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Jackson State University (JSU). Sul- livan authored a number of scholarly articles and wrote many grants for JSU in addition to chairing the Department of Chemistry. RADM Robert L. Toney 1934–2016 United States Navy, Retired
1983 to July of 1984. RADM Toney's last command was as Director for Logistics and Security Assistance, U.S. Pacific Command, Camp H.M. Smith, Hawaii. He ad- vised the Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Pacific Command on all matters dealing with the defense of the United States through bilateral logistics agreements, cooperatives funds, logistics planning, transportation, civil engineering and security assistance. He was responsible for all U.S. military facilities resources in the 100-million-square-mile Pacific Area from the West Coast of the United States to the East Coast of Africa. He was decorated for his distinguished ser- vice and leadership, including: Decorat- ed Legion of Merit, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Armed Forces Expedi- tionary Medal, Navy Meritorious Service Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal (Social- ist Republic Vietnam) and the Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal. From 1991 to 1996, RADM Toney was President and Chief Executive Offi- cer of the Oakland (CA) Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. He was also the Executive Vice President of Business Development of F.E. Jordan and Associ- ates. His business and community affili- ations included: Past Interim President, Bay Area Urban League; Director, Bank of the West; Director, Levine–Fricke- Recon Advisory Board; Director, Junior Achievement of the San Francisco Bay Area; and Member, President's Advisory Board, Chico State University. RADM Toney had a strong belief in giving back to his community and did so in various ways: serving as a director on several boards including United Way, World Affairs Council, Commonwealth Club, Volunteers of America and the Oak- land Boys and Girls Club. Additional honors and achievements of RADM Toney included: Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters, National Defense University, 1988; Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters, National Defense University, 1988 and being inducted into the Oroville (CA) Union High School Hall of Fame.
On April 20, 2016, RADM Toney was buried with full military honors at Arlington Memorial Cemetery in Arling- ton, VA. He was preceded in death by his wife Flora, his parents James & Alice Toney and his brothers Walter Toney and Samuel Toney and is survived by his two daughters Kimberly, of San Fran- cisco and Kelly Toney and son Robert Northmore Toney, his wife Victoria and son Benjamin Oliver all of Oakland. He is also survived by his brothers Glen and Charles Toney and sister Virginia Walker, of Chico. Lyndon Wade 1935–2017 Longtime Head of the Atlanta Urban League Lyndon A. Wade, (Pi 1954) was born in 1935 and grew up in the Vine City area of Atlanta. He entered the Chapter Invisible on January 28, 2017. He is elor’s degree. He earned a graduate degree from the Atlanta University School of Social Work. He was drafted into the US Army and stationed at Fort Bragg in North Carolina and then at a military teaching hospital at Fort Lewis in Washington. He subsequently received an advanced certificate in psychiatric social work from the Menninger Clinic in Kansas and worked there before taking a posi- tion at Emory University Hospital in 1963. In 1968, Brother Wade assumed the helm of the Atlanta Urban League. In addition to leading the Atlanta Urban League, he chaired Atlanta’s Bi-Racial Advisory Committee to the Atlanta Board of Education; and served on the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MAR- TA). He collaborated with the U.S. Department of Labor to impose a federal employment plan on the construction industry in the metropolitan Atlanta region. Wade’s family established the survived by a wife, four adult children and two grandchil- dren. He graduated from Morehouse in 1956 with a bach-
During his 34 1/2 years as a Navy officer, Robert Lee Toney (Berkeley (CA) Alumni 1963) rose to the rank of Rear Admiral, the position he held
when he retired in 1991. RADM Toney entered the Chapter Invisible on November 4, 2016. Robert Lee Toney was born August 30, 1934 in Monroe, Louisiana, the second of James and Alice Toney's six children. RADM Toney's parents moved their family to Oakland, California in 1942. His family moved to Oroville, CA in 1947. He attended Oroville High School from 1949 to 1952, and was both a scholar and athlete. Due to his athletic prowess, he was awarded a scholarship to Youngstown University in Ohio. He attended Youngstown (OH) University from 1952-1954 and gradu- ated from Chico State (CA) University in 1957 with a Bachelor degree in Social Science. He is also a graduate of the National and International Security Course, Harvard University in Cam- bridge, MA. In the military, RADM Toney had a distinguished naval career. In 1977, he had the distinction of being selected to attend the International Military College for North Atlantic Treaty Organiza- tion countries (NATO) in Rome, Italy. RADM Toney was the commanding officer of two naval vessels during his ca- reer: the USS Kiska (AE-35); an ammu- nition ship and part of the Naval Fleet Auxiliary Force from November 1975 to December 1976, and the USS Roanoke (AOR-7); a Wichita-class replenishment oiler for the Western Pacific from August
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