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Not to be confused with American country music singer Jean Shepard.
Jean Shepherd
Born
Jean Parker Shepherd, Jr.
(1921-07-26)July 26, 1921
Chicago, Illinois, US
Died
October 16, 1999(1999-10-16) (aged 78)
Fort Myers, Florida, US
Pen name
Shep (nickname)
Occupation
Writer, raconteur, radio host
Nationality
American
Genre
humor, satire
Years active
1945–1990s
Spouse
Joan Laverne Warner (1950–1957; divorced)
Lois Nettleton (1960–1967; divorced)
Leigh Brown (1977–1998; her death)
Military career
Allegiance
United States
Service/branch
United States Army
Years of service
1942–1944
Rank
Technician Fifth Grade (T/5)
Unit
Signal Corps
Jean Parker Shepherd, Jr. (July 26, 1921 – October 16, 1999) was an American storyteller, radio and TV personality, writer and actor. He was often referred to by the nickname Shep.[1] With a career that spanned decades, Shepherd is known to modern audiences for the film A Christmas Story (1983), which he narrated and co-scripted, based on his own semi-autobiographical stories.[2]
Contents
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1 Early life
2 Career
2.1 Radio
2.2 Print
2.3 Television and films
2.4 Live performances and recordings
2.5 Music
3 Personal life
4 Fact and fiction
5 Legacy
6 Watch
7 Listen to
8 Bibliography
9 Discography
10 Filmography
11 See also
12 References
13 External links
Early life[edit]
Born in 1921 on the south side of Chicago, Illinois, Shepherd briefly lived in East Chicago, Indiana, and was raised in Hammond, Indiana, where he graduated from Hammond High School in 1939.[2] The movie A Christmas Story is loosely based on his days growing up in Hammond's southeast side neighborhood of Hessville. As a youth he worked briefly as a mail carrier in a steel mill and earned his Amateur radio license (W9QWN) at age 16, sometimes claiming he was even younger. He sporadically attended Indiana University, but never graduated. Shepherd was a lifelong Chicago White Sox fan.
During World War II, he served stateside in the U.S. Army Signal Corps.[2] Shepherd then had an extensive career in a variety of media.
Career[edit]
Radio[edit]
After his military service, Shepherd began his broadcast radio career in early 1945 on WJOB in Hammond, Indiana, later working at WTOD in Toledo, Ohio, in 1946. He began working in Cincinnati, Ohio, in January 1947 at WSAI, later also working at Cincinnati stations WCKY and WKRC the following year, before returning to WSAI. From 1951 to 1953, he had a late-night broadcast on KYW in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after which he returned to Cincinnati for several shows on WLW. After a stint on television (see below), he returned to radio. "Shep," as he was known, settled in at WOR radio New York City, New York, at the end of February 1955, and on an overnight slot in 1956,[3] where he delighted his fans[4] by telling stories, reading poetry (especially the works of Robert W. Service), and organizing comedic listener stunts. The most famous[5] of the last involved creating a hoax about a non-existent book, I, Libertine, by the equally non-existent author "Frederick R. Ewing", in 1956. During a discussion on how easy it was to manipulate the best seller lists, which at that time were based not only on sales but demand, Shepherd suggested that his listeners visit bookstores and ask for a copy of I, Libertine which led to booksellers attempting to purchase the book from their distributors. Fans of the show eventually took it further, planting references to the book and author so widely that demand for the book led to it being claimed by some to have been listed on The New York Times Best Seller list.[6] Shepherd, Theodore Sturgeon and Betty Ballantine later wrote the actual book, with a cover painted by illustrator Frank Kelly Freas, published by Ballantine Books.[7] Among his close friends in the late 1950s were Shel Silverstein and Herb Gardner. With them and actress Lois Nettleton, Shepherd performed in the revue he created, Look, Charlie. Later he was married to Nettleton for about six years.[8]
When he was about to be released by WOR in 1956 for not being commercial, he did a commercial for Sweetheart Soap, not a sponsor, and was immediately fired. His listeners besieged WOR with complaints, and when Sweetheart offered to sponsor him he was reinstated. Eventually, he attracted more sponsors than he wanted—the commercials interrupted the flow of his monologues. Ex WOR engineer, Frank Cernese, adds: The commercials of that era were on "ETs"—phonograph records about 14" in diameter. Three large turntables were available to play them in sequence. However, Shepherd liked the engineer to look at him and listen when he told his stories. That left little time to load the turntables and cue the appropriate cuts. That's when he started complaining about "too many commercials".[citation needed] His last WOR broadcast was on April 1, 1977. His subsequent radio work consisted only of short segments on several other stations, including crosstown WCBS, and occasional commentaries on NPR's All Things Considered. His final radio gig was the Sunday night radio show "Shepherd's Pie" on WBAI in the mid-1990s, which consisted of his reading his stories uncut, uninterrupted and unabridged. The show was one of WBAI's most popular of the period. In addition to his stories, his shows also contained, among other things, humorous anecdotes and general commentaries about the human condition, observations about life in New York, accounts of vacations in Maine and travels throughout the world. Among the most striking of his programs was his account of his participation in the March on Washington in August 1963, during which Dr. Martin Luther King gave his "I Have a Dream" speech, and the program that aired on November 25, 1963—the burial day of President John F. Kennedy. However, his most scintillating programs remain his often prophetic, bitingly humorous commentaries about ordinary life in America.
Throughout his radio career, he performed entirely without scripts. His friend and WOR colleague Barry Farber marveled at how he could talk so long with very little written down.[citation needed] Yet during a radio interview, Shepherd once claimed that some shows took several weeks to prepare, but this would probably have been in the thinking and outlining stage rather than in anything like a script. On most of his Fourth of July broadcasts, however, he would read one of his most enduring and popular short stories, "Ludlow Kissel and the Dago Bomb that Struck Back," about a neighborhood drunk and his disastrous fireworks escapades. In the 1960s and 1970s, his WOR show ran from 11:15 pm to midnight, later changed to 10:15 pm to 11 pm, so his "Ludlow Kissel" reading was coincidentally timed to many New Jersey and New York local town fireworks displays, which would traditionally reach their climax at 10 pm. It was possible, on one of those July 4 nights, to park one's car on a hilltop and watch several different pyrotechnic displays, accompanied by Shepherd's masterful storytelling.
Print[edit]
Jean Shepherd posed as Frederick R. Ewing on the back cover of Ballantine's I, Libertine (1956).
Shepherd wrote a series of humorous short stories about growing up in northwest Indiana and its steel towns, many of which were first told by him on his programs and then published in Playboy. The stories were later assembled into books titled In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash, Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories: and Other Disasters, The Ferrari in the Bedroom, and A Fistful of Fig Newtons. Some of those situations were incorporated into his movies and television fictional stories. He also wrote a column for the early Village Voice, a column for Car and Driver, numerous individual articles for diverse publications, including Mad Magazine ("The Night People vs. Creeping Meatballism", March/April 1957), and introductions for books such as The America of George Ade, American Snapshots, and the 1970 reprint of the 1929 Johnson Smith Catalogue.[9]
When Eugene B. Bergmann's Excelsior, You Fathead! The Art and Enigma of Jean Shepherd was published in 2005, Publishers Weekly reviewed:
This prismatic portrait affirms Shepherd's position as one of the 20th century's great humorists. Railing against conformity, he forged a unique personal bond with his loyal listeners, who participated in his legendary literary prank by asking bookstores for the nonexistent novel I, Libertine (when publisher Ian Ballantine had Shepherd, author Theodore Sturgeon, and illustrator Frank Kelly Freas make the fake real, PW called it "the hoax that became a book"). Storyteller Shepherd's grand theme was life itself... Novelist Bergmann (Rio Amazonas) interviewed 32 people who knew Shepherd or were influenced by him and listened to hundreds of broadcast tapes, inserting transcripts of Shepherd's own words into a "biographical framework" of exhaustive research.[10]
Shep's Army: Bummers, Blisters, and Boondoggles, almost three dozen of Jean Shepherd's radio stories about the army, transcribed, edited and introduced by Eugene B. Bergmann, is a book of stories by Shepherd, never before in print. (Opus Books, August 2013)
Television and films[edit]
Early in his career, Shepherd had a television program on WLW-TV in Cincinnati called Rear Bumper.[2] He claimed that he was recommended to replace the resigning Steve Allen on NBC's Tonight Show. Shepherd was reportedly brought to New York City by NBC executives to prepare for the position, but they were contractually bound to first offer it to Jack Paar. The network was certain Paar would hold out for a role in prime time, but he accepted the late-night assignment. However, he did not assume the position permanently until Shepherd and Ernie Kovacs had co-hosted the show.
In late 1960 and early 1961, he did a weekly television show on WOR (channel 9) in New York, but it did not last long. Between 1971 and 1994, Shepherd became a screenwriter of note, writing and producing numerous works for both television and cinema, all based on his originally spoken and written stories. He was the writer and narrator of the show Jean Shepherd's America, produced by Boston Public Television station WGBH for PBS, in which he visited various American locales, and interviewed local people of interest. He used a somewhat similar format for the New Jersey Network TV show Shepherd's Pie. On many of the Public TV shows he wrote, directed and edited entire shows.[citation needed]
He also wrote and narrated many works, the most famous being the 1983 MGM feature film A Christmas Story, which is now considered a holiday classic. Shepherd narrates the film as the adult Ralph Parker, and also has a cameo role playing a man in line at the department store waiting for Santa Claus.
Ten years later, Shepherd and A Christmas Story director Bob Clark returned to the same working-class Cleveland street neighborhood to film a sequel, It Runs in the Family (later known as My Summer Story), released by MGM in 1994 and featuring an almost entirely different cast from the previous film.
PBS aired several television movies based on Shepherd stories, also featuring the Parker family. These included The Phantom of the Open Hearth (1976), which aired as part of the anthology series Visions; The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters (1982) and The Star-Crossed Romance of Josephine Cosnowski (1985), both as part of the anthology series American Playhouse; and Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss (1988), a co-production with The Disney Channel. All were narrated by Shepherd but otherwise featured different casts.
Live performances and recordings[edit]
On Saturday nights for several years, Shepherd broadcast his WOR radio program live from the Limelight Cafe in New York City's Greenwich Village, and he also performed at many colleges nationwide. His live shows were a perennial favorite[citation needed] at Rutgers to wildly enthusiastic standing room only crowds, and Fairleigh Dickinson Universities (he often referred to the latter as "Fairly Ridiculous University" on his WOR show). He performed at Princeton University for over 30 years, beginning in 1956 until 1996, three years before his death.[11] He performed before sold-out audiences at Carnegie Hall and Town Hall.
He was also emcee for several important jazz concerts in the late 1950s. Shepherd's first known recording featured his short comments interspersed with jazz pieces. The title: Jean Shepherd—Into the Unknown With Jazz Music (1955). Shepherd improvised spoken word narration for the title track on jazz musician Charles Mingus's 1957 album The Clown. Eight record albums of live and studio performances of Shepherd were released between 1955 and 1975. In 1993, Shepherd recorded the opening narration and the voice of the Audio-Animatronics "Father" character for the updated Carousel of Progress attraction at Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom.[12][13]
Music[edit]
On some of his broadcasts he played parts of recordings of such novelty songs as "The Bear Missed the Train" (a parody of the Yiddish ballad "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen") and "The Sheik of Araby". Sometimes Shepherd would accompany the recordings by playing the Jew's harp, nose flute, or kazoo, and occasionally even by thumping his knuckles on his head.
The theme song of his show was "Bahn Frei!" by Eduard Strauss. The particular version Shepherd used was a recording by Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops, with arrangement by Peter Bodge, released in April 1946 by RCA Victor-Red Seal. This arrangement recast the 19th-century polka from one relating to travel by train to a fast-tempo piece directed to horses and a race track, principally achieved by opening with a well-known bugle call named "Call to the Post."[14]
Personal life[edit]
Shepherd kept most of his personal life secret, from both his radio audience and most of his friends. Married four times, he lived in several New York City locations during his WOR days and for a time in New Milford (Bergen County), New Jersey, and in Washington (Warren County), New Jersey. [15] In 1984, he moved to Sanibel Island, Florida, with his wife Leigh Brown.[16] He died in a hospital in nearby Fort Myers, Florida, in 1999 of "natural causes."[17]
Shepherd maintained his interest in amateur radio throughout his life. After leaving Hammond, he obtained the call signs W4QWN (Kentucky), W8QWN (Ohio) and W3STE (Pennsylvania). Upon his arrival at WOR in New York in 1955, he obtained the call K2ORS, with which he would often be heard speaking to other ham radio operators for the remainder of his life.[18]
Fact and fiction[edit]
It is unknown to what extent Shepherd's radio and published stories were fact, fiction or a combination of the two. The childhood friends included in many of his stories were people he claimed to have invented, yet high school yearbooks and numerous other sources confirm that many of them, including school buddies "Flick" and "Schwartz," did indeed exist.[19] His father was a cashier at the Borden Milk Company. Shepherd always referred to him as "the old man." During an interview on the Long John Nebel Show—an all-night radio program that ran on WOR starting at midnight—Shepherd once claimed that his real father was a cartoonist along the lines of Herblock, and that he inherited his skills at line drawings. This may well have not been true but Shepherd's ink drawings do adorn some of his published writings, and a number of previously unknown ones were sold on eBay from his former wife Lois Nettleton's collection after her death in 2008.
The 1930 Federal Census Record for Hammond, Indiana, indicates that Jean's father did work for a dairy company. His actual occupation reads "cashier." The 1930 census record (which misspells the last name as "Shephard" when searching) lists the following family members: Jean Shepherd, age 30, head; Anna Shepherd, age 30, wife; Jean Shepherd Jr, age 8, son; and Randall Shepherd, age 6, son. According to this record, Jean Sr, Anna, Jean Jr, and Randall were all born in Illinois, and Jean Sr's parents (Emmett and Flora) were born in Kansas. However, all other decennial federal and state census records, as well as other official documents such as death certificates, indicate that Emmett and Flora were born in Indiana. Anna's parents, August and Katherine, were born in Germany.
Jean Shepherd had two children, a son Randall and a daughter Adrian, with his second wife Joan but he publicly denied this, including in his last will and testament, executed some five months prior to his death. Randall Shepherd describes his father as having frequently come home late or not at all. Randall had almost no contact with him after his parents' divorce.[20]
Legacy[edit]
Shepherd's oral narrative style was a precursor to that used by Spalding Gray and Garrison Keillor. Marshall McLuhan in Understanding Media wrote that Shepherd "regards radio as a new medium for a new kind of novel that he writes nightly."[21] In the Seinfeld season six DVD set, commenting on the episode titled "The Gymnast", Jerry Seinfeld said, "He really formed my entire comedic sensibility—I learned how to do comedy from Jean Shepherd."[22] Furthermore, the first name of Seinfeld's third child is "Shepherd."[23] On January 23, 2012 the Paley Center for Media (formerly The Museum of Television and Radio) presented a tribute to Shepherd. Seinfeld was interviewed for the hour and discussed how Shepherd and he had similar ways of humorously discussing minor incidents in life. He confirmed the importance of Shepherd on his career.[24]
Shepherd's life and multimedia career are examined in the 2005 book Excelsior, You Fathead! The Art and Enigma of Jean Shepherd by Eugene B. Bergmann.[9]
Shepherd was an influence on Bill Griffith's Zippy comic strip, as Griffith noted in his strip for January 9, 2000. Griffith explained, "The inspiration—just plucking random memories from my childhood, as I'm wont to do in my Sunday strip (also a way to expand beyond Zippy)—and Shep was a big part of them".
In an interview with New York magazine, Steely Dan's Donald Fagen says that the eponymous figure from his solo album The Nightfly was based on Jean Shepherd.
Though he primarily spent his radio career playing music, New York Top 40 DJ Dan Ingram has acknowledged Shepherd's style as an influence.
An article he wrote for the March–April 1957 issue of MAD magazine, "The Night People vs Creeping Meatballism", described the differences between what he considered to be "day people" (conformists) and "night people" (non-conformists). The opening credits of John Cassavetes' 1959 film Shadows include "Presented by Jean Shepherd's Night People".
In 2005, Shepherd was posthumously inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame, and in November 2013 he was posthumously inducted into the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia Hall of Fame.[25]
Watch[edit]
Jean Shepherd in Clinton, New Jersey, in 1977 on YouTube.
Jean Shepherd in Boston's Fenway Park discussing his childhood vis-a-vis baseball, October 14, 1969
Listen to[edit]
Works by or about Jean Shepherd at Internet Archive (radio shows from the 50s–70s)
The Brass Figlagee – Nightly podcast of Jean Shepherd shows
Jean Shepherd Reads Poems of Robert Service (1975) at Smithsonian Folkways
Insomnia Theater – Free 24 × 7 stream of Jean Shepherd shows
Shep-A-Day – What was Jean Shepherd talking about on this day in history? Podcast updated daily
Bibliography[edit]
I, Libertine (1956, hoax novel perpetrated by Shepherd, written by Theodore Sturgeon as "Frederick R. Ewing")
The America of George Ade (1960, edited and introduced by Jean Shepherd)
In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash (1966)
Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories: And Other Disasters (1971)
The Ferrari in the Bedroom (1972)
The Phantom of the Open Hearth (1978)
A Fistful of Fig Newtons (1981)
A Christmas Story (2003, posthumously)
Discography[edit]
Jean Shepherd – Into the Unknown With Jazz Music (1955)
Jean Shepherd and Other Foibles (1959)
Will Failure Spoil Jean Shepherd? (1960)
Declassified Jean Shepherd (1971)
Jean Shepherd Reads Poems of Robert Service (1975)
Filmography[edit]
Year
Film
Role
Notes
1954 New Faces Uncredited
1959 Shadows Man at Party Uncredited
1960 Village Sunday Narrator Documentary
Summer Incident Narrator Documentary short
Writer
1964 Light Fantastic Frank
1970 NET Playhouse Episode: "America, Inc."
Writer
1971 Tiki Tiki Voice
Jean Shepherd's America Himself TV Series
Writer
1973 No Whistles, Bells, or Bedlam Narrator Short film
1976 The Phantom of the Open Hearth Narrator/Ralph Parker TV Movie
Writer
1978 Shepherd's Pie Himself
1980 Flickers Narrator TV Mini-Series
1982 The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters Narrator/Ralph Parker TV Movie
Writer
1983 A Christmas Story Narrator/Adult Ralphie Co-Writer
1984 Jean Shepherd on Route 1... and Other Major Thoroughfares Himself TV Short
Writer
1985 The Star-Crossed Romance of Josephine Cosnowski Himself TV Movie
Writer
The Great American Road-Racing Festival Himself TV Movie documentary
Writer
1987 Norman Rockwell: An American Portrait Himself TV Movie documentary
1988 Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss Ralph, the Man/Scott TV Movie
Writer
1988–1991 Sesame Street Himself 2 Episodes: "Cowboy X" segments
1994 My Summer Story Narrator/Adult Ralphie Co-Writer
1997 Christmas Unwrapped: The History of Christmas Himself TV Movie documentary
1998 Babe Ruth Himself TV Movie documentary
See also[edit]
WOR (AM)
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Clavin, Jim (2007). "Who Is Jean Shepherd?". Flick Lives!. Archived from the original on January 16, 2009. Retrieved 2007-11-09. CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
^ Jump up to: a b c d "Famous Hammond Personalities: Jean Shepherd". HammondIndiana.com. Archived from the original on December 5, 2006. Retrieved 2006-11-26.
Jump up ^ "Vast File of Dynamic Trivia". Flicklives.com. Retrieved 2016-09-25.
Jump up ^ Phillips, McCandlish (August 13, 1956). "400 Hold A Wake For Radio Cult". The New York Times. Archived from the original on August 7, 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-09.
Jump up ^ Wilcock, John (August 1, 1956). "The Book That Wasn't". The Village Voice. Archived from the original on August 8, 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-09.
Jump up ^ Lortie, Arthur (17 December 2012). "All I want for Christmas is my name on the Bestseller's List". The Herald News. Archived from the original on November 5, 2013. Retrieved 2013-07-08.
Jump up ^ "Good Reading". Digital.goodreadingmagazine.com.au. Retrieved 2016-09-25.
Jump up ^ Ramirez, Anthony (October 17, 1999). "Jean Shepherd, a Raconteur Of the Radio, Dies in Florida". New York Times. Retrieved 2008-12-25.
^ Jump up to: a b Bergmann, Eugene (November 1, 2004). Excelsior, You Fathead!: The Art and Enigma of Jean Shepherd. Winona, Minnesota: Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 978-1-55783-600-7.
Jump up ^ Publishers Weekly, vol. 252, no. 4 (2005), p. 233.
Jump up ^ "Vast File of Dynamic Trivia". Flicklives.com. Retrieved 2016-09-25.
Jump up ^ Dezern, Craig (July 26, 1993). "Work is scheduled to start..." Orlando Sentinel. Tribune Publishing. Archived from the original on March 29, 2015. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
Jump up ^ Lafferty, Mike (November 24, 1993). "Around The Worlds". Orlando Sentinel. Tribune Publishing. Archived from the original on March 29, 2015. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
Jump up ^ "Vast File of Dynamic Trivia". Flicklives.com. Retrieved 2016-09-25.
Jump up ^ "Vast File of Dynamic Trivia". Flicklives.com. 1984-03-01. Retrieved 2016-09-25.
Jump up ^ Kelley, Bill (April 7, 1985). "Jean Shepherd's Great Escape". Sun-Sentinel. Tribune Publishing. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
Jump up ^ Ramirez, Anthony (October 18, 1999). "Jean Shepherd, a Raconteur And a Wit of Radio, Is Dead". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
Jump up ^ "Vast File of Dynamic Trivia". Flicklives.com. Retrieved 2016-09-25.
Jump up ^ "Vast File of Dynamic Trivia". Flicklives.com. Retrieved 2016-09-25.
Jump up ^ Shepherd, Randall (2006). "One More Hat on a Man". Shep's vast file of dynamic trivia: People in Shep's Life. Jim Clavin. Archived from the original on September 18, 2015. Retrieved October 25, 2015.
Jump up ^ McLuhan, Marshall (1964). Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. McGraw Hill. ISBN 81-14-67535-7.
Jump up ^ Jerry Seinfeld (November 22, 2005). Running With the Egg (Seinfeld season six DVD). Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
Jump up ^ Peterson, Todd (August 25, 2005). "Jerry Seinfeld & Wife Welcome Third Child". People. Time Inc. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
Jump up ^ "Remembering Master Storyteller, Jean Shepherd: With Jerry Seinfeld". Paley Center for Media. January 23, 2012. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
Jump up ^ "Innovators in Philly". Broadcast Pioneers. Retrieved 2016-09-25.
External links[edit]
Jean Shepherd on IMDb
Works by or about Jean Shepherd in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
Jean Shepherd Historical Preservation Website
Jean Shepherd Festival in Hammond, Indiana
Jean Shepherd Quest, a blog about Shepherd's life and work.
The Night People vs Creeping Meatballism Mad 32 (March–April 1957) article by Jean Shepherd, illustrated by Wally Wood
Jean's ham call on QRZ.COM
Ralph Gardner's One Ralphie to Another
Leigh Brown on IMDb
Zoot Radio, free old time radio show downloads of 'Jean Shepherd.'
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Indian Red Cross Society
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"IRCS" redirects here. For the Iranian RCS, see Red Crescent Society of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Indian Red Cross Society
Abbreviation
IRCS
Formation
1920
Purpose
Medical & Humanitarian
Location
New Delhi
Region served
India
Website
Indian Red Cross Society official website
The Junior Red Cross Society (JRC) is a voluntary humanitarian organization to protect human life and health based in India.[1] It is part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, and so shares the Fundamental Principles of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. The society's mission is providing relief in times of disasters/emergencies and promoting health & care of vulnerable people and communities. It has a network of over 700 branches throughout India.[1] The Society uses the Red Cross as an emblem in common with other international Red Cross societies. Volunteering has been at the very heart of the Indian Red Cross Society since its inception in 1920, with the Society having Youth and Junior volunteering programs.[2] The Society is closely associated with the St John Ambulance in India.
Contents
1 History
1.1 Red Cross parcels
1.2 Post War
2 Organisation
3 List of Secretary Generals of the Indian Red Cross Society
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
History[edit]
During the First World War relief services for affected soldiers in India was provided by a branch of the Joint War Committee, a collaboration between the St. John Ambulance Association and the British Red Cross. On 3 March 1920 a bill was introduced to the Indian Legislative Council by Sir Claude Hill (a member of the Viceroy's Executive Council who was also Chairman of the Joint War Committee in India) to constitute the Indian Red Cross Society, independent of the British Red Cross. The Bill was passed as the Indian Red Cross Society Act, 1920 on 17 March 1920, and became Parliament Act XV of 1920 with the assent of the Governor General on the 20 March 1920.[3]
On 7 June 1920 fifty members were formally nominated to constitute the Indian Red Cross Society from members of the Indian branch of the Joint War Committee.[3] The first Managing Body was elected from among them with Sir William Malcolm Hailey as Chairman.
Red Cross parcels[edit]
PoW parcels, supplied by the Indian Red Cross Society during WW2 contained:
8 ounces fruit in syrup
16 ounces lentils
2 ounces toilet soap
16 ounces flour
8 biscuits
8 ounces margarine
12 ounces Nestle's Milk
14 ounces rice
16 ounces pilchards
2 ounces curry powder
8 ounces sugar
1 ounce dried eggs
2 ounces tea
1 ounce salt
4 ounces chocolate [4]
Post War[edit]
In 1947 some of the IRCS assets were provided to found the Pakistan Red Crescent Society.
The act governing the IRCS was last amended by The Indian Red Cross Society (Amendment) Bill, 1992.[1][3]
Organisation[edit]
The IRCS has 35 State / Union Territories Branches with their more than 700 districts and sub district branches.[1]
The President of India is the President of the IRCS[3]
The Minister of Health and Family Welfare is the Chairman of the Society.
The National Managing Body consists of 19 members.
The Chairman and 6 members of the managing body are nominated by the President.[3] The remaining 12 are elected by the state and union territory branches through an electoral college.
The Vice Chairman is elected by the members of the Managing Body.
The Managing Body is responsible for governance and supervision of the functions of the society through a number of committees.
The Secretary General is the Chief Executive of the Society.
List of Secretary Generals of the Indian Red Cross Society[edit]
Secretary General[1]
Start of term
End of term
Shri Balwant Singh Puri 1941 July 1958 July
Major General C.K. Lakshmanan 1958 July 1969 April
Major General S.S. Maitra 1969 July 1978 October
Lieutenant General R.S. Hoon 1978 October 1981 July
Shri Ajit Bhowmick 1981 July 1991 January
Shri Ajit Bhowmick (2nd term) 1991 April 1991 June
Dr. A.K. Mukherjee 1991 November 1996 March
Dr. Manoj Mathur 1996 April 1999 March
Dr. S. P. Agarwal 1999 March 2000 February
Dr. (Mrs) Vimala Ramalingam 2000 March 2005 March
Dr. S.P.Agarwal (2nd term) 2005 March (2015 November)
See also[edit]
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
Emblems of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b c d e "About Society". Indian Red Cross Society official website. Indian Red Cross Society. Retrieved 27 April 2015.
Jump up ^ "Youth Red Cross & Junior Red Cross". Indian Red Cross Society official website. Indian Red Cross Society. Retrieved 27 April 2015.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e "Indian Red Cross Society Act XV of 1920" (PDF). Indian Red Cross Society. Retrieved 28 April 2015.
Jump up ^ Taylor, Keith. A tribute to the "SS Vega". p. 68. ISBN 978-0-946806-18-8.
External links[edit]
Indian Red Cross Society official website - http://www.indianredcross.org/
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