George E. Lovelace, is a native of Evansville, Indiana and graduated from Lincoln High School.  He received honors in Physics, earned four letters in varsity baseball, and was honored for being selected as Mayor of the City of Evansville for a day.  George enrolled in Lincoln University in the fall of 1954.  He immediately came under the tutelage of Mr. Silas Garrett a professor in the Physics Department.  George, as a student assistant, was employed by the department to teach Physics 101 and laboratory courses. He enrolled in the Army ROTC program.  Membership in the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, and the Kappa representative to the Pan Hellenic Council, rounded out his activities.

George graduated from Lincoln in 1958 with a B.S. Degree in Physics and an appointment in the US  Army Reserves with the rank of 2^nd Lieutenant in the Army Air Defense Artillery Corps.  In addition to a tour of duty in Vietnam as a Company Commander, his experience transcended a continuum of Communication-Electronic areas.  With the DCA, he performed duties as Chief of the CONUS AUTOVON Branch, and Chief engineer for the Middle East and African Region in DCA-Europe, stationed in Turkey.  On the Army staff in the Pentagon he developed policy, goals, and requirements for new hardware for Army telecommunications.  On the Joint Staff, J-6, coordinated U.S. policy positions for NATO matters and was the U.S. Representative to NATO policy panels, visiting many foreign countries.  He attended the Command and General Staff College, and obtained a M.S. degree in Telecommunications Management from George Washington University, in D.C.  He completed 20 years of military service, retiring as a Regular Army Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army Signal Corps.