[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 31 (Tuesday, February 19, 2019)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E191]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          HONORING THE LIFE OF EDMUND JEFFERSON DANZIGER, JR.

                                 ______
                                 

                           HON. MARCY KAPTUR

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, February 19, 2019

  Ms. KAPTUR. Madam Speaker, I rise to pay tribute to the life of 
Edmund Jefferson Danziger, Jr. of Sylvania Township, Ohio. Professor 
Danziger passed from this life at the age of eighty years on January 8, 
2019. He was memorialized at Epworth United Methodist Church in Toledo 
on February 16, 2019.
  Edmund Danziger was born in Newark, New Jersey and spent his 
childhood with brother Doug tramping through the outdoors near their 
Hillside home. After graduating from high school in 1956, he felt a 
call to ministry. However, he found a different call to history and 
research while a student at the College of Wooster, graduating in 1960. 
He went on to receive his doctorate from the University of Illinois. 
Along the way he married his wife, Margaret, and together they raised 
two children, John and Anne. They moved to Bowling Green Ohio, where he 
began his 46 year teaching career at Bowling Green State University.
  A noted researcher and expert on Ohio and Native American history, 
Professor Danziger's work led to the publication of books including 
Indians and Bureaucrats: Administering the Reservation Policy during 
the Civil War and Regeneration: Detroit's American Indian Community 
along with many scholarly articles. He became chair of the BGSU History 
Department, receiving teaching and faculty excellence awards and a 
special university achievement award for excellence. In 1995, BGSU 
Trustees named him ``distinguished teaching professor,'' only the 
seventh in the school's history.
  Admired and respected by colleagues and students, Edmund Danziger 
explained, ``A master teacher will ignite a flame with his or her 
students--a flame which will guide them in further academic studies and 
more generally along life's challenging path.'' This philosophy sums up 
Professor Danziger's career. He took students on field trips to Fort 
Meigs, Walpole Island First Nation, and hiking the Appalachian Trail. 
He guided graduate students through theses and dissertations. A former 
student now an assistant professor of history himself said, ``He was 
the kind of person who elevated everybody he was around. He genuinely 
cared about humanity. He cared about students.'' What better reflection 
of a life well lived?
  We send our heartfelt sympathy to the Danziger family. We hope they 
find some comfort in the gift of his life, those he touched and those 
who were made better by knowing Edmund Jefferson Danziger. Godspeed.

                          ____________________