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What is the motto of the Lampados Club? ›

They had heard of an organization whose motto was “Friendship is Essential to the Soul.” Through the Lampados Club the initiates learned about the fraternity and its four cardinal principals of Manhood, Scholarship, Perseverance, and Uplift.

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THE OMEGA PSI PHI OFFICIAL JEWELRY COLLECTION

Wear the ultimate symbol of fraternity and friendship every day with the Omega Psi Phi Membership Ring. Crafted in multiple metal options, the ring top features an amethyst spinel stone, surrounded by 20 round brilliant-cut stones, representing the 20 pearls of Omega.

In the twenties, the Fraternity introduced an organized pledge club to its chapters. Called the Lampados Club, it allowed young men to demonstrate their worthiness to Omega. It provided the tools for a Lampado to become a true Omega Man. In 1929, Epsilon Chapter organized its first Lampados Club.

From the initials of the Greek phrase meaning, "friendship is essential to the soul," the name Omega Psi Phi was derived.

One of the initiation rituals at Omega Psi Phi ends with new members wearing gold boots, to symbolize the dust and sediment that Col. Charles Young picked up on his boots on his horse ride to Washington. It's meant to show how the new members have persevered through the initiation process.

Initiating the first white man into the Utah chapter of the historically all-black fraternity Omega Psi Phi wasn't a question of race, members say, but of heart. And Loki Mulholland's is in the right place. Mulholland is a Lehi-based filmmaker whose mother was a Freedom Rider in the 1960s civil rights movement.

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Another is the practice of members voluntarily undergoing branding of the letters, or variations and designs based on them (such as two linked Omega symbols), on their skin. The brands often are displayed in public as a matter of pride; some prospects first learn of the fraternity by seeing members bearing brands.

Why are deltas and omegas so close? ›

Both were founded at Howard University, a historically Black university in Washington, D.C. One of Omega's founders, Prof. Frank Coleman, while a student at Howard, dated and later married, Edna Brown Coleman, one of the founders of Delta, and thus the beginning of the bond between the Ques and the Deltas.

In June 1987, Jordan joined the Omega Psi Phi fraternity through the Omicron Alpha chapter in Wilmington, North Carolina. The initiation came on the heels of the 1986-87 NBA season in which Jordan averaged 37.1 points per game.

Throughout its 107-year history, Omega Psi Phi has been able to claim prominent figures who regularly plug their membership, including actor/rapper/former NBA superstar Shaquille O'Neal, comedian Steve Harvey and retired NFL star Ray Lewis.

On Friday evening, November 17, 1911, three Howard University undergraduate students, with the assistance of their faculty adviser, gave birth to the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. This event occurred in the office of biology Professor Ernest E. Just, the faculty adviser, in the Science Hall (now known as Thirkield Hall).

From the initials of the Greek phrase meaning “friendship is essential to the soul,” the name Omega Psi Phi was derived. The phrase was selected as the motto. Manhood, Scholarship, Perseverance, and Uplift were adopted as cardinal principles.

Friendship is Essential to the Soul

Omega Lambda Lambda Chapter, an unincorporated affiliation of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., is a fraternal service organization, dedicated to our implied motto of "Lifting As We Climb".