THE MERTON SOCIETY

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

Burgermeister "Mister Bill" Liscom
1975
2000
Tea on a "Ship of the Desert"

Kowabunga Kiwibungee Tea

1986
Continuing the Tea Party with Saint Harry at Cottage Club

2002
The Kiwi Scribe at his Desk

Other Scintillating Information:
  • Senior Thesis Topic: "Where Earl Grey Meets Orange Pekoe: Criteria for Resolving the North-South Conflict over the Deep Tea Steeping Issue at the United Nations Complimentary Protest Conference"
  • Comment Most Frequently Heard at Society Functions: "One lump or two?"
  • Awarded the Order of the Merton Cross for the lecture/debate, "The Southern California School View on the Uncontinental Way to Drink Tea" in conjunction with Saint Harry (see also), presented to the Society on January 21, 1975, with repeat performances on February 27 and March 8, 1975
  • Served as Ambassador from the Society to the United Nations Conference on Complimentary Protest in Geneva, Switzerland in 1975
  • Represented in loco absentia by a symbolic billiards cue at subsequent Society meetings