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Originally Posted by Wolfman
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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ROO to the Canadian Neos!!! This is excellent news...hope to see them at the clave this summer!
Wolfman...I appreciate the history lesson...my chapter (Sigma Omega) also has a connection to our Canadian chapters as we were initially chartered as Sigma Chapter in 1921 but then renamed Sigma Omega in 1923 when then Grand Basileus J.A. Atkins made the decision that only undergraduate chapters would hold single letter designations. Sigma Chapter wasn't assigned to Westmount, QUEbec until 1925.
Yes, this Neo reads his history book
