From the Desk of Herman "Skip" Mason hmason1906@aol.com Iota Chapter, Spring 82(Morris Brown College/Atlanta, Georgia) Eta Lambda Chapter since 1984 Historian, Pastor, Author, Entrepreneur and Lecturer

Brothers, your email letters keep coming.  I feel like I know you personally, though most of you I have never seen.   I have about 700 hundred or more saved.  I try to answer each one as I receive them.  If they are not
answered  directly, I try to address your questions in my historical moments.  Many of the emails are simply to be added to the list.  Others share their fraternal thoughts, gratitude (which I am so humbled by) for SHM.  Other emails are from brothers like Greg Parks and his crew, who keep sending me email addresses; still others come from my unofficial advisory board:  Will Dailey, Malik Simmonds, Julius Hall, Sam Eaves, Rodney Cohen, Thomas Tatum and Stefforn McIntosh (my "spesh" from college days, who dissects every single word and letter I write).  These brothers send me their deep philosophical thoughts, which I eagerly wait to receive.  There are requests to search for information on chapters and poems (I know, brothers, I promised to send it), and others looking for long lost brothers.  Whew!  I am still amazed at how this little newsletter has taken off.  Well, I am going to bed earlier now.  I have a great copy editor, Bro. Eugene Harper, who makes sure that I am not too embarrassed with typographical, spelling and grammatical errors.  You know how email typing is!  As you know, Sunday is Father's Day.  I am on way to Jacksonville, Fla., with my father to help him celebrate his 50th class reunion from Stanton High School, the school where James Weldon Johnson wrote "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing."  So until next Tuesday (God willing), be encouraged and be a blessing to someone else, for surely when you bless others, you are blessed in return.  Do something special for your dad, granddad, uncle or that male figure in your life that influenced you.
Skip

PS  Let me give a brotherly shout out to Brother Antavius M. Weems from the Eta Lambda , Fall '97 line.  I shall never forget one fraternal function several years ago when I was extremely low in spirits, his words of brotherly encouragement lifted me up.  Thanks, my brother! 

SPECIAL FEATURE
THE FATHERS OF THE JEWELS

By Skip Mason

I am pleased to share with my readers  brief excerpts from my book, "The Talented Tenth: The Founders and Presidents of Alpha," on the fathers and father figures in the lives of the Jewels.

JEWEL CALLIS' FATHER:
 Rev. Henry Jesse Callis

Rev. Henry Jesse Callis was born in 1858 in Matthews County, Va., to Jesse and Nettie Smith Callis.  His father was the keeper of a grist mill. As a young boy, Henry Jesse fell in with the Union Soldiers and was carried to nearby Yorktown, Va., where he was taught by the Quakers.  He attended Hampton Institute.   Hampton Institute, founded in 1868 to educate freed Black men, was in the same geographical area in the 1870s.  Later he was taken north by Captain Colquitt of Connecticut and spent a year with them in New York before going to Long Island.  Henry Jesse  returned to Hampton and completed his work in 1879 and taught for two years in Matthews County and Norfolk County, Va.  He even had a short stint as a waiter at the Hygeia Hotel and operated a catering firm from 1885 to 1886.

JEWEL CHAPMAN'S GRANDFATHER:
 Mr. George Thompson

Charles Henry Chapman was born in 1876 in Cayuga County, N.Y.  By 1880, he was living with his grandfather George Thompson in the City of Geneva in Ontario County, New York. It is not known what happened to Jewel Chapman's father. As I have said before, Jewel Chapman's family background has been the most evasive. The search is still on to learn more about his early childhood.

JEWEL JONES' FATHER: 
Dr. Joseph E. Jones

Jewel Jones's father, Joseph Edom Jones, was born of slave parents in Lynchburg, Va., on Oct. 15, c. 1852, and spent his childhood working in the tobacco factory.  He received his early education from a private school and was taught by R.A. Perkins and James A. Gregory (who later became dean of the college department of Howard University).  In 1868, Joseph Jones entered the Richmond Institute (now Richmond Theological Seminary) with plans to prepare himself for the ministry.  After three years of study, he left  Virginia for 
Hamilton, NY, and entered the preparatory department of Madison  University (now Colgate), from which he graduated in 1872.  Mr. Jones was then appointed by the American Baptist Home Mission Society of New York as an instructor at the Richmond Institute where he taught languages and philosophy, later Homiletics and Greek studies.  His pursuit of the ministry led to his ordination in 1877.  He had been baptized in 1868 and was a member of the Court Street Baptist Church in Lynchburg.  He was made an honorary member of Alpha Phi Alpha through Gamma Chapter and was the only father of a founder to share membership in the fraternity.  He died in 1922.
 

JEWEL KELLEY'S FATHER, GRANDFATHER AND UNCLE: 
Mr. Richard Kelley,
Rev. W.H. Decker, Rev. Eli George Biddle
 
Kelley's father, Richard, was a veteran of a Civil War regiment from Massachusetts.  He worked as a carpenter in Troy, N.Y.  Jewel Kelley always credited his father's tenacity for his zeal to see that the
fraternity  became a reality. Richard Kelley  migrated from Virginia as a fugitive slave during the Civil War.  
His grandfather, the late Rev. W.H. Decker, was one of the most cultured and  capable preachers and pastors of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, a denomination established in 1796.  Jewel Kelley's uncle and godfather,  Rev. E. George Biddle, of Boston, lived for more than 100 years, and studied at Harvard, where he graduated from the Divinity School.  He was, at the time of his death, the last surviving member of the Boston Regiment of the Grand Army of the Republic. 
 

JEWEL MURRAY'S FATHER:
 Mr. Daniel Alexander Payne Murray

Daniel Murray was named for Daniel Alexander Payne, his father's friend and a Bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church who pastored Baltimore's Bethel A.M.E. Church, attended private school in Baltimore.  When he was five years old, he studied at other schools in Baltimore before entering the 
Unitarian Seminary, where he graduated in 1869.  Three years later, Daniel Murray moved to Washington, D.C., where at the age of 19, he secured an appointment in the Congressional Library as the personal assistant of Ainsworth R. Spofford, the Librarian of Congress.  During his 40 years at the library, he  began to classify material for a book he wanted to  published titled, "The Historical and Bibliographical Encyclopedia of  the Colored Race Throughout the World."

Though much work was done on the book,  after 20 years of research, it was never published.  Mr. Murray owned a substantial amount of real estate. He communicated often with DuBois and Booker T. Washington on scholarly issues.
 

JEWEL OGLE'S FATHER: Mr. Jeremiah Ogle

Very little is known about Jeremiah Ogle. According to the 1900 Census records, he was born in Georgia around 1843. He was deceased by the time Robert Harold Ogle entered Cornell. 

Jewel Ogle married into the distinguished Moore family of Ithaca, N.Y.  His wife's grandfather was Henry Moore.  Moore, born in 1910 in Baltimore came in a wagon to Ithaca in 1840 from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania  Just a few years prior to his arrival Ezra Cornell arrived in the village of Ithaca to later return after building many telegraph lines.  The Moore family preceded the founding of Cornell in 1868.  He established a successful barber shop and accumulated some wealth.  In 1850, Moore erected his house on South Plains 
Street. The Ithaca Journal described Moore as a "highly respected and honorable citizen.  Moore ran for Alderman and lost by one vote.    
 

JEWEL TANDY'S FATHER:
 Mr. Henry A. Tandy

Henry A. Tandy, came to the blue grass area of Kentucky, shortly after the war in 1865.  Lexington was created in 1775 after a group of pioneers in the Kentucky District of Virginia named their campsite Lexington. Henry Tandy, with very little education only attending schools when he was  not engaged in work, found employment in Mullens Photography Studio,  developing negatives on plates of glass.  After two years, he began his career  as a brick mason for G.D. Wilgus, one of the largest contractors and builders in Central 
Kentucky.  He rose rapidly to foreman.  In 1892, after the death  of Wilgus, he formed Tandy and Byrd Contractors, which became one of the leading contractors and builders in Lexington, constructing buildings and residences throughout the city.  Furthermore, Henry Tandy employed many young  men in construction, was looked upon with great respect in the community and was active in numerous fraternal organizations.  
 

The Men of Ithaca

The African-American community in Ithaca was small and close knit.  Jewels Murray and Kelley often remarked about how supportive the residents were of their idea to begin a fraternity. There were several men who greatly influenced the lives of the founders while in Ithaca.   One, whose name is only known as Mr.
Cannon,  was very instrumental in their development.  Among the more noted was Archie Singleton, husband of Annie Singleton, who worked as a butler for a white family in Ithaca.  He was a native of South Carolina. Rev. Nelson was the husband of Clara Nelson.  It was in their home where Eugene Kinckle Jones and Vertner Woodson Tandy resided.Edward Newton was one of the most well-known residents of Ithaca.  For over 40 years, he worked as a janitor for the Chi Psi fraternity house at Cornell.  He was so well-loved and 
respected that the white fraternity established a special fund for him and his wife, Mrs. Lula Newton (after his
death).  It was in the Newton's home where their future son-in-law,  C.C. Poindexter, convened many of the early social gatherings in the fall of 1905 and 1906. Robert Plummer, was the father of Alpha Chapter initiate Frank V. Plummer. He too worked as a janitor in one of the fraternity house on College Avenue at Cornell.   Others who have been featured previously included Rev. Edward Ulysses Anderson Brooks and Rev. Theodore Auten, pastor of the AMEZion Church in Ithaca, New York 

FROM THE LIPS OF A JEWEL:

"I saw in my vision my ancestors who had been in slavery, my father who had escaped from that despicable system and had gone back south as a soldier in the Union Army to help in subduing of those who held him in bondage.   He seemed to encourage me in my determination to help unite our group in a unit.   I firmly believe that it strengthened me in the desire to press my point for a fraternity."

-- Jewel George Biddle Kelley, 1954

FROM THE LIPS OF A GENERAL PRESIDENT:

"We must look at our college men and women for leadership.  They have almost supplanted the old order.  They shall be our leaders because, in addition to their superior education and training, they have that essential broad faculty for ignoring the petty things of life, brushing them hastily aside in order to get down to real human problems before them."

-- 12th General President Raymond W. Cannon, 1926

SKIP'S QUOTE AND  SCRIPTURAL VERSE FOR TODAY

"When we trust God even in our need, He knows how to open doors we never dreamed possible."

Romans 4:21  -  And being truly persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. 

HE AIN'T HEAVY, HE'S MY BROTHER?  A COMMENTARY FROM BROTHER WILL DAILEY

(from Skip: this brother is deep!)

While it is well known that individual brothers were in the forefront of the movement, my question is where was ALPHA PHI ALPHA?  Wesley documents well our involvement in voter registration drives, marches, and other such acts, yet despite this, I'm weary of our presence as a viable body, a solidified Brotherhood, as we uphold the plight of the downtrodden.  My professor commented that DuBois eventually gave up on the vision of a Talented Tenth because those who were entrusted with that honor only sought individual gain 
and forgot  about the masses.  Recently, there was a series of protest in New York to bring national attention to police brutality.  Unless I missed it, I don't remember hearing or seeing anything about Alpha taking a leading role in this fight. Is it that we need a convention to vote on whether or not to take up the mantle of the meek and lowly so that the "political" interest of the frat will be preserved, or is it that our agenda has changed from the words stated in our preamble?  I have tirelessly defended our fraternity against those who I feel unjustly criticize us for not doing enough in the community, for a majority of community, civic, corporate, and religious leaders are bruhs, yet more than less we see a distinction between what they do, and what the frat as a whole is doing.  Maybe I'm being extreme by wanting to see Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., file a class action suit against the government for the wrongs committed against our people since every other "oppressed" group has received considerable reparations (save for maybe Native Americans), but I can't help but to feel  that we are falling short of our motto from a holistic perspective. 

Could you please provide some insight as to the political (in regard to the struggles of the oppressed as opposed to the winning of elections and the appeasement of constituents) history and involvement of Alpha in a future SHM.

My thirst for knowledge has now been quenched (until Thursday at least). Upon reading Bro. Parks' feature, a question that I once pondered again resurfaced, and that is:  "What possessed the brothers to make the U.S Vice President an honorary life member.  Now, I'm not certain of the exact date that the frat abolished honorary members, but I thought that it was some time prior to 1964 (this assumption is further supported by SHM Vol. 1 No. 24).   Furthermore, despite whatever noble accomplishments that ... [Vice President 
Hubert H.] Humphrey was renowned for, it strikes me as odd that in the middle of the Civil Rights movement, that Alpha would chose to honor someone of his position (and consequently race).   This oddity occurs not only because I know that there were a myriad of Black men who were marching onward and upward, and struggling for the cause, who were obviously overlooked for the honors bestowed upon the vice president, but also because if honorary members had indeed been abolished, then what would prompt  us to make this exception to the rule?  I am well aware that one's tenacity in pursuing the aims and precepts of Alpha is not defined by his color, yet in light of accusations that the fraternity had abandoned Bro. DuBois a few years earlier, as well as talks that indicate that the same had occurred to Bro. King during his moment of need, I am weary of Alpha's priorities during this turbulent era.  Skip, can you please let a brother know what your 
research has uncovered, as well as pose this question to brothers who were around and active during the '50s and '60s (especially those who were in college).  Was Alpha deep in the trenches with those who posed revolutionary ideas and tactics, or did individual brothers choose to affiliate on their own in this capacity? 
I  am very interested in knowing if we were the conservative traditionalist type who chose to use the conventional channels of negotiation, or the nouveau type brothers who possessed the political savvy and fierceness to stare oppression in the eyes and demand liberation by any means necessary?  Because 
each brother will have different experiences, I am more interested in knowing how Alpha Phi Alpha -- the Fraternity -- presented itself in the movement.  I remember vividly our conversation when you told me about your book on the Jewels, and how we have made them icons in the frat almost to the expense of their more
mortal side.  I must admit, as well, that at times it's extremely easy to make the Jewels larger than life.  You had the insight and vision, however, to dig up the past and reveal some of those characteristics about the Jewels in such a fashion that we could see ourselves in them.  Likewise, I know that there are some
painful realities about Alpha that we as a brotherhood need to acknowledge, but we are too blinded by our accomplishments to admit.   

Bro. Mason, when Sterling Brown said that strong men keep on a coming, he was talking about you!  You manage to craftily and courageously defy the status quo, professionally and personably communicate the history of our frat,  and tenaciously and tremendously personify the best that Alpha has to offer.  As I read the Kappa's letter [see SHM, Vol. 1, No. 30], I couldn't help but to get a sense of disgust. Although he was extremely tactful and respectful in his wording, he epitomized the frame of thought that threatens to destroy the college presence of BGLOs [Black Greek letter organizations].   I am certain that Alpha is not along with respect to the lifeline being contained in the college ranks.  We ALL were founded by college men and women, and you were very accurate in your distinction between our roots and those of Sigma Pi  Phi.  Furthermore, the Kappa seemed to take pride in an "elitist" mind-state, and heralded Sigma Pi Phi for being such.  It is my understanding that such a mentality is what tainted Bro. DuBois against his theoretical talented tenth.Brothers and sisters who had been blessed by God with the talents to move the community onward and upward settled for the fame and glamor that they received, and forgot about the masses.  There's a brother here in Saint Louis whose parents are in Sigma Pi Phi, and as I looked at the photograph from one of 
their most recent conventions, I tell you it looked like the YOUNGEST person on the picture was pushing 70.  Now I'll admit that much wealth, power and prestige is contained in these numbers, but where is their contribution to the uplift and  betterment of the downtrodden?  Where are their donations to the endowments
of Black colleges and universities?  Where are the Black hotels, banks, supermarkets and the such?  Where are the privately owned Black schools so that we can teach God, talk God, pray God, discipline the students, keep out the guns and violence out, keep the service and scholarship up, and ensure that Black history is not ignored any longer?  That last sentence may have been arun-on, but I feel comfortable writing to you what my heart and soul commands,because you are my brother.  I'm certain that many Alphas may indeed belong to Sigma Pi Phi, but that doesn't validate the lack of involvement and interaction that they have with the downtrodden.  Perhaps this was never their purpose, their aim, or their mission, but I know that Alpha laid a foundation that would pick up the pace.  And I would much rather belong to a brotherhood that remembers that it does not profit a man to gain the world and to lose his soul in the process.

I guess that technically I'm an alumni brother now, but my heart is still with the undergrads, and I thank you for looking out for us Neos for Life.  Keep on pressing on, brother, and God will bless all that you do.  My prayers are with you and yours, and I look forward to our next encounter.

In Brotherhood,

William Dailey
07BT96, Epsilon Lambda

SKIP'S RESPONSE: Will's letter(s) like so many of the ones that I receive reminds me of the depth of intellect and scholarship that was reminiscent of Alpha Phi Alpha in the writings of the Sphinx Magazines during the 1920's. He has addressed some important issues which over the course of the next few 
weeks will address from a purely historical perspective. I would like to leave you with the words of DuBois when he wrote an article for the Boule Journal for Sigma Pi Phi. In this article, he ask the question "What can 
Sigma Pi Phi do to see that we get it for the American Negro? DuBois said, "So far as the group before me is concerned little can be done, for the simple reason that most of our present membership will soon be dead. Unless we begin to recruit this fraternity membership with young men, our biennial conclaves will be increasingly devoted to obituaries. This new membership must not be simply successful in the American sense of being rich...those admitted must be those who realize the economic revolution now sweeping the world, and do not think that private profit is the measure of public welfare. And too we must deliberately seek honest men...This new world must learn that the object of the world is not profit but service and happiness."  
DuBois, 1948. 

IN RESPONSE TO THE KAPPA LETTER

Must say, that I loved your response to the member of K A PSI, who attempt to tactfully downplay the accomplishment of ALPHA PHI ALPHA.  I find it amazing how one can construct words to find flaws instead of giving credit where credit is due.  I also understand the pride that comes with becoming a
member of an organization, but don't attempt to make your light shine brighter by trying to blow out others.
Before I became an ALPHA I understood the challenges that would come with being a member of such a prestigious organization.  I knew people were going to try to knock me down or find flaws just because I am ALPHA PHI ALPHA.  Knowing this gives me the drive to make my haters my motivators.   Continue to keep up the good work and continue to keep ALPHA on the minds of all individuals (Greeks and non-Greeks). 

"Judge not and ye shall not be judged"  Luke 6:37 
Brother Tommie Smith

Brother Mason,
 I am very concerned by the mere fact that other black Greek letter fraternities will not recognize that Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., established itself as the national black collegiate fraternity for college men.  It is a realistic fact that other fraternities fail to see, but it is disappointing to know that they are not giving credit where it is due.  We must understand that for seven intelligent, creative, scholastic, African-American men to establish a great fraternity in the hardship of times in white America, and to still be in existence for 93
years -- that is something all African-Americans should be proud of: setting permanent foundations for others to follow.  I feel that Alphas have the right to boast about being "First Of All....." When you meet opposition as the fellow Greek brother (in regards to being a member of the Pan-Hellenic Council), it bothers me of the mere fact that history is true, and you cannot go back and change it, because if that was the case, the world would be perfect.  Maybe they could move their founding date up to 1905 (smile).  I just get upset of how people can disregard a legitimate past that is in the record books.  I guess you made other fraternities upset by your analysis of their history books.  I guess when you read their history, it is their history, but as the great Alpha men that we are, we can recognize, respect other fraternities and still come out being knowledgeable of our great African and fraternal roots.  
seah@acpub.duke.edu (Sean Hall) 

A CHAPTER SHOUT OUT TO SHM
Fraternal greetings from the brothers of the Theta Chi Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.  We are pleased to say that we have enjoyed reading your "notes."  They are very informative, and we wish you the best of luck as you continue to write.  Keep up the excellent work, and never let down the forever burning LIGHT of ALPHA.  Until next time, 19000000006!!!!
 
 

FROM THE PAN HELLENIC ARCHIVES

"And from day to day I'll tell the world that I love only AKA"

SPOTLIGHT FEATURE: SOROR PHYLICIA ALLEN

By Skip Mason

The world knew her as "Claire Huxtable."  I first saw her in 1982 on Broadway in  the production of "Dreamgirls" and later again on Broadway in "Jelly's Last Jam."  I was mesmerized last year when she performed the role of Medea in  Atlanta at the Alliance Theater.  It was the absolute most powerful performance I had ever seen.

Back in the day, however, the sorors of Alpha Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority at Howard University  knew her as the Anti Grammateus (Asst. Secretary) for the chapter in 1969/1970.  She graduated in the Class of 1970 with a degree in Drama.  While in college, she was on the Alpha Phi Omega Court, a member of the Howard Players, where she was president.

Two weekends ago, I had an opportunity to meet the elegant Phylicia Allen as she was being honored in Atlanta by the Southern Christian Leadership Women for achievement in the arts.  Both of our families had been featured in the book "An African-American Family Album."  Phylicia was the daughter of a well known Alphaman in Houston, Dr. "Tex" Allen.  The Allens resided on McGregor Street in Houston.  Now Mrs. Phylicia Rashad, the wife of Ahmad Rashad, a recent initiate of Omega Psi Phi (along with Shaq O'Neal, and Atlanta's Mayor  Bill Campbell, a few years ago), she is enjoying a successful career on the new "Cosby" show and doing regional theater during the off season.  Now you do not even need to ask if I got a photo with her.  Of course! She sends her love to the brothers of A PHI A.

By the way, the 1970 Howard Bison Yearbook cover was in black and gold.  Why? The editor in chief was Bro. Dan Smith.  Subtle yet bold in black and old gold.  [On June 15 at 3 p.m., the cable channel Lifetime featured her in its series of "Intimate Portraits."  For more information, go to http://www.lifetimetv.com/onair/intimate/frameset.shtml/port9826.html
 

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http://www.baylor.edu/~Roderick_Robeson/skip (my temporary web site)

Click on "About Skip" and go to Skip's Historical Moments.  There you will be able to retrieve back issues (1-25) in their entirety. 

No. 1- Callis's First Wife
No. 2- The Ties That Bind: Lyle and Hedgeman/APHIA/AKA
No. 3- Charles Chapman, A Poet?
No. 4- The APHIA/Delta Connection (Most requested issue)
No. 5- Frederick Douglass: He was the Spirit of the Fraternity
No. 6- Rev. A Wayman Ward: The Author of the Fraternity
No. 7- Abram L. Simpson, Author of the Fraternity Hymn and Other Alpha Songwriters
No. 8- Revisionist Fraternities: The Omega, Kappa, Sigma Conspiracy
No. 9- The Daughter of Jewel Ogle
No 10- How Alpha is Portrayed in Current Literature
No. 11- Duke Ellington and Alpha Phi Alpha
No. 12- Jewel Vertner Woodson Tandy's Connection to Tuskegee
No. 13-  The Mothers of the Jewels, Part One
No. 14- Jewel Jones Mother: Mrs. Rosa Kinckle Jones/ Dr. Roscoe C. Giles
No. 15- Jewel Murray Mother: Mrs. Anna Evans Murray
No. 16- Jewels Ogle and Tandy's Mothers
No. 17- Mrs. Annie Singleton and the Mothers of Ithaca
No. 18- Jewel Eugene Kinckle Jones: Truly A Servant of All
No. 19- Alpha and Sigma Pi Phi (The Boule)
No. 20- The Sphinx Club and Pledging 1906-1930
No. 21- Masonic and other fraternal ties to the Seven Jewels
No. 22- DuBois and Alpha Phi Alpha: Was it the pride of his heart?
No 23- The Book: The Talented Tenth
No. 24- Jewel Ogle's Grave/Alpha's Second Honorary Member
No. 25- Having Their Say: Letters From the Brothers
No. 26- Jewel George Biddle Kelley, An Eternal Neophyte and Advocate for College Brothers
No. 27- Charles Henry Chapman: The Reclaimed Jewel
No. 28-The Lighter Side of Alpha (White Brothers in the Fraternity, pt. 1)
No. 29- The Lighter Side of Alpha, Pt. 2
No. 30- Egyptian Excursion/The Jewel's Granddaughter Visits Atlanta
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THE TALENTED TENTH:
THE FOUNDERS AND 30 GENERAL PRESIDENTS
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By Skip Mason
Foreword by Brother Andrew Young

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