Biography of Edward Wayne Kimbrough
Edward Wayne Kimbrough was born on August 18, 1942 in Little Rock, Arkansas to a single-parent household. During the early years of his life, he spent the school months in the Greenlee Community, near the small town of McCool, Mississippi, and the non-school summer months with his Uncle Alonzo and Aunt Camilla Wilborn, in Little Rock, Arkansas. This allowed his mother, Mary Etta Kimbrough, to attend the summer program at Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi to earn her B.A. Degree in Education and continue her teaching career. After his mother obtained her college degree, Edward began spending his summers in Mississippi doing farm chores in the community to pay for some of his school clothes and supplies.
Edward attended Greenlee School from the first grade to the tenth grade. Conditions were so crowded at the school that the community church, Abraham Missionary Baptist Church, shared its facilities with the school. Edward attended geography and biology classes in the pews of the church, of which he was a member. For the eleventh grade, Edward transferred to the work/study program at Mary Holmes Junior College, in West Point, Mississippi, which had grade levels from high school through junior college. The work/study program allowed students to perform campus maintenance and support chores to help pay for their room and board. While at Mary Holmes, Edward was a pitcher on the varsity baseball team and a benchwarmer on the varsity basketball team.
The following year the high school program at Mary Holmes was discontinued and the high school at Greenlee School was transferred to Tipton Street High School in Kosciusko, Mississippi, which is also the original hometown of Ms. Oprah Winfrey. Edward returned home to attend his senior year at Tipton Street High School. During his senior year, Edward’s mother bought him an alto saxophone and he played in the Tipton Street High School Concert Band. Edward was named valedictorian of the 1960 graduating class of Tipton Street High.
After graduating from high school, Edward received a scholarship to attend Knoxville College in Knoxville, Tennessee, which had a work/study program similar to the one at Mary Holmes Junior College. Both schools were founded by the United Presbyterian Church. During his junior year at Knoxville College, Edward decided that he wanted to pursue a degree in industrial engineering. Dr. Robert H. Harvey, head of the Mathematics Department, set up a cooperative agreement with the University of Tennessee (UT), in Knoxville that allowed Edward to pursue an industrial engineering degree at UT while still at Knoxville College and to get degrees from both schools.
In 1966 Edward received a B.S. Degree in Mathematics from Knoxville College and in 1967 he received a B.S. Degree in Industrial Engineering from UT. While at Knoxville College, Edward was a member of the Marching Band, the Concert Band, and pledged the Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Incorporated. While at UT Edward was a member of the Association of Collegiate Engineers (ACE) Board, which coordinated the activities of the engineering organizations, the American Institute of Industrial Engineers, and the Alpha Pi Mu Industrial Engineering Honor Society.
The work/study program at Knoxville College provided opportunities for students to work at various companies around the country during the summer months and Christmas holidays to earn money to help pay for their college expenses. During the summer of 1961, Edward worked for the Green Giant Canning Company in Belvidere, Illinois harvesting vegetables for their canning factory. For the summers and Christmas holidays from 1962 through 1965, Edward worked for the Great Northern Railway as a dining car waiter. He was stationed in St. Paul, Minnesota and worked on the passenger train route between Seattle, Washington and Chicago, Illinois. In 1963, with help from his mother, Edward was able to purchase his first car, a brand new 1963 Volkswagen Beetle.
In 1965 Edward applied for and was accepted to a summer internship with the IBM Corporation in Rochester, Minnesota, where he worked during the summer and Christmas holidays of 1966. When Edward graduated from UT in 1967, he interviewed with about nine companies around the country through the UT student job placement center, but decided to go back to work for the IBM Corporation in Rochester, Minnesota. Edward continued working as an industrial engineer at the Rochester plant until September 1969, when a job opportunity became available at a new sister plant in Boca Raton, Florida, which he applied for and was accepted.
While working in Rochester in 1968, Edward was introduced to aviation by several friends and began taking flying lessons at the Rochester Municipal Airport. He earned his private pilot’s license in November of the same year. Rochester Aviation, Inc., the fixed base operator at the airport, formed the Olmsted County Flying Club with current and former students and three airplanes in October 1968. Edward was elected as the first treasurer of the flying club.
In early 1972 Edward received a substantial offer from the manager of the Engineering Division at the Southern Region Headquarters of the United States Postal Service in Memphis, Tennessee, which he accepted. The Southern Region of the Postal Service covered eleven states, from Texas, east to North Carolina and south to Florida. The Engineering Division in the regional headquarters did engineering consulting work in all the major mail processing facilities in the region, which involved a significant amount of travel.
Postal Service regulations provided a way for individuals to use their personal aircraft for Postal business travel after showing a cost comparison to commercial travel and then claiming the less expensive mode of travel. So, in 1972 Edward used his IBM stock as a down payment to purchase a 1963 Mooney M20C airplane for his birthday, and in 1973 he obtained his instrument pilot rating. This enabled Edward to use his airplane for most of his Postal business travel throughout the region between 1972 and 1980, and he logged over 600 flight hours on Postal business trips during that 8-year period.
In February 2009 Edward retired from the Postal Service after 37 years of employment. Even after a bout with prostate cancer in 2008, which has been completely cured, Edward still had over 3,100 hours of unused sick leave when he retired. During his employment in the Postal Service, Edward contributed over $20,000 to the Combined Federal Campaign, with the United Negro College Fund as the primary beneficiary.
Most of the charitable activities Edward has participated in revolve around aviation. He has served as president and vice-president of the Bronze Eagles Flying Club of Texas, which is a chapter of the Black Pilots of America, Incorporated. The organization, of which he has been a member since 1981, encourages young people to get involved in aviation and every year, for many years, it has conducted introductory flights for children in Houston and other cities in Texas. He was also a member of Airlifeline when it was active in Houston, and he provided free flights to and from the Houston Medical Center for cancer patients. Edward has logged over 4,900 hours of flying time.
In January 1982 Edward formed a company he named Aero Resources, Incorporated (ARI) as part of a bid proposal for a fixed base operation at Ellington Field in Houston, Texas when the airport was first taken over by the City of Houston from the military. When the bid proposal was not successful, he began developing business plans to generate additional income to supplement his postal salary and to support his flying activities.
In 1977 the Mooney Aircraft Company in Kerrville, Texas introduced the Mooney 201 M20J Model, a modified version of the Mooney M20F Executive Model, which was about 20 mph faster than the M20F without an increase in engine horsepower. Several companies were marketing kits that certified the M20J modification for installation on many of the earlier model Mooneys. Edward decided he would develop a less expensive and easier-to-install version of the nose cowl portion of the M20J upgrade, using his 1963 Mooney M20C as the platform.
In May 1989 Edward obtained Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval for the nose cowl Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for his 1963 Mooney M20C airplane. By 1994 he had obtained approval to install his nose cowl kit on all Pre-M20J Mooneys from the year 1958 to the year 1978. In 1993 he obtained FAA Parts Manufacturer Approval (PMA) to manufacture the parts for the nose cowl modifications. Edward began marketing his nose cowl modification kits in 1995 by attending annual aviation marketing conventions around the country. In 1996 he expanded his product line to include a skin-mounted landing light lens cover for Pre-M20J Mooneys. He later developed a website at www.aeroresourcesinc.com to market his ARI products as well as the products of other aviation manufacturers. He is currently an FAA Designated Manufacturing Inspection Representative (DMIR) for his company. He also holds an Airframe and Powerplant Mechanic’s Certificate with the FAA.
In October of 1997, Edward invited a young lady he met at church to hitch a plane ride to one of his marketing conventions in Orlando, Florida, which was relatively close to her hometown of Miami, Florida. The young lady, whose name was Wanda Beta Tanner, accepted the invitation and made the private plane ride to Orlando and then took the short commercial flight from Orlando to Miami. Edward and Wanda began dating shortly after the Orlando trip. And in November 1998, Edward and Wanda were married at the Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church in Houston, Texas by the founding pastor, Reverend William A. Lawson. Edward considers his decision to marry Wanda one of the very best decision he has ever made in his life. Although the couple has no children, they do have a close substitute in a Schnauzer named Marino Dan.
When Edward retired from the United States Postal Service in 2009, America was experiencing the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s, and he was deeply concerned that our leaders appeared to be abandoning basic moral and ethical standards when it came to protecting the people from financial and social predators in the American economy. In order to relieve his frustrations, he had planned to use some of his spare “retirement time” to write letters to Congress and members of the committees that controlled the industries involved. However, when he started to do research on the internet and elsewhere for his letters, he found that there were many voices already out there that were much louder and stronger than his, and they did not appear to be having any noticeable effect on the leadership in Washington D.C.
It was then that Edward decided to write a book based on research that would pull all of those many voices on the internet and other places together into one place, and instead of just complaining about the problems of humanity, try to provide historical facts and statistics about the problems and then offer some common sense solutions. However, bringing those many voices together would not necessarily lead to solutions to the problems, because those many voices represented a very wide diversity of attitudes, opinions, and values.
These diverse attitudes, opinions, and values involved relationships between science and religion, different religious beliefs, different religious denominations, different cultures, different races of people, different lifestyles, and different genders. To unify these many voices, it would be necessary to find Universal Principles that would promote peace, prosperity, and survival for all who follow them, no matter their race, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, religious beliefs (belief in God, agnostic, or atheist), economic status, or political affiliation.
It was obvious to Edward that the only place to look for these Universal Principles was the Holy Bible. Therefore, the plan and purpose of his book was to find Universal Principles and use them to gather data that would inform the public about the nature and potential causes of the problems we are facing, and then offer common sense solutions based on research and input from the many voices. Although our leaders may not agree with the solutions offered, they would not be able to say that there is nothing that can be done.
On July 2, 2020 the book entitled, “FROM CHURCH HOUSE TO MAIN STREET,” involving ten years of research, was completed by Edward and published. The book, which turned out to be a set of five volumes, is based on a scientific analysis of the Holy Bible to develop Universal Principles that can bring unity to the American people and the world community. These Universal Principles were then used to do research that provides historical facts and statistics and offers solutions to the systemic problems of our nation. The result is a Comprehensive 8-Year American Recovery Plan (ARP), which provides a detailed legislative agenda to address the following national objectives: Fix Our Relationships, Fix Our Democracy, Fix Our Money, Fix Our Infrastructure, Fix Our Environment, and Fix Our Foreign Policy.
This proposed ARP also includes a Public Personal Information System (PPIS), which would enable the public to partner with local, state, and federal law enforcement and other government agencies to address the problems of internal crime, illegal immigration, identity theft, cyper-crime, police brutality, background checks, congressional redistricting, voting, and pandemic tracing.
The purpose of this website is to go beyond the daily “Headline News” to inform the American people about the history and statistics behind our most pressing problems based on research and input from the many voices on the internet and elsewhere and to propose a Comprehensive 8-Year American Recovery Plan (ARP) which is designed to:
- Eliminate the Gridlock between the Political Parties in Washington D.C.,
- Return the Power of Government to the People, and
- Provide Full Employment for All Eligible American Citizens.
Edward and his family will be fully supporting the Biden-Harris Democratic ticket. However, unless we have a clear legislative agenda tied to congressional accountability, our Democratic presidential campaign may not be able to get the Democratic Party platform proposals through the gridlock in Congress because of the power of money to control our electoral, legislative, and congressional appropriations processes. To develop the funding needed to recover from this pandemic, grow the economy, and balance the federal budget, without plunging our children and our children’s children into insurmountable debt, Congress must Fix Our Money by converting from a Debt/Credit-Based Monetary System to an Asset/Capital-Based Monetary System. Our money supply would then be controlled by Congress (the people), rather than the bankers and power brokers, who have been scamming the American people since the passage of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.
By presenting a detailed legislative plan tied to each two-year election cycle that addresses the systemic problems in our nation, the American people can be relatively certain that Democratic reform proposals will get a hearing in Congress. They will then be able to determine if their congressional representatives are voting for the interests of the people, or the interests of the powerful special interest groups that are keeping them in power, and vote accordingly in the next two-year election cycle. The American people would be able to use this process to eliminate the gridlock between the political parties and return the power of government to the people.