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USC Registrar Has Gandy Dancer Bones

From East Village Magazine, July, 2014

"The child of a man who worked at Chevy-in-the-Hole’s Plant Four his whole adult life and the grandson of a longtime Grand Trunk Railroad worker, Doug Shook, 60, says he was not just “blue collar.” He says he was “no collar” — working demanding outdoor jobs by day, riding motorcycles and partying by night.

“I didn’t know there were answers in life,” he says. “I didn’t even know what the questions were.”


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