By Nicole Dawley

   After a long battle with cancer, Dr. Reginal Jones, psychology professor at UC Berkeley, died on Saturday, Sept. 24.
   His professional life, which spanned more than 50 years, was spent as a successful clinical psychologist, professor and author.
   Throughout his 17-year career at UC Berkley, he dominated the psychology field by combining psychology with African- American studies. Many of his books were published through his family’s publishing company, Cobb & Henry Publishers.
    “He turned over the company to me during his ailing health so that his dream can be continued,” said his daughter Cynthia Jones, 36, a lawyer who lives in Oakland. Some of Prof. Jones’ books, including Black Adolescents and Black Adult Development and Aging, are top-rated psychology textbooks. Upon his retirement in March 1991, he was honored with a Centennial Citation, an award to professors with “highly distinguished achievement.”
    He was recognized by the American Psychological Association’s Board of Ethnic Minority Affairs “for unusual and outstanding contributions in the field of psychology,” and in September of this year, the UC Berkeley Regional Oral History Office published Oral History with Reginald Lanier Jones.
    Dr. Jones was a presence on multiple task forces that implemented new plans and practices for mental health, mental retardation, special education and the education of African Americans. Beyond UC Berkeley, Jones taught and distinguished himself at UCLA, Hampton University, University of Michigan and Fisk University.
    Though Jones accomplished many goals, he was known for being a marvelous and devoted father.
    In addition to Cynthia, two more daughters, Angela Bateman, 37, and Kai Jones-Biscette, 41, along with wife Michele, survive Prof. Jones.