Public Servant

Josh is running for public office and if his views are in line with yours, help out!

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The Patron Saint of Penn Pi

The one and only John Tran van Ngyuen and his date.

When I pledged, I only heard stories of the Phi Psi brother John Tran van Ngyuen but never met him in person. He was truly an enigma shrouded in mystery (or maybe it was the haze of alcohol). Nevertheless, his name was brought up on countless occassions (much like invoking the name of a patron saint or other deity).

I will personally buy dinner to the brother who can produce the elusvie John Tran van Ngyuen!

The Oldest Pledges Ever

Lou and Frankie keep the food warm. (Not their real names)

This was at the "semi-formal" (and I use the term very loosely) at the house where the food was catered by these two guys.

Meeting of The Minds

Chapter Room Pow-wow

From the looks of it, it looks like Josh is holding court with Scott Eveslage, Glenn Goodman and some others in the chapter room.

At Its's Peak

The new pledge class becomes full fledged brothers.

I can identify most of them, can you?

The Classiest Room at 2131 N. Broad Street

Podrost and I shared this room.

When I first introduced myself to Poddy as his roommate, he told me had some Zepplin posters and some tied-dyed sheets for the walls. Thankfully, I convinced him to leave the decorating to me. As you can see the room was quite swanky. Unfortunately for the both of us, a clean room that reeks of sophistication and elegance was not a babe magnet.

Feh! There was no accounting for taste with the women of those days!

Two of The Biggest Mouths of Phi Psi

Steve Caponi & Tad "Who's got a problem" Derenberger

Fresh Faced

Al Roche and his date for the evening.

Cy Condit

Cy Condit, Steve Caponi's roommate at 2131 N. Broad Street.

BI - Before Initation

From left to right: Damas Andre Pate, James Edwards, Jon Herskovitz, Scott Eveslage, Derek Guiley.

This is down the street from the church where we held our initation ceremony. As you can see, Derek has his arm in cast after getting into fisticuffs with another writer, Andre has his sunny disposition and James is bald.

The Hair on Both of Them

Unidentified AE Phi & Matt Glantz at 2131 N. Broad Street

Fashion Plates

From left to right: My little brother and me.

I have forgotten his name, anyone have a clue? All I know is that he looked a bit like Chris Elliot from Cabin Boy and Late Show with David Letterman fame. We never kept in touch.

Burdick Checks In

Sorry to not be in touch much brothers, but quite a bit is going on here. I have been living in Haarlem, the Netherlands for the last three years as a groundwater remediation specialist supporting our European operations. I was recently promoted to: Technical Director Europe, Trans National Growth Platform ( a long title I know) and will be working out of our Brussels Belgium office.
I got married two years ago to Neasa Thornton (she's Irish and a few of you may have met her at Temple Hoops games). She is an Eagles fan, thereby passing one of the more important tests. Neasa and I are expecting our first child in exactly one month. We are psyched to be able to have this baby in Belgium.. as in the Netherlands most babies are born at home, without pain meds.. and in the freakin bath tub (seriously we had to watch the video in birth class!). I pushed to name the kid Froderick, but that has not gone over well at all. I have accepted compromise on the baby name as long as it isn't too "Irish strange" - meaning no Fergus or Seamus.

I still have 9 Eagles season tickets in my name (with Al Oswald, Conallen and Sarge Winkel - when he can make it) and I try and catch about 2 home game a season. For those of you who don't know, Conallen got married in April to a lovely gal named Kaycee and they have a sweet pad near Bridgetts in the Art Museum area.

If anyone is coming to Europe for work or pleasure let me know and I can show you around or put you up.

Take Care
FRO 90

Winkel Takes Charge

Winkel checks in with this:

Back in April I joined a distinguished list of graduates that includes Bob Dole, Tommy Franks, and Dick Winters by completing the Army OCS program at Ft. Benning, GA. By doing so I earned a commission, gold bar and became an officer - Second Lieutenant. Since then I have been back to work at my consulting job. I am on temporary assignment at a project in Rochester, NY and it looks like I could be spending the winter here. Know anyone up here?

Poker Face

Matt Glantz - Phi Psi and Poker Player


Matt Glantz - Poker Player extraordinaire

And he is a pro by the looks of it.

What A Cute Couple

Walt's date and Walt Lopcko

Anyone else have the hots for his then girlfriend?

Big Hair Days

From left to right: Unidentified date, Walt Lopcko's date. Walt Lopcko, Brandon Wexler, Matthew Glatz (partially hidden), Matt's date (an AE Phi), Matt Dunn, Cy Condit

Oh the hairspray!!

And The Award Goes To....

Ed awards the award to Winkel.

Now I know that I am getting old and my memory ain't what it used to be, but I think the award had initials that went S.M.O - what is the last letter?

Steves in The Lord's House

Steve Borenstein, Steve Suranie and Steve Caponi.

It's like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, except there are only three, they're all named Steve and they are in a church.