Brief HISTORY OF OMEGA PSI Phi FRATERNITY INC,
Professor Frank Coleman (1890-1967)
Professor and head of the Physics Department, Howard University
Practiced medicine in Philadelphia, PA for 50 years
Dr. Oscar J. Cooper (1888-1972)
Bishop, Methodist Church
Bishop Edgar A. Love (1891-1974)
Dr. Ernest E. Just (1883-1941)
Pioneering biologist, academic and science writer.
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 nameOmega Psi Phi was derived. That phrase was selected as the motto.
Manhood, Scholarship, Perseverance and Uplift were adopted as Cardinal Principles.
Omega Psi Phi was incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia on October 28, 1914.