TO THE CHAPTER INVISIBLE
Beauregard Cummings, Jr. 1921-2021 Broward County, FL Community Leader, U.S. Navy
American History in Broward County. He was also a longtime member and leader of the Piney Grove First Baptist Church, where he spearheaded the cre- ation of the Piney Grove Boys Academy. In 2013, he was named Honored Found- er of the City of Fort Lauderdale and served on the City of Fort Lauderdale's Centennial Celebration Committee. On Christmas Eve 2020, the Ft. Lau- derdale (FL) Alumni visited Cummings to wish him a happy 95th birthday, and he led the brothers in singing the Kappa Alpha Psi Hymn. Brother Beauregard Cummings, Jr. was preceded in death by his parents and son Beauregard III. He is survived by his wife Evelyn Cummings, Bryan Keith (son), and Belinda "Kelly" Hampton (daughter); 13 grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and two great-great- grandchildren. Carrick M. DuBose 1969-2023 Insurance Professional
daughter Paityn N. Parks; father Harold DuBose; sister Ashley DuBose; and a host of relatives, close friends, col- leagues, the members of the Krimson Armageddon line, and the rest of the brothers of Pi Chapter.
Beauregard Cummings, Jr. (Alpha Xi 1950), a charter mem- ber of the Ft. Lauderdale (FL) Alumni Chap- ter, entered the Chapter Invisible on Monday, June
Delon Hampton 1931-2021 Civil Engineer, Professor
Delon Hamp- ton (Beta 1951) entered the Chapter Invisible at his home in Potomac, MD, on January 14, 2021, from Alzheimer's Disease. Born in
28, 2021, at age 95. He was the last child born to the union of Beauregard, Sr. and Kathleen Curtis. After gradu- ating in 1947 from Ft. Lauderdale's historic Dillard High, the U.S. Navy drafted Cummings. Using the U.S. G.I. Bill, Cummings enrolled in college after completion of military service. He initially attended Tuskegee Institute before transferring in 1949 to Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU), where he majored in sociology. Cummings began his career in his hometown of Ft. Lauderdale. Among his many positions and roles, Cummings was most notably the first Managing Di- rector of Opportunities Industrialization Centers (O.I.C.). He was instrumental in founding the M.O.V.E. Program, which provided vocational training and job placement for residents throughout Fort Lauderdale. The program's suc- cess led Beauregard Cummings to raise $125,000 to fund the establishment of Fort Lauderdale's first O.I.C. He spent most of his professional career as the Director of the L.A. Lee Branch Young Men's Christian Associa- tion (YMCA), which was reorganized, redesigned, and renamed under his stewardship. A longtime member of the Fort Lauder- dale (FL) Alumni Chapter, Cummings also help establish the Urban League of Broward County. Cummings co-found- ed Trailblazers of Broward County, Inc., an organization of community elders whose mission is to preserve African-
Jefferson, TX, on August 23, 1933, the youngest child of Charles and Alzadie Douglas and was raised by his aunt, Elizabeth Hampton. He attended the University of Illinois-Champaign, where he earned a B.S. in civil engineering in 1954. He later earned an M.S. and Ph.D. in civil engineering from Purdue University in 1958 and 1961. Hampton taught civil engineering at Kansas State University, oversaw research at the University of New Mexico, and joined the faculty of How- ard University in 1968, where he would teach, conduct research, and publish papers for 25 years. Also, while on leave from Kansas State University (KSU), he served as head of soil mechan- ics research at the University of New Mexico's Eric H. Wang Civil Engineer- ing Research Facility in Albuquerque, NM. Upon leaving KSU, he took a job as a senior research engineer at IIT Research Institute located in Chicago, IL. Hampton then became a managing partner in Gnaedinger, Baker, Hampton, and Associates, which was devoted to providing geotechnical engineering ser- vices in the Metropolitan Washington D.C. area. Hampton was a pioneer in the civil engineering profession where he found- ed his firm, Delon Hampton & Associ- ates (DHA), in 1973 at a time when few African-American-owned engineering
Carrick “Rick” DuBose entered the Chapter Invis- ible on January 11, 2023, at age 53. Carrick Miguel DuBose was born on May 14, 1969, to Harold Du- Bose and the late
Sandra Mitchell Pattillo in Atlanta, GA. He graduated from Benjamin E. Mays High School in 1987. Dubose attended Morehouse College and earned a B.A. in 1991. While in school, DuBose joined the Fraternity as a 1988 initiate of the Morehouse College Chapter, the Pi of Kappa Alpha Psi. In 1996, he earned a master’s in public administration from Georgia State University. Professionally, DuBose worked at several insurance firms, including AIG, Allstate Insurance, and, most recently, Liberty Mutual Insurance. Brother Rick DuBose is survived by Jocelyn DuBose; daughters Tyrah B. Crawford, Calyn E. DuBose, Ciara N. DuBose, and Corri L. DuBose; grand-
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