Pelczynski, Walter, 1916-2000
Father Walter Pelczynski Memoirs
1983
MS 148bd
1 envelope
(0.25 linear ft.)
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Native of Adams, Massachusetts who was the second American-born person to be ordained by the Congregation of Marians, which has its roots in Poland, and served as head of the Marians at Eden Hill in Stockbridge, Massachusetts for many years. Includes a photocopy of his typewritten memoirs, which were written in 1983, and cover the years 1934 to 1983.
English.
Father Walter Pelczynski, a native of Adams, Massachusetts, who was the second American-born person to be ordained by the Congregation of Marians, which has its roots in Poland. Father Pelczynski served as head of the Marians at Eden Hill in Stockbridge, Massachusetts for many years.
Photocopy of the typewritten memoirs of Father Walter Pelczynski, covering the years from 1934 until 1983.
The collection is open for research.
Cite as: Father Walter Pelczynski Memoirs (MS 148bd). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
Massachusetts (West)
Poland and Polish Americans
Religion
Acquired from Father Walter Pelczynski, via Rev. Charles Jan Di Mascola and Stanley Radosh, 1987.
Processed by Linda Seidman.
Pelczynski, Walter, 1916-2000.
Marian Fathers. St. Stanislaus Kostka Province.
Catholic Church--Massachusetts--Stockbridge--History--Sources.
Polish Americans--Massachusetts--Stockbridge--Biography.
Superiors, Religious--Massachusetts--Stockbridge--Biography.
Stockbridge (Mass.)--Biography.