Stanley Walter Zamonski (Zamojski)
Museum curator, photographer, historian
Born Aug. 7, 1919, Shenandoah (PA), U.S.; son of Stanislaw and Cecilia (Baleshewski); married Barbara (Stewart).
Education: New England Aircraft - Wentworth Institute, 1942; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, 1943.
Career: engineering draftsman, Airway Manual, 1946-47, and Colorado Department of Highways, 1947-53; free-lance photo-journalist, Denver (CO), 1954-68; photographer, Jefferson Sentinel Press, 1955-70; prof., Instituto Allenda, San Miguel Allenda (Mexico), 1968-72; engineering draftsman, Denver Planning Department, 1972-75; curator, Buffalo Bill Cody Museum, Golden (CO), 1975-88; Retired.
Author: The 59'ers - Roaring Denver, 3 editions, last 1983; The Westernaires, 1967; Grunwald, 1981; Denver City, 1982; Gentleman Rouge, 1984; Padre Polaco, 1984; Our Campaigns - Civil War, 1994; co-author, Buffalo Bill - His Life & Legend, 1981; over 200 articles in newspapers and magazines.
Member of: president, Polish Club of Denver; president, Polish - American Arts Council; National Writers Club; American Association of State & Local Historians; Denver Art Club; Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (P.I.A.S.A.).
Honors: Air Medal with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters, U.S. Army Air Corps, 1945; Braum Award, Denver Art Directors & Advertising Association, 1959; Colorado Press Photographer of the Year, 1965, 1966, 1967; award, National Press Association, 1967; Buffalo Bill Tent award, 1982; Citizen of American Freedom Day Award, Bicentennial Committee, 1987.
Served with: United States Army Air Force (USAAF), glider and B-24 bomber pilot, 2nd lieutenant, 1939-46.
Affiliation: Independent.
Languages: English, Polish, Spanish.
Hobbies: ship-modelling, travel, history.
Home: 22 West 9th Street, Waynesboro, PA 17268.
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation, New York, NY, 1996.