Edwin Jerome Engram, Text 54, of Statesville, N.C, on Aug. 2. After making his way through Tech’s co-op program, Engram fulfilled his Army ROTC requirement and moved from Atlanta to White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico, where he became a general’s aide before entering the Army. In Korea, he commanded a battery artillery and in 1958 began his long career in nuclear weaponry as chief of the storage division at the Seneca Army Depot in Romulous, N.Y. He served in Vietnam as Nuclear Staff Officer to the 548th Artillery NATO unit, once using a lug wrench to remove a burning tire from a tank recovery vehicle wrecked on a bridge. The highest of the awards he received in Vietnam was the Legion of Merit. In 1968, Engram was reassigned as head of the Seneca Army Depot, where he oversaw maintenance and security of the country’s single largest nuclear stockpile. He was later selected for the Atomic Energy Officer Program and reassigned to the Pentagon, where he became Army staff officer for nuclear weapons. In 1972, he was part of one of the Army’s largest operations, a classified relocation of nuclear and chemical weapons from Europe and the Pacific. Engram later served on the Atomic Energy Commission and, in the later years of his career, served as commander of the USAMC’s Surety Field Activity. During his Army career, Engram earned a master’s degree in history from Southern Illinois University. Following his retirement, he managed a chain of bakeries and rental properties, founding the Statesville Landlord Association.
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