AFoCR Award Gala - 2009 Chicago

 
     AFoCR Chairman Fred Malek announced that the 2009 award gala in the international city of Chicago. The Gala will celebrate 20 years of Czech freedom, democracy, and economic prosperity, plus the reconstruction of the Woodrow Wilson Monument in Prague's central city. The event will be at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel on November 10, 2009.  

     The gala event will highlight the extraordinary personal partnership between Woodrow Wilson and Tomáš G. Masaryk that resulted in the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic in 1918. In those early days, Masaryk spent time in both Washington and Chicago, teaching at the University of Chicago and advocating for Czech independence before finally proclaiming Czech independence in Philadelphia.
     All proceeds from the gala dinner will go toward rebuilding, from scratch, the Woodrow Wilson Monument in Prague, destroyed by the Nazis in 1941. The Wilson Monument was, and again will be, a magnificent symbol of the rich moral and material ties the United States has with the Czech lands and its peoples.

For tables, tickets and information please see the event website at: http://www.pjhchicago.com/AFCR.html