George W. Aldridge, Belton :: has retired from the U.S. Foreign Service after more than 27 years as a diplomat. In addition to two assignments at the State Department, he served overseas in Jamaica, Denmark, Ethiopia, Belize, Morocco, Kenya, Tunisia, Sudan and Lebanon.  During his career, he earned three Superior Honor Awards and eight Meritorious Honor Awards. Prior to entering the U.S. Foreign Service in June 1990, George was the director of the southwest office of the National Association of Arab Americans for 4 1/2 years. He was included in the Who’s Who Among Young American Men in 1988. He was a political science doctoral teaching fellow at UNT in the early 1980s.