View a eulogy for Edward Brinkley Howard, USMA '49, who passed away on June 20, 2017.
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Edward Brinkley Howard
West Point, 1949
Be Thou At Peace
Posted by Terry Powers on December 13, 2022:
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Blacks at Dartmouth 1775 to 1960 Col. Edward B. Howard, USA (Ret.) graduated from Dunbar High School, America's first high school for black students, in 1943. He was a co-valedictorian and Cadet Colonel and Regimental Commander of the Washington High School Cadet Corps. Col. Howard attended Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., for two years prior to being admitted to West Point with the class of 1949. Col. Howard graduated from West Point in June 1949 and spent a successful career in the U.S. Army Signal Corps before his military retirement. Col. Howard’s grandson, Capt. Scott Bostic, USA, graduated from West Point in the class of 2005. Sources Norton, Eleanor Holmes. (Dec 7, 2011). Norton Urges D.C. Students to Apply to Service Academies as Two Dunbar Graduates Celebrate 65th Anniversary of Facing off in Army-Navy Game. Retrieved from norton.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/norton TheHistoryMakers, Col. Edward Howard. www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/col-edward-howard |
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