[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 17]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 22898]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   A TRIBUTE TO DR. EMMANUEL NWOZUZU

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                          HON. EDOLPHUS TOWNS

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                      Tuesday, September 29, 2009

  Mr. TOWNS. Madam Speaker, I rise today in recognition of Dr. Emmanuel 
Nwozuzu, CEO of ACE-IT Educational Consultants and an accomplished 
educator in my community.
  Dr. Nwozuzu was born in Umuoba Uratta Owerri Imo State Nigeria on 
April 14, 1942, in the middle of the Second World War to a family of 
six. At the time of his birth, Emmanuel's late father was a sub Army 
Tailor contractor in Calabara seaport in the Southern Eastern tip of 
Nigeria. Emmanuel's parents Catherine and Christopher were firm 
believers in education, having seen at first-hand the advantages of 
education among people in the army. They invested all that they had in 
educating all their six children.
  Emmanuel obtained his Bachelors in the University of Nigeria Nsukka 
in 1970, taught sciences in Eastern Region of Nigeria and Benue Plateau 
State of Nigeria where he was selected later to be the Principal of a 
school at a very young age of 29. There he worked hard to upgrade the 
school from a community secondary school to prestigious Kanam 
Government Secondary. While Principal, Emmanuel went to school and 
obtained a Post Graduate Diploma in Education from Ahmadu Bello 
University Zaria.
  Dr. Nwozuzu had the opportunity to immigrate to the United States to 
pursue further education, he obtained his Masters degree in Education 
in 1982 at Iowa State University in Science and Technology. It was 
Emmanuel's major Professor, Kahler who literally ``coaxed'' him to 
register for a doctoral program and gave him a job as an Assistant 
Research fellow.
  In 1985, Dr. Nwozuzu took up a teaching position at the New York City 
Board of Education where he taught subjects from chemistry and physics 
to reading and writing. On May 1, 1990, the Principal of P.S. 9 
recommended Dr. Nwozuzu for recognition from the Board of Education for 
Outstanding Leadership in Shepherd Program. In 1992, Dr. Nwozuzu was 
recognized by Kodak Company for the beautification of a triangular 
inner city park.
  In 2005, Dr. Nwozuzu was awarded a teaching merit award from the 
Secretary of Education in Washington, DC, and in that same year was 
awarded the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program Teachers Award. Now 
retired, Dr. Nwozuzu is the CEO of ACE-IT Educational Consultants.
  Dr. Nwozuzu is the author of Voice of Generators Past, the Pulse of 
the Igbo, an African Tribe, a social commentary, a voice that narrates 
the changing effects in a traditional village in Africa published by 
Xlibris, PA.
  Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to join me in recognizing Dr. 
Emmanuel Nwozuzu.

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