After carefully studying the student body for prospective candidates, they chose eleven men who not only possessed the principles upon which the fraternity was founded, but also were willing to help Omega on its way. Cooper as Grand Keeper of Records and Frank Coleman as Grand Keeper of Seals. On Thursday, November 23, 1911, the three undergraduate Founders met and elected Edgar A.
They chose Manhood, Scholarship, Perseverance and Uplift as the four Cardinal Principles of the Fraternity and decided upon the design of the Fraternity’s pin and escutcheon.
On Friday evening, November 17, 1911, three Howard University undergraduate liberal arts students – twenty-three-year-old Oscar James Cooper (the laboratory assistant in Biology who was the link between Omega’s Founders and Professor Just), twenty-one-year-old Frank Coleman and twenty-year-old Edgar Amos Love - met with their faculty adviser, twenty-eight-year-old Professor Ernest Everett Just, in his office in Science Hall to establish a fraternity.Īt this meeting, they decided upon the motto “ Friendship is essential to the soul” as symbolized by three Greek letters ΩΨΦ - Omega Psi Phi - which are the initials of the three Greek words - Ophelema Philia Psurkis - that represent the motto: Friendship is Essential to the Soul.
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