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Born in Pennsylvania, Updike graduated as the valedictorian of small-town Shillington high school and entered Harvard in 1950 on a scholarship...

Author: By Crimson News Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pulitzer Prize Winner Updike Dies of Lung Cancer at 76 | 1/27/2009 | See Source »

...year-old boy at the Youth Day squealed several times--than some of the Point scholars who had been out for years. Others had gone to Exodus with no intention of going straight. Corey Clark, 18, belongs to his GSA at Governor Mifflin Senior High in Shillington, Pa., and says he sees nothing wrong with being gay. He attended Youth Day because he wanted to better understand his evangelical church and friends who say gays should change. "Actually," he says, "I've heard so many good things about gay pride"--in the media and at school--"but I hadn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle Over Gay Teens | 10/2/2005 | See Source »

...time he started looking for colleges—and beyond the provincial sensibilities of Shillington, Pa.—Updike found that his interests were perfectly matched to a Cambridge-based publication. After reading a magazine feature about the Lampoon, he submitted his application to Harvard...

Author: By Nathan J. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Poon to Pulitzer, Updike Runs On | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

...outside hitter Julie Gosewisch, taking a 10-6 lead after a Hildebrandt kill. Harvard recovered to take a 12-11 lead after a Marist error, but the Red Foxes scored the last five points of the third game, winning 15-12 after a kill by junior middle blocker Leigh Shillington...

Author: By Barat Samy and Cathy Tran, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: W. Volleyball Sweeps Harvard Invite | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...Born in Shillington, Penn., in 1932, Updike first submitted work to national magazines while in high school. At Harvard he was the president of the Lampoon, a semi-secret Bow Street social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...

Author: By Joey Shabot, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Updike Remembers Life of Writing | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

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