Retired Brig. Gen. George B. Price died on Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024, in Columbia, Maryland, at age 95.
General Price was the first of South Carolina State University’s alumni to reach the rank of general officer.
He graduated from what
was then South Carolina State College with a bachelor’s degree in physical education ain 1951 and was commissioned as an infantry second lieutenant. He retired from the U.S.. Army after 28 years at the rank of brigadier general.
In 1984, President Ronald Reagan named General Price to be a member of the Board of Visitors to the United States Military Academy.
General Price was inducted into the SC State Army ROTC Hall of Fame in 1978 and honored with the university’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 1988.
