On Friday evening, 17 November 1911, three students of the Junior class at Howard University in Washington D.C. (Bishop Edgar A. Love, Dr. Oscar J. Cooper, Professor Frank Coleman, with the assistance of their faculty advisor, Professor Ernest E. Just) founded Omega Psi Phi, the first national Greek-letter fraternity established at a historically black college/university, based on the Cardinal Principles of Manhood, Scholarship, Perseverance and Uplift and under the banner of the open motto "Friendship is essential to the soul".
God bless the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity!!!!
The Omega Psi Phi Hymn at the Centennial Celebration Founder's Banquet:
Omega Dear
by
W. Mercer Cook & Charles Drew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17dUK...eature=related
Omega Dear we are thine own;
Thou art our life, our love, our home;
We'll sing Thy praises far and nigh,
We love Omega Psi Phi.
To all Thy precepts make us true;
Live nobly as all real men do,
Let Manhood be our eternal shrine;
With faith in God and heart and mind.
Through days of joy or years of pain,
To serve Thee e'er will be our aim;
And when we say our last goodbye
We'll love Omega Psi Phi.