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ATΩ (Alpha Tau Omega) is an American Fraternity . It annually ranks among the top ten national fraternities for number of chapters and total number of members. ATO has more than 245 active and inactive chapters with more than 195,000 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 OF ALPHA TAU OMEGA During and after the Civil War, families were torn apart, due to brothers fighting on opposite sides. A VMI 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 Marshall that they sought to bring together the two factions that had been torn apart. THE CREED OF ALPHA TAU OMEGA -Otis Allan Glazebrook 1880 FOUNDERS There are three men recognized as the founders of Alpha Tau Omega:
Alpha Tau Omega continued a tradition of excellence through out the past century. After the creation by Erskine Mayo Ross, Otis Glazebrook, and Alfred Marshall the fraternity was lead by the stewardship of other great leaders such as Thomas Arkle Clark. Thomas Arkle 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 member of Alpha Tau Omega can achieve is the Thomas Arkle Clark Award. ATO FIRSTS ATO was the first fraternity founded after the Civil War in 1865."After the Storm", The ATO Palm, December 1981. ATO was the first fraternity founded as a national fraternity. Tau Facts & Firsts, ATO web site 2004 The first meeting of ATO was at 114 E. Clay St. in Richmond, Va., where Glazebrook read the Constitution of ATO to Marshall and Ross for the first time. The first chapter north of the Mason-Dixon Line , was chartered at the University Of Pennsylvania 16 years after the founding of ATO, helping to bring a realization to the founders' dreams. Thomas Arkle Clark in 1880, the ATO chapter at the University Of The South (Sewanee) became the first of any fraternity in the South to have a chapter house. ATO's first fraternity west of the Rockies and first of any fraternity in the Northwest was at Oregon State University in 1882. Thomas Arkle Clark, the first initiate of the Gamma Zeta chapter at the University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign , was the nation's first collegiate 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. Interfraternity Council , Oregon State University. 2007 ATO was the first fraternity to implement a spiritual development program. ATO was the first to develop and implement a member success initiative. ATO founded the LeaderShape Institute in 1986, which is a prestigious leadership development program for college students across the United States. FAMOUS ATO MEMBERS Astronauts
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