Alpha Gamma Chi Chapter At Frostburg State University

Introduction The group that was observed was Alpha Phi Omega (APO) Alpha Gamma Chi Chapter at Frostburg State University. This is an on campus organization/fraternity that gives its members an opportunity to gain, foster and enhances their leadership skills. They also seek to apply leadership, friendship, and service in their everyday lives. APO also encourages their members to be creative and think of new opportunities for their chapter. APO was started at Lafayette College by Frank Reed Horton, Herbert G. Horton, and H. Roes Bartle in 1925 (Horton). This organization was developed to strengthen men in their ideals and give them leadership and service experience. The ideals that this organization was built on were the ideals of scouting. The initial purpose of this organization was for it to be for college men who cooperated with all youth movements and to help bring a more peaceful world through nurturing men to have a standard of manhood, international understanding, and friendship. The Alpha Gamma Chi Chapter at Frostburg State was created March 1993 by Jason Birzer, Jeremy Gagliardi, Mary Grace Sylvester Gagliardi, Don Lipscomb, and Andrew Corl (History of our chapter). These individuals had all been interested in Boy Scouts and wanted to start an organization based on their ideals when they came across APO. In 1992, they started the petitioning process to get this fraternity on campus. They soon gained support and were inducted on April 1992. The official chartering