South Carolina H 4345: Sigma Pi Fraternity's (Omega Psi Phi) 50th anniversary

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2025-2026 Bill 4345 Text of Previous Version (Apr. 10, 2025) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 4345

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A house RESOLUTION

TO CONGRATULATE MEMBERS OF THE SIGMA PI CHAPTER OF 
OMEGA PSI PHI FRATERNITY INCORPORATED ON THE OCCASION OF THEIR FIFTIETH 
ANNIVERSARY AND TO WISH THEM CONTINUED SUCCESS IN ALL OF THEIR FUTURE ENDEAVORS.

Whereas, the South 
Carolina General Assembly is pleased to pause in its deliberations to 
congratulate the Sigma Pi Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Incorporated as 
it celebrates its fiftieth anniversary on April 19, 2025, in Aiken County; and

Whereas, officially 
chartered on April 19, 1975, the chapter's founding members included Nathaniel 
Dicks, Gene A. Bell, John R. Brightharp, Willie Stewart, William Clyburn, 
Theodore N. Peoples, Clifton S. Key, George L. Blalock, Loran Simpkins, 
Genovesi Mitchell, and Willie F. Wright; and

Whereas, with renewed 
energy the fledgling chapter set out to expand its ranks and, in the fall of 
1975 initiated an inaugural line of four new members. The chapter continued to 
grow, committing itself to community service while living up to the 
fraternity's cardinal principles of manhood, scholarship, perseverance, and 
uplift; and

Whereas, Sigma Pi 
Chapter has a service area that includes Aiken, Edgefield, Barnwell, Allendale, 
and southern Lexington counties. Members focus on community service, 
scholarship programs, social action, voter registration, education, career 
development, food distribution, and is a Silver Life member of the NAACP. The 
annual Mother2Son Gala, derived from the poem by poet Langston Hughes, is a 
male-mentoring program for young men ages five to eighteen. Mothers attend 
breakout sessions that emphasize selfcare, and mental, physical, and spiritual 
upbringing; and

Whereas, Titans of 
Omega Male Mentor Academy, Sigma Pi's other signature program, is for those in 
eighth through twelfth grades, who come from at-risk and non-at-risk 
environments, who can benefit from academic, social, and economic uplift, and 
who have a desire to be nurtured and developed intellectually and spiritually 
through persistent and deliberate instruction; and

Whereas, Sigma Pi 
Chapter has awarded more than one hundred thousand dollars in scholarships for 
college-bound high school students; eighteen thousand dollars have gone to 
HBCUs in-and out-of-state; with other donations benefitting the Dr. Benjamin E. 
Mays Museum and Childhood Home Place, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 
and Ghana, Africa's "Bore Hole Well" construction project; and

Whereas, Omega Psi Phi 
Fraternity Incorporated is a historically African American organization founded 
on the campus of Howard University in 1911. The fraternity focuses on a 
National Social Action Program in the areas of health, housing, civil rights, 
and education; and

Whereas, the South 
Carolina House of Representatives is honored to recognize the Sigma Pi Chapter 
of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Incorporated as its rich history and storied legacy 
continues to attract and build a strong and effective force of men dedicated to 
its cardinal principles. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the House 
of Representatives:

That the members of the South Carolina House of Representatives, by this resolution, congratulate 
members of the Sigma Pi Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Incorporated on the 
occasion of their fiftieth anniversary, and wish them continued success in all 
of their future endeavors.

Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution 
be presented to Nathaniel Dicks, Basileus of Sigma Pi Chapter of Omega Psi Phi 
Fraternity Incorporated.

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