Andrzej Jozef Beck
Engineering executive
Born Sept. 11, 1926, Warsaw, Poland; came to U.S., 1940; son of Jozef and Maria (Slominska); married Ewa (Jedrzejewicz); children: Barbara, Malgorzata.
Education: cadet-officer, Officer Candidate School, Haddington (Scotland); B.S., Rutgers University, New Brunswick (NJ), 1950.
Career: chief engineer, 1958-67, engineering director, 1967-71, vice president, 1978-83, Waterbury Farrel, Cheshire (CT); director, East European Trade, 1971-77, assistant vice president, 1977-78, Textron, Inc., Providence (RI); president, Eastport Trading Co., Cheshire, 1983 -.
Author: U.S. patent no. 3443410; article, 1964.
Member of: Association of Iron and Steel Engineers; advisory committee member, U.S. Deptartment of Commerce, 1974-79; associate fellow, Pearson College, Yale University, New Haven (CT); president, Pilsudski Institute of America; board member, PEKAO Trading Corporation, New York City; Studium - North American Study Center for Polish Affairs; Polish American Congress (P.A.C.)
Served with: Polish Armed Forces in the West, 4th antitank regiment, 1944-46. Independent. Roman Catholic.
Languages: Polish, English, French.
Hobbies: collecting stamps.
Home: 579 Wood Pond Rd., Cheshire, CT 06410
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation, New York, NY, 1996