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Last Record Update: 01-31-2012
Articles about Shep in newspapers and periodicals

May 16, 1995

Record number graduate from IUN

(Jean Shepherd receives honorary doctorate)

DIANE KRIEGER SPIVAK

Author and humorist Jean Shepherd, a Hammond native, received an honorary doctorate of humane letters. Shepherd, best known as the author of the 1983 film, "A Christmas Story," has been compared to Mark Twain and Will Rogers...

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• Original Article

"Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory?
Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty." - Jean Shepherd - 1975