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Initiation Spring 2006There is an undeniable difference between moving in to the Muir Family Chapter House your first time andthen the following semester. When you first move in you look up to the guys, you are curious and you have no ideawhat to expect from the people that are helping you unpack. When the spring semester move-in date rolled aroundthough, there was no anxiety, no confusion of what to expect; because by this point you are just one of theguys. Throughout the pledge ship the members teach you how to become a Tau, and after the night of your initiationyou really feel it. You know what it means and what you represent as a member of ATO. It is a great feeling when youleave the chapter room with your brothers and realize that you were just initiated with some of your closest friendscurrently and of the future.It’s really surprising how close you become to the people in your pledge class within a semester. These areguys you didn’t meet until your first summer chapter when you randomly introduce yourself., not realizing how closeyou will be in just a few short months. The pledge ship helps develop the friends that you are going to have for therest of your years in college and probably for the rest of your life.You develop a since of pride for the ATO Fraternity. You know what you expect of your brothers and theyknow what to expect out of you. You begin to realize what ATO stands for and how you want to represent it throughyour actions and your character. You understand that everyone in the chapter has the same ideals and want nothingbut the best for the chapter. When you know that you represent something good, you want to keep the good thinggoing and want to demonstrate to people even outside the fraternity that you will do your best in represent the chapterwell. This includes the way you carry yourself on campus, the grades that you get or the way you participate inchap ter activities.When you officially become a Tau you know that you are representing one of the best fraternities in the countryand on the K-State campus. Always work your hardest to show to others what the Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity hasto offer, is a motto that we all try to live by and. Now as Taus we will stand out above others and make a consciouseffort to make sure people know that we are apart of the Delta Theta Chapter of Alpha Tau Omega.Peter Boos, Sergeant-at-Arms, Spring 2006 InitiateA Pin Passed DownAs I was getting ready to be initiated this past winter, my grandmother gave me something that has been in herpossession a very, very long time. My great-grandfather, Bruce Hudson Baker, was a charter member of the fraternityAlpha Tau Omega at the University of Kansas nearly 92 years ago. He saved his badge and gave it to his daughter PegBritton which in turn passed it on to me once she found out I was to be initiated this past January. The badge has numerousdiamonds around the outside and several pearls around the middle of the badge.Bruce Hudson Baker was born in a small town, Kanopolis Kansas, on October 10, 1892. He was an activemember at Kansas until he left for World War I in 1918 according to my grandmother, and was just six hours fromgraduating with a degree. Baker was later then married to Margaret Louella Tedlock. Baker later died in Salina Kansasin 1959 and was buried in Ellsworth.Alpha Tau Omega has also been a part of our recent family history. My older brother Rod Helus was an activefrom the spring of 1996 through the spring of 1999 when he graduated. During the initiation, Rod was able to attedand pinthe badge on me, which made it special to us both.Drew Brittion, Spring 2006 Initiate10 THE VINTAGE