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to progress from assistant professor to full professor, first African American associate dean of a college at SIU and second of three African American deans. He served as assistant professor, associate professor and professor at the Rehabilitation Institute; acting coordinator and coordinator of the Developmental Skills Program; and associate dean, acting dean and dean of the College of Human Resources. He served SIU as an acting affirmative action officer, special assistant to the president for affirmative action and director of the Center for Basic Skills, now the Center for Academic Success. During his career, he secured $50 million in external grants to Southern Illinois University. Bryson was instrumental in promoting educational summer and year-round programs to enhance the academic opportunities for underrepresented and low-income students. As associate chancellor, he oversaw affirmative action, the Center for Academic Success, the Career Preparation Program, Upward Bound, Future Scholars, Student Support Services, Head Start Program, Black Resource Center, Office of Diversity and Equity and University Women’s Professional Advancement. In addition to his dedicated service to SIU, Bryson held memberships in professional associations, commissions and organizations. He also served the state of Illinois on various commissions including three posts by appointment of the state governor. The Illinois governor appointed him in 2002 to the Guardianship and Advocacy Commission, in 2005 to the African American Family Commission and to the State Use Commission in 1983. He previously served two terms on the Department of Rehabilitation Service Advisory Council. A Life Member of Kappa Alpha Psi ® , Bryson also served as president of the Carbondale chapter of the NAACP,
member and chair of the Diversifying Faculty Initiative, president of the Jackson County 708 Mental Health Board, and president and member of the board of directors of the Carbondale United Way. Bryson earned numerous awards including SIU BOT Diversity Excellence Award Winner, Lindell Sturgis Award for Professional Achievement, Senator Emil Jones’ Mentoring Award, Illinois Committee on Black Concerns in Higher Education Distinguished Service Award, African Student Council Friend of Africa Award, Illinois College Attendance Association Trail Blazer Award, United Asian American Council Appreciation Award, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers Appreciation Award, Blacks Interested in Business Excellence Award, Black Affairs Council Roby Given Award, SIU School of Social Work Alumni Achievement Award, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Faculty Achievement, Black Graduate Students Faculty Achievement, Illinois Committee on Black Concerns in Higher Education Distinguished Service Award and Who's Who Among Black Americans. In 1992, the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame inducted Bryson and he is also an inductee into the Quincy High School and SIUC Halls of Fame. Most recently in 2019, he was honored for his humanitarian impact during the 2019 SIU Distinguished Alumni Award ceremony. He was preceded in death by his mother, Claudine Jackson, grandmother, Hettie Nixon, brother Edgar Bryson and sister Hettie Knaff. Brother Seymour Bryson is survived by his wife of 59 years, Marjorie Bryson; son, Todd Bryson of Carbondale; daughters, Robin Bryson of Carbondale and Keri (Stephen) Burns of Dallas, Texas; grandchildren, Jordan Bryson, Keric Young, Kendall Young, Adrian Bryson, Francesca Sanchez, Fernando Sanchez and Isaiah Burns; sisters, Susie Barnes and Janice Bryson,
both of Davenport, Iowa, Carol (Paul) Henry of Carbondale, brother, Raymond (Cynthia) Bryson of Rock Island; and a host of close relatives, friends, colleagues, and SIU Alumni. The Bryson family established to the Dr. Seymour and Marjorie Bryson Scholarship Fund at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale to continue his legacy of furthering educational opportunities for students. S. Henry Bundles, Jr. 1927–2019 Indianapolis (IN) Business Leader, U.S. Navy, Trailblazer Bundles, Jr. (Alpha 1944). Founder of the Center for Leadership Development (CLD) located in Indianapolis, IN, Brother Bundles entered the Chapter Invisible on March 26, 2019 at the age of 92. A visionary and trailblazer in the Indianapolis community for decades, Bundles’ passing drew remembrances from numerous friends, colleagues and CLD alumni. Samuel Henry Bundles, Jr. was born on February 15, 1927 in Indianapolis the seventh of nine children to the former Mary Ellis Davis and S. Henry Bundles, Sr. He grew up on the south side of Indianapolis and graduated from the Indianapolis’ famed Crispus Attucks High School in 1943. He entered Indiana University-Bloomington at age 16. A 1948 graduate of Indiana University (IU), he is believed to be the first African-American student to earn a degree from IU’s School of Journalism. Despite his journalism degree and his experience as a reporter and photographer in U.S. Navy during World War II, Bundles faced discriminatory "My father loved his hometown and worked to make it a better place” stated A'Lelia Bundles about her father, S. Henry
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