Dear William (and Daniel, Catherine, Michael & Baby Girl Y) (and your parents), (and any future descendants and their parents),
Let me tell you about how I came to the United States — I was born in Argentina, on January 9, 1949. In the 1950s, I lived with my Parents, my Brother Tom, and three Sisters, Olenka, Hanka & Elzunia, in a rented house in Ramos Mejia, a suburb of Buenos Aires, in Argentina, South America.
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Dear William (and Daniel, Catherine, Michael & Baby Girl Y) (and your parents), (and any future descendants and their parents),
Discussing this Blog with Malgosia and Babcia Krysia, I was urged to write a bit about my life — so, her it goes:
The year was 1969, and I was a Sophomore in college (at Baruch College, part of the City University of New York). In college, I joined ROTC (US Army Reserve Officers Training Corps). The previous year, I pledged and was accepted into the Carolyn Guard Military Service Society.
Our sister service society was the Boosters, who had their meeting room right next to our meeting room on the third floor of the Annex Building.
Between classes, we would all hang out together — one of the Boosters was Joan.
Joan was a year older than me (she was a Junior), and she was a Psychology major (at that time, I was an Economics major — later I switched to Finance). Joan had a boyfriend, Arthur, also a Psychology major. One day, I heard that Joan and Arthur were going to spend the weekend, cooking in the nude (relax, these were the 1960’s — lots of interesting things went on at that time).
Since I was interested in Joan, I got jealous, and I called her up by telephone, and presented a well-crafted argument as to why she should not spend the weekend with Arthur, and instead, she should start hanging out with me — it worked (poor Arthur; I do not think that he ever forgave me).
During the course of our relationship, we decided to go to Europe that Summer. We bought Eurail Train Passes, which allowed for unlimited train rides all over Europe; and we purchased airplane tickets from Kennedy Airport to London, England on Caledonia Airways (a charter flight operation).
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Dear William (and Daniel, Catherine, Michael & Baby Girl Y) (and your parents), (and any future descendants and their parents),
The other day I introduced you to my Father’s Resume from 1963. At that time, your Great-Grandfather was working at Ammann & Whitney. Some time after that, my Dad got a job at Strobel & Rongved, Consulting Engineers, in New York City (on 41st Street, across the street from the N.Y.C. Main Public Library).
There, my Dad convinced his employers to invest in him, and fund a new venture — Electronic Calculus, Inc.
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Dear William (and Daniel, Catherine, Michael & Baby Girl Y) (and your parents), (and any future descendants and their parents),
I already told you a bit about Auschwitz — another important (and horrible) location is Dachau, physically located in southern Germany.
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Dear William (and Daniel, Catherine, Michael & Baby Girl Y) (and your parents), (and any future descendants and their parents),
Yesterday, I won a major battle in court — my client was sued by his former partner, who was demanding approximately $350,000 in damages from my client. I mounted a strong defense, and introduced evidence that supported the fact that it was the former partner who owed my client approximately $100,000. After four days of trial, my adversary informed me that his client is willing to end the litigation if my client agrees to do so also — i.e., the case is over, and both sides just walk away from each other without any money changing hands. This was a MAJOR victory for my client!
All this talk about battle and victory, I thought you may be interested is seeing some documents from my personal military history:
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Dear William (and Daniel, Catherine, Michael & Baby Girl Y) (and your parents), (and any future descendants and their parents),
I thought you may be interested in seeing your Great-Grandfather Kostro’s Resume from circa [from Latin, meaning “around” ] June 1963 (a Resume is a document that explains your qualifications for work, such as your education, your experience, your publications, the languages you speak, and anything else that may be helpful in evaluating your candidacy for a job you are seeking):
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Dear William (and Daniel, Catherine, Michael & Baby Girl Y) (and your parents), (and any future descendants and their parents),
This is a Family Tree prepared by either my Aunt Teresa (my Father’s sister) or my Babcia Janina (my Father’s mother) — I suspect that it was prepared by your Pra-Pra-Babcia Janina in 1926 — depicting the early history of the Kostro family.
One of the interesting things about this chart is that it shows the Coats of Arms of the persons who married into our Kostro family. You may remember that a Coat of Arms belongs to a clan, and within each clan there may be more than one family. For example, the Kostro family belongs to the Rawicz clan; but within the Rawicz clan there are 460 Polish families — more information is available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rawa_coat_of_arms.
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Dear William (and Daniel, Catherine, Michael & Baby Girl Y) (and your parents), (and any future descendants and their parents),
Let me share with you a letter I received from my Aunt Teresa (my Father’s sister), which I received March 21, 2000:
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Dear William (and Daniel, Catherine, Michael & Baby Girl Y) (and your parents), (and any future descendants and their parents),
Yesterday I mentioned my Cousin Lilka — you may be interested in seeing a Descendant Family Tree from the perspective of my Grandfather Antoni Dzikowski (Pra-Babcia Kostro’s Father; one of your eight Great-Great-Grandfathers).
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Dear William (and Daniel, Catherine, Michael & Baby Girl Y) (and your parents), (and any future descendants and their parents),
Good morning Prince William,
This morning, I want to talk to you about Name Days (in Polish, they are called “Imieniny”) — I researched your name “William”. Guess what!– in Polish, your name is “Wilhelm,” and your Imieniny are on May 28 — the day of your birthday! That is amazing!!! Apparently, you predecessor in name was Saint William of Gellone — check him out!
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