''American Friendship: Herbert Hoover and Poland'' Exhibition to Open in Warsaw.STANFORD, Calif. -- The lifelong interest in and assistance to Poland by Herbert Hoover, the founder of the Hoover Institution The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace is a public policy think tank and library founded by Herbert Hoover at Stanford University, his alma mater. The Institution was founded in 1919 and over time has amassed a huge archive of documentation related to President and the 31st United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. president, will be commemorated with the opening of a special exhibit, "American Friendship: Herbert Hoover and Poland" on November 12 in Warsaw. Co-sponsored by the Hoover Institution and the Royal Castle in Warsaw, the exhibit will be in the Library of King Stanislaw August Poniatowski, housed in the 17th-18th cc Tin-Roofed Palace wing of the Royal Castle complex. The exhibition, with a bilingual storyline Noun 1. storyline - the plot of a book or play or film plot line plot - the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.; "the characters were well drawn but the plot was banal" and a printed guide, will be open for viewing until January 16, 2005. Two important anniversaries -- the 130th year of Herbert Hoover's birth and the 40th year of his death -- are a backdrop to the exhibition. The exhibition is chronologically chron·o·log·i·cal also chron·o·log·ic adj. 1. Arranged in order of time of occurrence. 2. Relating to or in accordance with chronology. divided into several parts, and includes photographs, documents, as well as historical artifacts artifacts see specimen artifacts. illustrating Herbert Hoover's commitment to the survival and the well-being of Poland -- throughout his life as a private citizen, statesman, president, and above all as a dedicated humanitarian. The exhibit items will be mostly from Hoover Institution holdings, with additional documents drawn from the Polish State Archives. Included in the exhibition is the story of Herbert Hoover's friendship with the great pianist and statesman, Ignace Paderewski, which began during Hoover's Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. years. American Relief Administration American Relief Administration was an American relief mission to Europe and later Soviet Russia after World War I. Herbert Hoover, future president of the United States, was the program director. work in Poland after World War I, which Hoover directed, and which saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of Polish children is another major theme of the exhibition, as are Hoover's personal visits to Poland in 1913, 1919, 1938, and 1946. Finally, the exhibition recalls the story of the Warsaw monument honoring Herbert Hoover and America. The November 12 opening of the exhibition follows Poland's national holiday of November 11, the country's Independence Day. The timing is appropriate as it brings to mind America's strong support for Polish independence during and immediately after the Great War, a policy in which Herbert Hoover played a very major role. The afternoon ceremonies will begin with laying of a wreath at the memorial stone in Hoover Square on Krakowskie Przedmiescie. The opening will be held in the Great Assembly Hall of the Royal Castle with the participation of representatives of Polish government, the United States Embassy, as well as Warsaw's intellectual and cultural elite. The celebration will include a concert by Cantores Minores, the internationally renowned men and boy's choir of the Basilica basilica (bəsĭl`ĭkə), large building erected by the Romans for transacting business and disposing of legal matters. Rectangular in form with a roofed hall, the building usually contained an interior colonnade, with an apse at one end Cathedral of St. John the Baptist John the Baptist prophet who baptized crowds and preached Christ’s coming. [N.T.: Matthew 3:1–13] See : Baptism John the Baptist head presented as gift to Salome. [N.T.: Mark 6:25–28] See : Decapitation in Warsaw, singing American and Polish songs. The concert will be followed by a reception, viewing of the exhibition, and a dinner in one of Warsaw Old Town's restaurants. The Hoover Institution delegation to Warsaw, that includes some twenty overseers, fellows, staff members and spouses, will be led by Director John Raisian and Herbert Hoover III. In an introduction to the soon-to-be released catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. of the exhibition, John Raisian notes:
During the past fifteen years, the Hoover Institution has done
much in Poland. Our exhibition...is our first major Polish project
of the new century. We look forward to continuing our founder's
mission of sharing our resources with and contribute to our
understanding and friendship with Poland.
The exhibition and the publication of the catalog were made possible by a generous gift from the Taube Family Foundation. A gift from Henrietta Fankhauser will enable the exhibition to travel to various cities in Poland. |
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