Richard Conrad Lukas
Historian, author
Born Aug. 29, 1937, Lynn (MA), U.S.; son of Franciszek Lukaszewski and Pelagia (Kapuscinski); married Marita (Rokicki); children: Jennifer, Renee.
Education: Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), 1957, Master of Arts (M.A.), 1960, Ph.D., 1963, Florida State University, Taallahassee; Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.), Alliance College, Cambridge Springs (PA), 1987.
Career: prof., Tennessee Technical University, Cookeville, 1963-89, Wright State University, Lake Campus, Celina (OH), 1989-1992.
Author: Eagles East: The Army Air Forces and The Soviet Union, 1941-45, 1970; The Strange Allies: The United States and Poland, 1941-45, 1978; From Metternich to the Beatles, 1979; Bitter Legacy: Polish - American Relations in the Wake of WorId War II, 1982; The Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles under German Occupation, 1941-1944, 1986, 1990; Out of the Inferno: Poles Remember the Holocaust, 1989.
Member of: American Historical Association (AHA); Southern Conference on Slavic Studies; Polish American Historical Association (P.A.H.A.).
Honors: National History Award, American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics, 1971; Outstanding Faculty award, Tennessee Technical University, 1975, 1979; Order of Polonia Restituta, Polish Government in Exile, London (United Kingdom), 1988.
Affiliation: Democrat. Roman Catholic.
Languages: English, Polish, French, Russian.
Hobbies: fishing, boating, collecting stamps.
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation,
New York, NY, 1996