Frank Fellows, 1912

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. Our future remains bright at 79 College Avenue because we fearlessly move forward, always guided by sound fraternal principles. Perge.

Omega Mu Portrait
Frank Fellows,
1912

Omega Mu Years

"Frank is probably the best bass singer in the law school. He has a fine, rich monotone voice and when he goes after the subway notes the rest of the smoking room choir feel as though they would like to hand in their resignations."

University of Maine Law School

After graduating from the University of Maine Law School, Frank Fellows practiced law in Portland and Bangor. When he returned to Bangor, he established, with his brother Frank Fellows, the law firm of Fellows and Fellows. There reputation was exemplary, and Frank Fellows established a reputation as being one of the most successful trial lawyers in Maine.

1932 Omega Mu Initiation
​Banquet

Toastmaster..Br. Frank Fellows

Bangor Memorial Day Speaker

"Will represent the people of northeastern Maine as one of the first University alumni to hold a seat in the House."

Congressional Leader,
1941-1951

United States House of Representatives

House of Representatives
​Memorial Service
For
​Frank Fellows

Memorial Tributes to
Frank Fellows

"His salty, down-to-earth oratory, mixed with Maine wit, made him demand in many states during Republican campaigns.

"He loved life, and lived it bravely. Certainly he was never afraid to stand up an be counted against the pettiness and selfishness in government which he loathed. And certainly he was never afraid to pour all his boundless energy into causes in which he believed."

"He knew the many virtues and faults and conflicts that go to make a person."

"Call him a man of complete intellectual courage and integrity. You but define
​the essential ingredients that made
​Frank Fellows honored and loved by all."

"He never put political expediency ahead of what he believed was essential for
​the welfare of the country."

"How little we can afford to lose such men as Frank Fellows, and American of the
old tradition, an American of the
highest concept of
personal responsibility."

"Great qualities of mind and spirit that mark
​those who are truly great."

"He was a genuine American. He believed in America, and he stood for everything
that we believe in the form of our
constitutional government."

"If America had more men like Frank Fellows the world and the United States
​would be better off."

The Fellows Bill of the Eightieth Congress

In my judgement, had it not been for the honest, fair, and unbiased approach given to the subject by Frank Fellows, there would have no legislation to allow a haven to these
persecuted, mistreated mortals
who the scares of Hitler's
​butchery and savagery..."

"Frank would....recite Shakespeare, or the poets, or the classics...He could put
on a one a one-man Shakespeare
play if he decided that was
the thing his colleagues
would like to hear."

"Frank Fellows was not only a fine lawyer, a gifted speaker, and an outstanding progressive-conservative, alert, intelligent, fair, and able legislator, but, what is more, he was a
sweet and kind character."

"Therefore, as has been said, the world is
​better because such a man as
Mr. Fellows lived."

"I appreciated that he was sincere and trying
​to do what was, in his opinion,
best for the whole country."

"He loved and valued what was
​brave and beautiful."

"Frank Fellows has gone on with unreluctant tread, rose-crowned into the beyond. Proud he was, and unafraid, that had had such brave, true things to say. His fine, deep voice that could accomplish such wonder with words will echo throughout this House for uncounted time. The influence of his mind and heart and deepest convictions will be felt for years untold."

"His spirit was a poetry that pulsed with the stars and sang with the wind. It was an undaunted courage that trudged, smiling and without complaint, through many adversities. His mind, his convictions were pure
American. He was ever unhesitating, courageous, unspoken for what
he believed to be principles
essential to our continuance
​as a free nation."

"He was a prophet without honor in
his own country, and in his own time.
Of Frank Fellows, it might well be said, 
​He was one thing to all men"

"Frank Fellow's favorite poem was Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.....He could, and often did recite its 39 verses, from beginning to end. It is just that the next to last-to-last verse in this literary masterpiece should so fittingly describe the man who so enjoyed it: Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere; Heaven did recompense as largely send: He gave to Misery all he had - a tear; He gained from Heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend."

"How little we can afford to lose such men as Frank Fellows, an American of the old tradition, and American of the highest concept of personal responsibility. he knew so well that freedom is safe only when every individual works to be free, that every day the sun could go down on less freedom than more; and, therefor, each one must give all of himself to the protection of freedom in the country which, of all countries in the world knows it benefits."

"Our departed friend will long be remembered by the quiet, unremitting toil he devoted to
the promotion of the weal of the of
the whole country and especially the
​280,000 enlightened constituents
he so well represented."

"No man or woman ever came to know Frank Fellows without becoming a better person as a result of the experience."

"Men like Frank Fellows are badly needed as we grope along an uncertain future hoping that we can save the precious liberties and opportunities of our people."

"Therefore, as has been said, the world is better because such a man as Mr. fellows lived."

"Frank Fellows was all of these things but more than that, he was a real American-whose patriotic  service our Nation
can ill afford to lose in these
​critical times."

"Maine has lost a great Congressman. America
has lost a patriot."

“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