Graduates of “Budowlanka” meet after 52 years

The reunion of graduates 52 years after they left the school had a special setting.

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– It’s hard to believe that so much time has passed – says Paweł Makara, a former student of the Construction Technical School in Jarosław, one of the participants of the unusual reunion, organised at the “Leśna Polana” Centre in Radawa, where 17 of the former 32 students of the class showed up.

Some – due to health and family issues – could not come, and some had already passed away. However, the absent were not forgotten. The meeting at the premises was preceded by a visit to the Old Communal Cemetery in Jarosław, where the graves of deceased teachers were visited: Jan Gierczak, the school principal, and professors Feliksy Kozioł, Janina Starzewska, Bronisław Biesiadecki, Jadwiga Mielniczek, Stanisław Peszko. The grave of the deceased schoolmate Adam Motyka was also visited. In turn, at the New Communal Cemetery in Jarosław, the graves of deceased colleagues were met: Marian Dąbrowski and Marek Szczygieł, who were paid tribute by lighting candles.

– One of our colleagues, Andrzej Rosół, also played melodies typical for such occasions on the clarinet. The notes ran among the trees, and refreshed memories of people who are no longer with us were hatching in our heads – reported another of the participants of the meeting, Adam Szajowski.

Not everyone could be visited, because several colleagues were buried in other places in the country: Witold Bobecki in Bochnia, Jan Głuszek in Pełnytycze, Jan Kojder in Świętoniowa, Mariusz Radoń in Bircza, and Jan Szczepaniak in Kraków – Bieżanów. Selected delegations had previously traveled to these distant graves. Leszek Dybisz, who died in the United States of America, was not forgotten either. A candle was lit in his intention at the chapel at the Old Cemetery in Jarosław.

They scattered around Poland and the world

Those present at the meeting – Bogdan Banasiewicz from Przemyśl, Aleksander Bogusz from Rzeszów, Marek Broniewski from Przemyśl, Józef Chudy from Przeworsk, Bogdan Depko from Gdynia, Antoni Dziduch from Biłgoraj, Jerzy Król from Warsaw, Marek Kuśnierz from Tomaszów Lubelski, Paweł Makara from Jarosław, Paweł Mielniczuk from Jarosław, Franciszek Pietryna from Radawa, Kazimierz Podolec from Jarosław, Jan Podsiadło from Warsaw, Andrzej Rosół from Grzęska, Adam Szajowski from Stalowa Wola, Marian Szłański from Lubaczów, Wiesław Szumiński from Jarosław – had something to recall, because of the humorous and important events in the times of...

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