Executive Order No. 4
Executive Order No 4
LET IT BE KNOWN THAT HAVING CONSIDERED that our very purpose is worded most clearly in the Creed of the Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity, written by Otis Alan Glazebrook in 1880, and that no other words could be as well written to fully embody the soul, purpose, and mission of the Alumni Association,
HAVING EXAMINED Article II, Section 1 of the Association Constitution reading that “Upon ratification by the Executive Council, Article II Section I shall be deleted and replaced with Section 1. – Section N as voted on by the Executive Council, per Article VIII, Section II and Section III, Clause B,”
HAVING FURTHER CONSIDERED, that in an effort to make these words our own, but not discount or diminish the Creed itself through modifying its language, the last line of the Creed should not be included in the Association’s Purpose or Mission,
OBSERVING that the proposed Purpose Statement should thus read: “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.”
IT IS THEREFOR RESOLVED, that on this Sixth Day of April in the Two Thousandth and Tenth Year of Our Lord, in accordance with the Constitution of the Alumni Association of the Illinois State Theta Theta Chapter of the Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity that the Mission Statement and Purpose Statement of the Association Constitution be replaced with the text of the Alpha Tau Omega Creed as written above.
J.L. Andrew M. D’Amico
President