[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 8]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 11129]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       IN HONOR OF ROBERT RIVERS

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                          HON. ELIOT L. ENGEL

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, June 1, 2004

  Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, Robert Rivers is a man of many parts who has 
served his community, city and country. Bobby, as he is most familiarly 
known, was born in Harlem and after high school joined the Air Force, 
serving four years and being honorably discharged.
  He returned home to his family and met Hazel Pazant, who became his 
wife. Fortunately for the Bronx they moved here and started to raise 
their family of four children. Bobby became a police officer in the New 
York City Police Department in 1969. While a police officer, he 
attended and graduated Fordham University with a degree in Sociology.
  Also during his years on the force, he settled in the northeast Bronx 
and he joined his local block association, the Seton Falls Neighborhood 
Association, one of the many organizations helping his community that 
he joined. He also joined the Guardians Association, a police 
organization, eventually becoming its president. He retired from the 
Police Department in 1997 as a Detective but remains active with the 
National Black Police Association.
  He has engaged in many civic activities in his community, including 
the fight to save Seton Falls Park from becoming a landfill, and joined 
the 47th Precinct Review Committee, monitoring the activities of the 
police in the community. He is also a member of the NAACP, serving on 
several committees in that organization, and is chair of the Legal 
Redress Committee.
  He also serves as Chair of the Thurgood Marshall Independent 
Democratic Club.
  Bobby Rivers is a tireless activist for his community, willing and 
able to participate in any and every activity that will help his 
community and improve life there. I congratulate him for his great work 
and wish him every continued success.

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