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The SPHINX | Winter 1981 | Volume 67 | Number 4 198106704

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of the 8-year existence of the Chapter. Brother Arnold Brown, Esq., is the President of Kappa Theta Lambda Chapter.

Adderley named Florida judge

The Brothers Ashley Thomas, Jr. and Thomas, Sr.

After 41 years in Alpha: father initiates son Forty-one years after Brother THOMAS D. ASHLEY, SR. of Englewood, New Jersey, crossed the burning sands into Beta Kappa Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha in 1940, at Langston University, Langston, Oklahoma, young THOMAS D. ASHLEY, JR., a 1980 graduate of Boston University, crossed the sands in 1981 into alumni chapter Kappa Theta Lambda of Bergen and Passaic Counties, New Jersey. In the picture, Brother Ashley, Sr. poses proudly with his newly-initiated son whose on-campus Chapter, Sigma, was inactive during his undergraduate years. Brother Ashley, Sr., a charter member of Kappa Theta Lambda since its inception in 1973, is also the only Corresponding Secretary that Kappa Theta Lambda has had. The 45 members of Kappa Theta Lambda look with great pride upon this family tradition of father and son as a prestigious part

Brother A. LEO ADDERLY, an associate in the Miami law firm of Britton, Cohen, Kaufman, Benson and Schantz, has recently been appointed County Court Judge for Dade County, Florida by Governor Bob Graham. He is a native Miamian, and second generation Alpha man. Two of his uncles, Dr. Samuel H. Johnson, a retired radiologist, and Frederick L. Johnson, for whom an annual fraternal Life Membership award is given, were charter members of Beta Beta Lambda chapter. Two other uncles and a cousin are also Alpha men. His Life Membership number is 909. Brother Adderly earned the Bachelor of Arts degree from Morehouse College in 1960, and the Juris Doctorate degree from Howard University School of Law in 1964. He was initiated into Alphadom at Beta Beta Lambda chapter, Miami, where he has served as chapter parliamentarian and historian. Adderly has been admitted to practice law in Florida, the District of Columbia and before the United States

Brother A. Leo Adderly The Sphinx/Winter 1981


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