary of the Pontificate of His Holiness Pope John Paul II and was to express the support of American Polonia of the proposal to make Zakopane the Olympic City of the year 2006.