Alpha Tau Omega

History

- Alpha Tau Omega: founded 1865
- Three founders: Otis Allen Glazebrook, Alfred Marshall, Erskine Mayo Ross
- First chapter: Alpha at Virginia Military Institute

The Creed of Alpha Tau Omega

To bind men together in a brotherhood based upon eternal and immutable principles, with a bond as strong as right itself and as lasting as humanity; to know no North, no South, no East, no West, but to know man as man, to teach that true men the world over should stand together and contend for supremacy of good over evil; to teach, not politics, but morals; to foster, not partisanship, but the recognition of true merit wherever found; to have no narrower limits within which to work together for the elevation of man than the outlines of the world: these were the thoughts and hopes uppermost in the minds of the founders of the Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity.
-Otis Allan Glazebrook, 1880

Alpha Tau Omega Firsts

-The ATO chapter at the University of the South (Sewanee) was the first of any fraternity in the South to have a chapter house in 1880.
-ATO’s first fraternity west of the Rockies and first of any fraternity in the Northwest was at the University of Oregon with the chartering in 1882.
-Thomas Arkle Clark, the first initiate of the Gamma Zeta chapter at the University of Illinois, was the nation’s first college dean of men.
-The first World War I Medal of Honor was given to Captain C. L. Irwin, Wyoming ‘13, as one of the first American heroes mentioned in dispatches to the U.S.
-ATO was the first national fraternity to start a chapter free of alcohol and tobacco on fraternity property.
-ATO was the first national fraternity to sponsor and conduct coeducational leadership conferences nationwide in 1992.

Famous Alpha Tau Omega’s

Dom Capers	Head Coach, Carolina Panthers
Lawton Chiles	Governor of Florida
Daniel E. Gill	Chairman & President, Bausch & Lomb
Keith Jackson	Sports Commentator, ABC
J. Erik Jonsson	Founder, Texas Instruments
Jack Kemp	Vice-Presidential Nominee & Founder of Empower America
Greg Kinnear	Talk Show Host
Garry Marshal	Television Producer, “Happy Days” & “Laverne & Shirley”
Forrest Sawyer	ABC News
Alan K. Simpson	U.S. Senate
Grant Show	Actor
John A. Young	President & CEO, Hewlett-Packard

Alpha Omicron

- Founded in 1882 by Irving Bachelor
- Recolonized in 1991
- Most Alpha Omicron history is held sacred in the minds and hearts of all the brothers.