Odszedl Pan Witold Sulimirski - wielka postac polonii ameryk

[Ninel]

Mr. and Mrs. Witold S. Sulimirski

A native of Poland and a graduate of Cambridge University, Mr. Sulimirski spent more than thirty years with the Irving Trust Company (now Bank of New York) with assignments in Beirut, London and Frankfurt. After retiring early in 1989, he remained active in international finance as Chairman of Slovene-owned LBS Bank and of Intercap Investments and founding Chairman of AmerBank, the first foreign-owned bank in Poland.

From 1992 through 1994 he was Executive Director of the American Investment Initiative in Poland which, at the behest of the White House, promoted and facilitated American investment in the country. In Warsaw he served on the supervisory boards of Bank Pekao SA., Bank Gdanski, BIG Bank Gdanski, National Investment Funds "Piast" and "Octava", BRE Asset Management and of the Privatization Center Foundation, in addition to serving as an advisor of the Foundation for Polish Science.

Witold joined The Kosciuszko Foundation in 1976. He was elected to the Board of Trustees in 1980 and became its Chairman in 1997. For over twenty years he served as Treasurer of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America and as a board member of Polish Assistance. He has served on the boards of several international chambers of commerce. He was a long-time member of the board of the Middle East Policy Council and Commissioner of the US-EU-Poland Action Commission at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. For more than twenty years he served on the Board of the Polish Association of Knights of Malta, now based in Krakow. He is currently a director of Bicentennial Publications, the publisher of Nowy Dziennik in New York, which remains his only business affiliation.

Born in Warsaw, Teresa (nee Fredro-Boniecka) was deported in 1941 to Siberia with her mother and older brother. They were among the fortunate civilians permitted to exit the Soviet Union with the Polish army of General Anders. Following the troops, she attended French, Italian and English schools in Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Italy and, finally, England, where she graduated from Westminster Technical College in hotel management.

In London, Teresa joined the Polish Girl Scouts, studied Polish history and culture, performed in Polish plays and participating in Radio Free Europe youth programs beamed to Poland. For several years she danced with the Kolberg Polish Folk Dance Group in London. After marrying Witold she emigrated to the United States in 1958.

Her husband's foreign banking assignments took her and their three children to Lebanon, England and Germany for an aggregate of eight years. On returning to America in 1975, Teresa immersed herself in the work of Polish Assistance, becoming President in 1992. She has been a Dame of Malta since 1985 and for her charitable activity she has received the Cross of Merit from the Sovereign and Military Order of Malta, and the Cavalier's Cross of Merit from the Republic of Poland. Teresa is a member of the Pro Arte League of the Kosciuszko Foundation and of several civic organizations in Bronxville, New York, where she and her husband reside. In addition to their three married children, Ela, Adam and Edward, they have eight grandchildren.

[Ninel]

...tytul sie nie zmiescil : wielka postac polonii amerykanskiej. Bankier, z udana miedzynarodowa kariera, wzor prawosci, elegancji i najlepszych manier. Takich juz teraz nie bedzie...[***]

[Ninel]

Spotkalam Go tylko raz:((( Zrobil na mnie niesamowite wrazenie...przypominal mi mojego ulubionego profesora nauk prawnych na UW, dziekana mojego wydzialu, pierwszego Prezesa Sadu Najwyzszego...Zbigniewa Resicha.
Mialam ten zaszczyt, ze prof. Resich niosl mi moj plaszcz w czasie przymusowego pochodu 1-wszo majowego mowiac: ( jesli dobrze pamietam ): pomagam dopoki moge.... mojej dobrej, akademickiej mlodziezy. Zawsze usmiechniety ..., madry, pogodny czlowiek.
Jesli juz wszyscy tacy jak Oni odejda, a na nastepcow sie nie zanosi, to ja sie pytam...kto tu pozostanie???

[godzilla]

nie znalem... nie jestem z tego powodu smutny ze ten czlowiek odszedl...
moge byc smutny ze tobie jest smutno...

[Ninel]

"moge byc smutny ze tobie jest smutno..."

I to sie nazywa...zyczliwy, ludzki odruch....
Dziekuje Godzill.
Ten czlowiek zrobil wiecej dla Polski i Polonii przez cale swoje zycie niz armia zapyzialych polaczkow!