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Overview
David Shepard was a film preservationist and Hamilton College alumnus. He was a leading figure in the preservation of silent and early sound films, working extensively with the Directors Guild of America Film Society and other archives.
Relevance to Research
Shepard appears in two issues of the Spectator. The September 26, 1958 issue lists him among freshman pledges to the Squires Club social organization: “David Shepard” appears in the Squires Club pledge list for the entering class. The April 27, 1962 issue includes his name in a list alongside CBS correspondent Eric Sevareid in what appears to be a context relating to speakers or notable individuals connected to Hamilton.
Notes
The 1958 entry confirms his enrollment year (entering class of 1958, presumably graduating around 1962). The 1962 Spectator reference is fragmentary due to apparent OCR issues — the line reads “Sevareid of CBS; David Shepard, YOUR GLAUCA MORRA ATLANTIC MOTEL” suggesting a page-layout collision between editorial content and an advertisement. The connection to Sevareid may be incidental.
Related Sources
- spec-1958-09-26_djvu.txt
- spec-1962-04-27_djvu.txt