By Richard Horan Correspondent
He aspired to be a “Virginian gentleman” throughout most of his life and career – but along the way, Ty Seidule began to question the tenets of his culture and his idols, namely Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and the “Lost Cause” myth. Seidule, a retired brigadier general in the U.S. Army and professor emeritus of history at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in New York, journeyed from cockeyed ignorance to ever-increasing cognitive dissonance to finally horror at his white supremacist origins. His new book, “Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause,” offers hope that those who attempt to set the record straight about racism in the United States will indeed be listened to and believed.
Leon Edwards, owner of Birmingham’s Edwards Chevrolet, dead at 89
Updated Jan 18, 2021;
Posted Jan 18, 2021
Leon Edwards, pictured here in 2011, was the son of the founder of Edwards Chevrolet in Birmingham. (Joe Songer)
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His family is planning a private funeral service.
Edwards led Edwards Chevrolet, the dealership founded by his father Sterling Edwards in 1916.
’ This is just a building. It’s the people who make the difference and have kept us in business so long,’ Edwards said in an 2011 interview inside the downtown location at 1400 Third Ave. N., on the dealership’s 95th anniversary.
Three generations of Edwards Chevrolet are pictured in this 2011 photo - Leon Edwards, his son, Lee Edwards (glasses), and grandson, Lee Edwards III at the downtown dealership, sitting in a 1916 Four Ninety. (The Birmingham News/Joe Songer).bn
Filed in In Memoriam on December 29, 2020
Theodore Carter Delaney, Jr, professor of history emeritus and former chair of the Africana Studies program at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, died on December 18. He was 77 years old.
Dr. Delanaey was a native of Lexington, Virginia, and attended a racially segregated high school. He turned down a scholarship to Morehouse College and instead worked as a gardener and waiter. In 1963, he was hired as a janitor at Washington and Lee. He later worked as a laboratory technician. In 1979, Delaney enrolled in his first class at the university and became a full-time student four years later. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in history in 1985 at the age of 42. He also had 15 undergraduate credits from Virginia Military Institute.
The path to a higher education is commonly blocked, not by the ability of the student or the desire, but rather the financial bridge that isn’t there to connect to the two.
For Pueblo County High School student Diego Hernandez Portillo, that bridge has been built thanks to a full ride scholarship awarded to the School of Engineering and Biomedical Science (SEBS) standout.
A nonprofit based in Palo Alto, Calif., QuestBridge, awards full ride scholarships every year to its partnering universities such Stanford, Duke, Yale and Columbia, and specifically aims at awarding them to students in low-income families.
Out of the 18,500 applicants this year, 6,885 finalists were chosen and 1,464 scholarships were awarded.
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