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National History
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- ATO was founded by Otis Allan Glazebrook, Erskine Mayo Ross and Alfred Marshall, at the Virginia Military Institute in 1865 upon Christian-not Greek-principles.
- ATO was not established in imitation of or in opposition to any existing fraternity.
- The ATO Foundation was officially recognized in June of 1935 at the 34th Congress in Memphis, Tenn.
- The LeaderShape Institute, Inc. was created in 1986 by Alpha Tau Omega, and is considered one of the finest leadership skills training programs in the country.
- ATO was honored by the Smithsonian Institute for innovative use of technology with an award for Information Technology in the field of Government and Non-Profit Organizations in June 1995. The award was given for ATO's innovative use of CompuServe as a communications tool.
- After more than 84 years with its national office in Champaign, Ill., the ATO National Headquarters moved to Indianapolis,Ind., on December 13, 1995.
- ATO annually ranks among the top ten national fraternities for number of chapters and total number of members. ATO has more than 240 active and inactive chapters with more than 181,000 members and more than 6,500 undergraduate members.
- The ATO Foundation provides more than $150,000 in annual scholarships to members-including scholarships to attend the LeaderShape Institute, Inc.
- Alpha Tau Omega is a participating member in the National Interfraternity Conference, the Fraternity Executives Association, the College Fraternity Editors Association, the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, FIPG, Inc., and the Fraternal Risk Management Trust.
- In 1950 Indiana University Worthy Master Robert Lollar created "Help Week" setting the pledges to doing good deeds around campus and replacing the traditional "Hell Week."
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Our History
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- Colonized at James Madison University on October 22, 2006 with 38 men.
- Received the Fraternity and Sorority Life Top Chapterof the Year award in the Spring of 2009
- Recognized as a National True Merit Chapter in the Spring of 2008 and 2009
- Recipient of the Dolly Award-Top James Madison University Organization of the Year in the Spring of 2009
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The Creed of the Alpha Tau Omega
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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 are the thoughts and hopes uppermost in the minds of the founders of the Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity.
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-Otis Allan Glazebrook, 1880
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