Morning Register Des Moines, Iowa
After 7 Years: The Promised Land
Looking out over "the promised land" of Iowa is this small family of D. P.s (displaced persons), with a home at last after seven years adrift on three continents. The family consists of Bruno Tulasiewicz, a onetime Polish judge; his wife, Siegred, and their 5-year-old daughter, Christine. The child was born in a D. P. camp in southern Africa. Mr. and Mrs. Tulasiewicz are new instructors at Penn college. Farm scene is near Oskaloosa.
Polish D. P. Couple Joins Faculty at Penn College
By George Mills.
(Register Staff Writer.)
OSKALOOSA, IA.-An exploding bomb in Poland in 1939 touched off a chain of events that has brought two D.P.s (displaced persons) to William Penn college here as instructors.
They are Bruno Jan Tulasiewicz, 40, (pronounced Tu-la-she-
and 14 in the other. She has 13 students in a class in beginning French and 11 in a class in intermediate French.--
Both are unwelcome to the present Communist-dominted Polish government. The former
Former Judge.
He is a former Polish judge
vich) and his wife Siegred, also and he will teach general economics
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economics and economic geography. _j He has 13 students in one section
judge, whose English isn't too expert yet, said:
"Ninety-nine per cent of the Polish people are thinking the same thing, that Communism and Hitlerism is the same. One is as bad as the other. If somebody wants to have a free life, he's got to have this free enterprise type of system."
Both have had experience as educators and President Cecil Hinshaw of the college expects them to fit in well with the institution's program. He conceded that Tulasiewicz has some distance to go before his English will be easily understandable.
"We have small classes, 'however, and he has a light teaching load," Hinshaw said. "Also, our students are quite a bit more sympathetic than those in some other colleges."
