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Callis was born in Rochester, New York and attended Cornell University and Rush Medical College.
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Henry Callis
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Callis co-authored the fraternity name with Eugene Jones and became the only Jewel to become General President of the fraternity. Callis assisted in the organization of several chapters, including Theta Chapter (1910) in Chicago and later, Xi Lambda Chapter (1924), also in Chicago. He became a physician and worked as a medical consultant at the Veterans" Hospital in Tuskegee, Alabama.
He was Professor of Medicine at Howard University and a frequent contributor to medical journals.
The Eta Tau Lambda chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha created Alpha Phi Alpha Homes Incorporated. to address housing for low-income families, individuals and senior citizens in Akron, Ohio. In 1971, Alpha Homes received an $11.5 million grant from Housing and Urban Development to begin groundbreaking on Channelwood Village with the Henry Arthur Callis Tower as its centerpiece.
Callis died on November 12, 1974 in Washington, District of Columbia His death was a milestone for the fraternity as Callis became the last Jewel to enter its Omega Chapter—distinguished to contain the names of deceased fraternity members, and the Alpha Phi Alpha entered a period when it had no living "Jewels". The Callis Papers - personal and family papers of Henry Callis including awards, certificates, clippings, correspondence, a diary, notebooks, photographs, programs and scrapbooks relating to Callis and his family - were donated to Howard University"s Moorland-Spingarn Research Center.
