November 9, 1998

Former Director of the National Security Agency

to Lead Seminar at the Middlebury College Geonomics Institute

for International Studies

The Geonomics Center for International Studies at

Middlebury College will host “American Leadership and Values,”

a policy leadership seminar by retired Army Lt. General William

E. Odom, on Monday, Nov. 16, at 4:30 p.m. The seminar is free

and open to the public and will take place in the library of the

Geonomics Center for International Studies on Hillcrest Road off

College Street (Route 125).

Odom is director of National Security Studies for

Hudson Institute and an adjunct professor at Yale University.

As director of the National Security Agency from 1985 to 1988,

he was responsible for the nation’s signal intelligence and communications

security. From 1981 to 1985, he served as deputy assistant and

then assistant chief of staff for intelligence-the Army’s senior

intelligence officer. From 1977 to 1981, Odom was military assistant

to the president’s assistant for national security affairs, Zbigniew

Brzezinski. As a member of the National Security Council staff,

he worked on strategic planning, Soviet affairs, nuclear weapons

policy, telecommunication policy, and Persian Gulf security issues.

Odom’s policy leadership seminar is the keynote address

of the Geonomics Institute’s Fall Executive-in-Residence Program

being held Nov. 16-17. The program brings leaders from business,

government, and academia to the campus for three to five days

to exchange ideas with students and faculty on a wide range of

international policy issues.

For more information, contact development and events

coordinator Charlotte Tate at the Geonomics Center for International

Studies, 802-443-2300.