NEWS> There Has Been a Death in the Neighborhood
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- Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 21:54:04 -0600
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From: "David P. Dillard" <jwne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:19:55 -0500 (EST)
A television teacher of very many young children for very many years has
become a victim of cancer. Mr Rogers has helped parents raise their
toddlers with his quiet manored educational programming for quite a number
of years on public television.
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Fred 'Mister' Rogers Dies of Cancer at 74
Fred Rogers always opened the TV show "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" by
changing from shoes to sneakers. (AP File)
By Louie Estrada
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 27, 2003; 3:30 PM
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9496-2003Feb27.html>
Fred Rogers, the gentle, soft-spoken host of the children's television
show "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," whose theme song "Won't You Be My
Neighbor" engaged toddlers for nearly four decades, died today of stomach
cancer at his home in Pittsburgh. He was 74.
As creator and host of the popular public television show, Mr. Rogers
evolved into a pop icon of avuncular qualities with a cheerfulness and
wholesomeness that was often calming to children, admired by parents and
parodied by comedians.
The show aired from 1968 to 2000, making it the longest running children's
program on public television and among its top-rated ever, reaching at its
peak an estimated 8 million households each week. There were nearly 700
episodes in the series, and Mr. Rogers continued to write and produce
several weeks of new programs each season at the Pittsburgh public
television station WQED.
Over the years, "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" won four Emmy Awards. Mr.
Rogers himself won a lifetime achievement Emmy award, a George Peabody
Award in 1993 and received more than two dozen honorary degrees from the
likes of Yale University, Hobart and William Smith, Carnegie Mellon
University and Boston University.
One of his sweaters, a red one, is part of the Smithsonian collection.
In July, President George W. Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of
Freedom.
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Statement by Pennsylvania Governor Rendell on the Passing of Fred Rogers
Thursday February 27, 1:32 pm ET
<http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030227/phth043_1.html>
HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is a statement by
Governor Edward G. Rendell on the passing of Pennsylvania's own Mr. Fred
Rogers:
"For more than thirty years, Mr. Rogers brought Pennsylvania values into
the homes and the hearts of children and families in every town across
this great country. Today, our state has lost a great role model and our
country has lost one of history's greatest teachers. We should be mindful,
though, that during his seventy-four year life, Mr. Rogers helped instill
values in America's children that will affect our nation for decades to
come. In Pittsburgh and all across the Commonwealth, Fred Rogers will be
painfully missed. But he will be remembered proudly for his legacy that
began in Pennsylvania - a legacy that America will never forget."
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I Was Mister Rogers' Neighbor
Mister Rogers is gone, but his legacy of warmth and love remains. Here, a
look back on a personal side of the man in the cardigan
By JESSICA REAVES
<http://www.time.com/time/sampler/article/0,8599,88632,00.html>
I lived in Mister Rogers' neighborhood.
No, I mean I really did. When I was growing up in Pittsburgh, the Rogers
family lived just around the corner, in a big brick house with a sloping
lawn.
Settling down each afternoon to watch Mister Rogers' eponymous television
show, my brother Peter and I would wait for him to ask his famous musical
question, "Won't you be my neighbor?" and we would yell back at the set,
laughing uproariously, "But we ARE your neighbors!"
My family also went to the same church as the Rogers family, and when we
were little, Peter and I would go upstairs during services to the playroom
where every few weeks we restless children were joined by Mister Rogers.
He would appear in the doorway without fanfare, slip into the room and
start reading a book aloud, or talking earnestly with a five-year-old
about a new puppy or little brother, or just sit at one of the miniature
tables, his long legs tucked up toward his chest, smiling down at us as we
played.
At Halloween, Mister and Mrs. Rogers gave out amazing candy (full-size,
full-sugar candy bars! No bite-size Hershey bars here. And no
ultra-healthy apples or pears.) Mrs. Rogers tended to the
trick-or-treaters, but I have a suspicion that Mister Rogers, while
perhaps wary of hijacking the costumed childrens' limelight, was always
nearby.
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How to tell your kids about Fred Rogers' death
Associated Press
Published Feb. 27, 2003
<http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/3722738.html>
PITTSBURGH -- Fred Rogers taught his young viewers that death was
something to be talked about. It shouldn't be any different now that
Mister Rogers is gone.
The group that produced ``Mister Rogers' Neighborhood,'' Family
Communications Inc., is telling parents not to shy away from their
children's questions in the wake of Rogers' death. A pioneer in children's
television, Rogers, 74, died in Pittsburgh early Thursday after a bout
with stomach cancer.
``As Mister Rogers always said, 'Whatever is mentionable can be more
manageable.' Crying, feeling sad, that's part of being human,'' said Hedda
Sharapan, an associate producer with the show, which has continued to
broadcast repeats since the final new episode aired in August 2001.
``Young children need help in dealing with this. They don't understand
death the same way adults do,'' she said.
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Key events in Rogers' life
<http://www.ctnow.com/news/custom/newsat3/sns-misterrogers-
timeline,0,2748461.story?coll=hc-headlines-newsat3>
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Remembering Mister Rogers
Cancer Claims Award-Winning Children's TV Host at 74
<http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1176957>
>From 1968 to 2000, Rogers opened a daily television program in a cozy
living room, singing "It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood" while he
changed into a cardigan and sneakers. Produced at Pittsburgh public
television station WQED, the show focused on teaching toddlers
self-esteem, patience and tolerance. Rogers used a trolley take his
viewers to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, where his puppet friends,
such as King Friday XIII and Lady Elaine Fairchilde, helped youngsters
solve problems and encouraged creativity.
Born just outside Pittsburgh, Rogers started his career as a puppeteer in
The Children's Corner, a local show he helped launch at WQED. An ordained
Presbyterian minister, he kept his message simple, telling people to love
themselves and others. In an interview on the WHYY radio program Fresh
Air, Rogers stressed the importance of listening to children and setting a
good example.
"Children are going to mimic what the adults in their lives do," Rogers
said. "And so the kind of ways that you have of expressing your anger will
probably be the kinds of ways that your children will express theirs. And
that's not all bad. But I do think that it's very important for us to be
up front with our children and give them words for their feelings."
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Children's Show Host Mr. Rogers Dies
VOA News
27 Feb 2003, 10:57 UTC
<http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=
341A65CD-768C-4B40-A9C20D8A3F1B175A>
Born and raised near Pittsburgh, Mr. Rogers attended college in Florida,
where he earned a degree in music composition in 1951. He worked as a
television producer in New York and returned to Pittsburgh in 1953 to
co-host The Children's Corner, U.S. public television's first children's
program.
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Chinese-American author feels obligation to tell truth
By Regis Behe
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Monday, February 17, 2003
<http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/entertainment/s_118817.html>
So Min did what millions of Americans do every day: When she wasn't
working as a waitress or at the institute's art gallery, she watched
television. Her tutors were "Sesame Street," "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and
especially "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood."
"(Rogers) was my favorite," Min says. "Actually, I was not learning
English. One day, I was sitting there sobbing when Mr. Rogers said, 'You
make my day very special by sitting there and being yourself.' The biggest
gift a person can ever give is the honest self. And to me, that was
mindblowing."
Min says what Rogers taught her was beyond the English language: She was
relearning human emotions that were drummed out of her as a child. Born in
1957, she joined the Little Red Guards, elementary-school children who
chanted slogans and performed drills to glorify the Communist Party, in
order to avoid being beaten. At the time, U.S. troops were fighting in
nearby Vietnam, and the Chinese government citizens were told to prepare
for an invasion.
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PBS Kids - Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Home Page
http://pbskids.org/rogers/
PBS Kids - Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: Parents and Teachers
http://pbskids.org/rogers/parents/sept11.htm
Family Communications, Inc. - Homepage
http://www.misterrogers.org/
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Archives
http://www.library.pitt.edu/libraries/is/enroom/mrrogers/mrrogrs.htm
Mr Rogers will sure be missed.
Sincerely,
David Dillard Research Librarian
david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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