CUNY Journalism Dean Will Miss His Friend Leonard Nimoy
Stephen B. Shepard's heartfelt tribute to his pal "Leib."
Stephen B. Shepard (pictured) and Leonard Nimoy vacationed together. They became friends through their wives and on those trips to the Caribbean, would often discuss the novels of Philip Roth.
Nimoy was also the person Shepard turned to when he was offered the opportunity to be the founding dean of CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism. From his essay in the Jewish Daily Forward:
Over dinner, I told Leonard about the possibility of the new job at CUNY and my concern that perhaps I was too old to take on such an enormous task.
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