FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT • CHAIRMAN AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE
Blanka A. Rosenstiel

She has been guided by her Mother’s request and a sincere dedication to the promotion of Polish heritage and culture in her American homeland.

In 1977, Mrs. Rosenstiel also founded the Chopin Foundation of the United States, a national institution dedicated to help young American musicians, and to promote Chopin’s music.

Mrs. Rosenstiel is an active member of numerous public-benefit, charitable organizations throughout the world, financially supporting some of them.

She has been awarded many titles and honors. Among them: Doctor Honoris Causa at the International Fine Arts College in Miami (1976), Doctor of Humane Letters at the Alliance College of Cambridge Springs, Pa. (1978), the Ellis Island Medal of Honor (1995), and the Cavalier’s Cross of Polonia Restituta Order (1996). In 1998 she became the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Poland in Florida.

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VICE PRESIDENT
Barbara Pagowska-Cooper

DIRECTORS
Marek Baran • Margareta de Gea • Gerald Jaski • Steven Karski • Janusz Kozłowski • Rose Kruszewski • Christopher Kurczaba                Danuta Kyparisis • Teresa Lowenthal • Alexander Montague • Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk • Jarosław Rottermund • Jacek Schindler             Michael Skroρski • Marjorie Sonderling • Richard Wilke-Janicki.

COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN
Barbara Cooper, Fund Raising • Blanka Rosenstiel, Nominating • Marjorie Sonderling, Public Relations • Gerald Jaski, Polish Studies Chair • Jaroslaw Rottermund, Scholarship • Beata Paszyc, Special Projects.

HONORARY MEMBERS
Michael Gastom • Astrid de Grabowski • Eugenia de Lewenhaupt • Edward Kruszewski • Boleslaw Laszewski • Tamara McKeehan
• Ednagene Schofman • John Sullivan • Dr. Zygmunt Turski.

ADVISORY BOARD
Dr. Horacio Aguirre • Hon. Maurice Ferre • Mercedes Ferre • Prof. Tadeusz Lapinski • Dr. Tully Patrowicz.