Mister pix ii6/13/2023 Music was his first love, and he studied music composition at Rollins College. Rogers grew up in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, a small town near Pittsburgh. He became known as Mister Rogers, nationally beloved, sweater wearing, “television neighbor,” whose groundbreaking children’s series inspired and educated generations of young viewers with warmth, sensitivity, and honesty. On this date, September 21, 1967, 51 years ago, Fred Rogers walked into the television studio at WQED in Pittsburgh to tape the very first episode of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, which would premiere nationally on PBS in February 1968. Go behind-the-scenes of today’s Doodle below!įootage from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood provided courtesy of The Fred Rogers Company. “Through television we have a great chance to show and tell our children that they really matter, even when they’re very little…We have a chance to communicate the fact that childhood lies at the very basis of who people are and who they become.”
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