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Omega Psi Phi Founding Fathers
Bishop Edgar Amos Love (1891 – 1974) MANHOOD
Born 10 Sep, 1891, Harrisburg, VA
Parents: Rev Julius C. Love and Mrs. Susie C. Love
EDUCATION
1909 Graduated Academy of Morgan College
1913 Graduated Howard Univ, Cum Laude > BA degree
1916 received degree of Divinity from Howard Univ
1918 received bachelor of Theology from Boston Univ
1935 conferred Honorary Doctorate of Divinity from Morgan College
PASTORATES
15 months Fairmont MD
4 years Wash D.C.
3 years Annapolis MD
3 years Wheeling WV
2 years Baltimore MD, John Wesley Methodist Church
Bishop, Methodist Church
MILITARY SERVICE
Commissioned 1LT
US Army Chaplain 368th Infantry, World War II
Saw service in Vosges Mountains and Argonne Forest (Gassed here)
Supervised 3000 men
Taught in the Army school
Organized school for illiterates in 809th Pioneer Infantry
CIVIC ACTIVITIES
1919 Honorably Discharged from Army
1919 professor of History and Bible at Morgan College
Also served as director of Athletics
Also Principle of the Academy
Delegate of state of Maryland to the First American Legion convention > Minneapolis, Minnesota
Appointed member of Maryland Interracial Commission by Gov Ritchie of Maryland
1st and 3rd Basileus
Dr. Ernest E Just (1883 – 1941) SCHOLARSHIP
Born in Charleston, S.C.
Eminent Marine Biologist
EDUCATION
Graduated from Industrial school of State College, Orangeburg, S.C.
Kimball Union Academy at Meriden, New Hampshire
1907 Dartmouth College, Won Phi Beta Kappa key at Dartmouth (highest scholastic award for an undergrad)
Became teacher at M Street High school (Dunbar)
Became Biology instructor at Howard Univ
Obtained Doctor of Philosophy from Univ of Chicago
HONORS
1915 Conferred the Spingarn Medal from NAACP for Outstanding achievement
Guest investigator of research at Kaiser Wilhem Institute for Biology
1919 spent six months in Biological research at Naples Italy
20 years research at Marine Biology laboratory Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Received Rosenwald Fund of 80k a year for research
CIVIC ACTIVITIES
Member of National Research Council
Editor of international Journal “Protoplasma”
Member of American Society of Zoologists
Member of American Naturalists
1936 Corresponding member of La Societe des Science Naturelles et Mathematiques de France
Prof Frank Coleman (1890 – 1967) PERSEVERANCE
Born Jul 11, 1890, Wash D.C.
EDUCATION
1908 Graduated with honors M Street High school (Dunbar), Wash D.C.
1913 BS from Howard Univ
MS from Univ of Chicago
Advanced training, Univ Pennsylvania
Professor and head of Physics Department, Howard Univ
MILITARY SERVICE
1LT in World War I
CIVIC ACTIVITIES
Member of Boy’s committee YMCA
Mason
American legionnaire
Congregationalist
Dr. Oscar J Cooper (1888 – 1972) UPLIFT
Born in Wash D.C.
Graduated M Street High school (Dunbar), Wash D.C.
1913 BS Howard Univ
1917 Doctorate of Medicine from Howard Univ
Laboratory assistant in Biology (His love of Biology drew him to Professor JUST)
The LINK between our Founding Fathers (All juniors) and JUST
Settled and practiced Medicine in Philadelphia for 50 years
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