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Lt. Gen. Albert J. Edmonds to
Speak at
Morris Brown
College s 116th
Founders’ Day
Celebration
Albert J. Edmonds
Lieutenant General, U.S. Air Force
Director, Command, Control, Communications
and Computer Systems
The Joint Staff
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If the
Wolverine
OBSERVER
didn’t
tell you,
who
would?
t. Gen. Albert
J. Edmonds
’64, director
of the U.S.
Defense In
formation
Systems
Agency, will
be the key
note speaker
for Morris
Brown
College’s
116th
Founders’
Day Celebra
tion. The
event will be
held at 11
a.m. on
Thursday,
March 20th
at Big Bethel A.M.E. Church
- the site of Morris Brown
College’s first classes. Morris
Brown, founded in 1881 by
leaders of African Methodist
Episcopal Church, is the only
institution of higher edu
cation in the state of Georgia
organized by African Ameri
cans. The college is a private,
co-educational liberal arts
institution engaged in teach
ing and research in the arts,
humanities, education, social
and natural sciences.
General Edmonds was
bom on January 17, 1942 in
Columbus, Georgia, where he
graduated from Spencer
High School in 1960. He
earned a bachelor of science
degree in chemistry from
Morris Brown College in
1964 and a master of arts
degree in counseling psych
ology from Hampton Univer
sity in 1969. He completed
the Air War College as a
distinguished graduate in
1980 and Harvard Univer
sity’s national security pro
gram for senior officials in
1987. In May 1990 he receiv
ed an honorary doctorate of
science degree from Morris
Brown College.
The general entered the
Air Force in August 1964.
After completing the basic
communications-electronics
course at Keesler Air Force
Base, Mississippi, February
1966, General Edmonds was
assigned as a data systems
officer to the Tactical Com
munications Area, Langley
air Force Base, Virginia. In
February 1969 he was
assigned to the Pacific Com-
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