A LOOK BACK: KAPPA HISTORY
The US Department of Defense issued guidance to all military services to discontinue their respective policies concerning the sickle cell trait. Ride are the popular names that many people associated with the American space program. However, the possibility of safe space travel for their respective historic journeys is due to the significant
sickle cell trait could not become a pilot. Fellow Tuskegee Airmen partici- pated in Marchbanks’ study by donat- ing blood for analysis and research purposes. He published his findings in an essay titled “Sickle Cell Trait and the Black Airman.” The white paper convinced the Air Force that people who carried the trait did not neces- sarily develop the deadly anemia. In 1981, the Air Force ended its practice of discharging service members who had the trait. The U.S. Department of Defense issued guidance to all the military services discontinue their re- spective policies concerning the sickle cell trait.
medical research contributions of a son of a Buffalo Soldier who was born in a fort in Wyoming. This Tuskegee Airman, Air Force chief surgeon, NASA pioneer and Kappa man, Vance H. Marchbanks, Jr. was a ground breaking pioneer in both aeronautical research and aerospace medicine. Brother Retired Colonel Vance Hunter Marchbanks, Jr., M.D. transitioned into Chapter Invisible on October 21, 1988. He is buried in Arlington Memorial Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. By Aaron Williams. Brother Williams is a 1986 initiate of the University of North Texas, the Zeta Upsilon of Kappa Alpha Psi ® He is now a member of Chi- cago (IL) Alumni and Richardson-Plano (TX) Alumni Chapters.
Death and Legacy
The names of Alan Shepard, John Glenn, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Jim Lovell Guy Bluford, and Sally
Dr. Vance H. Marchbanks Jr. in Italy, 1944. Photos by: U.S. Air Force
Publishing achievement for more than 100 years
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