Alpha Tau Omega at Kansas

10/08/2024

Brothers and Esteemed Alumni,

Join us this Homecoming weekend for a series of exciting events! On Saturday, October 19, the Kansas Jayhawks will face Houston in what promises to be a historic matchup at Arrowhead Stadium. We’ll be hosting a tailgate before the game near “G29.” Be sure to stop by and meet the brothers!

On the eve of game day, the chapter house will be open to all alumni and their families. Come by to relive old memories, meet the current brothers, and see how much the chapter has grown! We are also organizing a golf scramble for both alumni and brothers on Friday at 3 PM, followed by an open house and catered dinner.

There will be many Taus buzzing around Larryville this Homecoming Saturday. We hope you can join the fun!

Ruh Rah Rega and L&R, brothers!

04/30/2024

Brothers and Esteemed Alumni,
We had a fantastic moms’ weekend recently, highlighted by a successful auction that raised $4000, followed by a fun-filled pickleball tournament. The nights out at the Local, Triangle, and Logies were also a hit! As finals approach and we look forward to next year, we’d love your suggestions for making next year’s alumni weekend even better. Please feel free to reach out with your ideas at [email protected]. Ruh Rah Rega and L&R, brothers!

10/24/2023

Brothers and Esteemed Alumni,
Come one, come all this Homecoming weekend! On Saturday, the Kansas Jayhawks will take on the Oklahoma Sooners at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium for what should be a historic matchup. The chapter house will be open to all alumni and their families on gameday to stop by, relive some memories, meet the guys, and see how far the chapter has come! We will be hosting a complimentary brunch starting at 9am for those who wish to see the house before the game begins, and I will be at the house all afternoon after the game to welcome in any post-game visitors. The house will be giving a special welcome to the Pledge Class of 1978/’79, so if you come to the house in the morning, be sure to say hello to these fellow brothers! There will be many Taus buzzing around Larryville this Homecoming Saturday. We hope you all can join the fray as well! Ruh Rah Rega and L&R, brothers!!

09/25/2023

Brothers and Esteemed Alumni,
We are back with our first Gamma Mu Monday post of the Fall semester! Today’s post features the parents of ATΩ as we celebrated Family Weekend on Saturday during BYU gameday. The Taus made their presence known by renting a tent up the hill in the heart of the pregame action (right next to AXΩ too!). Several brothers and their families watched the game from inside the Booth while others watched the game on TV in our tent. Families then indulged in the luxuries of Lawrence for the remainder of the weekend to celebrate the Big 12 win. The Triangle was well-attended on Saturday night! A very special thank you to the ATΩ Parent’s Club for helping to make the weekend come together. Ruh Rah Rega and L&R, brothers!

05/22/2023

Brothers and Esteemed Alumni,
Welcome back to Gamma Mu Mondays! I took a not-so-brief hiatus from posting for finals seasons. Even so, now that summer has begun, I am back, and I can promise a (semi) consistent posting schedule! Since the end of finals, the brothers of Gamma Mu have set out from Lawrence towards the horizon in search of sun-kissed summer wonders. We focus this week on Brother Drew Boler who recently took a trip to Flavortown! He attended a signing event for ATΩ UNLV alumnus and celebrity chef, Guy Fieri, in Omaha while he was in town to film a new episode of his show, Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives. Brother Boler performed the Ruh Rah Chant and received a signed shirt from Brother Fieri. A special thank you to ATΩ’s greatest chef, and a reminder to all the Taus: you only need four things in life, and those are peace, love, grease, and brotherhood! Ruh Rah Rega! L&R!

04/25/2023

Brothers and esteemed alumni, this week’s Gamma Mu Monday post commemorates a significant step forward for our chapter’s archiving efforts. This evening, the Gamma Mu chapter welcomed Joseph Whitfield McCoskrie, Jr. and Duncan McCoskrie to present the legacy of ATΩ alumnus Joseph Whitfield McCoskrie, Sr., their father. Joseph McCoskrie, Sr. was a distinguished alumnus and architecture graduate of the KU class of 1949. He served as Worthy Master of Gamma Mu, two tours of duty as a combat engineer in WWII and the Korean War, and he led a successful career as an architect in Kansas City designing several of the houses that still stand today in old Leawood. He was also responsible for designing the Southern expansion to the Tennessee St. chapter house in the 1960s. Whit and Duncan presented the legacy of their father, an early history of our chapter, and a collection of ATΩ memorabilia ranging from the 1940s through the 1950s that nearly tripled our existing collection of ATΩ relics! We thank the McCoskrie family for their generous historical contribution, and we honor the achievements of the late, great brother Joseph Whitfield McCoskrie, Sr. L&R, brothers!

04/11/2023

Brothers and esteemed alumni,
Welcome back to Gamma Mu Mondays! We have a late-night one for you this Monday as festivities have just wrapped up at the house. This evening, the chapter gathered for the Spring 2023 pledge pinning ceremony. Our new members, who are going through the process of pledgeship and are on the verge of earning full brotherhood, were assigned sponsors from the pool of current brothers. Following the ceremony, new members and their sponsors posed in front of the house to commemorate their adoption into one of Gamma Mu’s many illustrious sponsor families. Pictured below is Worthy Master Walker Haber with his sponsored new member, David Streiler; Alumni Relations Chairman Whit Smith with his sponsored new member, Dominick Reynolds; and the Grubb Family which is proudly headed by its alumni-enthusiast patriarch. The Grubb family was founded by alumnus brother Zac Grubb.

04/03/2023

Brothers and Esteemed Alumni,
Welcome back to Gamma Mu Mondays! With the NCAA Men’s Basketball National Championship being played tonight, today’s spotlight is focused on the Final Four. Not this year’s Final Four, though! Very few people were happy with March this year. Thankfully, the brothers of ATO know how to have a good time while good times last, and the 2022 Final Four in New Orleans, Louisiana was the pinnacle of good times. After KU massacred Miami in the Elite Eight in Chicago, there was a mad scramble among the student body to grab up a limited number of tickets to the Caesars Superdome, Pizza Hut-sponsored student section. Many brothers and I took advantage of the incredibly-reduced ticket prices for the student section and shipped out for New Orleans with nothing but hope and a long car ride ahead of us. ATO trickled into town from late Thursday night to early Saturday morning and tore up the French Quarter in the lead-up to Saturday night’s game. The brothers who made the trip got to experience one of the most glorious, true Blue Blood Final Fours in the history of college basketball. On Saturday night, we celebrated KU’s revenge against Villanova for the 2018 Final Four, and we reveled in the uninspiring end to Coach K’s 40-year career of terrorizing college basketball. On Sunday, we partied with sour Wildcats, devastated Blue Devils, and overconfident Tarheels. Finally, on Monday, we watched the Jayhawks once again prove themselves the best basketball program in the country securing the title and setting the brothers of ATO loose on Bourbon Street. The brothers who had remained in Lawrence took to Mass. Street with the rest of the population of Kansas and lived it up in the home of college basketball. We all then booked it back to Lawrence on Tuesday morning, after sleeping a combined 6 hours over the whole weekend, to return to the scholastic duties which our immovable professors refused to relieve us of despite the circumstances. The 2022 Final Four will go down as one of the best in history matched only, perhaps, by the 1952, 1988, and 2008 Final Fours. Rock Chalk Jayhawk and Ruh Rah Rega!

03/27/2023

Brothers and Esteemed Alumni,
Welcome to the first installment of ATΩ Gamma Mu Mondays! For our inaugural post, we will highlight a high point from the first half of the semester. During the month of February, we welcomed into the Tennessee Street chapter house CEO of ATΩ nationals, Wynn Smiley, to preside over our new member initiation. Following a sizeable steak dinner, the chapter proceeded to the Danforth Chapel on the Hill to welcome into the brotherhood our newest, most eager initiates. Mr. Smiley was very impressed and offered us praise during his closing speech. Congratulations to the newly-initiated Phi pledge class! A special thank you to Mr. Smiley and our honorary alumnus presider, brother Bryant Lamer!

03/26/2023

Brothers and Esteemed Alumni of ATO Gamma Mu,
Hello and happy Sunday! My name is Whit Smith, and I am the current alumni relations chair for our chapter at the University of Kansas. A special thank you to brothers DJ Davis, Teller Cunningham, Robert Adams, and Eli Kurlbaum for helping me regain access to this account. As part of our renewed alumni relations initiative, we will be making weekly post on Facebook through a new segment called “Gamma Mu Mondays.” These segments will include chapter updates and campus updates. This is a new initiative, so we are open and eager to suggestions of content that you would all like to see. Our first installment of Gamma Mu Mondays will go live tomorrow afternoon. Ruh Rah Rega and L&R!

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