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LEADERSHIP FRIENDSHIP SERVICE PLEDGE MANUAL 2017-2018 NATIONAL SERVICE FRATERNITY PLEDGE MANUAL 2017-2018 DEDICATION This manual is dedicated to you - the pledge of Alpha Phi Omega. You represent our hope for the future. Our principles of Leadership, Friendship and Service are yours for safekeeping. They provide a strong base on which to build a successful standard of conduct. It is our hope that you will embrace them, live by them and share them with others. We wish you great success as you embark upon a lifetime of service in Alpha Phi Omega. PROPERTY OF: ________________________________________ ________________________________________ Full Name Chapter Name ________________________________________ Pledge Class ________________________________________ ________________________________________ Date of Pledge Ceremony Date of Initiation ©2017 Alpha Phi Omega National Service Fraternity TABLE OF CONTENTS BEHIND THE ALPHA PHI OMEGA FRATERNITY ...............................5 IDENTITY ................................ 35 • Our Purpose .......................................................6 • Alpha Phi Omega Symbols ...............................36 • Why a National Fraternity? ................................6 • Alpha Phi Omega Publications .........................37 • Leadership ..........................................................6 • Alpha Phi Omega Toast Song ...........................38 • Friendship ..........................................................8 • Graphic Standards Guide .................................39 • Service ................................................................8 • Alpha Phi Omega Certificates ...........................42 • Scouting and Alpha Phi Omega ........................10 BEYOND YOUR CHAPTER ........ 43 THE HISTORY OF • National Conventions ......................................44 ALPHA PHI OMEGA .................11 • Duties of the National Convention ..................45 • The Story Behind the Founding ........................12 • The ationalN Office ..........................................46 Our Founders ...................................................14 • Services of the National Office ..........................46 • Advisors ............................................................15 • Sectional and Regional Staffs ............................47 • Our History .....................................................16 • Sectional and Regional Conferences .................47 • Women in APO ...............................................16 • Notes Worksheet ..............................................48 • APO Around the World ...................................18 • Chapter History Worksheet ..............................20 THE PEOPLE OF ALPHA PHI OMEGA ................ 49 THE CORE OF • Board of Directors ............................................50 ALPHA PHI OMEGA ................ 21 • National Operations Council ...........................54 • Pledge Program Objectives ...............................22 • Past Presidents of Alpha Phi Omega ..................56 • The Ritual ........................................................22 • Executive Directors ...........................................58 • Hazing .............................................................22 • National Office Staff .........................................59 • National Pledging Standards .............................22 • Our Distinguished Alumni ...............................60 • Pledge Class Worksheet ....................................26 • National Distinguished Service Alumni ............61 • Getting to Know Members YOUR ROLE IN and Advisors Worksheet ...................................62 ALPHA PHI OMEGA .............27 • Your Role as a Brother ......................................28 ALPHA PHI OMEGA • National Service Week ......................................28 REFERENCES ........................... 63 • Spring Youth Service Day .................................28 • Ways To Be Of Service......................................64 • A Lifetime Commitment ..................................28 • Characteristics of a Good Chapter ....................65 • Lifetime Membership .......................................29 • Active Chapters by Region and Section ............66 • APO Membership Policies ................................30 • Statement of Purpose for the APPENDIX .............................. 71 Policy of Risk Management ..............................31 • Parliamentary Procedures..................................72 • The tandardS Policy of • Classifications of otionsM .................................73 Risk Management.............................................32 • Greek Alphabet .................................................74 • Affirmation of Compliance with Risk Management Policies ........................33 • Service Record Worksheet.................................34 Welcome to Alpha Phi Omega National Service Fraternity! On behalf of our active and alumni brothers, welcome to Alpha Phi Omega! By choosing to pledge our great Fraternity, you have taken the first step in your new, lifelong journey of Leadership, Friendship and Service. You have committed yourself to learn the history and ways of Alpha Phi Omega, the principles for which we stand and to take part in the efforts, as do all our members, to give of yourself to make the world a better place. Your pledge period is only the first part of your journey, an important step in preparing you for active membership. As you proceed through your time as a pledge, be sure to take advantage of what the Fraternity has to offer. Do not limit yourself only to the experiences of Alpha Phi Omega on your campus - visit other chapters, attend conferences and conventions, and find ways to truly experience the bigger picture of Alpha Phi Omega. Congratulations on choosing Alpha Phi Omega as part of your life’s journey. I look forward to welcoming you personally as a brother in Alpha Phi Omega. Fraternally, Hon. John K. Ottenad, J.D. National President BEHIND THE FRATERNITY Fraternity Behind the Behind ends, forgetful that we come this way but once and that OUR PURPOSE our challenge is to serve others. This is why the national conventions have to deal repeatedly with memberships The purpose of Alpha Phi Omega shall be to assemble in Interfraternity Councils (IFC), questions of housing, college students in a national service fraternity in the violations of the dignity of individuals through hazing FRATERNITY BEHIND THE fellowship of principles derived from the Scout Oath and practices, and the lure of social status and personal Law of the Boy Scouts of America; to develop Leadership, indulgence through primary emphasis upon social to promote Friendship and to provide Service to programs. Without some structure to keep us focused on humanity; and to further the freedom that is our national, our purposes we would quickly lose our way in an envious educational and intellectual heritage. and competitive world. There are many other reasons for a truly national organization. We reaffirm our openness to all when we come to know members from different sections of the WHY A NATIONAL country, different religious, racial and ethnic groups, and different personal circumstances. We share in the stimulus FRATERNITY? of association with students from various kinds of colleges when we discuss common problems. We find friends Alpha Phi Omega is the single most represented wherever we travel, when we transfer schools, when we intercollegiate service organization in the United States. begin our careers, when we move from one city or part We take pride in this and hope to be even larger. We of the country to another in the pursuit of our interests. dedicate ourselves to become larger only because, if what We share in the costs of maintaining and advancing a we are and what we represent are important and useful common endeavor. We make a mighty witness through to students, then we should share what we have in order our combined testimony to the power of the ideal of to further our common goals more effectively. We want service in our common and corporate life. to share with colleges and universities all across this Each of us needs to feel pride in the things we are great land the benefits that APO gives to students, their associated with. We are proud of the record of APO and campuses and their communities. of the kind of individuals it attracts. The conventions The strength of APO lies in its active chapters. The increase our confidence in what’s right with our country – importance of APO consists of what happens to the hundreds of individuals of differing views can make hard individuals who are pledged and initiated in these local decisions in complete understanding and with a sense of chapters. The future of APO is entirely in the hands of the community, then there is hope in our democratic ideals, students who determine on each local campus what the despite the challenges of the times through which we are APO program shall passing. be. The status of APO results directly CARDINAL from the maturity PRINCIPLES: and meaningfulness LEADERSHIP of the local chapter Leadership programs. Why, Alpha Phi Omega teaches us through our principles of then, a national Leadership, Friendship and Service that we are Friendship fraternity? If what the architects of our own ambitions and that each of us Service is important is what has the opportunity to develop ourselves to be whatever happens in the local we seek to be. In the area of leadership, from within our chapter,