Arthur Ashe was born on July 10, 1943, in Richmond, Virginia. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles, on a tennis scholarship, graduating with a bachelor's degree in Business Administration in August 1966. Ashe was commissioned a 2d Lt in the U.S. Army Adjutant General's Corps through the Army ROTC program at UCLA on August 4, 1966, and went on active duty on February 23, 1967. Lt Ashe attended U.S. Army Adjutant General School at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, from February to April 1967, and the Automatic Data Processing Systems Analysis Officer Course at Fort Benjamin Harrison from May to June 1967. He then served as a Systems Analyst with the Data Processing Branch, Adjutant General Division, at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York, from August 1967 until he left active duty and entered the U.S. Army Reserve on February 22, 1969. Capt Ashe was honorably discharged from the U.S. Army Reserve on May 1, 1979. Ashe competed in tennis competitions around the world before, during, and after his military service, and he played professional tennis from 1969 to 1980. He won the U.S. Open in 1968, Australian Open in 1970, Wimbledon in 1975, and had 87 career titles by the time he retired in 1980. After his retirement, Ashe founded the National Junior Tennis League, served as Captain of the U.S. Davis Cup team from 1981 to 1985, and he was elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1985. Arthur Ashe died on February 6, 1993, and was buried at Woodland Cemetery in East Highland Park, Virginia. He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on June 20, 1993.