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procurement & fiscal management for the Office of the Governor (then 400 persons & $450 million in expenditures).
From 1967-76 served as Deputy or Acting Chief Counsel of NASA?s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama (20 plus lawyers on staff); from 1963-67 was Counsel at NASA?s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana, prior to that was Attomey-Advisor with the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in Washington, D C., Albuquerque & Los Alamos, New Mexico & Idaho Falls, Idaho. Served as Special Trial Assistant in the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney?s Office, Southern District of New York; Legal Advisor to the NY State Temporary Commission on the Courts; & NYU Legal Aid Society.
My forte has been management'administration. Have drafted & given many symposia & training courses (both legal & managerial); have received numerous performance & other awards, including one from the Presidential Commission on Government Procurement (1973) for which I served as a Special I^gal Advisor; & have heen cited in Who's Who in Government, Who?s Who in Space, Who?s Who in U.S. Writers, Editors & Poets & Who?s Who in the West. Am Past President of the Mississippi Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, Hancock County Lioas Club & Waveland Players Little Theatre. Elected to Board of Directors of Hancock County Chamber of Commerce twice. I lave had five non-fiction books published. Enjoy reading, writing, tennis & sailing.
Edwin Rodger Ling, Sr.
Edwin Rodger Ling, Sr., 67, a resident of Pass Christian, died January 2, 1999 in Gulfport, Mississippi.
lid was the first Chief Legal Officer or Chief Counsel, as well as the one who held this position the longest, at the Stennis Space Center in Hancock County. He also had served in the same position at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, LA and at the Marshall Space Flight Center in I luntsville, AL. Prior to that he had been an attorney with the Atomic Energy Commission and served with the United States Attorney?s Office for the Southern District of New York, as well as with the Central Intelligence Agency.
Ed also had a private practice of law for thirty years, and he was the author of six nonfiction books that were published.
He was born in Wichita, Kansas, and was a graduate of Grinnell College in Grinnell, IA and the New York University School of Ixiw in New York, NY. He was active in his community, serving on the Hancock County Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors twice as well as President of the Hancock County Lions Club, the Waveland Players and the Mississippi Chapter of the Federal Bar Association. Fxl always had a smile and a helping hand for others; his motto was always to ?Do Good? and this was his aim in life.
Survivors include his beloved wife, Sue Ling; three daughters, Lorelei Pulliam of Afton, VA; Kristin Smith of Newton, GA; and Magan Winter of Kissimmee, FI.; two sons, Edwin Rodger Ling, Jr. and Frank Clifford Ling; a grandson, Gabriel Jacob Ling, the latter three all living in or near Chattanooga, TN: a brother, Carl Ambrose Ling of Tampa, FL; and a cousin, Carmel Ling of Whittier, CA, in addition to other family members and friends. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Ingrid Hilke Ling; two sisters, Delphine Armfield and Jewell Kernohan; and his parents, Frank and Lila Ling.
There will be no visitation, although a memorial service will be held on Thursday, January 7, 1999, at 11:00 AM at the Church of the Good Shepherd on Espy Avenue, Pass Christian, Ed?s church which he had joined in 1996 and which was a constant source of joy to him. Visitation with the family will be following the service in the Fellowship Hall.
The Ling family prefers memorials to a favorite charity or to the Church of the Good Shepherd. Ed had asked that each of his friends also do a good deed for another or tell someone a gcxxl joke in his memory.