THE MERTON SOCIETY

America's Oldest "Tea Drinking and Whisky" Speaking Society

Archdeacon Shepley of Gooseberry

Le Huissier Audiencier
1975
2000
Avant le Road Trip

Après le Road Trip

Other Scintillating Information:
  • Senior Thesis Topic: "The Decline of Western Civilization: A Road Trip Perspective"
  • Comment Most Frequently Heard at Society Functions: "Huissier does not--I repeat--does not mean 'Hoosier' in French!"
  • Awarded the Order of the Merton Cross for the lecture, "What I am Giving Up for Lent," presented to the Society on February 4, 1975
  • Awarded a second Order of the Merton Cross for the subsequent lecture, "What I Am Not Giving Up for Lent After All," presented to the Society on March 8, 1975
  • The two lectures cited above became known as the Archdeacon's famous "Enunciation and Renunciation" lectures