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Jacksonville (FL) Alumni Achievements
PROVINCE ACHIEVEMENTS
Southern Province ‘Large’ Alumni Chapter of the Year (1999, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024) Southern Province ‘Medium’ Alumni Chapter of the Year (2001, 2002, 2007, 2009) Southern Province ‘Large’ Community Service Chapter of the Year (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024) Southern Province ‘Large’ Reclamation Award (2014, 2015, 2016) Southern Province ‘Large’ Alumni Website of the Year (2015, 2017, 2021) Southern Province Highest Percentage Reclamation Award (2015)
GRAND CHAPTER ACHIEVEMENTS Paul W. Caine International ‘Large’ Alumni Chapter of the Year (2001, 2003, 2015 , 2017) Ronald R. Young ‘Large’ Alumni Website Award (2017, 2021)
CURRENT AND PAST NOTABLE MEMBERS
The Honorable Henry L. Adams, Jr. (Jacksonville (FL) Alumni 1990) First African American Judge in Northeast Florida to the Fourth Judicial Circuit; First African American U.S. District Judge in the Mid- dle District of Florida; First African American Senior United States District Judge in the State of Florida Julius Guinyard (Jacksonville (FL) Alumni 1952) First African American Supervisor of Aquatics for the City of Jacksonville Parks & Recreation Department; Founder of Jacksonville Seahorses, the city’s first black swim team John Robert Edward Lee, Jr. (Epsilon 1920) Charter Member Jack- sonville Alumni; Father of the Orange Blossom Classic; Established FAMU Federal Credit Union; Founder of the American Association of College Business Officers and the National Negro Business League; Florida A&M University vice president Dr. Herman Miller, Jr. (Alpha Xi 1968) Only African American physi- cian to be president of the Jacksonville OB/GYN Society; Executive Board Member of Northeast Florida Medical Society; Distinction of leading fundraiser in securing contributions to award scholarships for youth Dr. William L. Cody (Memphis (TN) Alumni 1977) First African Amer- ican president of the medical staff at St. Vincent’s Medical Center; Managing Partner of the North Florida Obstetrical and Gynecolog- ical Associates until his retirement; Led annual mission trips with healthcare providers to Haiti providing free care, treatment, and surgery for hundreds of impoverished patients
Dr. Frank S. Emanuel (Alpha Xi 1965) First ever clinical phar- macist in Jacksonville, FL; 91st Elder Watson Diggs Awardee; 7th Southern Province Polemarch; Achievement Commission member John F. Burrell (Kappa Iota 1988) First African American Assistant Athletic Trainer for the Jacksonville Jaguars; First African-American Head Athletic Trainer for the Washington Redskins; 109th Elder Watson Diggs Awardee; Executive Direc- tor of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. Cleveland Ferguson III, Esq. (Tallahassee (FL) Alumni 1996) First African American promoted to the rank of full professor and conferred tenure at Florida Coastal School of Law; 14th Grand Historian; Editor of The Kappa Alpha Psi Journal Dr. Charles B. McIntosh (Alpha Xi 1944) First African American to begin private practice pediatrics in Jacksonville and the second in Florida; Pioneer in sickle cell disease, a founder of Sickle Cell Disease Association of Northeast Florida Lt. Col. (Ret.) Alton Yates (Jacksonville (FL) Alumni 1979) First African-American from Jacksonville to serve as a Volunteer Aerospace Test Subject during the initial days of America’s Space Program; Jacksonville civil rights activist Master Sergeant William Stockton Surcey (Gamma Epsilon 1948) Mechanic of the famed Tuskegee Airmen-99th Pursuit Squadron; Bronze Star recipient; Congressional Gold Medal of Honor recipient
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