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Also, this marks the return of Omega to Canada. Initially the Sigma chapter (now at Michigan State) was located in Westmount (Montreal), Canada in the 1920s. This chapter was largely associated with McGill University, the "Harvard" of Canadian higher education. This chapter's most illustrious member was Bro. Charles Drew, M.D., DSc., who was a medical student at McGill at the time. He went on to do pioneering work in the use of Blood Plasma during WWII and trained many black surgeons at Howard. Charles Drew, along with chapter brother W. Mercer Cook, Ph.D. (later a Prof. of French at Howard and Ambassador to Senegal), while they were students at Amherst College in Mass. wrote 'Omega Dear', our national hymn, and one of the most beautiful and moving Greek songs in existence.
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