His entire career was spent in the life insurance field. He and his family had lived in the Jacksonville area since the 1970s.Īfter college, George became a special agent for the Prudential Life Insurance Co. Up until almost the day he passed, he heard from former students, thanking him for insights and inspiration. He was anxious to show how language and its representations work systematically to bind together the inhabitants of our universe. His list of lectures and publications would cover many pages. He also served on the university’s committee for the program in the history and philosophy of science and the Soviet and East European student program faculty. At the Menninger Foundation, he was the Spencer Foundation fellow in interdisciplinary studies and visiting faculty at the Topeka Institute of Psychoanalysis, while his primary work was at the University of Kansas, as professor of computer science and of sociology.
He was founding director of the National Science Foundation’s Computer Networking-for-Science program. He chaired sociology and anthropology at St. He was dean of the graduate school of library and information science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, also serving there as professor of sociology and computer and information science and in the Institute for Research in Social Science. As the officer in charge of Strategic Air Command’s Electronic Counter-Measurers School and Laboratory, he became the briefing officer for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.Īfter completing his doctoral dissertation on David Hume’s History of England, he pursued a many-faceted career. His graduate studies at Harvard and early teaching career at Milton Academy and Williams College were interrupted by the Korean War. He remembered with great pleasure gifted teachers such as Ted Baird and Laurence Packard. He entered Amherst at age 15, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa junior year, was undergraduate president of Phi Beta Kappa, graduated summa cum laude and won the Woods-Travis Prize. Sedelow died on July 28, 2022, at home on Eden Isle in Heber Springs, Ark.
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