Stearns House Suite 109 is the Princeton freshman-room assignment that connects Dan Mercer to four former roommates and gives Wendy Tynes a concrete lead as she investigates his past. The available evidence identifies its occupants through a freshman directory and Phil Turnball’s recollection, while leaving the suite’s physical interior undescribed.

Identification and Records

Wendy finds the name Stearns in a slideshow of freshman-year dormitory photographs. Its fifth image shows about a hundred students posing in front of a brick building, with a caption identifying the place as Stearns. Dan Mercer appears in the photograph, as do Farley Parks and Phil Turnball. The image establishes their association with Stearns, but it does not identify a particular suite.

The more precise location comes from Princeton’s freshman face book, which lists students’ backgrounds and room assignments. Dan’s entry names him as Daniel J. Mercer, from Riddle, Oregon, and gives Stearns Suite 109 as his assignment. Wendy checks the entries for Parks and Turnball as well: both are listed for Stearns 109. The directory therefore turns the building-level clue in the photograph into a specific shared address.

The Five Roommates

A search for Stearns Suite 109 returns five names: Dan Mercer, Farley Parks, Phil Turnball, Kelvin Tilfer, and Steven Miciano. Wendy initially recognizes the first three from the photograph and directory, while the two additional names are new to her. The directory gives Kelvin a cautious smile in his photograph and shows Steven wearing a rope necklace with a large bead; the evidence supplies no comparable personal detail about their lives there.

Phil later confirms the group’s size and membership when asked who lived with him and Dan. He names Farley Parks, Kelvin Tilfer, and Steve Miciano alongside himself and Dan. His recollection corroborates the five-person association found in the search results. When Wendy asks whether the men shared rooms in other years, Phil reacts with disbelief; that exchange does not establish any further room assignments.

What the Records Reveal

The different records offer separate, complementary views of the suite. The group photograph places Dan, Farley, and Phil among the students at Stearns; the freshman face book ties Dan, Farley, and Phil specifically to Suite 109; the search result adds Kelvin and Steven; and Phil’s account confirms all five as the group. The suite is thus reconstructed through names, images, and recollection rather than through a visit or a description of its rooms.

For Wendy, Suite 109 is a lead in tracing Dan’s college years and the people connected to them. The directory also returns her to a photograph of Dan at about eighteen, smiling with what she recognizes as the appearance of a young man beginning adult life. That image sharpens her uncertainty about how his later public identity fits with the student recorded at Princeton. The suite itself does not answer her questions, but it gives her investigation a defined place and a small group of former roommates to follow.