Nicholas (Nicolae) Dima (1936 - )
Nicholas (Nicolae) Dima (1936 - )

Summary/Abstract: Nicholas (Nicolae) Dima (b. 1936) grew up in Bucharest during the Stalinist years of communism. At the age of 19, he attempted 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 misadventure is described in the book Journey to Freedom / Călătorie spre libertate.) Later, however, he managed to graduate from Bucharest University, and in 1968, he left the country and settled in the U.S., where he returned to school and received a doctoral degree from Columbia University in New York.His American professional career includes working for 20 years with Voice of America in Washington, as well as teaching at colleges, universities, and U.S. 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 U.S. and Africa, and promoting democracy, education, and human values worldwide. N. Dima tirelessly defended the rights of Romania and the Romanian people in the U.S. and worked to promote better Romanian-American understanding.

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