Poznan, Dany, Ola, & Father

When our daughter attended college in Los Angeles, her Professor of Marketing was from Poznan, and was teaching in Los Angeles for one year. In 1985 we called him from Vienna to tell him we would be in Poznan in a week, and he informed us he was leaving the next day for the US to teach in Texas.

The professor said to keep his phone number as his friend, a Dean at the University in Poznan, would be staying in his apartment, and if we had a problem, he was a good man to know!

When we arrived in Poznan (in 1985), the only problem we could think of was that we had no problem to think of, but we wanted to meet this family. We found Hotel Merkur and knew the Professor could also find it, then called him. We spent a delightful afternoon with the family, and have corresponded with Dany, the daughter, several times since.

When we arrived in Poznan in 1991, as happened in 1985, the people in the Hotel Merkur let me use the desk phone at no cost. I called Dany and in a few minutes Dany and her sister Alexandra (Ola) greeted us and we followed them to Dany's apartment. Dany apologized for the depressing entrance and hallway, and said we can see what a Communist Society produces, but while small, her apartment was spotless.

This was the third birthday for Dany's daughter Olga, and we were there for the birthday party. As you might expect, one of the gifts was a Barbie Doll.

Dany’s (Danuta) sister Alexandra is called Ola, and her mother’s name is Urusla and is called Ula. Here we had Ola, Ula, Olga, and Dany, four beautiful ladies. Alexandra was a teenager with a beautiful smile in 1985, and now she is a beautiful young lady, as is Dany. I said that Olga is living proof that babies are lucky to have a beautiful mother, grandmother, and aunt.