Lynden U. Kibler graduated in 1950 from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and was commissioned ensign with the U.S. Coast Guard. He was assigned to a weather ship in the North Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. During his commission with the USCG he also served as a captain of a cutter assisting ship and as a commanding officer at the Coast Guard station on the island of Iwo Jima during the Korean War.
In 1954 he was awarded a graduate teaching assistantship at MIT where in 1956 he received a Master of Science in Electronics Engineering. Right after receiving his master’s, he joined the Bell Telephone Labs where he worked until 1978. While at Bell Labs Dr. Kibler was awarded 19 patents for his work in laser construction, dual gate transistor modulator with zero harmonics up to a 4th order, low noise antenna, and optical system “S” shaped lenses. In 1968 supported by a Bell Labs scholarship he received his PhD in Electro-Physics from Polytechnic University.
In 1969 Dr. Kibler founded the first Conservation (Environmental) Commission of New Jersey and served as its chairman for 23 years. Dr. Kibler served on the Board of Trustees of The College of New Jersey from 1979 until 1997. Since 1992 he has also served on the Board of Directors of the National Alliance for Excellence, a private scholarship foundation.