Louis C. Southard, 1875

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 always exhibited a can-do fraternal spirit since 1874, and we continue to do so now. We remain the oldest fraternal story at the University of Maine. We are unmatchable. There is no other! Perge.

Omega Mu Portrait
Louis C. Southard,
1875

Boston University School of Law

​Louis Southard practiced law in the Boston in the firm of Southard, Gray, and O'Connell.

Lectures and Speeches

Massachusetts State House, center.

Louis Southard also served in the Massachusetts Senate and the House of Representatives of Massachusetts.

Centennial Celebration of the Constitution

Louis C. Southard was chosen to be on the committee that represented the Commonwealth of Massachusetts at the United States Centennial Celebration of the Constitution in 1887.

University of Maine College of Law

Louis C. Southard was a professor at the University of Maine College of Law from 1897 - 1921.

Our Omega Mu brother, Robie L. Mitchell, 1907, was one of Louis Southard's students in the
University of Maine Law School

Louis Southard wrote a delightful remembrance on the 1875 graduating class,
but he focused on in Q. T. V. brothers, our fraternal brothers.

Our Q. T. V. Brother,
​Alfred M. Goodale

Our Q. T. V. Brother,
Whitman H. Jordan

Our Q. T. V. Brother,
Charles F. Colesworthy

Our Q. T. V. Brother,
Albert E. Mitchell

Our Q. T. V. Brother,
Allen E. Mitchell

Our Q. T. V. Brother,
Edson F. Hitchings

"Louis Southared
"Lenghty"

Whitman H. Jordan
'The Lion"

Although this picture was taken at a later date, the quad area between Balentine Hall and Chadbourne Hall was the cow pasture on campus.

Our Q. T. V. Brother,
Samuel Shaw,
Ivy Day Poet

"...bonds of affection that will never be broken."

“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