Dr. Nicholas Dima grew up in Bucharest under the Stalinist years of communism. At the age of 19 he was expelled from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest and tried to escape to Yugoslavia and the West. He was caught at the border and spent the next three and a half years in prison and labor camps. (His early misadventure is described in the English book, Journey to Freedom, which was also translated and published in Romania as Calatorie spre Libertate.) Later, however, he managed to graduate from Bucharest University and in 1968 left the country and settled in the US.
In the United States, Mr. Dima went back to school and received a doctoral degree from Columbia University in New York. His American professional career includes working 20 years for Voice of America in Washington, and teaching college, university and US Military schools for another ten years. Among his most rewarding achievements were meeting kings, presidents, and prime ministers as a VOA reporter and editor, teaching American officers up to the rank of full colonel, teaching in the US and Africa, and promoting democracy, education, and human values world-wide. All this time, Dr. Dima defended tirelessly the rights of Romania and the Romanian people in the US and promoted a better Romanian-American understanding.
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