Jeanette Nieciecka, (Kaminski)
History teacher, local community leader
Born Apr. 11, Bayonne (NJ), U.S.; daughter of Aleksander and Marianna (Pasternacka); married Stanislaw Poray - Nieciecki.
Education: diploma, Glassboro State College (NJ); Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Master of Arts (M.A.), Ph.D. equivalency, New York University, New York City; certificate, The Sorbonne, University of Paris (France); New School for Social Research, Seton Hall University, South Orange (NJ).
Career: teacher (social studies), Bayonne High School, 1935-81; Retired.
Author: translator, Black Elflock of a Red Parliament, Toward the Future with Hope, and The Recovered Lands (booklet by J. Kostrzewski).
Member of, i.a.: vice president, president, chairman, Woman's Press Club of New York City; appointed member, Governors' Conference on the Status of Women; League of Women Voters; National Education Association; New Jersey Education Association; New Jersey Retired Educators Association; in Bayonne - past president, Business and Professional Women, past vice president, Bayonne Teachers Association, chairman, Seniority Committee, and Teachers Welfare, vice president, Polish American Heritage Committee, president, Friends of Library, member, Jeanette K. Nieciecka Chopin Collection at Bayonne Library and Culture Center; Museum of Modern Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Newark Museum; Feminist Majority; Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (P.I.A.S.A.); Polish Cultural Foundation, Clark (NJ).
Honors: humanitarian award, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; annual award, Youth Center; Woman of the Year, Business & Professional Women.
Languages: English, Polish, French, Italian, Russian.
Hobbies: playing piano, opera, ballet.
Home: 14 West 19th Street, Bayonne, NJ 07002.
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation,
New York, NY, 1996