The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Foundation, Inc., of Jacksonville, Florida, is cordially inviting area churches, clubs, organizations, schools, and individuals to join us for breakfast on Saturday, January 19, 2008 as we honor the legacy of Dr. King, and recognize the academic achievements of the honor students at selected Duval County schools.

It is interesting to note that the very first MLK Breakfast to be held in Jacksonville was hosted by the forerunner of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Foundation on Saturday, January 8, 1983, at Edward Waters College. The breakfast was followed by a parade in honor of Dr. King on January 15, 1983. After a 22-year hiatus, we re-dedicating The MLK Breakfast to recognize the excellence of youth achievement. Please call 904-463-2425 for $10.00 (tickets) donations.

DR. CHARLES B. MCINTOSH

 Born in West Palm Beach, Florida, Dr. McIntosh is a product of Duval County Public Schools and Florida A&M University, Class of 1948.  At New York University, he earned a Masters Degree in Biology; and taught briefly at State Teachers College, Elizabeth City, North Carolina, and Washington Junior College at Pensacola, Florida.  In 1955, he earned his M.D. at Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN, and completed pediatric residencies at Flushing Hospital, and Queens Medical Center at Long Island, New York.  He was the first African-American to begin private practice pediatrics in Jacksonville, Florida (1958), and the second in the state of Florida. He is an eleven-year senior partner of Northwest Jacksonville Pediatrics with Dr. Shelly H. Thompson.

 Dr. McIntosh has an extensive record of advocacy medical service, having had board directorships of many civic and governmental agencies. Four governors have appointed him to the Florida Board of Medicine (Askew, Graham); the Commission on Funding Indigent Care (Martinez); and the Governor’s Work Group for Funding Indigent Medical Care (Chiles).  He has served the City’s Zoning and Building Codes Adjustment Board (ZABCAB), and the 4^th Judicial Nominating Commission.  In 1981, Mayor Godbold appointed him to the board of the Duval County Hospital Authority and to the successor board of University Medical Center until 1999 (now Shands Jacksonville).

 Professionally, Dr. McIntosh has served as President of the Florida State Medical Association/NMA, and the Duval County Medical Society (FMA/AMA). In January 1980, one week into the DCMS presidency, he encountered the Mayo Clinic’s first entourage visit here to establish a “satellite” of its famous Minnesota multi-specialty practice in Jacksonville. In July, after much community debate and much to his relief, the Mayo board announced “no firm” plans to initiate a Jacksonville clinic, and called off its efforts.

He has served two terms as a Trustee of the National Medical Association from Region III, and chairman of its Scientific Section on Pediatrics.  Methodist Medical Center’s medical staff elected him president in 1980.  He is interim secretary of the Northeast Florida Medical Society, and the Florida State Medical Association.

In 1973, Dr. McIntosh and eleven others started the Florida State Sickle Cell Foundation at Tampa, Florida, and affiliated our already existing Jacksonville Area Sickle Cell Disease Association.  There are now nine State chapters.  He served as the organization’s second president, and as president of the Jacksonville chapter.  He was elected to a term on the National Board of SCDAA in 1999, and continues as an active local board member.  In 1993, following participation in a successful community capital campaign, he was elected to the Board of Wolfson Children’s Hospital where he served until 2000.

 Other current community activities include Chairman of Life Memberships, Jacksonville Branch NAACP, and a member of the Health Committee of the NAACP National Board.  He serves on boards of the Bridge of Northeast Florida and the Jacksonville Community Foundation.  In 2003, Dr. McIntosh became a member of the founding trustee board of Volunteers in Medicine, a free health service clinic for the working uninsured of Northeast Florida.  In December 2005, Shands Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease Center was named in honor of Dr. McIntosh for his pioneering work in the delivery of medical care to children with sickle cell disease, the education of their families and the public as an advocate for prevention and a cure for this genetic disorder.  Since 2004, Dr. McIntosh has established a Prostate Cancer Screening, Diagnosis and Follow-up Program through partnering with the Duval County Health Department, local physicians, and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, to heighten awareness of the benefits of early attention to prostate health in high-risk African-American men after the age of forty.

Dr. McIntosh resides in Jacksonville, Florida and is married to Anne Griffin McIntosh. They have a daughter (Donna) and one grandson, Kenneth Byron Wells, age 16. He currently serves as Trustee and Treasurer of Historic Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church, destroyed in Jacksonville’s historic 1901 fire.

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