Recognition and renewal were the prevailing messages of the 2008 Kovner Memorial Banquet, held on November 2. Without an active chapter to share this year’s celebration, the event would focus heavily on the reestablishment of the chapter. In a 1943 letter to Is Wachs (chapter advisor), Alfred Kovner stated: “I...

Threats of impending rain and hail and were not enough to keep Pi Lam brothers and friends from raining errant balls (like hail) on unsuspecting fairways and golfers at this year’s spring golf outing. It turned out that the “heavy stuff” didn’t come down for a while and nearly 30...

Admitting, “I’m half the man I used to be” the newly svelte Mike Naegele ’92, President of the Alumni Association, emceed this year’s event. He began the evening with an observation: “2007 marks the 80th anniversary of Pi Lambda Phi on Temple’s campus. That’s 80 years of tradition, camaraderie, leadership,...

We held our noses and crossed the bridge to New Jersey for the spring 2007 golf outing at Willow Brook Country Club in Moorestown. The course would be closed soon after, probably due to the damage we did. After our assault on the course, event organizer, Bob Arthur ’97, arranged...

The spirit of volunteerism and Pi Lam zeal for brotherhood honored the memory of Alfred “Koko” Kovner at the 60th annual Kovner Memorial Banquet. Nearly 60 alumni and 30 undergraduates attended the event, held on November 3, 2006 at Temple University’s Diamond Club, in a conspicuously cramped President’s Room. Undergraduates...