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VOL.3 NO. 16
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Omega Men join City of Dallas Clean up
With over 2000 registered members attending, with their wives and family members, and other sororities and fraternities, an anticipated 5,000 or more visitors to the Metroplex will join the member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. for their four-day District 9 Meeting at the Dallas Downtown Sheraton Hotel. The Mighty 9th District is comprised of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas. An on-going community service project for the public service organization, that was founded in 1911, is a project in the host city, Dallas This year, the fraternity members partnered with Dallas City Councilwoman Carolyn R. Davis for the Community Clean Up - MLK Beautification Project annual Spring Clean-up of the Martin Luther King area, 2822 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
More than 150 members of the fraternity showed up to mow grass, clip hedges and pick-up and remove trash and debris, among other duties. Wilton Munnings is basileus (president) of the Dallas Chapter, Theta Alpha, and also president of the Dallas Black Chamber of Commerce, which sits on the same side of the street and one block away from the Martin Luther King Center. Munnings and his chapter members joined their brothers for the clean-up. The host chapter for the conference is the Omicron Gamma Gamma Chapter in Arlington, TX Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. is the first international fraternal organization to be founded on the campus of a historically black college. Omega Psi Phi was founded on November 17, 1911, at Howard University
in Washington, D.C. The founders were three Howard University undergraduates, -- Edgar Amos Love, Oscar James Cooper and Frank Coleman. Joining them was their faculty adviser, Dr. Ernest Everett Just. From the initials of the Greek phrase meaning, "friendship is essential to the soul," the name Omega Psi Phi was derived. That phrase was selected as the motto. Manhood, Scholarship, Perseverance and Uplift were adopted as Cardinal Principles. On November 23, 1911 in Thirkield Hall, Love became the first Grand Basileus (National President). Cooper and Coleman were selected to be the Grand Keeper of the Records (National Secretary) and Grand Keeper of Seals (National Treasurer), respectively. Eleven Howard University
undergraduate men were selected to be the charter members. Today, Omega Psi Phi now has over 700 chapters throughout the United States, Bermuda, Bahamas, Virgin Islands, Korea, Japan, Liberia, Germany, and Kuwait. There are many notable Omega Men recognized as leaders in the arts, the sciences, academics, athletics, business, civil rights, education, government, and science sectors at the local, national and international level. Former Grand Basileus Warren G. Lee Jr. lives in Dallas. Other noted locals who are members of the organization include: State Sen. Royce West, businessmen Albert Black and Charles O’Neal, Dr. Larry Lundy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram reporter Clarence Hill and NBC-5’s Newy Scruggs.
Texas Metro News welcomes Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.