[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 2]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 2174-2175]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      TRIBUTE TO DR. GEORGE BELOZ

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                            HON. KEN CALVERT

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Monday, February 6, 2017

  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor and pay tribute to an 
individual whose dedication and contributions to Riverside County, 
California, are exceptional. After ten years of exemplary service, Dr. 
George Beloz is stepping down as President of the Greater Corona 
Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
  Dr. Beloz was born in Chicago and grew up in an ethnically diverse 
neighborhood, where he was interested in fine arts and fishing. At an 
early age he sold daily newspapers on South Lakeshore Drive in Chicago, 
worked for Fannie Mae as a teenager and played the piano at church. 
After a couple of years in college, George was drafted into the Army 
and was assigned to Heidelberg, Germany where his wife joined him and 
they lived off-post and traveled throughout Europe while stationed 
there. After his military service he returned to college and completed 
his Bachelor's, Master's and PhD degrees, the latter two with the 
assistance of the GI Bill. He received his PhD from Southern Illinois 
University. After college, Dr. Beloz was recruited into the Foreign 
Service and worked for the U.S. Department of State for seven years 
learning the ropes in the Asian, the Middle Eastern and Latin American 
regional areas.
  Dr. Beloz left the Foreign Service and held several administrative 
and educational assignments in the Orange County College District. He 
and his wife, Ruth, moved to Corona in 1983. Since moving to Corona, he 
was a candidate for the School Board in 1989 and served on the Board of 
Trustees for the Corona Public Library from 1993 to 1997. Dr. Beloz was 
appointed to the Citizens Oversight Committee for Measure C, the $169 
million bond issue affecting Riverside City College, Moreno Valley and 
Norco campuses. In 2016, Dr. Beloz was appointed to the Corona Regional 
Medical Center Board of Governors. For the last ten years he has headed 
up the Greater Corona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (GCHCOC) by planning 
engaging evening meetings at Miguel's restaurant with a wide variety of 
speakers on topics of community interest that have contributed to 
increasing GCHCOC membership.
  Dr. Beloz has contributed immensely to the betterment of our 
community and I am proud to call him a fellow community member, 
American and my friend. To conclude, Mr. Speaker, I want to thank Dr. 
Beloz for his service to Corona--his dedication, insight and passion 
will be greatly missed.

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