‘Friendship is essential to the soul’: Sigma Pi chapter celebrates 50th anniversary
AIKEN, S.C. (WRDW/WAGT) - A local fraternity celebrated 50 years of service this weekend in Aiken.
The Sigma Pi chapter of Omega Psi Phi was founded in Aiken in 1975.
You can find the fraternity in the community with voter registration drives and mentorship programs.
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The chapter started with nine brothers and never stopped growing.
“Our commitment to the fraternity, we believe that our motto says ‘friendship is essential to the soul.’ We believe that. Our founders, which were four founders at Howard University in 1911. The cardinal principles, manhood, scholarship, perseverance and uplift. So, we use those to help do service kinds of things in the community,” said Nathaniel Dicks, member Sigma Pi.
Dicks has been with the fraternity for 58 years.
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