[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 169 (Thursday, November 20, 2003)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2344]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      TRIBUTE TO DR. EDWARD ROZEK

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                        HON. MARILYN N. MUSGRAVE

                              of colorado

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, November 19, 2003

  Mrs. MUSGRAVE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor a great American, 
Dr. Edward Rozek, for his years of dedicated service to the cause of 
freedom and democracy as a soldier, scholar, author, and college 
professor.
  Edward Rozek was 18 years old when Adolf Hitler conquered Poland. He 
decided to join the Allied forces in the west and escaped through 
Slovakia to Hungary, where he was captured by the Nazis and spent 
several months in a slave labor camp.
  Upon escaping from the Nazi camp, Rozek made his way to England, 
where he joined the First Polish Armored Division. He became a tank 
officer in the Armored Division's Reconnaissance Regiment and fought 
from Normandy through Belgium. Achieving the rank of Major, Rozek was 
wounded four times and received four Purple Hearts, three Crosses of 
Valor, as well as numerous other decorations.
  In 1948 Dr. Rozek arrived in the United States without family, money, 
or profession. He was admitted to Harvard after earning money to pay 
tuition by working on a dairy farm and then at a gasoline station. In 7 
years, he earned a Bachelor of Arts, Magna cum Laude and Phi Beta 
Kappa, Master of Arts, and his Doctorate of Philosophy.
  After leaving Harvard, Dr. Rozek became a Professor of Comparative 
Governments at the University of Colorado. He was Director of Slavic 
Studies for 25 years and Deputy Editor for one of the most prestigious 
publications on Eastern Europe in the world, Journal of Central 
European Affairs. His best-known book is Allied Wartime Diplomacy, for 
which he received the National Foundation Book Award. The students at 
the University of Colorado selected him as Professor of the Year and 
Distinguished Faculty Member.
  During the 1980 Presidential campaign, Rozek was a member of Ronald 
Reagan's Advisory Council on Defense and Foreign Policy and is 
currently a member of the Reagan Associates. He is an honorary member 
of Solidarity, and received Knighthood in the Venerable Order of St. 
John from Queen Elizabeth.
  Presently, Dr. Rozek holds the Endowed Garnsey-Rozek Professorship in 
Economic and Political Freedom at the University of Northern Colorado. 
He will retire at the end of this year. Dr. Rozek is married to 
Elizabeth and has two sons and four grandchildren.
  On behalf of the countless number of students, citizens, and 
legislators he has touched, I want to thank Dr. Rozek for his years of 
dedicated service to liberty through classical liberal education. As 
the famous philosopher Sidney Hook said of Dr. Rozek in the dedication 
to his book, Academic Freedom and Academic Anarchy, Ed is truly an 
``embattled fighter for free men, free society, and a free university 
against fascism, communism, and totalitarian liberalism.''
  May God bless Dr. Edward Rozek and his epic legacy of service to free 
people everywhere.

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