OMICRON NU LAMBDA HISTORY

OMICRON NU LAMBDA CHAPTER IN FORT KNOX, KENTUCKY WAS FOUNDED

April 8, 1986.

The year 1986 introduced Omicron Nu Lambda Chapter (ONL) to the ranks of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, INC. The organizers were Leroy Graham, Jeffrey Holden, Victor Holman, Edwin Lloyd, Robert Shields, Harold Tucker, Williams Turner, Carl Tyson, Lawrence Wilkerson and Grandvial Zurich.

Omicron Nu Lambda has worked as a prominent and visionary organization throughout Hardin County, Kentucky.  The Chapter’s involvement in Radcliff and Elizabethtown Chambers of Commerce, NAACP, Big Brothers and Sisters, March of Dimes, Communities and Schools, Boy Scouts of America, National PanHellenic Council, Men of the Light Mentorship Program, and Fort Knox has consistency repeated the Fraternity’s motto of “Service to All.”

Go to High School – Go to College stresses the importance of a college education to Hardin County youth.

Voteless People is a Hopeless People works to educate citizens and youth of Hardin County on the right and obligation to register, vote, and exact change through the ballot box.

Project Alpha is one of the premier programs implemented during the fraternal year and impacts youths through the Chapter’s Men of the Light mentorship program.

There are other projects and events supported by ONL such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebration and march, Founder’s Day, City of Radcliff Backpack Giveaway, Shop with a Cop Christmas Projects, Thanksgiving Basket, Elizabethtown Community and Technical College Emancipation Day.

The Chapter marquee events are the annual Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Breakfast in the month of May and the Black and Gold Ball in December. The Chapter’s educational foundation annually awards over $5,000 in scholarships to Fort Knox, Radcliff and Elizabethtown youth.

The Brothers of Omicron Nu Lambda Chapter continue to serve Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity in numerous leadership roles, while maintaining the basic tenets and principles established by our founders, the Seven Jewels.  Omicron Nu Lambda’s legacy of service and deep commitment to Hardin County community will continue to set this Chapter apart.