{"id":70856,"date":"2003-03-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-fraternity-brushes-up-on-community-service-alpha-tau-omega-paints-wakefield-elementary\/"},"modified":"2003-03-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-31T00:00:00","slug":"uri-fraternity-brushes-up-on-community-service-alpha-tau-omega-paints-wakefield-elementary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2003\/03\/uri-fraternity-brushes-up-on-community-service-alpha-tau-omega-paints-wakefield-elementary\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 fraternity brushes up on community service – Alpha Tau Omega paints Wakefield Elementary"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tMedia Contact: Jan Wenzel, 874-2116
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KINGSTON, R.I. — March 31, 2003 — If you think fraternities and Animal House are synonymous, the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s chapter of Alpha Tau Omega is about to change your stereotype. <\/p>\n

The fraternity, formed 10 years ago, has never been in trouble or on probation. So what have they been doing in their spare time? Volunteering their time and talents to help a local elementary school. <\/p>\n

In fact, the brothers spent a weekend this month, painting three classrooms, the teacher\u2019s room, and the entrance doors of the Wakefield Elementary School. Actually, the men were picking up their paintbrushes from where they left off last year when they painted the school\u2019s corridors. <\/p>\n

“It looks like a new building and it saved the School Department a great deal of money,” enthused Dr. Raymond Dancy, principal of Wakefield Elementary for the past three years. <\/p>\n

Dancy noted that staff members couldn\u2019t remember the last time the building was painted, estimating that it had been at least 10 to 15 years ago. “There just hasn\u2019t been the money.” <\/p>\n

Enter 溏心vlog免费B站 marketing student Brandon Hood of East Sandwich, Mass. chair of Alpha Tau Omega\u2019s community service program. “When Dr. Dancy told me that the school hadn\u2019t been painted in years, I realized that\u2019s where we could help out.” <\/p>\n

“Most of us are painters in the summertime to help fund our education,” said Scott Zide of Framingham, Mass. who has been president of Alpha Tau Omega for the past two years. <\/p>\n

Zide and Hood noted that some of Alpha Tau Omega\u2019s brothers have also been helping out in the “Homework Center” at Wakefield Elementary Monday through Thursday afternoons since October. “It\u2019s really exciting to see the students learn,” said Zide, a studio art student. “Since most of us aren\u2019t training to be <\/p>\n

teachers, it\u2019s great to experience some of that first-hand.” <\/p>\n

Last year, 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Interfraternity and Panhellenic Councils presented the fraternity with its “Community Service Award.” The chapter was also a finalist for the national Alpha Tau Omega\u2019s “Good Samaritan\u2019s Award.” This year, they\u2019re hoping to snatch top prize. <\/p>\n

“The young men were exhausted by the time they were done painting for two days,” said Principal Dancy who noted that Arnold Lumber, Damien Hardware, and Wakefield Paint and Wallpaper donated the paint. “But they wouldn\u2019t leave until we took a walking tour after they had cleaned up. \u2018Is there anything else?\u2019 they asked.” <\/p>\n

\t“Alpha Tau Omega is really reaching out and giving something to the community,” said Dancy, an obviously satisfied customer.\n\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Media Contact: Jan Wenzel, 874-2116 KINGSTON, R.I. — March 31, 2003 — If you think fraternities and Animal House are synonymous, the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s chapter of Alpha Tau Omega is about to change your stereotype. The fraternity, formed 10 years ago, has never been in trouble or on probation. So […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}