50 Years of Kappa League

TO THE CHAPTER INVISIBLE

Past Board Chair for AMIKids, Board of Directors for John G. Riley House and TurnAbout, and a Former Coach for the Big Bend Pop Warner Association. Brother Johnson is survived by his wife, Pamela Johnson; his daughters Meagan Johnson and Alexis Johnson; son, Stanton Johnson; brother, James Scarlett; sisters-in-law, Linda Flowers and Tameka Austin; brothers-in-law, Ronald and Kenneth Austin; and a host of aunts, nieces, nephews, godchildren, and friends. Herman Jones Jr., M.D. 1925–2020 Physician, Medical Professor, WWII Veteran, U.S. Navy

ing for African-American physicians.

high school students to KU. He was the medical president of Providence Hos- pital in 1971 and Bethany Hospital in 1982. He served on the Medical School Admissions Committee for KU from 1978 to 1981. Brother Herman Jones Jr. is survived by his wife of nearly 70 years; Barbara (née Orange) Jones; children, Herman H. Jones III, M.D.; Pamela Jones; Donna Jones Badocchi and Dwayne Jones, M.D.; grandchildren, Kimberly Jones; Arianna Badocchi; Francesco Badocchi; Camilla Badocchi; Vincent Jones; Paige Jones; Spencer Jones and Julian Jones and brother Clair Jones.

In 1956, Dr. Jones moved to Topeka, KS where he opened a general prac- tice. He was the only African-American doctor on staff at the two major Topeka hospitals. He completed a general surgical residency at Wadsworth VA in Leavenworth, KS from 1959-63. He established a successful surgical practice in downtown Kansas City, KS. He then partnered with four other physicians in 1968 to build the first African-American owned multi-specialty medical building, Center City Medical Plaza in Kansas City, KS. In the Kansas City, KS and Topeka, KS communities, Dr. Jones was a trailblazer for succeeding African-American physi- cians in those communities. In 1960, he was the first African-American medi- cal resident and physician at St. Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City. In 1966, he was the first African-American physi- cian in Kansas City named a Fellow of the American College of Surgeon. He was the African-American physician to become Chief of Surgery and Chief of Staff at Providence Hospital in 1971. Dr. Jones served as Chief of Staff at Bethany Medical Center. He was an assistant clinical professor at KU Medi- cal Center, served as Deputy Coroner for Wyandotte County and served on the medical staff at the Kansas City VA Hospital until his retirement in 2005. Additionally, He served as the first African-American president of the Wy- andotte County Medical Society as well as president of the Kansas City Board of Healing Arts. In addition to member- ship in Kappa Alpha Psi, Dr. Jones was a member of Sigma Pi Phi® and past chairman on the Topeka (KS) Chapter of the NAACP. He was the first black member of the Topeka Medical Society. He served on the advisory council for several Chancellors of University of Kansas (KU). He was an honorary Colonel of the Kansas Calvary which is an organization that recruits outstanding

The Honorable James O. Long 1937–2020 Retired Judge, U.S. Army

Longtime Kansas- based physician Brother Herman H. Jones, Jr. (To- peka (KS) Alumni 1959) entered the Chapter Invisible on January 9, 2020

The Honorable James “Jimmy” Long (Roseville

(CA) 2005) entered the

at the age of 94 in Lenexa, KS.

Chapter Invisible on June 30, 2020, at the age of 82. He served as a

Herman Harvey Jones, Jr. was born May 13, 1925 in Nashville, TN to the late Rev. Herman Sr. and Vivian (née Clark) Jones. He graduated from Nashville’s Pearl High school and subsequently enlisted at age 16 into the U.S. Navy where he served during World War II (WWII) as an aviation machinist serv- ing at the Navy Experimental Air Base in Pennsylvania and finishing his three years of service as an Airman 1st class. After receiving his honorary discharge from the Navy, Jones attended historic Fisk University where he earned in 1950 with a B.S. degree in biology. Jones earned his M.D. degree from near- by Meharry Medical College in 1954. He completed his first surgery at Com- munity General Hospital in Reading and was the only African-American resident there. , He completed a subsequent surgery internship Kansas City General Hospital # 2, one of the few hospitals in the country that offered specialty train-

judge on the Superior Court of Sacra- mento (C.A.) County for nearly thirty years. Friends and colleagues remember Long as a mentor, community leader, and a “no sense” judge. On social media, the Sacramento County Bar Association extended its sincerest condolences to the Long family. “Every judge on Sacramento Superior Court had some story. They were influenced by something Jimmy did for them, some- thing he may have said to them, but he sort of transcended a regular judicial officer,” United States District Judge Troy Nunley in a statement. Born in Florida on December 7, 1937 to the late James and Susie Long, Long grew up in Sacramento, CA. He graduated from Sacramento’s Christian Brothers High School. The major league baseball Philadelphia Phillies franchise draft Long, but he chose to attend col-

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