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The Jim Henson statue at the University of Maryland, College Park.
The University of Maryland, College Park, is Jim Henson's alma mater. He started his TV career while he was a student there. It is also where he met his future wife, Jane Nebel.
A statue of Jim and Kermit is on the College Park campus, outside the Adele H. Stamp Student Union. The statue was dedicated on September 24, 2003, in a ceremony that included Jane Henson and Willard Scott as speakers.
In 2006, the Student Union introduced 50 statues of their school mascot, Testudo the Terrapin, with varying designs (chosen by different sponsoring groups). Among them was Kertle, a statue designed to look like Kermit the Frog.
The University of Maryland library has an extensive collection of Jim Henson videos, "The Jim Henson Works", that can be viewed from computers in the UM libraries.