Edward Stanislaw Witanowski
Broadcaster
Born Jan. 16, 1916, Brooklyn (NY), U.S.; son of Stanislaw and Leokadia (Nowinska); married Eleonora (Zablotowicz); children: Edward, Stefan, Krystyna.
Career: broadcaster, WHOM, 1939-50, Two Edwards Radio Program, WPOW, 1950-90, New York City; announcer, producer, Radio Free Europe, 1950-82; civil service commissioner, Nassau County (NY), 1963-84; Retired.
Author: scripts for Radio Free Europe.
Member of: honorary member, Polish Singers Alliance of America.
Honors: Gold Cross of Merit, 1952, 1965, Order of Polonia Restituta, 1988, Polish Government in Exile, London (United Kingdom); Gold Cross of Merit, Polish Home Army - Armia Krajowa (A.K.) Veterans Association, 1966; crosses of merit, Polish Army Veterans Association - Stowarzyszenie Weteranow Armii Polskiej (S.W.A.P.), Polish Veterans of World War II - Stowarzyszenie Polskich Kombatantow (S.P.K.), 1970, Polish Singers Alliance of America, 1978, and Polish Association of Former Political Prisoners, 1988; Pro Ecciesia et Pontifice Medal, Pope John Paul II, 1987.
Served with: U.S. Army, World War II, Counter Intelligence Corps, special agent, 1942-44, Provost Marshall, lieutenant, 1945.
Affiliation: Republican. Roman Catholic.
Languages: English, Polish, German.
Hobbies: reading, mathematics, languages.
Home: 166 Weeks Road, East Williston, NY 11596.
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation, New York, NY, 1996.