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Take YOUR Aggieland ’81 home with you on □ Q □ □ □ Pickup any day, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Room 216 Reed McDonald etc. Battalion/Page 10 March 10, 1982 Visit to Poland prompts woman to begin volunteer aid project United Press International DALLAS — Prior to Decem ber 1981, Pat Biczynski ran an Erma Bombeck kind of house hold, tending to a gaggle of teenagers,' a fertile pooch and a house that leaked water each spring. After December, Biczynski — mother of four and keeper of six new puppies — was the one- person staff and executive coun cil of an ambitious volunteer Polish aid operation. “I’ve always been a student of history,” said the Irish-born woman, who also works as an energy company public rela tions official. “Now, in a way, I’m a participant in history. It may sound a bit corny, but I feel I have a sense of mission. And I know I can help.” Her campaign, dubbed “Po land Running on Empty” and founded two months ago in a two-room office in Dallas’ Campbell Centre, immediately captured the attention of Polish and U.S. church relief organiza- “We work through a number of charity orga nizations and we know the goods are getting to the people, not the gov ernment.” — Pat Bic zynski, head of Polish aid operation. tions and offers for help began pouring in. Recently, she said, the Polish American Congress, based in Chicago, called and asked if she could use some grain. She said she could. She was given 0 R A D U AT I NO E N 0 IN E rC.'-;-.*: - : J I ' v ' ' ■ P • ■ r .‘- '■ :?’■ •'.4' r ‘ • V: V,- L ' <;•- V*■ ; • ': : - -V ' ' ' ■ : • V* , IF YOU ENJOY REACHING BEYOND TODAY- s REACH FOR TOMORROW WITH MARTIN MARIETTA AEROSPACE i v \. wmm ii -i ■St" f ■ . X • - ' /i Msm ■ -i . ■ ' • '•* ' ' . A*. 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She said she had arranged free shipping from Houston and New Orleans and had guaranteed ways of get ting the supplies to the people. “We work through a number of charity organizations, and we know the goods are getting to the people, not the govern ment.” she said. “The martial law government is letting charity supplies come in. They’re that desperate for help.” The idea of a volunteer clear inghouse for Polish aid was born during a summer trip to Poland with her Polish-born husband, Andre. “We visited his family, and that was the time before martial law,” she remembered. “The atmosphere was almost giddy exhilaration, free speech.” But hardship was all around — food lines, power shutdowns, medical shortages. “Andre’s uncle had his leg amputated,” she said, “and there wasn’t any aspirin for pair, reliever, no bandages, no ami biotics, no heart medicine, no in sulin.” The Polish relatives offered the Biczynskis theii meager ration of fruit, bread and eggs. “Several times we sat down a; the table and our hosts watched us eat,” she said. “There was not enough food left for them. Mt food stuck in my throat.” A more troubling vision emerged when the Catholic family traveled to the place where Andre spent the creamol his youth — Auschwitz concen tration camp. “Andre wanted to show the boys,” she said. “My son is the same age as my husband when he was first arrested. We found Andre’s bunk. We saw the galleries full of nothing but hu man hair, shoes and baby bug gies. It was a terrible night mare.” But the experience, she said bolstered her resolve to do something personally to prevent that kind of hell from returning “They were brutal crushed,” she writes in a cam paign leaflet. “(Polish Archbishop Glemp asked the Poles to unite ‘because no one will help us.’ “He is wrong, of course.” Today’s Almanac United Press International Today is Wednesday, March 10, the 69th day of 1982, with 296 to follow. The morning stars are Mer cury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. There is no evening star. On this date in history: In 1862, the U.S. Treasury issued the first American paper money, in denominations from $5 to $1,000. In 1945, B-29 bombers of the U.S. Army Air Force began in cendiary raids on Japan in the waning days of World War In 1969, James Earl Ri pleaded guilty to the murdero Dr. Martin Luther King and ms sentenced to 99 years in prison In 1981, President Reaganat rived in Ottawa for the first via of a U.S. president to Canad) since 1972. A thought for the day: Pres dent Dwight D. Eisenhower while supreme commander o Allied forces in World War said: “In the final choice, a sol dier’s pack is not so heavy a bur den as a prisoner’s chains.” ATTENTION SOPHOMORES TAU KAPPA 1982-83 Junior Honor Society MANDATORY INFORMATION MEETING March 10 or 11 7:00 p.m. Room 701 Rudderl REQUIREMENTS: Minimum GPR 3.25 Jr. Classification: Min. 60 hrs.-Max. 94 hrs. Attended | 1982 Spring Semester at TAMU. FREE 1 Buy one pizza* get the next smaller size Pizza Inn 413 Texas Ave., C.S. 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