Phi Kappa Psi - Penn Pi

Brother Cooperman found this gem of picture from the days at Temple. You can see Dunn on lead vocals and Cooperman on Drums. That chap in the hat is McKinney. Cooperman also found out that Borenstein works at Smith Barney’s Mt. Laurel Office.

NOTE THE NEW LOCATION

Date: Saturday December 22, 2007

Location: Devil’s Alley Bar & Grill, 1907 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103 - (215) 751-0707

Time: 7 P.M.

BONUS POINTS: I will give $25 to the person who can bring Pappy to
this reunion and $50 to the person who can bring Brother John Tran Van
Ngyuen!

Please spread the word to other Penn Pi guys as many of them are still
not in the information age and do not use/check email more than once a
year.

So please:

1:: Mark your calendar.
2:: Spread the word.

That’s it for now, I gotta run, Yolanda Blackburn is on the other line….

Michael Cooperman contacted me out of the blue and by the looks of it, he’s had some horrible accident with some clippers - note that his luxurious locks have been shorn!

He’s currently a financial advisor at Smith Barney.

UPDATE

Here’s Cooperman with his wife Jill and his sons Benjamin and Brandon.

… and he says:

Until about a year ago I was still playing the drums. Right before my second son was born I had to put the drums away…temporarily. Since graduation I have had several jobs including buying my parent’s bagel bakery. I sold it 2 years ago before I went back in to the finance field. I have worked for The Depository Trust and Clearing Corp, JPMorgan Chase, and currently Smith Barney. Overall, things are good and I’m still in New Jersey!

Wexler sent us pictures from this past summer and everyone looks tanned and relaxed. Some more red than tanned, but relaxed nonetheless. Click on the image for a larger version.

It’s been a long time since there’s been an update and what better way to update than to dredge up old photographs. Here are about 32 scans that Scot Mentzer had sent to me last December. I finally got around to putting them up. Hit the F11 button on your computer (Windows only) and then click here to see the entire slide show.

Dennis finally checks in and gives us this update:

As for updates on me, I’m currently living in Phnom Penh, Cambodia with my fiancé, Luisa. We’ve been here about seven months now working for different organizations. I’m doing a variety of things, but primarily focusing on conflict resolution work and conducting trainings in the practices of nonviolent communication. I’m working with some local organizations to translate the lessons into the Khmer language, and adapt them for use at the village level. I don’t quite know where to start in talking about life here in Cambodia. It is still a very damaged place, with most of the intellectuals and learned people having been either killed or chased out of the country during the Khmer Rouge. So, teaching is a slow process here because most people are starting from a very low educational base, but people are hungry to learn and advance, and I can see signs of progress all around me.

I’ve been actively studying the Khmer language, which is really flippin’ hard, but I’m moving along and the process is giving me some really great cultural insights. Anyway, I will try to put a fuel more lines together with some juicier details about life here, but this will have to do for now.
As for photos, it seems like I’m usually the one behind the camera, so I don’t have much to share. I have attached a photo of me playing Santa Claus at one of the slums here in Phnom Penh. A friend of mine runs a school/community Center there in the slums, and we went there to celebrate Christmas with them this year. I’ll work on getting a better photo sometime as well.

In the meantime, warm regards to you and to all the rest of the knuckleheads at 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.

The Pennsylvania Pi chapter has risen from the ashes.

The Colonization Ceremony is on February 16th, 2007 at Walk Auditorium, located in Ritter Annex, 13th and Cecil B. Moore, Right accross from the 1300 Dorm. A map for those who have forgotten where everything is on main campus.

Colonization shall start at approximately 4pm.