Our new Rechcigl Reading Room opens Saturday, September 21. Please join us for this dedication with honored guest and speaker Miloslav Rechcigl Jr., Ph.D.
Light refreshments will be served. Everyone is welcome!
About the Speaker
Miloslav (Mila) Rechcigl Jr., Ph.D. is the past president of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU). He is a central figure in Czech and Slovak research and is an avid scholar and publisher. Dr. Rechcigl has been called “a man of many talents.” He has been referred to as a Renaissance man, due to the breadth of his knowledge and scholarly interests. Born in former Czechoslovakia, he was the son of the youngest member of the Czechoslovak Parliament. Dr. Rechcigl spent the war years under Nazi occupation. After the communist coup d’état, he escaped to the West and immigrated to the United States.
Dr. Rechcigl received training as a biochemist at Cornell University, and spent his career as a research biochemist at the National Institutes of Health. Apart from his scientific and administrative pursuits, he has served as the editor of several scientific articles and has authored over 30 books. He is considered an authority on immigration and “Czechoslovak” history.
