[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 75 (Wednesday, June 8, 2005)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1172]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     IN HONOR OF DR. MARTHA HERZOG

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                             HON. SAM FARR

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, June 8, 2005

  Mr. FARR. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Dr. Martha Herzog, who 
retired on June 3, 2005 from her position as Vice-Chancellor of 
Evaluation and Standards at the Defense Language Institute, Foreign 
Language Center here in the 17th district of California which I 
represent. Within the executive branch of our government there are many 
employees who, through their actions and their leadership, have an 
enduring impact on the federal government, their organization and their 
fellow employees. One such person of outstanding talent and lasting 
achievement throughout her career is Dr. Martha Herzog.
  Before beginning her 31 years as a federal employee, Dr. Herzog 
received her PhD in English from The University of Texas at Austin. She 
taught writing at that great institution and performed similar duties 
at the Austin Community College and the San Antonio campus of Webster 
University before beginning her career in 1974 as a Training Instructor 
in San Antonio, Texas at the Defense Language Institute, English 
Language Center. In 1977 she was promoted and transferred to the 
Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center at the Presidio of 
Monterey, California. She initially assumed a position in the DLIFLC 
Testing Division and subsequent promotions led to her serving as the 
Dean of the School of Romance languages, the Dean of the School of 
Central European Languages and finally, the Dean of the DLIFLC Korean 
School. She also served as the Assistant Provost for Curriculum and 
Instruction. In 1998 she was promoted to her current position as Vice-
Chancellor for Evaluation and Standards.
  As an educator and a leader, she has been able to motivate those who 
served under her as well as those she served with. She was instrumental 
in creating greater awareness of different learning styles for each 
student and encouraging more professional training for the 
instructional staff as well as always providing an attentive ear to her 
subordinates. Perhaps one of her more enduring accomplishments was her 
work on creating the Faculty Personnel System at DLIFLC. Her efforts 
along with those of others, has enabled the establishment of a rank in 
person, merit-based pay system that rewards those teachers who make the 
greatest contributions to the DLIFLC mission.
  In her capacity as the head of the DLIFLC test development and 
program evaluation, she revised the testing materials to meet the 
pressing needs of our military for quality linguists who must know a 
second or third language to carry out their duties. For the past ten 
years she has served on and headed the NATO Bureau for International 
Language Coordination working group for testing and assessment, 
involving over 30,000 military linguists each year. During this time 
she provided great leadership to that committee in revising the 
language descriptors for the NATO STANG 6001. Additionally, she 
designed and taught a two-week language-testing seminar for newly 
admitted nations to NATO. Furthermore, throughout her career, she has 
been an active contributor to her field's professional publications. 
She has written several articles and provided many papers to the 
American Council for Teaching Foreign Language, the Teachers of English 
to Speakers of Other Languages and the Defense Exchange Committee on 
Language Efforts. She also has given extensive and long-time service to 
the U.S. government's Interagency Language Roundtable.
  Mr. Speaker, I wish to highlight Dr. Herzog's dedicated service to 
our country throughout the years. As she retires from active government 
service she shows all who know her a model of accomplishment and 
service. In all her service, she has given the very best of mature 
leadership, innovation, and concrete results. I join my colleagues in 
wishing her the best in her retirement.

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