ASU remembers
Edward Dale Appleton Randolph
Asst. Professor, Spanish
June 29, 2016
Dr. Edward Dale Appleton Randolph, 85, died on June 29, 2016. He studied at George Washington University and completed his B.A. degree in Spanish at the University of Virginia. He received his M.A. in Spanish and Ph.D., Spanish major, French minor, from Tulane University where he was a Carnegie Fellow. In 1951, he withdrew from U.Va. to enlist in the U.S. Army Infantry during the Korean War. He was assigned to the Army Security Agency and received his security diploma at Fort Devens, Massachusetts and his diploma in Russian from the Army Language School in Monterey, California. He was honorably discharged in 1954 after using his language skills on assignments, such as monitoring enemy Korean Air Force communications. During part of the 1950s and the early 60s, Dr. Randolph taught Spanish at U.Va. and Tulane and worked as an interpreter for the New Orleans Police Department. Later, he was an Assistant Professor of Spanish at ASU, President of the Foreign Language Division of the Arizona College Association and a member of Phi Sigma Iota, the National Romance Language Honor Society. Later, he was a tenured professor at Newberry College in South Carolina; Professor of Foreign Languages at Ambassador College in California; and Chairman of the Department of Foreign Languages at Ambassador College's Texas campus. Dr. Randolph also taught at the Camden Military Academy in South Carolina where he became "Major Randolph". In addition to his wife, Leslie Joy, who predeceased him in 2014, he was predeceased by a brother and sister. He is survived by a daughter, a son, stepson and three grandsons. He will be buried at Fort Bliss in Texas.