Summary
On Aug. 24, 1983, I left my parents' home, never to return. Oh, I still popped in now and again to check up on my mom and little sister. And I dropped off several baskets of dirty laundry every Sunday evening. And I'd come by and get something decent to eat a few times each week. And I'd occasionally stop by when I ran out of money, but that was only three or four times a month. For all practical purposes, I was completely on my own. The cord had been cut.
I went away to college, clear across town to the University of Missouri, and more specifically, the Alpha Tau Omega house. The fraternity has been a Columbia fixture for 101 years. Over the decades, we have been more familiarly referred to as the ATOs, the Taus, the AT-Zeroes and, by my father, Douglas and His Bunch of Animal Friends. The national ATO fraternity is one of the strongest in America, boasting 130 chapters across the country. If I remember my history correctly, we were founded somewhere in Virginia in 1865 on the principles of fellowship, brotherly love and the manufacture and distribution of fake IDs.See the full content of this document
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Frat Eased Transition to College
Exactly how I came to be an ATO remains murky. By all accounts, I should have been a member of Beta Theta Pi. My father was a Beta at Mizzou. So was my father...
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