Philo alumni who spoke included Michael Marubio '87, Rachel Kahn-Troster '01 Barnard, the group's "moderator emerita," and Walter Wager '44.

One of the Philolexian alumni who spoke at the bicentennial dinner (Low Library, April 11, 2002).

Columbia College Today — vol. 43 (2002), Philolexian bicentennial dinner report →

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 Walter Wager '44 as leader of the 1944 (first) revival — 'The first revival was in 1944 and involved Walter Wager \'44' — 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 →

typed in the right-hand column; X in blue · Confidence: CERTAIN

141st year of the Society (1943) · Confidence: CERTAIN