March 1, 2003
WHO WRITES THEIR HEADLINES?:
Former Area Resident Dies (Omar Sacirbey, 2/28/03, Valley News)Fred McFeely Rogers, who created and hosted Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, America's longest-running and one of its most widely respected children's television programs, died of stomach cancer early yesterday morning at his home in Pittsburgh. He was 74.Posted by Orrin Judd at March 1, 2003 6:49 AMRogers, once a student at Dartmouth College and who studied piano in Norwich, was fondly remembered by children and parents who watched his programs, and by child development specialists who thought of him as a pioneer in their field. [...]
In September 1946, he enrolled at Dartmouth, and moved into 106 Massachusetts Hall with two roommates. With dreams of becoming a globe-trotting diplomat, Rogers majored in romance languages and planned on going to Georgetown University's foreign service school. But his interest soon changed to music, and on March 14, 1948, he withdrew from Dartmouth and moved to Norwich where he studied music full time with a concert pianist.
He spent about a year in Norwich before enrolling in Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla., finishing there in 1951.
this headline reminds me of the story when the Yankees of the late 50's or early 60's were on a flight that was going through a terrible storm, and all the players thought they wouldn't make it. Whitey Ford quipped, "I can see the headline in the Daily News: 'Mantle, 24 others, Die in Crash.'"
Posted by: Foos at March 3, 2003 12:15 PM