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ito ftlemoriam WILLIAM RAY ASHFORD The Faunce is dead. How easy it is to utter these words, hut how difficult it is to comprehend their mean inp. To all of us who knew him (and who among us did not?) it is inronreivahle that he is gone. It is safe to say that in the long history of this college no other man ever meant so many things to so many people. True, many have been more famous, many have been more distinguished, and many have been more scholarly; hut every Kenyon man from 1924 to 1954 knew and loved this man for a variety of reasons and in a variety of ways. Ray Ashford was truly the Mr. Chips of Kenyon College. He knew more about all of the things that together make Kenyon what it is than anv man alive. Diverse were his interests and many were his activities. What organization on this campus during the past thirty years has not in some way been affected by this man,— the Dramatic Club, The Hill Players, The Kenyon Klan, the Church, the Library. And the list could go on and on. No one else had so many friends. His greatest joys came fom his associations with the students. No fra- ternity party was complete unless Fauncy was there. He taught many of us our Spanish or our French or our Italian when we entered, and he called our names in Latin as we left. It has often been said that one was not a real Kenyon man until he had had the Fauncc for a class. Give my regards to Rocky; Rcmemlicr me to Fauncy, too.” This simple song, sung every Sunday in the Com- mons. illustrates the feeling of Kenyon men for Dr. shford. lb- has become a legend. And he will become even more of a legend as the years go by. The stories about him are many: the story of how he was tied to a tree when initiated into Psi Upsilon; the story of how the cow was placed in his classroom; the story of his lirst motorcycle ride; the story of how he called his favorite students ‘stupid’. And there are hundreds more. Whenever Kenyon men gather Fauncy stories always will be related. No one hated sadness and mourning more than he. Although he is gone in Iwdy he is still very much with us in spirit. . . Remember me to Fauncy, too. I.et the words ring out and the song go on as long as there is a Kenyon. John F. Furmss, Jr. And see a river like Kokosing, In meadows sweet with asphodel. II here memory dwells dear past supposing, Farewell, old Kenyon, fare thee ivell .... T wenty-eight
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