Phi Kappa Psi - Penn Pi

A certain someone just got promoted. Let’s hope he gets an office without cinderblock walls now. [ more ]

Brother Harron sends us this tip that Scott Eveslage made it into the Philadelphia Inquirer (for something good!)

He was successful at Cheltenham. But there was a family to consider and an offer on the table.

For many of us, there is a professional life and there is a personal life, and never the twain shall meet.

For Scott Eveslage, there was the professional, the personal, and this whole other entity that crisscrossed over the two others - his basketball life.

Eveslage, 35, was the head boys’ basketball coach at Cheltenham for 10 successful years, and before that the junior-varsity coach for an additional five. He loved the program, loved the families, loved teaching the high school game, and loved the hoops (still does). But the grind was having an impact on the young family man.

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Newsday had an article a few weeks ago and Brother Toas was quoted.

The State Liquor Authority suspended the liquor license of Scores West in Manhattan after four erotic dancers and two managers were arrested there last month on prostitution charges.

“Club owners have a responsibility to the communities in which they operate to follow the law,” said authority chief Joshua B. Toas in a statement Wednesday.

The suspension prohibits the posh strip club from serving alcoholic beverages until the authority revokes the suspension or is ordered to do so by a reviewing judge.

Employees at Scores West said the club would remain open.

“We … are considering the steps we intend to take to defend against this precipitous action. There is no justification or basis to suspend our license,” a statement from Scores said.

The arrests occurred Jan. 24, when undercover officers were allegedly offered sexual services for between $200 and $700. Four strippers, ranging in age from 19 to 32, were charged with prostitution. Their managers were charged with permitting prostitution.

The suspects have pleaded not guilty.

Yes, we know this was from a few years ago, but Eveslage’s nuptuals brought together quite a few Phi Psis.  Click the picture for a bigger view.

That’s Dr. Noah Lechtzin and he is in Maryland now.

Thanks for getting in touch. I checked out the website. It’s great to see some of the old faces. It sounds like many of the guys are still around and are doing well.

After graduating from Temple, I went to Temple again for Med. school.  Then I came down to Baltimore in 1994 for internship and residency at Johns Hopkins and have been here ever since.  In spite of that, my parents and brother are still up in Philly, so I get up there from time to time and try to make it to a Temple basketball game a couple times a year.

I got married in 1999. My wife, Laura, and I just had our third child in October.  We have a son, Nathaniel who is 5, and two daughters, Hannah is 3, and Ella is 3 months.

The kids are keeping us busy but when I get the time I work in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.

Do you know if there are any other Penn Pi alum in Maryland? Send my regards to everyone.

Read more about what Noah has been up to professionally.

Do any of you remember Gerald Reznick?  He transferred to Temple from Indiana University of Pennsylvania while we were still at 2131 N. Broad Street and lived on the fourth floor for a while. 

I remember talking to him when he graduated and he was headed off to Jefferson City, Missouri for a job at a station. 

Gerald’s come a long way. He’s now an anchor at WKMG in the Orlando area.  Here’s what the station’s web site says about him:

Pennsylvania. Iowa. Missouri. Central Florida. Gerald Reznick’s career has taken him to all those stops. This WKMG News anchor came to Central Florida from Iowa, where he was weekend anchor at KCRG.  Gerald also spent time in Jefferson City, Missouri as a reporter.

One busy man, he managed to work at WCAU in Philadelphia, while earning his degree from Temple University. He graduated Summa cum Laude!  Gerald says he loves fixing up the house he recently bought. When he’s not doing that, he’s working out, traveling and spending time on his computer. He anchors Local 6 First News on WKMG weekdays.

A few years ago, Gerald interviewed Lord of the Rings star Sean Astin for a Literacy Network event sponsored by Verizon:

ORLANDO, Fla. — "Lord of the Rings" star Sean Astin continued his quest to improve family literacy at the 13^th Annual National Conference on Family Literacy. More than 2,000 educators, researchers and policymakers attended the National Center for Family Literacy’s (NCFL) three-day conference at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort.

 On the evening of March 2, Astin was featured in an "actor’s studio" style interview with WKMG-TV’s news morning anchor Gerald Reznick, during which Astin discussed his role as a literacy advocate and his career as an actor and director. Immediately following the informal and entertaining discussion, Astin presented the Sean and Christine Astin Family Literacy Success Award to Norma Dorta and her two daughters. [ more ]

And Gerald even was on CNN’s Lou Dobbs Moneyline as he reported on a story about a Florida judge who ruled that a Muslim woman cannot wear a veil in her driver’s license photograph. [ more ]

Steve Caponi has taken the lead in gathering all available Phi Psis in and around the Philadelphia area during the holidays.  Here are the details.

In an effort lead by example and promote world peace, Stan and I have agreed to meet in Philadelphia on Dec. 29 at 5:30 at Monks.  Ed Harron and James Edwards will be there and have agreed to act as deputy U.N. Peace Keepers.  Come be part of this historic summit.

Seriously, for the past four years we have gotten together in DE to catch-up etc.  This year we decided to move the festivities to Phila., with the hope that many of you will be able to stop in for a drink or ten.  If possible, come-on-down and hang out with some old friends/brothers over the holidays.   If you come, Stan and I promise to leave politics at the door.

Please pass this along to others, as I do not have everyone’s e-mail address.

Fraternally yours
SLC

Matt Glantz - Phi Psi and Poker Player

And he is a pro by the looks of it.

Who is that Phi Psi? No, not the Philadelphia Eagle about to catch the ball, look a bit more carefully, to the lower left side of the image. Yes folks, it’s Allyn Roche!

Al works with the Eagles Cheerleaders running the flags out for every home game. He’s on the field for every game. He is also an Assistant Principal at Pennbrook Middle
School in NP School District, has two little ones (Cole 4 yrs old and Addison 2 1/2old.) His wife Corey still works at Temple and they still have season tickets to basketball games. They live in Quakertown.

Zach Braff - Phi Psi

Yes. We know. He’s not an alum of our chapter. But it was brought to our attention that Zach (star of NBC’s Scrubs and the film Garden State, is/was a Phi Psi at Northwestern University.

Maybe Guiley can write him into one of his scripts?