August Hogan

August "Buddy" Hogan, Sr.
August B. "Buddy" Hogan, Sr. was born in Gordonsville, Virginia on October 13, 1942. He was raised in Barboursville, Virginia until the age of 9, when he was sent to Father Flanagan's Boys Town, near Omaha, Nebraska. He arrived at Boys Town on January 11, 1952. At Boys Town, he participated on the Midget football team, basketball team, baseball team, the Saint John Berchman's Sanctuary Society and was the President of his Boys Town High School freshman class. He left Boys Town in 1957 to enter St. Augustine's Seminary in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. After graduating from St. Augustine's Seminary High School, he attended St. Francis Xavier College in Island Creek, Massachusetts. Buddy returned to Omaha in January of 1961, alternately attended Creighton University and worked, and was married to Wilma Boone. The couple raised three children, Buddy, Jr., Scot, and April. They have seven Grandchildren.
Mr. Hogan founded Personalized Programming in 1987. He also co-founded [with Shri Sridhar] and served as the President of Acacia Technology & Management, Inc. in 1998. The company's web based proprietary relational database management software, assists insurance brokers and construction contractors in administering insurance wrap-up programs for large construction projects.
Mr. Hogan managed the Transit Bond Guarantee Programming in Los Angeles from 1987 to 1995. The program provided payment and performance bonds and working capital loan assistance to Minority Women and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises working on subway and rail transit projects in Southern California.
Mr. Hogan managed the first private sector, federally-sponsored job training program in the State of Nebraska for Mutual of Omaha from 1968 through 1970. In 1970, Mr. Hogan was appointed by the Mayor of Omaha as the Director of Public Service Careers, a City of Omaha manpower training program. In 1971, Mr. Hogan became the Director of the Public Employment Program for the City. Mr Hogan authored the first City of Omaha Affirmative Action Program while employed as a Consultant to the Omaha Personnel Director in 1972. In 1973, then Mayor and former U.S. Senator, Edward Zorinsky, appointed Mr. Hogan to his cabinet at the Director of Human Relations Department, responsible for enforcement of human right laws.
After four years on the Mayor's cabinet, Mr. Hogan served as Director of Fair Employment Practices for Inter North (later known as Enron) where he was the corporate consultant to profit center Equal Employment Opportunity Coordinators.
In 1976, Mr. Hogan was elected Treasurer of the Omaha NAACP. He also served as President of Omaha NAACP for seven years before relocating to Van Nuys, CA in 1988. In the late 1980's, Mr. Hogan developed a membership software program that he donated to more than 200 affiliates of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
In 1977, Mr. Hogan was a candidate in the last at-large City Council election held in Omaha. He finished in 16th place, trailing the 15th place finisher by 28 votes. The 15 candidates receiving the most votes advanced to the general election. The Omaha NAACP filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court in 1978 challenging the constitutionality of the at-large election scheme for the Omaha City Council. The Nebraska Legislature passed Senator Ernie Chambers' District Election legislation for the Omaha City Council during its next session, before the lawsuit went on trial. In 1980, Mr. Hogan designed and successfully administered the Affirmative Action Plan for the Northern Border Pipeline Company. This plan, which included a program to meet contracting and procurement goals for Minority and Female Business Enterprises, was the first of its kind for a natural gas pipeline construction in the U.S.
Mr. Hogan earned a Bachelors of Arts Degree in Latin and Philosophy and the Master of Business Administration Degree from Creighton University.
Mr. Hogan is survived by his wife, Wilma, children, August, Jr., Scot, and April, grandchildren August III, Amanda, Alicia, Anthony, Gerrit, Joya, and Alexis, his sisters Gwendolyn, Virginia, and Shirley and a host of nephews, nieces, cousins and in-laws.