Tye has run up some of the family vids onto his YouTube channel. Go, Tye!
The vids are named the same way as on the DVDs I mailed out a while back. Those DVDs were transferred by a professional company from 8mm film in the collections of John and Eugene Zdrojewski. The first one up is "Zdrojewski Films II, Disc 1, Scene 1: Orchard Lake."
This film is discussed minute-by-minute in another post here.
Orchard Lake Seminary, in Michigan, is the school where John Peter Zdrojewski, our JPZ, sent his son Eugene for high school and then the first two years of college.
He had done well in the St. Luke's Parish grammar school, and at that time there were good public and private high schools abundant in Buffalo. So why send the boy off? To preserve Polish culture - one of the core competencies of this school? To give him a really good chance to decide to enter the priesthood - kind of like me taking my kids on farm calls, and with approximately the same result? We can't know. But it's oral tradition that JPZ felt that way.
Graduation from high school was in the spring of 1941. JPZ, Grandma Julia, and her sister Auntie Ollie traveled by train and by lake steamer to Michigan for the graduation. Naturally JPZ produced, directed, and filmed this event.
The vids are named the same way as on the DVDs I mailed out a while back. Those DVDs were transferred by a professional company from 8mm film in the collections of John and Eugene Zdrojewski. The first one up is "Zdrojewski Films II, Disc 1, Scene 1: Orchard Lake."
This film is discussed minute-by-minute in another post here.
Orchard Lake Seminary, in Michigan, is the school where John Peter Zdrojewski, our JPZ, sent his son Eugene for high school and then the first two years of college.
He had done well in the St. Luke's Parish grammar school, and at that time there were good public and private high schools abundant in Buffalo. So why send the boy off? To preserve Polish culture - one of the core competencies of this school? To give him a really good chance to decide to enter the priesthood - kind of like me taking my kids on farm calls, and with approximately the same result? We can't know. But it's oral tradition that JPZ felt that way.
Graduation from high school was in the spring of 1941. JPZ, Grandma Julia, and her sister Auntie Ollie traveled by train and by lake steamer to Michigan for the graduation. Naturally JPZ produced, directed, and filmed this event.
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| EJZ as a serious senior. I have some of his term papers upstairs. |
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| There he is again, on the bottom right: Class President. If you click on this, it should open up in Preview or some equivalent. Then you can zoom in and read the names. Anybody know about any of these other people? |
Anyone have graduation photos of Casimir? I have one of JFZ somewhere. Let's put up graduation pictures. If you wish to guest-blog, please contact me.
Julie
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