10/06/2026
Happy Founders Day to all Brothers of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity! Our brotherhood has been bringing harmony to the world for over 128 years and we are poised to continue to share our music for years to come!
This morning, some brothers and PMs met at the Hasty Tasty Pancake House to continue our chapter tradition of Founder’s Day featuring coffee, eggs, and more!
“We are wont to meet together as brothers on many occasions; at our annual conventions, at our chapter meetings, socials, dances, banquets, suppers, smokers, etc. The question we ought to ask ourselves in all seriousness is: Are we better for it;
has all this association and expenditure of time, energy and money made us and our brothers better, stronger, broader men physically, mentally, morally, spiritually? If it has done so we are certainly on the right track. If not, we should pause where we are and give the matter more serious thought, and see if there are not some changes for the better that can be made in our programs in the future. There may be some benefit derived, and no doubt there is, by spending our social evenings eating, drinking, smoking, singing, dancing, etc., but I have long felt convinced that there is a better way, and that at least part of our evenings might better be devoted to exercises that would minister directly to our higher natures, which would prove quite as enjoyable and in the end far more profitable—I assure you that we men, all of us, need, more perhaps than we think, to withdraw from the active, noisy, materialistic rush of the world, not to mention the sensuous, intoxicating,
social pleasures of life that minister only to the flesh, and in peaceful quiet meditate upon and consider together some of the deep things of life, listen to the voice of the Eternal and be taught by the infinite spirit of truth. Again, with all best wishes, I am, yours, most sincerely and fraternally, In ΦMA,
Ossian E. Mills” from The Mystic Cat; I, 1 (November, 1909): 1, 3.
