I love Mr Rogers bags take note women love him... Do you not like Sears either, before your time this man helped a lot of people with all kinds of problems through his TV show...Hey when you are down and out nothing better than Mr Rogers and Winnie the Pooh to give you comfort...
********Fred Rogers was the much-loved host of the public television show ‘Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,’ which ran on PBS from 1968 to 2001.
Who Was Fred Rogers?
Born on March 20, 1928, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, Fred Rogers was a puppeteer and ordained minister who became the host of the TV program Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. With a degree in music composition, he wrote 200 songs for the show, including the theme, “It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.” He was honored with numerous awards and accolades for his dedication to children via television.
Early Life
The beloved and longtime host of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, Fred McFeely Rogers was born on March 20, 1928, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. He was an only child until the age of 11 when his parents, James and Nancy, adopted a baby girl.
After graduating from Latrobe High School, Rogers enrolled at Dartmouth College, where he studied for a year before transferring to Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. Rogers, who’d begun playing the piano at a young age, graduated magna cum laude in 1951 with a degree in music composition.
During his senior year of college he visited his parents and was awed by the family’s newest household addition: a television set. He could see a fantastic future for the medium and, as he’d later recall, Rogers immediately decided he wanted to be a part of it.
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood’
Over the course of its decades-long run, Rogers’ show varied little. He approached his young audience with respect and a directness about issues children faced that were rarely touched on by other programs.
Ritual and the familiar appearance of some of TV’s most enduring characters—including the deliveryman Mr. McFeely, X the Owl, Queen Sara Saturday and King Friday—helped keep the show fresh for generations of kids.
At the center of the show, of course, was Fred Rogers himself, a Protestant minister who worked as the series’ producer, host and head puppeteer. He also wrote the scripts and songs.
“The world is not always a kind place,” he said, talking about his show. “That’s something all children learn for themselves, whether we want them to or not, but it’s something they really need our help to understand.”
In the very first show that aired on PBS, Fred Rogers began the program much as he would over the next 33 years by walking through the front door of his television house and trading in his raincoat and suit jacket for a zippered sweater. The sweaters soon became as much a part of the program as the puppets. In all, Rogers had about two dozen of them, all made by his mother. In 1984, the Smithsonian Institution chose to put one of the famous sweaters on exhibit.
During its long run, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood attracted well known guests such as Yo-Yo Ma and Wynton Marsalis and earned Rogers several awards for the program’s excellence. The honors included four daytime Emmys, a 1997 Lifetime Achievement award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and, in 2002, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 1999, he was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame.
Rogers’ commitment to children, however, wasn’t limited to the TV set. In 1968, he served as chairman of a White House forum on child development and the mass media, and was often consulted as an expert or witness on those issues.
“Those of us in broadcasting have a special calling to give whatever we feel is the most nourishing that we can for our audience,” Mr. Rogers said. “We are servants of those who watch and listen.”
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I love Mr Rogers bags take note women love him... Do you not like Sears either, before your time this man helped a lot of people with all kinds of problems through his TV show...Hey when you are down and out nothing better than Mr Rogers and Winnie the Pooh to give you comfort... Now that you mention it, DAVEY, I couldn't STAND Winnie the Poo either. That VOICE wore me out. And a little fat bear that lived in a three acre wood with a little boy for a buddy? And he never did ANYTHING cool. Also a ripoff of the Wind in the Willows, which I did like.
The only saving grace for stupit Pooh was this;
He Came to Me Asking Help and Advice.
And I just didn't get Mr Rogers and had a natural aversion to him. A wispy semi or fully gay Uncle of a man in a sweater with, again, that VOICE, just didn't do it for me.
You just can't raise a generation of John Waynes on something like that. We need our Bugs Bunnies, Daffys, Porkies, and the boys.
If you think about it, Mr Rogers and Teletubbies just may be responsible for the nation of wimps we are currently burping to sleep at night, with their safe spaces and dress-up ninja costumes.
You girls go head on with your Mr. Rogers. No harm can come of that, unless you lose your appreciation for real men, which I suppose is possible. And by you I don't mean YOU personally, DAVEY. I mean the "collective consciousness", to go all Zen on ya. Us men will meet you girls around back of the gym at the sock hop.
So anyway, that's my philosophy on Mr Rogers and Winnie the Pooh. Also, I have recently become wary of people who make children their professional "calling". Quite often, that doesn't turn out well, or so I've heard.
#ASocietyGoneWrong
p.s. Just how old do you think I am, DAVEY. I remember Mr Rogers quite well. Don't let my immaturity fool ya. I do have about three gray hairs in my luscious locks. True story.
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