TO THE CHAPTER INVISIBLE
Dr. Ernest Hardaway, II 1934-2022 Dentist, Public Health Executive, U.S. Navy
companies existed. DHA would expand to six offices in the U.S., grow into a multi-million-dollar company, and win contracts for high-profile projects in- cluding the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, international airports in Atlanta and Washington, DC, and metro rail projects in DC, Los Angeles, and Atlanta. The Engineering profession recognized DHA as one of the top 360 design firms in the United States; In 1999, Delon was elected as the first Black President of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He spent his life contributing to the profession he loved, encouraging more minorities to pursue engineering as a profession, serving on many professional association boards, and earning many accolades for his work. Hampton has received many profes- sional honors and awards, including honorary degrees from Purdue Uni- versity and the New Jersey Institute of Technology, service Beta Pi eminent engineer award from Howard University, and was named an honorary member of the University of Illinois chapter of Chi Epsilon. He served on many engineer- ing society technical committees and governmental unit advisory committees. Hampton was a member and Councillor of the National Academy of Engineering. Hampton has been a good friend of the university and the college, serving on the University of Illinois President's Council since 1988 and the College of Engineering Board of Visitors since 1992. He has participated in the COE Executive Lecture Series (Engineering 298). He received the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering's distinguished alumnus award in 1990. After Hampton made a $7.5M gift to Purdue in 2012, Purdue honored Hamp- ton with the naming of its civil engineer- ing building, the Delon and Elizabeth Hall of Civil Engineering. Brother Delon Hampton is survived by his wife of 27 years, Sonia, four nieces, and predeceased by his brother, Dr. Clarence Everett Douglas, Sr., and a nephew.
Ernest Kai Hardaway III and Thomas C. Hardaway; grandchildren Alexander Claudette Jean Hardaway, Bowen Lee Hardaway, Thomas Cofield Hardaway, and Caitlyn Claudette Marie Hardaway; and a host of relatives, and friends.
Dr. Ernest Hardaway II (Xi 1954) entered the Chapter Invisible on March 9, 2022. Hardaway had a distinguished pio- neering career as the consummate
William C. McLeod 1925-2020 Retired U.S. Justice Department Of cial, U.S. Navy
William "Bill" Charles McLeod (Xi 1948) entered the Chapter Invis- ible on October 27, 2020, in Woodbridge, VA, at age 95. Born in Dothan, AL,
public health advocate in government that spanned 50 years. He was an Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, Captain U. S. Navy, Commissioner of Public Health District of Columbia, the first dentist to hold this office, Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Howard Uni- versity, and Regional Director of Federal Occupational Health U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. Born on March 3, 1934, in Co- lumbus, GA, Ernest Hardaway II was the son of Virginia Laura (née Hill) Hardaway and Ernest Hardaway. He was raised in Hamtramck, Michigan, and graduated from Hamtramck High School. He attended historic Howard University, where he earned a B.S. in chemistry. He later earned a D.D.S. de- gree from the Howard University Medi- cal School and an M.S. degree in public health from Johns Hopkins University. Hardaway was a lifelong member of St. Peter AME Zion Church and the Na- tional Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He held member- ships in Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, Beta Boulé, former Grammateus; National Association of Guardsmen; the Druids Club of Chicago, former President; and 100 Black Men of America, Inc. He also served on the University of Illinois Board of Directors Urbana-Champaign, was a member of the National Dental Associa- tion, and was a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. Brother Ernest Hardaway was his parents, sister Kathryn Hardaway Hinesley, and first wife, Claudette Vivian Cofield Hardaway. He is survived by his wife, Dr. Sandrea Smith Hardaway; sons
in 1925, William Charles McLeod was raised by his mother: Callie Mae Mc- Cloud Flucker and his grandmother: Molly Fuller McCloud. He attended North Highland School, was the top elementary school student, and graduated high school from Parker High School in Birmingham, AL. After graduating high school, he joined the U.S. Navy and was assigned to Chase Field in Beeville, TX. There, he met the former Nellie Jane Hinderman, the love of his life. While at Howard, he was an actor of the Howard Univer- sity Players. McLeod later earned an LL.D degree from LaSalle Extension University. McLeod was a Correctional Officer at the Federal Reformatory in Petersburg, VA, the first African American radio disc jockey at WHAP in Hopewell, VA, and a realtor. He continued working as a realtor and later taught sociology and criminal justice courses at Northern Virginia Commu- nity College. During his career with the Justice Department, he served as the first African-American President of the Federal Credit Union and received ac- colades from J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI director, for advocating to have a branch of the Credit Union included in the FBI Building that was being constructed.
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