Major Awards Over the years Shep received many awards, nominations and tributes for his work
Awards
Date
Event
1959
Jazz Personality of the Year Metronome Magazine
January 30, 1965
United State Marine Corps Reserve Certificate of Appreciation
October 1965
Playboy's Annual Writing Awards Humor Satire Award
1966
Indiana University Most original fiction award
May 7, 1967
Indiana University Outstanding Hoosier Author award
December 1967
Playboy's Annual Writing Awards Humor Satire Award
July 1968
Playboy's Annual Writing Awards Humor Satire Award - 2nd Place
June 1969
Playboy's Annual Writing Awards Humor Satire Award - 2nd Place
April 8, 1972
Nominated for 2 Emmy Awards
1976
INTERNATIONAL PLATFORM ASSOCIATION AWARDS Mark Twain Humor Award
April 7, 1981
2nd Annual Hammond Achievement Award
May 1, 1982
Citation from New Jersey Institute of Technology writers conference
1983
Writers Guild of America Nomination
March 21, 1984
5th Genie Awards Toronto, Canada
May 11, 1986
Doctor of Letters New England College
May 15, 1995
Received Doctorate of Humane Letters from Indiana University
November 13, 2000
Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame
January 2001
CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame Inaugural Class
November 22, 2013
Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia's "Hall of Fame" Induction
Tributes
Date
Event
October 17, 1999
"All Things Considered" 8 minute tribute (NPR)
October 24, 1999
WBAI Tribute to Jean Shepherd by Max Schmid
October 27, 1999
WOR Tribute to Jean Shepherd
December 24, 1999
"A Voice in the Night" 2 hour tribute by KCRW on NPR produced by Harry Shearer and Art Silverman
January 27, 2000
"A Salute to Jean Shepherd" www.flicklives.com established
October 19, 2000
25th FOTR Convention - Max Schmid with Barry Farber and Herb Squire
February 23, 2001
Max Schmid's 5 hour tribute to Shep on WBAI 99.5FM New York - Winter Pledge Drive
May 27, 2001
Max Schmid's 5 hour tribute to Shep on WBAI 99.5FM New York - Spring Pledge Drive
March 15, 2003
Jean Shepherd Community Center Hammond Indiana
December 21, 2003
Tribute to Shep - 21st Century Radio
October 20, 2005
30th FOTR Convention - Max Schmid with Eugene Bergmann
November 5, 2005
Shep is inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame
2007
South Shore Wall of Legends
January 23, 2012
The Paley Center for Media Remembering Master Storyteller, Jean Shepherd
Nominations
Date
Event
April 11, 1977
Television Critics Circle Award
March 21, 1984
5th Genie Awards Toronto, Canada
January 15, 1989
Cable ACE Awards
Miscellaneous
Trivia
In his January 28, 1966 article in the Drexal Triangle, Drexal University, Mike Wadler credits Shep for inventing the game of Trivia. Supposedly born at Columbia University in 1965, Mike says Shep was playing the game on the radio long before that.
Shep had a plaque in his office for a "Functional Trivia Award" presented by Phi Epsilon Pi New York Council in 1961. (What University?)
In his
early years of radio on WOR in New York, during his late night
broadcasts, Shep referred to his listeners as "Night People" often explaining how they differed from "Day People". The phrase caught on an credit for the phrase was given in the Dictionary of American Slang.
