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*[[Herman Axelrod]]
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*[[Bennett Cerf]] CC'19, founder of Random House
*[[Bennett Cerf]]
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*[[Lawrence Fertig]] MA'??, libertarian journalist
*[[Lawrence Fertig]]
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*[[Sylvan Gotshal]] Law '20?, founding partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges law firm
*[[Sylvan Gotshal]]
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*[[Oscar Hammerstein II]] CC'19, composer/librettist
*[[Oscar Hammerstein II]]
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*[[Arthur Garfield Hays]] CC 1902 Law 1905, ACLU lawyer
*[[Arthur Garfield Hays]]
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*[[Moritz Jagendorf]] DDS 1916, anarchist
*[[Moritz Jagendorf]]
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*[[Horace Manges]] Law '19, founding partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges law firm
*[[Horace Manges]]
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*[[Richard Rodgers]], composer/librettist
*[[S. Chesterfield Oppenheim]]
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*[[Laurence Steinhardt]] CC 1913 MA'15 Law '15, ambassador to Sweden, Peru, the Soviet Union, Turkey, Czechoslovakia, and Canada
*[[Richard Rodgers]]
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*[[Robert M.W. Vogel]] CC'??, established the Academy Awards' foreign language film category
*[[Laurence Steinhardt]]
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*[[Herman Wouk]] CC'37, novelist
*[[Robert Vogel]]
 
*[[Herman Wouk]]
 
  
 
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Latest revision as of 16:34, 7 August 2010

See also Wikipedia's article about "Pi Lambda Phi".

Pi Lambda Phi was a fraternity with a chapter at Columbia during much of the 20th century. The Columbia chapter was the first established in New York and was hence referred to as "New York Alpha". It was primarily Jewish up until World War II. Some of Columbia's most prominent alumni were members.

Notable members