Stanley F. Fryc Sr

09/28/2003

Stanley F. Fryc Sr., 69, of 4 Kittler Ave. died yesterday at home after a brief illness. Mr. Fryc was town registrar of voters from 1987 to 1997, and a member of the School Committee from 1971 to 1973, the Adams Personnel Board from 1973 to 1976, the Administrator Selection Committee in 1983 and 1988 and the town Democratic Committee. He was a longtime town meeting member, town moderator from 1979 to 1982 and an honorary delegate to the National Democratic Convention. Born in Adams on Dec. 8, 1933, son of Henry H. and Tekla Maslak Fryc, he attended Adams schools and was a 1951 graduate of the former St. Joseph's High School in North Adams. He graduated from the former North Adams State College, now Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, in 1964 with a bachelor of science degree in education and in 1966 with a master's degree in education. He did graduate study toward his doctorate there and at Williams College, the Catholic University of Lubin, Poland, and the Polish Institute of Christian Culture in Rome. He served in Air Force intelligence, and trained in indoctrination and as a photoprojectionist. He was honorably discharged in 1955. Mr. Fryc was a social studies teacher at Hoosac Valley High School until his retirement in 1997. Before that, he taught at C.T. Plunkett School from 1967 to 1970 and in the Florida Consolidated School District from 1964 to 1967. He also was employed by the former Arnold Print Works until 1960, GE until 1964 and Shopwell Inc. from 1974 to 1975, working nights and summers while attending college. He was a communicant of St. Stanislaus' Church and a member of its Confraternity of Christian Doctrine board and St. Stanislaus Kostka Society, and the Polish National Alliance. He was chairman of Troop 56 of the Boy Scouts of America and a member of the Adams Turners and the Adams Sportsmen's Club. He served on the Plunkett Hospital Study Committee from 1971 to 1972 and was a member of the Silver Greys Militia from 1973 to the present. Mr. Fryc was a member of the Lions Club, American Legion Post 160, the Barrett Housing Corp., Maple Grove Civic Club, Benevolent Protective Order of Elks Lodge 1335, VFW Post 1995 and the Berkshire County Sheriff's Association. He traveled the world and had six audiences with various popes. He leaves a son, Stanley F. Fryc Jr. of Indian Shores, Fla.; a daughter, Cynthia A. Damron of Ventura, Calif.; two grandchildren, and his former wife, Mary Ann Romeo Fryc of Tampa, Fla. FUNERAL NOTICE -- A Liturgy of Christian Burial for the life of Stanley F. Fryc Sr. will be celebrated Thursday at 10 at St. Stanislaus' Church by the Rev. David Raymond, pastor of St. Mary of the Assumption Church in Cheshire. Burial will follow in St. Stanislaus' Cemetery. Calling hours at McBRIDE FUNERAL HOME will be Wednesday from 5 to 8. Mr. Fryc requested the omission of flowers and that no specific memorial donations be made. He was predeceased by two brothers, Henry T. Fryc and Thaddeus J. Fryc.

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