Alpha Tau Omega Totally Explained

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ATΩ (Alpha Tau Omega) (commonly known as ATO, Taus, Alpha Taus) is an American social fraternity that annually ranks among the top ten national fraternities for numbers of chapters and total number of members. ATO has more than 250 active and inactive chapters with more than 196,000 members and more than 6,500 undergraduate members. ATO is also one-third of the Lexington Triad, along with Kappa Alpha Order and Sigma Nu. The oldest active chapter is the Delta Chapter located at the University of Virginia.

History

During and after the Civil War, families were torn apart, due to brothers fighting on opposite sides. A Virginia Military Institute student, Otis Allan Glazebrook, had a vision to reunite the North and the South in brotherhood. His ideals started Alpha Tau Omega as the first fraternity that would be considered a national fraternity, and it was with Erskine Mayo Ross, and Alfred T Marshall that they sought to bring together the two factions that had been torn apart.

Creed

The Creed of Alpha Tau Omega
-Otis Allan Glazebrook 1880

Founders

Otis Allan Glazebrook, Alfred E. Marshall, and Erskine Mayo Ross are recognized as the three founders of ATO. Following these, the next leader of ATO was Thomas Arkle Clark; Clark was the first Dean of Men at the University of Illinois and the President of the Gamma Zeta chapter at the University. Thomas A. Clark served the national fraternity as "Worthy Grand Chief" for several terms. To this day, the highest honor a graduating senior can achieve is the Thomas Arkle Clark Award.
Another man, Joseph Anderson, is known as the second founder of ATO. Because of a lack of organization and many chapters ignoring their responsibilities to the national fraternity -- including financial ones, ATO was on a devastating decline. In 1876, of the 22 chapters in existence at the time, only 2 attended the annual Congress. Joseph R. Anderson was appointed and accepted the position of Senior Grand Chief, or the National President, in 1870. Under Anderson, ATO was able to get back on track and become the well established fraternity it's today.

Famous ATO members

Astronauts

Business

Elton B. Stephens, Birmingham-Southern Founder EBSCO Media.

John Bair: co-founder and CTO of Pinnacle Data Systems, inc.

Edwin. M Crawford, Auburn '71, CEO of Caremark RX

Walt Ehmer: Georgia Tech, CEO of Waffle House

Gerald J. Ford, Southern Methodist '66, CEO of Golden State Bancorp

Richard S. Fuld, Jr., Colorado '69, CEO of Lehman Brothers Holdings

Daniel E. Gill: Chairman & President, Bausch & Lomb

Richard C. Green, Southern Methodist '76, CEO of Aquila Corporation

Matthew J. Hart: CFO & Executive Vice President for Hilton Hotels

James P. Hoffa: President of Teamsters Union (Jimmy Hoffa's son)

John Jennings: President of Associated Builders and Contractors

J. Erik Jonsson: Founder, Texas Instruments

Earl T. Leonard Jr.: University of Georgia, Senior Vice President for Coca-Cola

Billy Joe "Red" McCombs: Former owner of the Minnesota Vikings. Has one of the top Business schools in the US named after him (McCombs School of Business), University of Texas

Julius Curtis Lewis, Jr., President of J.C. Lewis Enterprises and Lewis Broadcasting Corp.

William Mitchell: Texas Instruments Vice Chairman (retired)

C. Dowd Ritter, Birmingham-Southern '69, CEO of AmSouth Bancorp

Joseph Wilson Rodgers Jr., Georgia Institute of Technology, Harvard University MBA, Owner of Waffle House

Francis M. Scicco, Worcester Poly '68, CEO of Arrow Electronics

Christopher A. Sinclair, University of Kansas '71, CEO of PepsiCo (retired)

David M. Thomas, Florida '71, CEO of IMS Health

John A. Young: President & CEO, Hewlett-Packard

Education

Dr. Michael Ferrari: President of Drake University

Frank Hereford: Former President of the University of Virginia

Robert Mittelstaedt: Tulane; Vice Dean of Wharton School

Stephen C. O'Connell: Former President of the University of Florida

Dr. Jack Hawkins, Jr.: Chancellor of Troy University

Dr. Al Bowman: President of Illinois State University

William Muir: Kansas State; Asst. Vice President of Kansas State University

Robert Kaplan: Asst. Dean of the College of William & Mary Law School

Dr.Robert L. Potts: 1st Ever Chancellor of Arkansas State University

Dr.Gilbert Fowler: Dean of Honors College Arkansas State University

Entertainment and media

John Besh: Celebrity chef

Dominic Dieter: Popular radio co-host of Rover's Morning Glory

Dana Elcar: Film and TV actor best known for his supporting role on MacGyver

Hunter Ellis: Reality TV star, TV host

Rob Estes: Actor, Melrose Place, Silk Stalkings

Guy Fieri: Food Network star host of Guy's Big Bite and Diners, Drive-In's, and Dives

Brad Fiorenza: MTV's castmate

Christopher Fitzgerald: Broadway and film actor

Rob Fitzgerald: Bud Light's "I love you, man"

Shelby Foote: American novelist and Civil War historian, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Paul Gilmartin: Co-host of TBS Superstation's Dinner & A Movie

Bob Guiney: Bob the Bachelor from The Bachelor 4, Michigan State University

Cork Graham: war correspondent (Associated Press) and author of the 2004 bestselling memoir The Bamboo Chest

Jack Ingram: Country music performer

Matt Jones: Broadway producer who headed the adaptation of Requiem for a Dream

Sanad Karker: Reality TV star, actor On The Road In America

Greg Kinnear: Talk Soup host, 1998 Academy Award nominee

Art Linkletter: Television personality/Author, Kids Say The Darndest Things

Elmer Lower: Former president of ABC News

Elliot Segal: Radio DJ and host of Elliot in the Morning

Frank Marshall (movie producer): Film producer/director; co-founder of Amblin Entertainment

Garry Marshall: Film director (Pretty Woman, Overboard), television producer (Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley) (incidentally, in the latter seasons of Happy Days, Marshall used ATO in the show several times, and an ATO fraternity paddle can be seen hanging on the wall of "Arnold's")

Cary Pierce, Jack O'Neill: Members of the band "Jackopierce"

Forrest Sawyer: ABC News, Nightline

Grant Show: Actor, Melrose Place

Stryker (disc jockey): Radio DJ and co-host of the radio show Loveline

Tennessee Williams: Pulitzer Prize winner for A Streetcar Named Desire

Reynolds Wolf: CNN Meteorologist

Politics

Lee Atwater: Chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC)

Birch Bayh: U.S. Senator (Indiana)

Richard H. Bryan: U.S. Senator (Nevada)

C. Farris Bryant: Governor of Florida 1961-1965

Alberto "Al" Cardenas: Political lobbyist

Lawton Chiles: U.S. Senator and later Governor of Florida 1991-1998

Federico Clerici: Congressman in Argentina 1986-1993

James Eastland: Senate Pro Tempore from 1972-1979

Frank Fahrenkopf: Chair of the Republican National Committee

Sam Gibbons: Congressman

Edward J. Gurney: U.S. Senator (Florida)

Stephen H. Grimes: Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court

Lee H. Hamilton: U.S. Congressman (Indiana)

Willis B. Hunt Jr.: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia

Harry A. Johnston: U.S. Congressman (Florida)

Jack Kemp: 1996 candidate for U.S. Vice President, former U.S. Secretary of the Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD)

Michael Mansfield: U.S. Senate Majority Leader 1961-1977

Mel Martinez: U.S. Senator (Florida)

Larry McDonald: Georgia Congressman killed on Korean Air Flight 007

Harry Mitchell: U.S. Congressman (Arizona)

Stephen C. O'Connell: Former Chief Justice, Florida Supreme Court

John E. Porter: Congressman (Illinois)

Charles H. Smelser: former Maryland State Senator

James Stockdale: 1992 Independent vice-presidential nominee

Alan K. Simpson: U.S. Senator, Wyoming

John S. Tanner: U.S. Congressman (Tennessee)

Charles F. Wald US General

Science

Vannevar Bush: Physicist, WWII advisor and architect of modern government science policy

Arthur Holly Compton: Physicist and Nobel Prize winner

Karl Compton: Physicist and influential science advisor in World War II

Sports

Dom Capers: Defensive coordinator, Miami Dolphins

Chris Capuano: MLB pitcher, Milwaukee Brewers

Bud Collins: Tennis announcer, author

Cris Collinsworth: Former NFL wide receiver, sports anchor

Lee Corso: Sports commentator, football coach

Len Dawson: NFL Hall of Famer, Super Bowl IV MVP, sports anchor

Ted DiBiase: "The Million Dollar Man"; Former WWF wrestler

Terry Funk: Pro wrestler

Joe Girardi: New York Yankees current manager and former catcher; former Florida Marlins manager

Curt Gowdy: Sports broadcaster for 5 decades; 7 Super Bowls and 14 World Series

Lou Groza : NFL Hall of Famer

Keith Jackson: Sports commentator, ABC

Ernie Koy: Texas Longhorn, 1963 National Champions; Pro Bowl running back for New York Giants

William Little: Known as "Father of Southern Football", introduced football at the University of Alabama

Jim Mora: Former coach of the New Orleans Saints

Steve Spurrier: Head coach of the University of South Carolina Gamecocks, Heisman Trophy winner 1966 at University of Florida, Former Florida head coach, 1996 National Championship

Jim Tressel: Head coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes (2002 National Champions)

Jack Youngblood: NFL Hall of Fame

Others

Giancarlo Vizconde-Castro: Notable peruvian citizenFurther Information

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