  Omega Mu Voice Donald E. MacLauchian  I lived in the House one year and moved into a trailer in Veazie, and my last two years in Orono. I ate at the Castle every day; never missed a weekend, a meeting, and I even slept on the couch a in the living room a time or two, if not more. Incidentally, it was from that vantage point that I got to view of my brother-in-law, Garth Folsom, playing the piano, in the middle of the night, with Tate Ma singing the song.  Garth Folsom  Mrs. Butts, Omega Mu Housemother, And Don Cookson, Omega Mu President I credit my Phi Gam years with everything that I’ve ever accomplished in my career. President Don Cookson and my roommates, Joe Cuccaro and Austin Wilkins, and my permanent assignment to the 3 - 6 a.m. fire watch, changed my life. I have continued these many years to support the Phi Gam Foundation, and I love our very active Graduate Chapter here in D.C., – from cigar smokes to Friday night social hours and Pig Dinners. Where else can a poor herring choker from Washington County, Maine, get to rub elbows with Supreme Court Justices, Congressmen and Governors?   "I have continued these many years to support the Phi Gam Foundation, and I love our very active Graduate Chapter here in D.C., – from cigar smokes to Friday night social hours and Pig Dinners. Where else can a poor herring choker from Washington County, Maine, get to rub elbows with Supreme Court Justices, Congressmen and Governors?"  Joseph T. Cuccaro  Austin H. Wilkins, Jr I left Veazie in August of 1961, where I had accepted a job with the Maryland Department of Forests and Parks. My BS was in Forestry, and I spent my first summer in Maryland working for the park division on such glorious jobs as garbage truck duty and lawn mowing. By the fall of 1962, when President Kennedy activated the reserves, I was transferred to replace a park superintendent in Montgomery County, Maryland. After the missile crisis, I moved to the Laurel, Maryland, office to become the District Supervisor for the seven counties of southern Maryland. In the Maryland Park Service, where I started emptying trash barrels, I became Director in 1969 occupying several positions on my way to the Director’s job, including training officer where I wrote the first ever training manual for park rangers. In 1977, I was assigned to be State Forester. Two years later, Forests and Parks were reconnected and I found myself Director of both. Later Fisheries and Wildlife were combined under my leadership. In the late eighties, I was appointed by the Governor as Assistant Secretary for the Department of Natural Resources, where I oversaw the operational programs of the Department. I retired from state service and moved my tent to Capitol Hill in 1992. In DC, I worked for the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, which represented the several states of the United States and served to protect the states’ tenth amendment rights as well as to advocate for the various programs that had impacts, both positive and negative in federal fora, on state resource management programs. I spent 16 years working as a lobbyist and retired from that position in 2008. I then went to work for the fur and fashion industry, and, while I still maintained some involvement in state-based fur and trapping issues, my focus was on the research work being done in cooperation with the EU and Canada and the US Department of Agriculture based in Fort Collins. The international standards organization’s requirements for trap standards was a major challenge, one that we had negotiated in Milan, Paris, Geneva, and Brussels. That research project has been cited as the largest and most significant wildlife management research project of its time. It continues today. As I reflect on the time since I left the Castle, the things of which I am most proud are the roles that I played in the development of Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay Program, where I was one of the original five that gathered weekly to craft a program to reverse the decline of the health of the Chesapeake Bay; my work as the state representative with the Department of State and the Office of the President (US Trade) in negotiating our position on furbearer management; putting together a group that later turned into the Partnership for Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (PARC); and my work at establishing the role of North American Fish and Wildlife Resource Management in various fora like the Convention on International Trade and Endangered Species; the RAMSAR Convention on wetlands preservation; and various agreements dealing with international avian flyways.   I credit my Phi Gam years with everything that I’ve ever accomplished in my career.  “What if the space be long and wide, That parts us from our brother’s side A soul-joined chain unites our band, And memory links us hand in hand.” (Phi Gamma Delta fraternity song)    Fraternally,
Chip Chapman, ’82 Perge
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Truthfully, there is no fraternal brotherhood quite like Omega Mu at the University of Maine. We are proud of our history, and we are proud of the impressive number of fraternal brothers who played on many University of Maine athletic teams. With conviction and commitment, our Omega Mu athlete brothers brought a great deal of joy and satisfaction to the university community, creating many wonderful memories since the first baseball team was established at Maine State College in the 1870's. The worked together for the success of each Maine team, and the overall civic good of the University of Maine. The sheer number of Omega Mu athlete brothers is an unqualified triumph for the University of Maine. Their positive impact on the University of Maine community cannot be overstated. They each gave their best efforts on each team, and what they achieved perfectly compliments what we fraternally believe: drive and determination. It is a heady athletic legacy. Accordingly, their accomplishments claim our fraternal attention and respect. For the eminence of their athletic success; and, above all, for being our Omega Mu brothers, we are proud. Therefore, in the linked soul and spirit of our long fraternal history, we gratefully remember and celebrate our QTV and Omega Mu brothers who participated on many varsity athletic teams at the University of Maine. Our scorecard is deep, and we appreciate, and we are proud of, all of our Omega Mu athlete brothers. Thoreau said it best: “What a difference, whether in all your walks, you meet only strangers, or in one house is one who knows you, and whom you know. To have a brother…How rare these things are.” How true that is, and we remain that way to this day. Q. T. V. Athlete Warner E. Welch, 1898  Q. T. V. Years       
 Q. T. V. Reunion              "Second Lieutenant, Warner Edwin Welch"  1895 Coburn Cadets  1896 Coburn Cadet Band  1898 Coburn Cadets  Unknown Year University of Maine Athlete                 “What if the space be long and wide, That parts us from our brother’s side A soul-joined chain unites our band, And memory links us hand in hand.” (Phi Gamma Delta fraternity song)    Fraternally,
Chip Chapman, ’82 Perge Truthfully, there is no fraternal brotherhood quite like Omega Mu at the University of Maine. We are proud of our history, and we are proud of the impressive number of fraternal brothers who played on many University of Maine athletic teams. With conviction and commitment, our Omega Mu athlete brothers brought a great deal of joy and satisfaction to the university community, creating many wonderful memories since the first baseball team was established at Maine State College in the 1870's. The worked together for the success of each Maine team, and the overall civic good of the University of Maine. The sheer number of Omega Mu athlete brothers is an unqualified triumph for the University of Maine. Their positive impact on the University of Maine community cannot be overstated. They each gave their best efforts on each team, and what they achieved perfectly compliments what we fraternally believe: drive and determination. It is a heady athletic legacy. Accordingly, their accomplishments claim our fraternal attention and respect. For the eminence of their athletic success; and, above all, for being our Omega Mu brothers, we are proud. Therefore, in the linked soul and spirit of our long fraternal history, we gratefully remember and celebrate our QTV and Omega Mu brothers who participated on many varsity athletic teams at the University of Maine. Our scorecard is deep, and we appreciate, and we are proud of, all of our Omega Mu athlete brothers. Thoreau said it best: “What a difference, whether in all your walks, you meet only strangers, or in one house is one who knows you, and whom you know. To have a brother…How rare these things are.” How true that is, and we remain that way to this day. Omega Mu Athlete Arthur W. Collins, 1905  Omega Mu Years            "The committee to whom the success of the occasion was largely due to...Arthur W. Collins..."  "The Omega Mu chapter of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity started off the social events for the new year by giving...one of the most delightful dances ever held in the gymnasium."    University of Maine Athlete     Arthur W. Collins was a halfback on the University of Maine football teams.                 “What if the space be long and wide, That parts us from our brother’s side A soul-joined chain unites our band, And memory links us hand in hand.” (Phi Gamma Delta fraternity song)    Fraternally,
Chip Chapman, ’82 Perge  Our brothers careers have been productive, constructive, spirited, and prosaic. They displayed impressive skills, talents, and abilities They were, and we continue to be, a beautiful and lively expression of our enduring fraternal beliefs, and that underlying harmony is far-reaching in expectation for all brothers’, undergraduate and graduate. It is the core of what our fraternal founders asserted in 1848 and 1874 and 1899: to live active, commendable, and responsible lives, and to build up community. Clearly and compellingly, they added, and continue to add, positive value at the local, state, national, global, and fraternal level because they engaged life fully and responsibly. In short, they were authoritative pillars throughout life. They were-are exemplary in their citizenship, character, and their sense of dutiful responsibility, and, in many instances, they were leading voices in their career fields. They prove that success of any kind does not occur by luck or accident, and we remember them because they continue to provide that message for our time. Their spirit permeates our brotherhood, and it always will. We have long been, from one generation to the next, proud to be Omega Mu Fijis. We continue to cherish our fraternal friendships, our shared memories, and our evolving, forward-focused history at the University of Maine. These things, above and beyond everything else, are the underlying rooted connections that make us proud to be Omega Mu Fijis. Why, after all, should we believe otherwise? We have always exhibited a can-do fraternal spirit since 1874. And, to be sure, all present and future generations of Omega Mu Fijis will continue to do the same, with fraternal enthusiasm and commitment. As a brotherhood, we always see the path behind us and the way forward with equal clarity, and our future remains bright at 79 College Avenue because we fearlessly move forward, always guided by sound fraternal principles, and because of that we are an exceptional brotherhood because we remain committed and hardworking to assure that our Omega Mu brotherhood will continue to be the jewel at the University of Maine. Perge. Omega Mu Portrait Clifford C. Chandler, 1890  Q. T. V. Years Second Q. T. V. Chapter Hall  Second Q. T. V. Chapter Hall, 1887-1889  "The Q. T. V. Society Hall is to be moved from its present location, which is to be the site of the new Natural History Building..."  Second Q. T. V. Chapter Hall is the first building on the left. It was moved in order for Coburn Hall to be built, the building in the middle on the right.  "The Q. T. V. Society Hall has been moved directly back, and sits on a line with the shop."  The recently moved Q. T. V. Chapter Hall, left, and the middle section of what would become Holmes Hall. Third Q. T. V. Chapter Hall, 1889-1898  
  "The hall of the Q. T. V. Fraternity was thrown open to visitors and was well inspected." 1889 Q. T. V. Reunion    "Scientific Institutions, C. C. Harvey, '90"  "The festivities did not end until a late hour and all voted it a most pleasant reunion." 1890 Q. T. V. Reunion   "A large number of the Alumni of the order were present, thus adding materially to the enjoyment of the occasion."     "First Lieutenant and Quartermaster, Chandler C. Harvey"     "The Prisoner of Chillon.......Byron Chandler C. Harvey, Fort Fairfield" Highest Academic Average     "Chandler Cushman Harvey, of Fort Fairfield, who ranked 97.1."     "The Prentiss prize for the best Junior essay was given to Chandler C. Harvey, Fort Fairfield."  "the most striking attribute of the universe, that which most quickly exhausts the imagination, and gives to the inquirer a conception of the finiteness of himself and his terrestrial surroundings, and of the comparatively contracted range of the human intellect."     "C. C. Harvey, '90 Managing Editor"
     "Valedictory....C. C. Harvey"  "....he ended with the wish eloquently expressed that in the next and final meeting they might be collected an unbroken, and unaltered band." Master's Degree    "Thesis-Practical Hints on Railway Levelling" Great Northern Railroad Engineer   After graduating from the University of Maine in 1890, C. C. Harvey was a supervising engineer in building the Great Northern Railroad.    Journalist   C. C. Harvey got into the newspaper business in 1902 when he took the helm of the Fort Fairfield Review when he bought the paper, and he was the editor and publisher of the paper until his death in 1940. His spirited leadership transformed and remodeled the structure, style, and content of the paper, and these changes made the Fort Fairfield Review one of the most respected newspapers in the state of Maine. C. C. Harvey maintained heightened sense of responsibility that The Fort Fairfield Review's vital, primary function was keeping local citizens in Fort Fairfield fully informed about local news with accuracy about facts and clarity of writing. Moreover, C. C. Harvey believed in keeping the citizens fully informed, as much as a local paper is able to do, about national and international news. In short, the Fort Fairfield Review, under Chandler C. Harvey's indispensable leadership, was always thorough, interesting, and informative. Consequently, because of the success he achieved as the publisher and editor of the Fort Fairfield Review, he created a model of journalism that other local newspapers soon followed. Chandler C. Harvey was a leading journalist in Maine for 38 yeas, and because of his unswerving determination and commitment to journalistic excellence he was elected to be the president of the Maine Press Association on several occasions. It is safe to assert that in the news business, the field of journalism was blessed and honored to have such a man as Chandler C. Harvey.     “What if the space be long and wide, That parts us from our brother’s side A soul-joined chain unites our band, And memory links us hand in hand.” (Phi Gamma Delta fraternity song)    Fraternally,
Chip Chapman, ’82 Perge From multiple angles, our Q.T.V. and Omega Mu brothers have enriched the civic life at the University of Maine, and we are fortunate to have had many hardworking, talented brothers throughout our history. The balance between our athletic involvement, intellectual pursuits, and campus involvement is compelling. What they accomplished in their respective pursuits at the university constitutes a wonderful achievement in our fraternal history. There efforts were good and laudable, and there efforts represented the very best of our core values of persistence and determination. It is, believe me, a wonderful achievement, on the part of generations of Omega Mu brothers, for the respective gifts that they gave for the civic good at the University of Maine. In our historically calm, customary fashion, 149 years and growing, it was a rich yield for the common good of the Maine community, All of them, through their various commitments and endeavors within the University of Maine community, improved and brightened up the quality of life of the university community with their enthusiasm and dedication to their respective University of Maine teams, organizations, and clubs. They each had uniques strengths as actors, artists, musicians, athletes, and journalists, and they all embodied the shared commitment to do something well for the University of Maine community. Fraternally integrity demands that, and we are proud of all of these brothers. Over the years, our Omega Mu brothers have been involved in many musical productions at the University of Maine, and praise for them is merited. With the same unconditional focus, diligence and discipline as our athlete brothers, our musically focused brothers, through many decades, brought richness ands joy to the University of Maine community because of their involvement on various bands, orchestras, and choral groups. Their commitment was compelling, and the quality and depth of their art form enriched the lives of countless generations of students at the university, as well as many towns and cities throughout Maine and New England. Generously, with never-ending joy and inspiration, they always gave of their time and talent for the good in all of their musical performances. The embodied our old fraternal truth in being perseverant and determined in being faithful and generous with their beautiful musical gifts. Our Omega Mu Maine music brothers, just like our athlete and Maine Masque brothers, are an enriching testament to what it means to be a fraternity brother in Omega Mu. We remain proud of their dedication, creativity, and commitment in adding such a rich angle in our fraternal history at the University of Maine. Above all, what a superb gift to give anyone: music. Omega Mu Portrait Robert F. Chandler, 1903  Omega Mu Years   Recently built Phi Gamma Delta house, middle, and the field in the middle distance near the white building next to the road where the Castle would be built in 1924-1925.            "Phi Gamma Delta entertained their friends with whist and dancing at their chapter house.."                 “What if the space be long and wide, That parts us from our brother’s side A soul-joined chain unites our band, And memory links us hand in hand.” (Phi Gamma Delta fraternity song)    Fraternally,
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