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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Kerry-Ann
Hamilton
Media Relations Manager
k_hamilton@howard.edu
202.238.2332 |
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Omega
Psi Phi Fraternity to Mark
100 years
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WASHINGTON
(Nov. 5, 2010) –
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity,
Inc, will hold a press
conference at Howard
University’s Thirkield
Hall at 10:00 a.m. on
Nov. 17 to kick off
its Centennial Anniversary
Celebration, which will
take place July 27 to
July 31, 2011.
During
the press conference,
the Fraternity will
announce a significant
financial contribution
to Howard University.
This legacy gift is
in honor of its founders.
The organization will
also unveil several
community-enhancing
projects to be carried
out by members throughout
Metro DC during the
centennial.
Past
Grand Basilei will be
among members of the
fraternity featured
at the press conference.
Vice President for Student
Affairs Barbara Griffin,
Ph.D., will attend the
press conference on
behalf of President
Sidney A. Ribeau who
is also expected to
attend. |
Omega
Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., was
founded on the campus of Howard
University on Nov. 17, 1911
by undergraduate students Edgar
Love, Oscar Cooper and Frank
Coleman, with the guidance of
biology professor Ernest E.
Just. Since its founding as
the first Greek Letter fraternity
founded on any HBCU campus,
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.
has expanded to more than 700
chapters worldwide.
For nearly
100 years, the more than 100,
000 members of Omega Psi Phi
have committed themselves
to sustaining the organization’s
cardinal principles of “manhood,
scholarship, perseverance,
and uplift” in their
professional, civic, social,
and community endeavors.
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