Bergen Evans(1904-1978)
- Actor
Dr. Bergen Evans was a disseminator of knowledge to thousands on the
Northwestern U. Campus before serving as the chairman of the board of
editors for the CBS television "The $64,000. Question". Dr. Evans was
born in 1904 in Franklin, Ohio and was the son of a physician. his
father entered the U.S. Consular service in 1909 and was assigned to
England and Bergen entered school there at age four. When World War 1
came around in 1915 , Bergen and his four siblings were sent back to
the U.S. Bergen entered Franklin High School in Ohio and worked
afternoons and nights in the local paper mill. Bergen entered Miami U.
in Oxford, Ohio and received a Bachelor of Arts degree. He received his
Master of Arts degree from Harvard and returned to Miami U. as an
assistant professor of English. He won a Rhodes scholarship in 1928 and
attended Oxford in England for three years. He received a B. Litt.
degree. He returned to the U.S. and added a Ph.D. at Harvard. He then
returned to teaching at Northwestern as a full professor. He wrote
several books including ""Natural History of Nonsense" and "Spoor of
Spooks". Following that he edited a new dictionary published by Random
House. He also wrote the "Skeptics Corner" for Mercury magazine.