Sokalski, Vladimir R.
Educator. Lecturer at Loyola University. Business address: 28 N. Franklin St., Chicago, Ill. Born in Cracow, Poland, Feb. 6, 1877. Son of Severinus and Josepha (Nedzinska) Sokalski. Studied at the University of Vienna, Austria and at the University of Lwow, Poland. Attended Academy of Commerce in Vienna, Austria, from which he graduated in 1897. Received Doctor of Laws in 1900. Married Praxeda M. Szafranski in 1931. Chief of a department at the Praesidium of Ministry's Council. Warsaw, Poland, 1919-21. Justice of the Supreme Court in Poland, 1919-21. Justice of the Supreme Court in Poland, 1922-1929. In 1928 at the invitation of the State University in Helsinki, Finland, delivered there a series of lectures. In April 1929 as delegate of Poland participated at the Monetary International Conference, League of Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, and in behalf of the Polish Government signed a convention against counterfeiting of money. Since October, 1941 lecturer at Loyola University, Chicago, Ill. Member of Association Internationale de Droit penal, Paris, France. Member of Kosciuszko Association Committee of Polish Scholars in America, with headquarters in New York City. Honorary member of Polish Bar Association. Author of several monographs published in the Polish language in numerous periodicals in Poland. Author of following books: "The Prisons in the
U.S." published in Polish in Warsaw, Poland, 1936; "I have Seen America," also published in Polish in Warsaw in 1937. Residence: 1915 W. Schiller St., Chicago, Ill.From: "Who's Who in Polish America" by Rev. Francis Bolek, Editor-in-Chief; Harbinger House, New York, 1943