"...uncle"

"Bob the Bunny" making the keynote address at the "26rd Algernon B. Bunny symposium on Quadruped Literature". This gala event as always hosted by John Lennon Hall at Columbia University.

Professor Algernon is of course "Bob's" missing Great Uncle.

His disappearance is to this day a troubling mystery. That, and to the consternation of "Bob" a source of many conspiracy theory's.
The wreckage of Prof. Algernon's plane which implied he survived plus certain cryptic notes later found only fuels such speculations.