Alpha Tau Omega Chapter Establishes at Florida Tech
For Immediate Release
After two years of hard work and determination, 38 men were initiated into the Kappa
Eta chapter of Alpha Tau Omega. Brian Dailey, the current ATO chapter advisor and
university employee was also initiated as an honorary member. This memorable event
took place at 11 am on November 17th, 2007. The men of ATO have worked over the
past two years not only to build an infrastructure and hierarchy but also to build their
numbers while upholding the principles under which the fraternity was based 142 years
ago.
Daniel Schlegel, the founding president of the Kappa Eta Chapter expressed the main
goals of the fraternity for the years to come, “As the Kappa Eta chapter we will strive to
succeed not only within our chapter but also within our campus community and our
National Fraternity. Alpha Tau Omega is recognized as America’s #1 Leadership
Fraternity; this will afford all members the opportunity to become successful leaders
within their own lives. Being a Tau allows all of us to grow as individuals, through our
Fraternity experience we are able to learn more about ourselves, while also learning about
others. Our bond is strong as right itself.”
\Members of the newly established chapter were presented with many gifts from the
current Fraternities and Sororities on campus. These gifts included:
 $500 towards their first composite from IFC- presented by Muhammad Furqan
 Hats from Panhellenic council- presented by Kelly Reda
 On behalf of Council of Presidents, Ryan Gauthier and Lindsay Allred read the
resolution and presented an Artist Rendition of the ATO founding and milestones
from founding to modern day, etching of the ATO crest and symbols; and to the
President an engraved box and ATO ink stamper.
Rodney Bowers on behalf of President Catanese, read the proclamation and welcomed
the chapter to the community.
“Alpha Tau Omega holds before the young men of the country an ideal and something
greater than a mere intellectual ideal. Alpha Tau Omega stands for heart as well as head.
It has given men a true ideal of life.” –Otis Allan Glazebrook
As with many of the fraternities on Florida Tech’s campus, ATO’s national organization
was founded around the time of the end of the American Civil War, on September 11,
1865. They hold strong many of the characteristics that Florida Tech has found in its
other fraternities and will continue to find in any future fraternal expansion on to this
campus. Following strong Christian principles, ATO has approximately 240 active and
inactive chapters nationally with more than 181,000 members and more than 6,500 of
these being undergraduate members. With these characteristics and more, ATO was
surely a most welcomed asset to Florida Tech fraternal community.
ATO began as an idea in the mind of Otis Allan Glazebrook, a civil war veteran who
wanted peace and reconciliation. Glazebrook at age 19 was very religious and was
hopeful that young men like himself might have been willing to reunite with the northern
counterparts if they were surrounded by Christian and brotherly love. Thus emerged the
concept of a fraternity that was Greek in name only; it was not based on Greek ideals but
on the ideals of peace and love through Christ’s conviction. On September 11, 1865
Alfred Marshall and Erskine Mayo Ross signed the constitution written by Otis Allan
Glazebrook giving rise to Alpha Tau Omega a fraternity.
Any man of high ideals who is interested in being a campus leader, helping other people,
and creating an organization unlike any other is encouraged to contact the chapter
President at president@ato-fit.org . Aim High.
The Newly Initiated members include:
Abdo
Jonathan
Barriere
Brendan
Borman
Jason
Bracero
Steven
Brennan
Jimmy
Brown
Taylor
Buhrow
Jerry
Bunkers
Paul
Casinaghi
Gianmarco
Cassidy
Peter
Chasse
Jay
Clark
Garrett
Coburn
Norman
Gilstrap
Joe
Givens
Geoff
Gonzalez
Luis
Jones
Grahm
Langdon
Ryan
Nowakowski
Patryk
Nunes
Peter
Marshfield
Sean
O'Hare
Ryan
Peloquin
Tyler
Plotkin
Mike
Regencia
Paul
Rocha
Jose
Rohan
Chase
Rojanasthien
Patt
Schlegel
Daniel
Sklenicka
Kevin
Soto
Jesse
Triscritti
Eric
Truong
Jonathan
Tsukuda
Daniel
Valletta
Dave
Watts
Will
Williams
Tom
Wolf
Brent