Omega Mu Portrait

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? Simply and clearly, year-after year, we have been doing it well since 1874, and we continue to do so now. Perge.

Omega Mu Portrait
Allen Rogers,
1897

Graduating class, 1897

Teaching Career

Allen Rogers taught chemistry at the University of Maine from 1897-1900

Allen Rogers earned his Ph.D in Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania in 1902, and then he taught organic chemistry at Penn for two years. 

​Allen Rogers taught chemistry at the Pratt Institute for the remainder of this career, and in 1920 he became Head of the Department of Industrial Chemistry. 

Chemistry building at Pratt

Author

World War I

During World War I, Allen Rogers served as a major in the United States
​Chemical Warfare Service

Grasselli Medal

Allen Rogers was awarded
the prestigious
Grasselli Medal in 1920

“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