He served in the United States Navy during World War II in Pacific shipboard service as a Quartermaster aboard USS Sanctuary.

From 1952 to 1956 Goralski worked with Radio Free Asia at Tokyo, Japan, Karachi, Pakistan, and New Delhi, India.

From 1956 to 1961, Goralski moved to the Voice of America, in Washington, D.C., where he supervised broadcasts as English editor for Asia and Chief of the Burmese Service.

Goralski, live on national feed, had to essentially retell the entire history of the political break-in at the Watergate complex that led up to the hearings in order to fill up the air during the unexpectedly long recess.

He also reported stories breaking from the Middle East, Laos, the Dominican Republic and sites of international conferences.

There he developed and directed corporate communications at the national and local level and served as a spokesman on public affairs issues.

Goralski also wrote the introduction to "The CBS Benjamin Report", published by the Media Institute in 1984, contributed a portion of "The Best of Emphasis" (Newman Press) in 1968, and the annual section on Vietnam for Yearbooks of the Encyclopædia Britannica, 1966-1975 editions.

His wife, Margaret, who served on the Board of Directors at the Claude Moore Colonial Farm in Langley, Virginia, died after a long illness on January 26, 2013.