Olen P. DeWalt graduated from Prairie View College, after which he worked as a real estate agent. He was principal of Independent Heights School for a brief period before opening the Lincoln Theater – the first Black owned, exclusively Black theater in Houston. During the 1920s he was president of the Houston branch of the NAACP and also pushed for the establishment of a branch of the National Urban League in Houston. He was heralded as an influential civil-rights leader who stood up to the KKK. DeWalt remained NAACP president until his death. On April 24, 1931, the 41-year-old Texas civil rights leader was assassinated after speaking passionately against the Klan. Brother DeWalt is buried in Livingston, TX.

James Delbridge Ryan, a graduate of Prairie View A&M University, received his Masters from Wiley College in Marshall, TX. He taught at Second and Third Ward schools in Houston and eventually became principal of the Colored High School (now the reconstructed Gregory Museum) and later, Jack Yates High School. J.D. Ryan Middle School was named in his honor.   Brother Ryan is buried in the historic Olivewood Cemetery near Houston’s Fourth Ward. He was Nu Phi’s first Keeper of Finance.

E.A. Chester, a graduate of Wiley College, worked at the Tuskegee Institute as a contemporary of Dr. Booker T. Washington. From 1926 to 1927, he was principal of the school in Independent Heights, TX – the first incorporated Black city in Texas (the area is now known as Studewood). In 1927, he became principal of Harper School. He was Nu Phi’s first Keeper of Peace.

Howard Payne “H.P.” Carter, a native of Tennessee, began his teaching career in Seguin, Texas. After military service, he came to Houston, eventually becoming the first African-American secretary of the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA). After organizing the first football team at Old Colored High School, he became the Texas manager for National Benefit Life Insurance Company. The Carter Career Center was built in 1929. H.P. Carter was Nu Phi’s first Basileus (1926) and was appointed the second District Representative of the southwestern area. This area would officially become the Ninth District in 1937.

Richard G. Lockett was a native Houstonian born in 1882. He graduated from Atlanta University in 1905 and returned to Houston where he taught in and later coached at the Colored High School for Blacks. Because Blacks were not allowed to use Houston’s public libraries, he along with Walter L. D. Johnson, Sr. and Leonard Spivey (all of whom would later become Omega men) championed and succeeded in the establishment of Houston’s Colored Carnegie Library which opened in 1913. In 1926, he was also involved in the establishment of and a charter member of the Houston Affiliate of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Texas, Free and Accepted Masons of which Dr. Roett would later become a member.   Brother Lockett continued teaching and R.G. Lockett Junior High School was named after him in 1959.

Dr. D.F. Barclay, a graduate of Houston High School, entered the Student Army Training Corp at Howard University in September of 1918. He entered Dental School in 1919 – graduating in 1923. He was Nu Phi’s first Keeper of Records and Seal.

Gilbert T. Stocks, a World War I veteran, graduated from Walker Baptist Institute in Augusta, Georgia. The Valedictorian of the 1910 class of Morehouse College – Atlanta, Georgia, later taught at Western College in Macon, Georgia before serving as a Dean at Rogers Williams University in Nashville, Tennessee – a historical black college created in 1866 as an educational facility for newly freed slaves. Professor Stocks was the first Chaplin of Nu Phi.

On Nov 5, 1926, C.H. McGruder and Clifton Frederick Richardson, Sr. – both of whom were long thought to be charter members – along with J.B. Morris and J.W. Beverley, were initiated.