James D. Jenkins, 1966

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. 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. Their sacrifice of time was worth the effort for them and the student body at the University of Maine who watched them play. They created many warm memories since the early 1870’s. For the eminence of their athletic success; and, above all, for being our Omega Mu brothers, we are all very proud.

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. That is a proud fraternal legacy.

Omega Mu Athlete
James D. Jenkins,
1966

Omega Mu Years

Omega Mu Housemothers
Mrs. Blaisdell, Mrs. Kneeland, and Mrs. Cary

1963
Snow Sculpture

1964
Snow Sculpture

University of Maine Athlete

"Jenkins holds the highest score on campus."

"Coach Chartier stated that it is possible that C0-Captain Jim Jenkins may well finish in the top the of the entire League."

Jenkins 268

Jenkins 280

• Jenkins 261

"James Jenkins, team captain and winner of the Feltman - Field Memorial Trophy for being Maine's to shooter and pacing the team to the New England Championship."

James Jenkins was a weapons platoon leader with the 101st Airborne from 1966-1967, and in 1969 he was a reconnaissance pilot of a an Cessna 01 Bird Dog out of a Special Forces base in the central highlands of Vietnam, Cheo Reo, and he ended his military career as the commanding officer of the 508th Heavy Truck Company.

Jenkins Scholarship at the University of Maine

“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