


In the same summer the newly Beta Kappa Omega Chapter, hosted the Texas Iota Picnic with special guest, Founder Lonnie Spruill, Jr. transitioned from Gamma Alpha Omega to Beta Kappa Omega. In 2018, San Antonio, TX graduate members of Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc. In 2017, Brother Tobias Trejo was the 2nd graduate brother who participated in Graduate intake in the South Texas area. In 2011, Brothers Nelson Watson III, Chris Riley, Terence Young, Bryan Maule, Keith Bragg, Brandon Odham chartered the Gamma Alpha Omega graduate chapter of Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc. Nelson, while attending UTSA charted the Epsilon Phi undergraduate chapter. In the early 2000s, Nelson and Jon pledged the 1st graduate brother, Greg Diggs in San Antonio, TX.

They continue to be active in their community National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) Greek community for years as a colony of Graduate brothers. In 1999, Nelson and Jon resided in San Antonio after their collegiate careers. This started an exponential increase of the Iota undergraduates in Texas. In 1998, Elridge, Nelson, Keithon, and Jon reactivated the Prairie View A&M’s Lambda chapter of Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc. Singletary, Sr, and Keithon Kerley crossed the burning sands at Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State University) in San Marcos, TX. On November 21, 1997, Dean of Pledges Eldridge Moore by way of Southern University, supervised the intake process of Nelson Watson III, Jon M. History of Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc in South Texas
