The 22nd Annual Tadeusz Conference will take place in the Bradley Room of the Thayer Hotel, located at 674 Thayer Road, USMA, West Point, NY, recognizing the: 

         22nd Anniversary Year of the Founding and Incorporation of the American Association of the Friends of Kosciuszko at West Point (AAFKWP)

22nd Anniversary Year of the First Annual Tadeusz Kosciuszko Conference of the AAFKWP Commemsurate with Its Founding  

112th Anniversary Year of the Kosciuszko Statue that was Added in 1913 to the Original Kosciuszko Monument of 1828

19th Anniversay Year of the AAFKWP's having been demed to be a 501-c-3 entity by the U. S. Internal Revenue Service

197th Anniversary Year of the Dedication of the Kosciuszko Monument by the U. S. Military Academy 

 197th Anniversary Year of the U. S. Military Academy's 1st Annual National Tadeusz Kosciuszko Observance

279th Anniversary Year of the Birth of Tadeusz Kosciuszko

208th Anniversary Year of the Death of Tadeusz Kosciuszko

The Overall Focus of the 22nd Annual Kosciuszko Conference (Friday, April 25, 2025) Will Be:

1. THE 250th ANNIVERSARY YEAR OF THE BIRTH OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY
2.                                              AS AN INTEGRAL COMPONENT OF DEFENDING ITS CONSTITUTIONAL-BASED                                              REPUBLIC IN A TRANSATLANTIC WORLD GENERALLY DEVOID OF DEMOCRACY

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

* Conference Morning and Afternoon Session speakers are combined here but will be separated and placed in order as appropriate during the coming weeks. 

** As is the practice of the Association (i.e., the AAFKWP), both a continental breakfast and lunch will be served on site in the General Omar Bradley 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, New Hampshire, AAFKWP Founder and President; Retired Associate Dean and Senior Lecturer in History, Northeastern University, Boston, MA; Author; AAFKWP Welcome and Overview.

**** Christopher Fritsch, Texas, Independent Scholar and Historian, 

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

**** Stephen N. Olejasz, Virginia, Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army (ret.), Founding AAFKWP Executive Vice President, and Former Assistant Professor, USMA Department of History  

**** Norman Kelker, Ph.D.,  

**** Vincent Rospond, New Jersey, Independent Scholar and Historian, Author, and Publisher  

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

**** Peter J. Walentowicz, New Jersey

*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 2025 Conference and other fees as well, where  applcable). This business meeting is a requirement of the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the State in which the AAFKWP was founded in 2003.   

Please note that what continues to follows, will be updated in the coming weeks for 2025, particularly as it pertains to the initial starting times, and other speakers

All Aspects of time for the 'Kosciuszko Day' Observance scheduled for Saturday, April 26, 2025 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!