Chapter
Name: Theta Mu
National Founding: 1911
Chapter Founding:
National Web Site: www.omegapsiphifraternity.org
Chapter Web Site:
Official Colors: Royal Purple and Gold
Nickname: Ques
Philanthropy: United Negro College Fund, the American Cancer Society, "Assault
on Illiteracy"
Chapter President: Paul Gordon
Omega
Psi Phi Fraternity was founded on Friday, November 17, 1911, at Howard University
in Washington, D.C. The founders of the fraternity were three students: Edgar
Amos Love, Oscar James Cooper, and Frank Coleman and their first faculty advisor
Ernest Everett Just. Omega Psi Phi was the first black fraternal organization
founded at Historically Black colleges and universities.
From its inception,
the fraternity has worked to build a strong and effective force of men dedicated
to principles of manhood, scholarship, perseverance, uplift, and capable of
giving expression to the hopes and aspirations of an unfree people in the
land of the free. In 1927, the fraternity made National Negro Achievement
Week an annual observance, and it continues today as Achievement Week.
Since 1945, the fraternity has undertaken a National Social Action Program
to meet the needs of African Americans in the areas of health, housing, civil
rights, and education. In its continuing support of African-American education,
the fraternity gives an annual gift of $50,000 to the United Negro College
Fund (UNCF). Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., has supported the UNCF since
1955.
