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Edgar Erdman
Edgar Randolph Erdman was born in 1929 in Beirut, Lebanon. His parents were American Presbyterian missionaries; administrators and educators.
Edgar attended Blair Academy in New Jersey from 1940 to...view moreEdgar Randolph Erdman was born in 1929 in Beirut, Lebanon. His parents were American Presbyterian missionaries; administrators and educators.
Edgar attended Blair Academy in New Jersey from 1940 to 1946. He enlisted in the Army after graduating and served in Japan during the Occupation at the end of World War Two. He attended Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, from 1948 to 1951. He was recalled to active duty in the fall of 1951 and sent to Korea, where he served with the 15th Regiment of the 3rd Infantry Division. He was wounded in action north of the 38th Parallel in November1952. In September 1953 he was given an honorable medical discharge. He attended the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia, from 1954 to 1955 and again from 1956 to 1957, earning BA and MA degrees in English Literature.
Edgar’s career as a civilian employee of the Federal Government was split between the Defense Department’s National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of State’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (I&R), in which he served as a Foreign Service Reserve Officer (FSRO). While with the NSA he served at posts in East Africa and in the eastern Mediterranean region. While with the Department of State’s I&R he concentrated on Central America. He is a member of the American Legion, the Disabled American Veterans (DAV) and the Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO). Edgar has over twenty years of experience in government at the Federal, State and Local levels, several years of experience in the private sector as a management consultant and nearly twenty years of experience in Museum Security. He resides just outside the City of Bloomington, Indiana. His wife, Nancy Heiser, passed away in 1991. He has one daughter, a son-in-law and three granddaughters.view less