Posted by Paula Lucy Delosh on April 29, 2008:

Adam Andrew Koscielniak, 97, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and a former resident of Arlington who was co-developer of the Fairfax Racquet Club in the early 1970's, died February 15 at his home in Georgetown, S.C. He had a type of refractory anemia. Col. Koscielniak was born in Krakow, Poland. At eight years old, he immigrated to the United States under great peril during World War I. He settled with his family in Utica, N.Y., He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1930. During World War II, he served in the Army's Coast Artillery Corps, and his postings included the Philippines, Hawaii and the Army War College at Fort McNair. He retired from military service in 1950 and resided in Arlington until the late 1980s. Col. Koscielniak received an MBA from American University in 1955. He taught math at the Flint Hill Preparatory School in Fairfax in the early 1960s. He was a tennis pro at the Country Club of Fairfax, among others, and a hotelier in Myrtle Beach, S.C. He was an avid tennis player until his late eighties. His wife of 63 years, Marguerite Koscielniak, died in 1999. Survivors include a daughter, Carol Ann Dear of Georgetown, formerly of Gloucester, Va.; a sister, Cecelia Jacksina of Charlottesville; two grandsons; and six great grandchildren.

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