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Henry A. Callis (b. (''commonly referred to as Jewels'') of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity at Cornell University in 1906 . Callis co-authored the Fraternity name with Eugene Jones and the only Jewel to become General President of the fraternity.

He became a physician and worked as a medical consultant at the Veterans Hospital in Tuskegee, Alabama , Professor of Medicine at Howard University and frequent contributor to medical journals.

Callis' death in 1974 was a milestone for the fraternity as Callis became the last Jewel to enter Omega Chapter , and the fraternity entered a period when it had no living "Jewels". His papers were donated to the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University.


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