– Where would I be now if it were not for I Liceum Ogólnokształcące? wonders Beata Tadla, a popular journalist and presenter of, among other programs, TVP’s “Wiadomości,” and a 1994 graduate of “the First.” – These were wonderful, marvelous years. I owe my school a great deal.

The school, its graduates and teachers celebrated its 70th anniversary on Saturday, September 26. The high school auditorium could not accommodate all the participants, so the gathering was moved to a larger room at the Qubus Hotel.

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– You, our graduates, are our pride, said Halina Tamioła, the school’s headteacher. – You have had a major influence on life in the city and in the country. The First High School truly is a school of many opportunities.

Among the notable graduates are:

  • Izabella Cywińska – theatre and film director
  • Marek Derwich – professor of medieval history and lecturer at the University of Wrocław
  • Tomasz Kot – theatre and film actor
  • Waldemar Krzystek – film and theatre director
  • Tadeusz Lachowicz – professor of microbiology at the University of Wrocław
  • Andrzej Myc – employee of NATO structures in Washington
  • Roland Rowiński – film director
  • Tadeusz Samborski – member of the Sejm during its second and fourth terms, founder of the “Krajobrazy” Cultural Association in Legnica
  • Elżbieta Szmytka – opera singer and distinguished Polish soprano
  • Ewa Szuszkiewicz – professor of astrophysics at the University of Szczecin
  • Cezary Suszyński – professor at the SGH Warsaw School of Economics
  • Beata Tadla – radio and television journalist
  • Daniel Waszkiewicz – captain of the national handball team and participant in the Moscow Olympics
  • Tomasz Wójcik – member of the Sejm during its third term
  • Ryszard Wrzaskała – musician, composer and conductor of “Mazowsze” from 1967 to 1969.

Over those seventy years, the school has had nine headteachers. Since 1994, it has been successfully led by Halina Tamioła.

During the meeting with graduates in the Qubus Hotel room, President Tadeusz Krzakowski, addressing the graduates, said that returning to the past is a deeply moving experience. – I am pleased to be able to take part in this gathering, he said. – Minds are shaped for life at this school.

Graduates from every year, including of course the earliest ones, met again within the school’s walls with sentiment and emotion. – There are fewer and fewer of us, because that is the order of things, they said. – But our “First” is still magnificent.

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