![]() ![]() He received his bachelor's degree in education in 1951. He attended Fordham University on the GI Bill. After an early graduation in 1945 from Forest Hills High School in Queens, New York, during World War II, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve, but was still in the United States when Japan surrendered. He also played the original Clarabell the Clown on the Howdy Doody television program.īob Keeshan was born to Irish parents in Lynbrook, New York. He created and played the title role in the children's television program Captain Kangaroo, which ran from 1955 to 1984, the longest-running nationally broadcast children's television program of its day. It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood.Robert James Keeshan (J– January 23, 2004) was an American television producer and actor. I am going put on a zippered cardigan, change into my tennis shoes and take a look around. I am going to show appreciation toward someone is usually overlooked. I’m going to do something nice for someone who is least expecting it. Look, I’m not going to go on some big preachy binge here and say we should all be kinder to our neighbors, but I can tell you that I will be making a point to honor Mister Rogers by being the very best neighbor I can be. Nearly all of Mister Rogers zip front cardigans were knitted by his mother, a “talented and resourceful” woman who took up knitting sweaters for injured soldiers in WWII. He told people “I don’t want to eat anything that has a mother.”ġ0. McFeeley the postman was named for his paternal grandfather Fred McFeeley, Queen Sara Saturday was named for his wife Sara Rogers, among others.ĩ. Lady Elaine (“the mischief maker”) was named for his younger sister Elaine, Mr. He named his characters after family members. Both natives of Latrobe, PA, Mister Rogers grew up taking lessons from professional golfer and country club grounds keeper, Deacon Palmer, along side Deacon’s son of the same age, Arnold.Ĩ. Mister Rogers drove an old Impala for years until the car was stolen and the police report was picked up by the local news…48 hours later the car was returned with a note that read, “If we’d known it was yours, we never would have taken it.”ħ. Michael Keaton, famous for playing Batman got his start in showbiz as a puppeteer and trolley operator on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.Ħ. ![]() Mister Rogers graduated from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and was ordained a minister in the Presbyterian Church in 1963.ĥ. Nearly all of the songs on Mister Rogers Neighborhood were composed by Mister Rogers on his famous piano, along with hundreds of others that were never heard on the show.Ĥ. He could not make out the colors in a box of crayons, which is rather sad when you consider that ridiculously awesome trip to the Crayola factory.ģ. In 1969 Mister Rogers went to Washington to protest the slashing of funds to public television, and his testimony was so persuasive that funding was not only secured but increased to $22 million per year.Ģ. McFeely bring letters but no electric bills? The world will never know □įamiliar as he is to all of us, there was a lot more to him than what we saw on the show. Where did he need to go? He was already home, no? This never made sense to me. *Did you ever notice that? Every episode started with him coming home and donning a sweater, but every episode ended with him taking the sweater off and leaving and singing It’s Such a Good Feeling. Usually I think he would try to demonstrate some deeply profound act of kindness, then *take off his sweater and get the hellouttadodge. Somehow #snookiproblems don’t seem so important inside The Neighborhood of Make-Believe.Īnd sometimes, when I see or hear someone being nasty or acting like a meanie head (yes that’s a technical term) I try to think of what Mister Rogers would say or do in the same situation. Mister Rogers always puts things in perspective. ![]() Sometimes, when I am having a rough day, I pop over and watch an old episode. Someone please tell me Why is Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood labeled as a kid’s program? Do adults not see how beneficial these lessons can be? If you are one of the millions of children who grew up watching Mister Rogers, you know what a special person he was (and is). Today is what would have been Mister Rogers 84th birthday. ![]()
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