This area of the club’s dining room and the oak table it contains are named in honor of long-time Press Club member and Colorado Poet Laureate Thomas Hornsby Ferril and his colleagues in verse.

Thomas Hornsby Ferril was born in Denver in 1896.  Ferril was a poet, essayist, columnist, and with his wife Helen, a coeditor of The Rocky Mountain Herald from 1939 to 1972.  Their home on Downing Street was host to Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, Thomas Wolfe and many other literary figures.  He worked for the Great Western Sugar Company for 42 years as publicity director and advertising manager while moonlighting writing award-winning poetry.

Ferril was active in the Denver Press Club, where he and his friends would gather regularly in the back corner of the club dining room to eat, drink, and mull over the state of affairs.

He was appointed Colorado Poet Laureate in 1979.  A poem by Ferril is depicted in a mural by Alan True in the first floor rotunda of the Colorado State Capitol.