Massachusetts Institute of Technology Theta Delta Chi, 1939
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A page from the 1939 edition of <em>Technique</em>, the yearbook for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This page shows the Theta Delta Chi, a social fraternity. A notable student listed is Major Jack Cameron Heist (1919-1944), who is pictured fourth from the left in the second row. Maj. Heist was born to Henry S. Heist and Christina Heist on November 6, 1919, in Eustis, Florida. He received his commission on May 29, 1939, to serve in World War II. Maj. Heist was an Ammunition Officer for the XIX Corps. He died during his service in an ambush on September 2, 1944, near Thiant, France. He is currently buried at the Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial in Dinozé, France. Maj. Heist is one of 85 Florida residents interned at Epinal.
Digital reproduction of original yearbook page: <em>Technique</em> (Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1939), page 265. <a href="http://interactive.ancestry.com/1265/40392_B075330-00265/240315196?backurl=http://person.ancestry.com/tree/38722788/person/20409592223/facts" target="_blank">http://interactive.ancestry.com/1265/40392_B075330-00265/240315196?backurl=http://person.ancestry.com/tree/38722788/person/20409592223/facts</a>.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Eugene Kinckle Jones
Jones, Eugene Kinckle, 1885-1954
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity
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National Urban League
An autographed portrait of Eugene Kinckle Jones, which is housed at the Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation, located at 640 Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Boulevard in Daytona Beach, Florida. Jones was born on July 30, 1885, in Richmond, Virginia. While attending Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, in 1906, Jones, along with six other students, founded the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. He served as the chapter's second president and organized the fraternity's first three chapters to branch out from the school: Beta at Howard University in Washington, D.C.; Gamma at Virginia Union University in Richmond; and the original Delta chapter at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (present-day Huston-Tillotson University).<br /><br />Jones later became an organizer for the National Urban League, and then founded the Boston Urban League in 1917. The following year, he became the NUL's first Executive Secretary and stayed in that position until he retired in 1941. Under Jones' guidance, the League implemented boycotts broke down barriers to equal employment opportunities for African Americans in the 1920s and 1930s. He also served in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Black Cabinet, which advised the President on race issues. Jones died on January 11, 1954, in Flushing, Queens, New York.
Original 8 x 10 inch black and white photographic print: Sun room, image 114, <a href="http://www.cookman.edu/about_BCU/history/index.html" target="_blank">Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation</a>, Daytona Beach, Florida.
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Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation, Mary McLeod Bethune Home, Bethune-Cookman University, Daytona Beach, Florida