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ATO brother recalls fraternity house I don't know if you will hear from any Wittenberg Alpha Tau Omega alums, but the article on page 14 (Fall 1999) about using our former chapter house at 40 W. Cassilly St. as some kind of communal-living flop house just about broke my heart.... I thought that was only a temporary situation, and I was certainly unaware that the house had been lost. What a sad, heart-breaking situation.... The picture of the front door brings back so many wonderful memories because I probably came and went out of that door thousands of times.
I don't know what the house looks like now, but at the time I lived there (1953-56), it was the most beautiful Georgian brick home with twin living rooms to the right and left as you came in, each with fireplaces. The lower floor was the chapter room, and the kitchen and dining room. The second floor was made up of three-man rooms, each with a study desk and opposite that, in each room, a large clothes closet for each man. On the third floor, there was a large common sleeping loft with double-deck bunks. My days at Wittenberg and as a member of ATO were among the happiest of my life, where I made friendships that will last the rest of my life and where attitudes and viewpoints that I still carry with me were formed. I suppose in this day where everyone is so “negative” about social fraternities, my views might be looked at as “old fashioned.” But I think if you asked the guys not only in ATO but in the other frats when I was there “what did it mean to them?” you would get pretty much the same answer. Charles Seng ’56 Editor’s Note: A new task force is convening on campus to identify
ways to strengthen Wittenberg’s fraternity system.
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mailbox was just to the side of the man's left arm, and at that time, we had
little divided areas with each of our names.