NATIONAL HISTORY

Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. was founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 9, 1914, by three daring, young black students. The founders, Most Honorable A. Langston Taylor, Most Honorable Leonard F. Morse, and Most Honorable Charles I. Brown, wanted to organize a Greek-letter fraternity that would truly exemplify the ideas of brotherhood, scholarship and service.

The founders deeply wished to create an organization that viewed itself as a part of the general community rather than apart from it. They believed that individuals should be judged on their own merits rather that their family background, without regard of race, nationality, color, skin tone, or hair texture. They wanted their fraternity to exist as a part of an even greater brotherhood which would be devoted to the "inclusive we" rather than the "exclusive we."

From the beginning, the founders conceived Sigma as a mechanism to deliver services to the greater community. Rather than gaining skills to be utilized exclusively for themselves and their immediate families, the founders of Sigma held the deep conviction that they should return to their newly acquired skills to the community from which they had come. This deep conviction was mirrored in our fraternity motto, "Culture for Service and Service for Humanity."

Today, in celebrating the 100th anniversary and beyond, Phi Beta Sigma has blossomed into an international organization of leaders. No longer a single entity, the Fraternity has now established the Phi Beta Sigma Educational Foundation, the Phi Beta Sigma Housing Foundation, the Phi Beta Sigma Federal Credit Union and the Phi Beta Sigma Charitable Outreach Foundation.

Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., founded in 1920 with the assistance of Phi Beta Sigma, is the sister organization. No other fraternity and sorority are constitutionally bound as Sigma and Zeta. We both enjoy and foster a mutually supportive relationship.

With the power, force and vigor of more than 125,000 dedicated men united in more than 700 chapters across the United States, Africa, Europe and the Caribbean, Phi Beta Sigma continues to faithfully perpetuate growth and progress as the "people's fraternity." Phi Beta Sigma is dedicated to providing service to all of humanity.

CHAPTER HISTORY

The Omicron Sigma Chapter was chartered on Dec. 1, 1933, and is one of Phi Beta Sigma's oldest graduate chapters. Omicron Sigma's charter members include Bro. E.A. Burson, Bro. C.C. Pedford, Bro. C.A. Walton, Bro. Taft Wilson and Bro. A.B. Henderson. The chapter was reactivated in May of 2006 after a four-year hiatus by 11 Sigma men residing in the North Dallas, Denton and Collin County areas.

Omicron Sigma, since its return, has made a significant impact in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Omicron Sigma's first big honor since reactivation was earning the 2007 Phi Beta Sigma Lone Star Graduate Chapter Social Action Program of the Year Award for its "Omicron Sigma Claus" toy drive. The chapter donated toys to the Jireh House, which caters to displaced and expectant mothers and their children in Denton County. The chapter also was a multi-time recipient of the  Lone Star Chapter Website of the Year Award.

Omicron Sigma's commitment to the founding principles is the driving force in helping Phi Beta Sigma become a leader in the community. Members of the chapter led the charge in chartering the Beta Beta Mu Chapter at Texas Christian University and also were instrumental in the undergraduate growth at Texas Wesleyan University, Texas Woman's University and the University of Texas at Dallas. Omicron Sigma, in the past, has worked well with the other fout graduate chapters in the Dallas/Fort Worth area -- Alpha Theta Sigma Chapter of Fort Worth, Theta Mu Sigma Chapter of Dallas, Iota Mu Sigma Chapter of Arlington, and Tau Zeta Sigma Chapter of Frisco.

Omicron Sigma features officers from the international, Gulf Coast Region and Texas state executive boards. It also includes several past international executive board members, as well as international and Gulf Coast regional life members. The chapter exemplifies the fraternity's motto: "Culture for Service and Service for Humanity."

CHAPTER EXECUTIVE BOARD & COMMITTEE (2024-2025)

President: Bro. Eric D. Hill

 

First Vice President: Bro. Dr. Zachary Shirley

Second Vice President: Bro. Arthur Blackwell, III

 

Treasurer: Bro. Sean Graham

 

Secretary: Bro. Frederick Love

 

Director of Bigger & Better Business: Bro. Chase Jackson

 

Director of Education: Mychal Ouzts

Director of Social Action: Bro. Damon Sayles