• We're now at about 400 members!
• The largest chapter in the nation!
  
• We're also the largest client organization at WM!

• VT Zeta Beta Chapter (Nu Rho's Big Brother!)
  
• JMU Chi Gamma Chapter*
  
• UVA Theta Chapter*
  
• VCU Alpha Delta Iota Chapter*
  
• ODU Alpha Beta Omega Chapter*

[* Chapters to whom we are a Big Brother]

• Fall 2005; Schroeder
  
• Fall 2006; Westlake
  
• Spring 2007; Hamberger
  
• Fall 2007; Jadels
  
• Fall 2008; Kreneks (Biggest!!)
• Fall 2009; Schaughters

The Nu Rho Chapter of Alpha Phi Omega was initially chartered at The College of William and Mary on December 11, 1961 in the Great Hall of the Wren Building. Our Big Brother Chapter was Zeta Beta at Virginia Tech, whose President at the time was James Savedge. Our pre-Charter President was David Greenfield. Our Charter President was Sam Sadler, who, for the last couple of years, has been William and Mary's Vice President for Client Affairs. During the 1970s, Nu Rho suffered from a dramatic decline in membership. The Chapter last filed with the National Office in 1972, and was officially disbanded in 1974. Apathy ruled the campus. Unfortunately, most if not all of the records of NP's first era were destroyed upon the disbanding, leaving most of us in the dark as to how it operated during that time.

In 1978, once again under the guidance of Zeta Beta, Nu Rho petitioned to be rechartered. YAY! Our first new President was George Homewood, our first new Vice President was David Lozier, and our second new President was Cynthia Hartley. Nu Rho has lived happily ever after ever since, and has accomplished some cool things en route to celebrating our 40th birthday recently, such as helping charter Chapters at Old Dominion University, the University of Richmond, and at Virginia Commonwealth University, as well as hosting Sectionals in 1998 and three Regional Conferences, most recently the one in November 2001.

Membership has gone up and down in waves since the rechartering. Thanks to some old notes found in a binder somewhere, it seems that Nu Rho was rechartered with around 15 people. Membership shot up to 50 by the early 1980s due to membership drives, and by 1990 Nu Rho's peeps numbered about 215! The 1990s was a roller coaster for membership, oscillating somewhere between 50 and 200, but now-a-days we're at about a solid 210!

"I was in the re-charter class in the Fall of 1978. George Homewood was the Boy Scout contact. George asked me to write the re-charter by-laws and serve as re-charter VP. Sam Sadler was a big help as he was a new Dean in 1978. The sponsoring crew from Va. Tech who helped us get organized and ran the re-charter initiation ceremony was a really wild bunch! Lets just say that the alcohol policy was bit more relaxed back then. Your web-history is correct. We had about 15 re-charter members and the chapter grew very quickly. Our first service projects included many of the ones you still do today: Blood Drives, Escort (I think we started the escort service), Housing Partnerships, Ushering for campus events, and work-weekends at Camp Chickahominy. We also did an annual clean-up of the Lake Matoaka Amphitheater, which was close to abandoned at that time. Our first charity fundraiser was the ancestor of your current Most Wanted Professor, only we called it the Ugliest Professor Contest. The Trophy was a large lag screw on a wooden plaque we called "the Big Screw" award. I graduated in 1979...when I returned to Williamsburg for Law School in 1985, I was shocked to find 250 kids filling an auditorium and performing thousands of service hours each semester. It was a thrill to be a member/Advisor for three more years...In about 1994 I snuck back to witness the initiation of a Spring Pledge Class named in my honor. That was a thrill. I was pretty active on Campus as an undergrad, but I have no hesitation in saying that APO/Nu Rho was the most rewarding experience of my college days. Years from now, you will all look back at the service projects, the friendships and the leadership challenges and say the same thing."