To this day, a dedicated trumpeter still plays a traditional song called the Heynal every hour from the tower of the cathedral (Mahoney & Field 1955: 71). While in Krakow, Kelly spent much of his time at the Church of Our Lady Mary. One of the first American scholarship recipients was Eric Kelly.
The Krosciuszko Foundation (named after an eighteenth-century Polish freedom fighter) was created in 1925 (“Mission and History” “Who was Kosciuszko?”). While Kelly was working in Poland and teaching at Dartmouth, a Polish immigrant named Stephen Mizwa (né Szczepan Mierzwa) had a dream to create an educational endowment for Poles to study in America - and for Americans to study at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. The rest of his life would be devoted to working for the independence and welfare of Poland, and educating Americans - especially undergraduates and children - about the country he loved.Īfter spending several years studying Poland from the inside, he returned to New England, where he taught English, journalism, and Slavonic literature at Dartmouth College, his alma mater, for twenty-five years (Chevalier & Kirkpatrick 1989: 516 "Eric P.
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