Omega Psi Phi leader to visit Goldsboro
By From staff reports
Published in News on September 18, 2016 12:19 AM
Grand Basileus Antonio Knox, international leader of the more than 700 chapters making up the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc., will be making a stop in Goldsboro this fall.
Knox will serve as keynote speaker for the local chapter, Phi Alpha Alpha, at its annual Achievement Week banquet at 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 12, at the H.V. Brown building on Poplar Street.
Tickets are $20 each and will be available from members of the local chapter.
Knox is a graduate of North Carolina State University and is employed as deputy administrator with the N.C. Credit Union Division.
He is married and the father of two children.
Knox will lead the fraternity for two more years after being re-elected at the fraternity's 80th conclave held in July in Las Vegas.
The fraternity has chapters throughout the U.S., Bermuda, the Bahamas, Virgin Islands, Korea, Great Britain, Japan, Liberia, Germany and Kuwait. It was founded on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 17, 1911.
Three undergraduates and an adviser saw a need to establish another college fraternity that would express their collective ideals and principles.
It was established on the principles of manhood, scholarship, perseverance and uplift.
The fraternity's motto is "Friendship is essential to the soul."