Dick Clark - America's oldest teenager and '51 Syracuse University alumnus - dead at 82
Dick Clark died on Wednesday after suffering from a heart attack. He was the former television host of 'American Bandstand' and later was an annual favorite hosting 'New Year's Rockin' Eve.' Clark was a '51 alumnus of Syracuse University and member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.
Television icon, SU alumnus Dick Clark diesTelevision personality and Syracuse University alumnus Dick Clark died Wednesday at the age of 82. Clark suffered from a heart attack Wed...
Clark is an @SyracuseU '51 grad and had a long, celebrated career. Clark donated DKE's current house on Walnut Ave. to the fraternity.- As word got out about the death of the SU alumnus, members of the SU community reacted. Some did not know the New Years Eve host was an SU alumnus.
How did I not know this until now? @dailyorange: Clark is @SyracuseU '51 grad and donated DKE's current house on Walnut Ave. to fraternity.- Dick Clark's senior portrait from @SyracuseU - yfrog.com/h4rxikmj (courtesy of @SyracuseULib archives)
- "More than an American icon, he was a superb guide to tectonic shifts in American popular culture for generations. We at his alma mater will remember him most fondly..."
- Statement from Chancellor Cantor on the life of Dick Clark '51Statement from Chancellor Cantor on the life of Dick Clark '51 SU News Services(315) 443-8338 "The entire SU family mourns the loss of ou...
- From a Syracuse Herald-Journal interview: “I remember the winters,” said Clark, laughing. “No, my recollections of Syracuse are all positive. ... And 10 members of my family or other relatives went to the university. My daughter was the last to graduate, a couple of years ago.”
Dick Clark, who died Wednesday, had solid connections to SU, Central New York radio and televisionSyracuse, NY -- Dick Clark, who died Wednesday at age 82 following a heart attack, had strong ties to Syracuse and Central New York, and ...- Across the nation, those with ties to Clark thought back on their colleague and friend. Jack McDade was the first musical guest when Clark took over as host of "Bandstand."
Dick Clark dies; Hunterdon man recalls long friendship, was first singer on 'Bandstand'The death today of Dick Clark hit Jack McDade hard. "I'm very saddened by his death," McDade said this afternoon from his home in Raritan...- From Sam Cooke to The Beastie Boys -- The Atlantic Wire brought together some of Clark's famous moments on "American Bandstand."
From Sam Cooke to The Beastie Boys: Dick Clark's Coolest 'Bandstand' MomentsDick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve may have been an innocuous end-of-year ritual but the show that made him famous, American Bandstand, ...
