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Chybowska, Halina
Writer, social worker. Business address: 151 East 67th Street. New York, N. Y. Born in Tashkent, Turkestan, August 6, 1915; daughter of Wladyslaw Chybowski and Maria Skiba. Graduated from Julia Richman H.S. in 1931. Received B.A. degree from Hunter College, 1935, and in 1938 Hunter College awarded her M.A. degree. Studied at Columbia University, 1937-1940 (completed credits for Ph.D. degree in Polish--working now on a dissertation. Subject: Polish proverbs). Holder of N. Y. State and N. Y. City license to teach French in high schools. Received scholarship from Kosciuszko Foundation to study in Poland during the summer of 1939. Research secretary and assistant to Dr. Zygmunt Piotrowski of the Dept. of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, 1937-1940. Polish social worker at the Brooklyn YWCA, 1940-1942. Editorial assistant "New Europe," a monthly magazine. Since May, 1942, contributing editor of the "Polish Review," published by the Polish Information Center. Member of Phi Beta Kappa (national honorary society). Former president of Klub Polski of Columbia University, 1939-1940. Member of Executive Board, Polish Circle of New York City, since 1940. Residence: 117 4th Place, Brooklyn, N. Y.

From: "Who's Who in Polish America" by Rev. Francis Bolek, Editor-in-Chief; Harbinger House, New York, 1943

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