Omega Psi Phi Fraternity History

We are Brooklyn Omega, the Audacious Alpha Upsilon. We honor our past by embracing our future. A future built by our chapter and supported by our community patrons and fellow greeks like you.

Phi Beta Kappa, the first American college fraternity, was organized on the campus of the College of William and Mary in 1776. Men and women are members of this college honorary scholarship society. Greek-lettered fraternities and sororities have

played a major role in American college life since 1776. Black college fraternities and sororities did not emerge until the early 1900's. Unlike their white counterparts, the black groups have remained very active at the graduate level. Since their founding, these groups have played a major role in the cultural, social and civic life of their communities.

"BUILDING BRIDGES"

THE BRIDGE BUILDER

An old man, traveling a lonely highway at evening, cold and gray, came to a vast chasm, wide and steep, with waters rolling cold and deep. He crossed in the dim twilight, unafraid of the sullen stream, and once safely on the other side, he turned back and began building a bridge to span the tide. A fellow pilgrim nearby questioned him, saying, “Old man, you are wasting your strength building here. Your journey will end with the close of day; you will never again pass this way. You’ve crossed the chasm, deep and wide—why build this bridge at eventide?” The builder lifted his old gray head and replied, “Good friend, along the path I have traveled today, there follows a youth whose feet must pass this way. The chasm that was nothing to me may prove a pitfall to that fair-haired youth; he, too, must cross in the twilight dim. Good friend, I am building this bridge for him.”

- W.A. Dromgoole