Fraternal Portrait: Frederick D. Potter, 1879

"Furthering through perseverance"

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. 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 been doing it well since 1874, and we continue to do so now. Perge.

​ Fraternal Portrait:
 Frederick D. Potter,
1879

• Frederick D. Potter was an electrical engineer for the Edison Lighting Company, and he was a close friend and associate of Thomas A. Edison. 

• Frederick W. Potter was responsible for installing light and power units in companies, factories, theaters, and hotels around the world. ​He drew up the plans to electrify the Tokyo Imperial Palace, home of the Japanese Emperor.

• He was the vice president and chief engineer of the Combustion Controls Company, and designed many different types of machines, and he secured a patent on an optical pyrometer for reading boiler temperatures.

• In 1918 Frederick W. Potter helped found the Edison Pioneers, an organization of those who had worked with Thomas A. Edison.

 Edison Pioneers pictures, below

“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