Mary LeSawyer

Mary LeSawyer (October 8, 1912 – June 13, 2004, born Mary Wallick) also known as Mary Poliniak or Mary Polynack, was an American opera singer, a lyric soprano who had an active international career during the 1940s through the 1960s.

Early life and education Mary Wallick was born in Shamokin, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Frank Wallick (or Wallach) and Anna Mazur Wallick. She began singing in church and took piano lessons in Shamokin, then studied voice with Frank La Forge in New York City.

Career LeSawyer had a long and fruitful partnership with the New York City Opera (NYCO) from 1949 through 1961. With the NYCO she appeared in Carmen, La Traviata, Madame Butterfly, and others. In 1957 she was in the NYCO's televised world-premiere production of War and Peace. She took part in the company's celebrated 1960 national tour,

LeSawyer sang at Expo 58 in Brussels. and with the Ukrainian National Women's League of America. She sang at the UNA's Bicentennial festival in Shamokin in 1976. She was married for many years to her second husband, , president of the Ukrainian National Association from 1961 to 1978. The couple lived in Scotch Plains, New Jersey before moving to Venice, Florida when they retired. Mary LeSawyer died in 2004, at the age of 91, in Orlando, Florida.