|
• Over
$10,000.00 raised through the Marisha Data radio program on
WHFC for the restoration of the Salvatorian Fathers Seminary
in Trzebina, Poland.
• Over
$1,000,000.00 raised for U.S. War Bonds during drive over
radio WHFC.
•
Thousands of dollars raised for Infantile Paralysis and Red
Cross through Clubs and organizations working for these
causes with her continuous advertising and personal
appearances.
•
Working for ten years and making personal appearances for
yearly benefits for Crippled Children in Poland. Also
working for Fr. Kolbe Orphans for Nagasaki, Japan.
• For
fifteen years collected stamps and aid for the Missionary
Sisters in Africa for which hundreds of dollars worth of
medicine has been purchased.
• For
many years she has worked for Veterans and Old Peoples Homes
with donations through her radio program and personal
appearances.
• Form
1969 to 1972 had been sending help with donations from her
radio listeners for blind children in Laski, near Warsaw,
Poland.
• She
worked for church benefits and made patriotic appearances.
|
field
as a radio announcer, operatic and concert singer and a comedienne.
Gifted with a great voice and acting talent, she used her abilities
well. A soloist in the Midwest and San Carlo Opera Company, she sang in
"Il Travatore," "Hansel and Gretel," "Barber of Seville," and other
operas. She frequently appeared in Grant Park concerts and did summer
stock for two seasons at Music in the Round in Skokie in "Gentlemen
Prefer Blondes." She was an accomplished character actress and singer
and her specialty was comedy. Her appearances took her to Toledo,
Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, New York, and Canada.