Dr. Teofil Lachowicz

Historian, archivist, journalist; graduate of the Higher Pedagogical School in Zielona Gora, Poland. During the years 1977-1990 a teacher of history. Lives in the United States since 1990. He is a volunteer at the Pilsudski Institute in america in New York and a teacher at the John Paul II Polish School in Maspeth, NY. From 1998 he is an archivist at the Society of Polish Army Veterans in America and the editor for the monthly "Weteran." In 2001 he obtained the degree of Doctor of Humanities in History at the Zielona Gora University. He is the author of a number of works including: "Weterani Polscy w Ameryce do 1939 roku" [Polish Veterans in America to 1939], (published by RYTM, Warsaw 2002) and "100 lat w sluzbie Polonii. Szkic do dziejow Polskiego Domu Narodowego na Greenpoincie" [100 years of service to Polonia. A sketch for the annals of the Polish National Home in Greenpoint] (Brooklyn NY, 2004), "Dla Ojczyzny ratowania. Szkice z dziejow wychodztwa polskiego w Ameryce" [To save the Homeland. Sketches from the history of the Polish exiles in America.] (Warsaw 2007) and over 200 articles in the popular and scholarly Polonia publications in the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Poland. For several years he as been writing for the "Przeglad Polski" [Polish Review} the Saturday cultural supplement to the daily "Nowy Dziennik." He is affiliated with many organizations and societies in the United States and Poland including: Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America (PIASA), the Kosciuszko Foundation, Polonia Technica, and the Polish Peoples' University. He conducts research into Polonia history.

From: Resume (2007)