The Philippine DeMolay movement started immediately after the Second World War. In 1946, the Jose Abad Santos Chapter was established in Manila making it the first Chapter of the Order of DeMolay in Asia. DeMolay then grew and expanded by leaps and bounds with chapters established in major cities and provinces all over the country.

The Order of DeMolay first touched ground in the province of Lanao by the institution of Tomas L. Cabili Chapter in 1973 in Iligan City. Tomas L. Cabili Chapter then became the Mother Chapter of what will later on become the MSU DeMolay Club and the University Chapter.

Like all DeMolay Chapters the world over, the Masonic fraternity played a very important role in the history of MSU DeMolay. Most of the Masons in Marawi City then, working as faculty and staff of MSU, belong to Maranaw Lodge No.111 which is based in Iligan City. Following suit, their sons, nephews and young relatives, who were all students of MSU joined DeMolay in the just established Tomas L. Cabili Chapter in Iligan City.

These DeMolays then started the formation of the MSU DeMolay Club in 1974. They decided to form a Club due to the yet nascent state of the Iligan-based Tomas L. Cabili Chapter which was just formed a year earlier. Also since the founders of the MSU DeMolay Club were all active members of the newly established Chapter, the idea then was to organize the MSU DeMolay Club to help the growth and development of the Chapter in Iligan City. The MSU DeMolay Club recruits members for the Tomas L. Cabili Chapter. And so this became the set-up, an arrangement that remained for quite a period of time.

The MSU DeMolay Club became a recognized campus organization. It has a set of officers and an advisory council composed of Masons working in MSU who were mostly officials and executives of the University. The Club became one of the most prominent organizations in the campus not only because of the prestige it carried by being a Masonic youth organization or because many of its members come from arisctocratic Maranao royal families, but because of its active participation in various campus activities. The MSU DeMolay Club had etched its niche in the life and dynamics of campus student organizations.

By its growth and development MSU DeMolay Club assumed a life of its own. It had easily adopted to the dynamics and environment of the campus life and had evolved its own concept of fellowship and initiation process closely resembling that of a regular fraternity. DeMolay was considered one, if not the most elite organization in the campus - a source of pride for the brethren and awe to many.  

In the later part of 1970's, at the time when there was no Masonic youth organization for women yet existing in the campus, the MSU DeMolay Club formed a sorority to accomodate sisters, female relatives and girlfriends of the brethren. This sorrority was named DeMolay Auxilliary, commonly known as "DeAux". DeAux was not a regular Masonic youth organization although local Dad Masons acknowledges its participation to various Masonic and DeMolay activities in the campus. DeAux has its own set of officers and ritual of secret work authored and developed by the brethren. It was a registered and recognized campus organization classified as sorority of MSU DeMolay Club. Later on DeAux members became the founding sisters of the Aphrodite Assembly No.7 of the International Order of the Rainbow for Girls. The DeAux organization was subsequently dissolved when the Rainbow Assembly in MSU campus was constituted in 1981.    

After eight years of existence as a Club, the DeMolay organization in MSU campus became a full pledged DeMolay chapter. On October 23, 1982, the University Chapter, Order of DeMolay was instituted by Dad Manuel C. Inigo, Executive Officer for Mindanao Jurisdiction then under the auspicies of the International Supreme Council of the Order of DeMolay. Lake Lanao Lodge No.227, Free and Accepted Masons, in MSU Marawi City became the sponsoring body of the new born University Chapter. Dad Cosain Maranda, Sr became the first Chairman of the Advisory Council and the the Chapter's first three lights elected and installed were Bro. Abdul Kadir Andang as Master Councilor and Bro. Joey Sescon and Bro. Ferdie Gaerlan as Senior and Junior Councilors respectively.

Thus ended the MSU DeMolay Club era and begun the University Chapter period of the history of DeMolay movement in MSU Marawi. 

Having its new set of officers installed, the new Chapter then embarked on its task to initiate new members and consolidate the Chapter. Being now a regular Chapter, certain standards and proper procedures were introduced, like the stated meetings in its proper ritualistic form among others. In the early years of the Chapter we used the faculty lounge of the College of Social Science and Humanities for our stated meetings and conferal of degrees. Later on stated meetings and conferrals were conducted at a room in the MAD Gymnasium where our sponsoring body, Lake Lanao Lodge 227 was utilizing as their temporary Lodge Room.

In the progress of time, the brethren still retained some of its traditional practices like the regular daily Tapok and to some extent the manner of initiating petitioners. The latter practice somehow became an irritant and source of disagreement between active DeMolays and some Dad Advisors and which later on determined the unfortunate future of the Chapter.    

The University Chapter, Order of DeMolay was able to exist as an active Chapter only until 1995. Although there were attempts to revive the Chapter before it went completely inactive, but such exercise became futile as the sponsoring Masonic body finally decided to withdraw its Sponsorship of the Chapter. Since then and until now, the DeMolay movement in MSU Marawi City has remained in the dark.   

The history of MSU DeMolay is a continuing story of brotherhood and fellowship. Although the MSU DeMolays, by a unique circumstance are now composed only of a limited number, products of both the MSU DeMolay Club era (1974-1982) and the University Chapter period (1982-1995), still maintain its strong ties of brotherhood and fellowship wherever they may be and whenever they meet. The Chapter may be non-existent at this time but the bonds that bind MSU DeMolays remains strong and becomes stronger with the hope that someday the DeMolay movement in Mindanao State University in Marawi City will soon again see light.

To draw lesson from the founding history of the Order of DeMolay; Dad Land rescinded the motion that membership of DeMolay be limited to 75. He spoke to the body who approved the motion, "and in no uncertain terms, how selfish and inconsiderate you are...to operate and think absolutely contrary to every idea what the Order of DeMolay should be...that if the organization is good for one boy, it must be good for all eligible boys." This is the very principle that binds us to hope and work for that someday the DeMolay organization in MSU Marawi City will again rise...for if it was good for us, and without doubt it was, it must be good for all eligible young men in MSU. Why deny to other eligible young men, the oppurutunity and unique privilege of belonging to the world's most greatest youth organization - the Order of DeMolay.