Pulaski Day Observed In Camden

A crowd estimated at nearly 3,000 witnessed Camden's Pulaski Day observance yesterday commemorating the death of Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski at Savannah, Ga., in 1779, and the 1100th anniversary of Poland's conversion to Christianity.

Featured in the parade were 40 bands, including Air Force and Army bands, and several floats depicting events in Polish history.

Among those in the reviewing stand were Mayor Alfred R. Pierce, Senators Frederick J. Scholz and A. Donald Bigley, the Most Reverend Celestine J. Damiano, Archbishop of Camden, and all city councilmen and department heads.

Polish Sermon

At the conclusion of the parade Archbishop Damiano celebrated a Pontifical Mass in Whitman Park. Very Reverend Michael M. Zembrzuski, founder-director of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, delivered the sermon in Polish.

A 50-voice choir, composed of members of St. Cecilia's Pennsauken, and Lucia's Choir of St. Joseph's Church, South Camden, sang during the Mass under the direction of Leonard Rykaczewski. Joseph Rykaczewski accompanied on the organ.

Start of Christianity in Poland is commemorated by representatives of Polish American Women's Club, Lowell and Warsaw Streets, during yesterday's Pulaski Day Parade. Left to right are Mrs. Bernard Weaver as King Mieszko I; Mrs. Ray Baus as a guard; Mrs. Frank Kitchmire as Queen Dabrowski; Mrs. Frank Filipek as a guard; and Mrs. Frank M. Bates as prelate.

Dressed as General Pulaski, John Wrobel carries the standard at the head of St. Helena's Group 190, Polish Beneficial Association. Children are carefully arranged according to size to best display their costumes.