Alpha Eta Rho
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Alpha Eta Rho (ΑΗΡ) is an international professional college aviation fraternity that serves as a contact between the aviation industry and educational institutions to foster, promote, and mentor today's college students towards successful careers in any aviation field. Alpha Eta Rho serves to actively associate interested students of aviation with leaders and executives in the industry. This close association, strengthened through the bonds of an international aviation fraternity, establishes opportunities for all members in their relation to aviation and inspires interest and cooperation among those in the profession who are also members of Alpha Eta Rho.
Established in 1929, and the oldest professional aviation fraternity in history, Alpha Eta Rho has had over one hundred thirty five chapters both domestically and internationally. Currently over seventy chapters are active on campuses throughout the United States. The alumni of the fraternity are found in all facets of the aviation industry and related management fields. These include airline captains, military aviation Flag Officers, corporate CEO's, NASA engineers, flight attendants, aircraft mechanics, aviation museum directors, aerospace engineers, and pilots. There are currently over 45,000 Alumni of Alpha Eta Rho, with over 1,000 new members pledging each year.
[edit] Important Alumni
Joe Leonard - AirTran Airways CEO
[edit] External links
- Gamma Chapter (Auburn University)
- Alpha Sigma Chapter (ASU)
- Epsilon Rho Chapter (Embry-Riddle Daytona)
- Mu Tau Chapter(MTSU)
- Theta Chapter (Western Michigan University)
- Beta Chapter (Purdue University)
- Pi Chapter (St. Louis University/Parks College)
- Sigma Phi Chapter (Metropolitan State College of Denver)
- Omicron Sigma Upsilon Chapter (Ohio State University)