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With
the authority of Knight Commander J. S. Candler's signed charter,
dated October 5, 1883, University of Texas student A.J. Gibson
founded Omicron chapter. The actual founding day was October
18, 1883. This day, Gibson initiated six other students. Gibson,
his initiation initiates at Austin, and other members who attended
university classes downtown in the temporary Capitol comprised
the original chapter.
Two more students would jont the chapter during the university's
first session, but only near the session's close, June 1884.
Neither of these students experienced the make shift arrangements
in the temporary Capitol. Both matriculated into the university
in January 1884, shortly after classes had shifted to College
Hill. Leon Bates Bramlette- youngest brother of the chapter's
11th member- entered the academic deptarment. Thomas Blake Duppree-
from Hockley, in Harris County, northwest of Houston- entered
the law department.
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