Montclair Board of Education member Alfred Davis Jr., who has served on the board since May 2019, has died.
News of his death was shared in a message from board president Latifah Jannah and schools Superintendent Jonathan Ponds.
“We lost a dear friend, a consummate and astute professional and a champion for public education,” the message reads. “He was a gentle, thoughtful man and highly respected by the community and his fellow Board Members.”
In 1981, Davis opened Davis Integrated Medicine in Montclair’s South End, and has served as director ever since, according to his LinkedIn profile.
“He worked tirelessly serving our community through his medical practice, his many dedicated years as [a] founding member of the Montclair African-American Heritage Foundation along with its parade and festival, as well as being the board’s liaison for the annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Scholarship Breakfast,” the Thursday evening message said.
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Davis was also an adjunct professor at his alma mater, Bloomfield College, according to his LinkedIn profile. He’d also served on Montclair’s Civil Rights commission, school Vice President Priscilla Church told Montclair Local.
“His character was beyond reproach, and everything he did during his service to our schools was for the betterment of our students,” the message from Jannah and Ponds said. “Dr. Davis provided insight and wisdom until the end and he will be sorely missed. Our thoughts and condolences are with his family at this difficult time.”
Church said Thursday night Davis “worked tirelessly his whole life to use his energy for the purpose of serving others.”
“I first met him when we sat on the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners, over 30 years ago. He was one of the first members of this newly formed State Licensing Board and served it wisely to fulfil its mandate of regulating the chiropractic profession,” she said.
Church said they became friends through their associations on boards.
“I will remember him for his calm attention to important matters and his concise wisdom, which helped others to focus on what was important,” Church said. His smile when he walked into a room and greeted those of us who were present was warm and revealed the inner good in his soul. He was a wonderful father and a great man to know.
In the LinkedIn profile, Davis said his goal in life was to “help as many people as possible become healthy and well through natural methods.”
Davis received his doctorate from New York Chiropractic College. He underwent 400 hours of sports injuries training was a diplomat of both the American Chiropractic Board of Sports Physicians and the American Academy of Pain Management. Davis had served on the medical staff at Montclair Community Hospital and Meadowlands Hospital Center.
He was a member of the American Chiropractic Association Council on Sports Injuries and Roentgenology, and was the past president of the American Black Chiropractic Association (as well as a recipient of its Chiropractor of the Year award). He’d been a member of the Montclair Chamber of Commerce, the New Jersey State Board of Chiropractic Examiners and the Council on Chiropractic Education.
Councilman Bob Russo, a former mayor, said he too had known Davis for 30 years — and “he took care of all my aches and pains with his skillful hands.”
Davis had been the first Black person to chair the state licensing board, appointed by then-Gov. Jim Florio, when Russo was working for the state Department of Law and Public Safety’s Consumer Affairs Division.
“He was always advising me and supporting me through my many years on the council and as mayor,” Russo said. “I will miss him dearly for his volunteer service to Montclair through the MLK scholarship fund breakfasts and the Board of Education, as well as his years chairing the New Jersey state Board of Chiropractic [Examiners],” Russo said. “Dr. Al Davis is irreplaceable.”
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