Founders Day Message From Our Basileus:

Brothers,
Happy Founders Day.  On this day, November 17, 1911, three undergraduates at Howard University Edgar Amos Love, Oscar James Cooper, Frank Coleman and their faculty advisor Dr. Ernest E. Just founded our fraternity. The name Omega Psi Phi is drawn from the Greek phrase meaning “Friendship is essential to the soul.” When they set our cardinal principles of Manhood, Scholarship, Perseverance and Uplift, they built a legacy we proudly continue today.

As the Sigma Mu Mu Chapter, we honor that legacy not just in name, but in action. Our motto “Friends, Family, Fraternity” speaks to the same spirit of friendship that birthed our organization. It also speaks to the family we’ve grown together in service and the fraternity we uphold. On this Founders Day, let us recommit ourselves to living those values: mentoring our youth, serving our community, building relationships that go deeper than meetings.

In celebration, let us reflect on what friendship means in our lives, what family means within our chapter, and what fraternity means in our community.

Paul D. Forbes

Basileus, Sigma Mu Mu