Eugene Kinckle Jones ( July 30, 1885 - January 11, 1954) was one the (commonly referred to as Jewels) of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity at Cornell University in 1906. He became Alpha chapter’s second President and co-authored the Fraternity name with Henry Callis. Jones organized the first three Fraternity chapters that branched out from Cornell: Beta at Howard University, Gamma at Virginia Union University and the original Delta chapter at the University of Toronto in Canada. Jones was a member of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Black Cabinet.