21st Anniversary Year of the Founding and Incorporation of the American Association of the Friends of Kosciuszko at West Point (AAFKWP)

21st Anniversary Year of the First Annual Tadeusz Kosciuszko Conference of the AAFKWP Commemsurate with Its Founding  

111th Anniversary Year of the Kosciuszko Statue that was Added in 1913 to the Original Kosciuszko Monument of 1828

196th Anniversary Year of the Dedication of the Kosciuszko Monument by the United States Military Academy 

 196th Anniversary Year of the United States Military Academy's 1st Annual National Tadeusz Kosciuszko Observance

278th Anniversary Year of the Birth of Tadeusz Kosciuszko

207th Anniversary Year of the Death of Tadeusz Kosciuszko

The Overall Focus of the 21st Annual Kosciuszko Conference (Friday, May 3, 2024) Will Be:

ENDURING STRATEGIC AND TACTICAL ANNIVERSARIES AND THEIR LEGACIES:

POLAND'S CONSTITUTION OF MAY 3, 1791; AND THE 75th ANNIVERSARY OF THE CREATIOM OF NATO ON APRIL 4, 1949

(Some of what currently follows on this particular page will be adjusted, excluding associated itemized costs. ) 

*Conference Morning Session Begins with Poland's Constitution of May 3, 1791 at 09:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

**Conference Morning and Afternoon Sessions are combined here but will be separated as appropriate in the coming weeks. The Morning Session Title is: "Poland's Constitution of May 3, 1791: Its Troubled Times, Both Among Those for Whom It Held Promise, and for Those Who Viewed It as a Danger and Who Precipitated the Challenging Existential Times for Poland."

**As is the practice of the Association (i.e., the AAFKWP), both a continental breakfast and lunch will be served on site in the Eisenhower Room so as to maintain all participants in one location for the convenience of all conferees. The Morning  Session Featured Speakers on the Subject of the 233rd Anniversary of Poland's Comstitution of May 3, 1791 are will be as follows: 

***Anthony J. Bajdek, AAFKWP Founder and President; Retired Associate Dean and Senior Lecturer in History, Northeastern University, Boston, MA; Author; AAFKWP Welcome and Overview.

***Steven W. Gilland, Lieutenent General, U. S. Army, 61st Superintendant, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY: USMA Welcome. 

***Mieczyslaw B. Biskupski, Ph.D., Blejwas Professor of Polish and Polish American Studies, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain; Distinguished Author and Educator. 

***Patrice Dabrowski, Ph.D., Associate of the Harvard University Ukrainian Institute; Distinguished Author and Educator.  

***James S. Pula, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Purdue University; Distinguished Author and Educator, Kosciuszko Biographer.

***Vincent Rospond, Independent Historian, Author, and Publisher, Point Pleasant, NJ.  

***Robert A. Vitas, Ph.D., Chair, Lithuanian Research and Studies Center, Chicago, IL; Distinguished Author and Educator. 

*Afternoon Session (1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.) Addresses the 75th Anniversary Year of the Founding of the North Altantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1949.

**Conference Afternoon Session Title: "NATO's Challenges Past Past and Present: Same European Faces, Including NATO-Aspiring Ukraine and the Same Bad Actors East of NATO's Border.

***Stephen N. Olejasz, AAFKWP Founding Executive Vice President; Lieutenant Colonel (U. S. Army, Retired); Former Assistant Professor of History, USMA; Afternoon Session Moderator, Overview and Introductions:

***Krzysztof Nolbert, Republic of Poland Major General and Defense Attache, Embassy of Poland, Washington, DC. 

***Mindaugas Mazonas, Republic of Lithuania Colonel and Defense Attache, Embassy of Lithuania, Washington, DC. 

Finally, at the conclusion of the Conference: 

***Cynthia J. Bajdek, AAFKWP Founding Secretary / Treasurer, will deliver a financial report to all AAFKWP members in good standing (i.e., in having paid annual dues, and 2024 Conference for May 3  well as, if applcable,  the May 4, 2024 Luncheon expenses). This business meeting is a requirement of the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the State in which the AAFKWP was founded as a 501(c)3 entity in 2006, and certified as such by both the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of the United States and the Massachusetts AOG and Secretary of State.  

Please note that what follows will be updated, particularly as it pertains to the initial starting time, during the weeks that follow:

All Aspects of time for the 'Kosciuszko Day' Observance scheduled for Saturday, May 4, 2024, at West Point are tentative at this time and might occur as had been the case in 2023: 

• 08:00 a.m.: Kosciuszko Memorial Mass, Cadet Chapel of the Most Holy Trinity, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY.
• 09:30 a.m.: Cadet Review (i.e., parade) on the Plain.
• 11:30 a.m.: Annual USMA Kosciuszko Memorial Ceremony at the site of the Kosciuszko Monument that was dedicated and paid for by the USMA Corps of Cadets on July 4, 1828
• 01:00 p.m.: Annual Kosciuszko Day Memorial Luncheon, George Washington Room, Thayer Hotel, 674 Thayer Road, USMA, West Point, NY (By prepaid reservation only. See below).

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REGISTRATION - Reservation Form (print, complete, enclose your check, and mail this form as noted):

I have enclosed a check made payable to: American Association of the Friends of Kosciuszko at West Point (or AAFKWP for short) in the total amount of $ __________ as follows:

• Number of registration(s) ______ for the Conference at $50 (including continental breakfast and buffet lunch) per person for a total of $ ________ to be held in the Eisenhower Room, Thayer Hotel.
• Fillowing completion of the Conference, attendees must dine on their own in the Thayer Hotel's MacArthur Riverview Room by making separate payment to the Thayer Hotel staff. 
• Number of reservation(s) ______ for the Saturday luncheon at $50 per person for a total of $ _________ to be held in the Washington Room, Thayer Hotel.
• I also wish to renew my dues for 2023 ($25 for an individual annual membership; $60 for an annual organization membership; or $150 for a lifetime membership for only an individual person, not for a corporate entity or organization which must renew its $60 membership annually): $ _______.                                                                                                
• (NOTE: Once Lifetime Members have paid their membership fee, no other payment of annual renewal of dues is necessary an individual person.)   
• I wish to donate $25 to support the attendance of West Point cadets at the Annual Tadeusz Kosciuszko Conference on May 3 and the Kosciuszko Memorial Luncheon on May 4, 2024: _____.

NOTE: For children 5 and under, there is no luncheon charge. The luncheon charge for children 6 to 12 is $20.

Finally, please note that the post-Conference Friday seafood buffet night dinner of earlier years is no longer offered by the Thayer Hotel. Those wishing to dine after the Conference in the Hotel must arrange reservations to do so on their own initiative and their separate payment made directly to the Thayer Hotel dining room waitstaff. Conference panelist speakers will dine at tables reserved for them, inthe same general area of the MacArthur Riverview Dining Hall.  

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PLEASE NOTE: Payments for either any aspect, or all, of the above, must be received at the address below, no later than April 24, 2024. Without pre-payments and reservations, no admittance to the Conference and Luncheon respectively will be permitted on the day of the event. 

Mail completed Registration - Reservation form and check to: Cynthia J. Bajdek, Treasurer, AAFKWP, 45 Reflection Drive, Hudson, NH 03051 

 

Questions? Call Peter J. Walentowicz (973) 432-8841 or Cynthia J. Bajdek at (508) 735-4008.

Thank you for your continued support!