Prize Winners Announced For Boar's Head Reading Coman Leavenworth, Allen Ginsberg, and Theodore Melnechuk are the winners of the $lOO Boar's Head Poetry Contest sponsored jointly by Philolexian and the Columbia Review, it was announced yesterday by John Hollander, outgoing editor of Review. Leavenworth, Ginsberg, and Melnechuk, who are the recipients of a fifty dollar and two twentyfive dollar prizes respectively, will read their verse along with seven other finalists in the contest tonight at 8 o'clock in Earl Hall. W. H. Auden, renowned British poet, will be present at the Boar's Head Poetry Reading, along with many students and members of the faculty. The final group of poems was submitted for the consideration of the judges, Professors Andrew J. Chiappe and Lionel Trilling, who commented upon the generally high quality of the Boar's Head Poetry this year. All of the verse read…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1947-04-22 →

Prize Poetry Will be Read Stephen Spender, noted English poet now lecturing at Sarah Lawrence College, will attend as guest speaker and will lead an informal discussion of the poetry read at the annual Boar's Head Poetry Reading tonight at 8:30 in the Browsing Room of the Library. Free to all who are interested in poetry, the Reading is sponsored jointly by the Columbia Review and the Philolexian Society, and will feature a reading and discussion of the winning poems in the recent Boar's Head Poetry Contest. The winners of the contest, who will recite their poetic creations this evening were announced last week by Norman Kelvin and Donald Friedman, co-chairmen of the competition. Sharing first place were John Hollander and Allen Ginsberg, while Ted Melnechuk captured second prize. The three winners will divide the $5O award. The judges of the contest, Professors Mark Van Doren and…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1948-05-04 →

Ted Melnechuk and his wife, Anna, celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary on October 8 in Amherst, Mass... While at Columbia, Ted was poetry and art editor of Jester and Columbia Review and shared several Philolexian Poetry Prizes with Allen Ginsberg and John Hollander '50 in annual competitions judged by Mark Van Doren, Stephen Spender and W.H. Auden.

Class notes confirm Melnechuk (CC 1948) was poetry and art editor of Jester and Columbia Review, and shared multiple Philolexian Poetry Prizes with Allen Ginsberg and John Hollander '50, in annual competitions judged by Mark Van Doren, Stephen Spender, and W.H. Auden.

Columbia College Today — vol. 46, Class of 1948 alumni class notes →

Sylvain Bromberger, back in our student days at Columbia, was one of the literary bunch who revived the Philolexian Society and edited or wrote for the Columbia Review; others included Allen Ginsberg, Herbert Gold '46, Daniel G. Hoffman '47, John Hollander '50, Norman Kelvin, Louis Simpson '49GS, and me.

One of the mid/late-1940s revivers of the Philolexian Society.

Columbia College Today — vol. 41 (~2001), Class of 1948 alumni class notes — reminiscence by Ted Melnechuk '48 about Sylvain Bromberger →

Thomas Vinceguerra '85, former managing editor of CCT and now deputy editor of The Week, helped to revive the Philolexian Society in October 1985 and still helps to maintain and lead it... In the Columbia archives, Tom discovered the Philolexian Society's original membership scroll. From it, he could tell that, between Philos' original founding in 1802 and its 1985 revival, it was revived twice. The first revival was in 1944 and involved Walter Wager '44, who nowadays is that year's class correspondent. The second was in October 1947, and among the signatures from that time were those of Vincent Carrozza '49, Jason Epstein '49, and Theodor [sic] Melnechuk... Tom sent me a list of members of our class who were members of the Philolexian Society when it was revived in 1947. They included Sylvain Bromberger, the late Barry Decker, Herbert C. V. Feinstein, the late Allen Ginsberg, Donald…

Melnechuk's class-notes column names Ted Melnechuk (the author of this column) — himself a 1947 revival signatory; also defense attorney at the mock trial of Allen Ginsberg in late 1947 — cross-checked against Thomas Vinciguerra's 1980s discovery of the original Philolexian membership scroll in the Columbia archives, which lists the members who signed at the October 1947 revival. Two-source confirmation of Society membership: (a) the physical scroll signature, and (b) Vinciguerra + Melnechuk's transcription.

Columbia College Today — vol. 44 (Nov 2002 / Jan 2003), Class of 1948 alumni class notes by Ted Melnechuk →

'NO' underlined, then 'interested L-Term' · Confidence: CERTAIN

'(?)' written into the first name by the compiler · Confidence: CERTAIN