Boguslaw B. Cioth

Engineering consultant

Born Poland; married Halina M.; children: Renata B., Adam J., Alexander E., Gregory A.

Education: Gimnazjum Poniatowskiego and Technical School in Warsaw; Bachelor of Science (B.S.) mechanical engineering, University of London; Harwell Reactor School, Oxford, England; graduate courses in United States.

Languages: English, Polish, Italian, Russian.

Career: Engineering consultant in England, Rockwell International, space division (worked on the Apollo, Apollo-Soyuz and Shuttle project); Hughes Aircraft Company.

Author: Numerous professional publications, achievement awards and certifications; one of participants whose name travelled to the moon on the Apollo 16 mission; patent for a tennis ball pick-up machine.

Military: Armia Krajowa (AK), section leader, wounded in the Warsaw Uprising, Aug. 3, 1944; corporal, Polish forces under British command 1945-46. Prisoner of War (POW) in Zeithein and Muhlberg 1944-45.

Member of: Armia Krajowa (AK), United States Tennis Association, Polish American Cultural Network (PACN), United States Golf Association, Polish Tennis Association.

Resident: in Poland to 1944, England 1946-57, United States 1957-; Rolling Hills Estates, CA.

From: "Polish Americans in California, Vol. II," National Center for Urban Ethnic Affairs & Polish American Historical Association. California 1995.