Mr. Rogers: A 2014 Tribute-DeForge
Mr. Rogers: A 2014 Tribute
Happy New Year Wishes for 2014 from
Animal Doc AM Multi-Media
Dr. Don DeForge
I truly wanted my first Animal Doc AM Multi-Media Blog of 2014 to be energizing, engaging, and very special. I reviewed many ideas and studied the life of many individuals who have made an impact on the lives of others.
My special friend, Kevin Fitzgerald, helped me by sending to me quotes from Mr. Rogers. Mr. Rogers, in early television, became a part of the life of every child as they grew and sought knowledge.
Today's young adults still have a memory of a career that ended for him at the beginning of a New Millennium. What a fitting time when we see all that he accomplished over his career.
My favorite statement from Mr. Rogers is one that I have lived by and continue to seek through my own journey.....as faithfully as I can......"You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices; and hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are."-Fred Rogers
So as we begin 2014 take a few moments and journey down memory lane with me and read some of Mr. Roger's famous quotes from his show. Let us begin 2014 by believing as he said each morning...."It is a BEAUTIFUL day in this neighborhood!"
God bless,
Happy New Year
Dr. Don DeForge-Animal Doc AM Multi-Media
01Jan2014
"You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are."
Fred Rogers - Biography
Fred McFeely Rogers was born on March 20, 1928 in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, 40 miles east of Pittsburgh. Rogers earned his bachelor's degree in music composition at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida in 1951. Immediately upon graduation, he was hired by NBC television in New York as an assistant producer for The Voice of Firestone and later as floor director for The Lucky Strike Hit Parade, The Kate Smith Hour, and the NBC Opera Theatre. Rogers was married in 1952 to Joanne Byrd, a concert pianist and fellow Rollins graduate.
Educational Television
In November, 1953, at the request of WQED Pittsburgh, the nation's first community-sponsored educational television station, Rogers moved back to Pennsylvania. The station was not yet on the air, and Rogers was asked to develop the first program schedule. One of the first programs he produced was THE CHILDREN'S CORNER. It was a daily, live, hour-long visit with music and puppets and host Josie Carey. Rogers served as puppeteer, composer, and organist. In 1955, THE CHILDREN'S CORNER won the Sylvania Award for the best locally produced children's program in the country. It was on THE CHILDREN'S CORNER that several regulars of today's MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD made their first appearances -- among them, Daniel Striped Tiger. X the Owl, King Friday XIII, Henrietta Pussycat, and Lady Elaine Fairchilde.
During off-duty hours, Rogers attended both the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Child Development. He graduated from the Seminary and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1963 with a charge to continue his work with children and families through the mass media. Later that year, Rogers was invited to create a program for the CBC program in Canada, which the head of children's programming there dubbed MISTER ROGERS. It was on this series that Rogers made his on-camera debut as the program's host. When he and his wife and two sons returned to Pittsburgh in 1966, he incorporated segments of the CBC into a new series which was distributed by the Eastern Educational Network. This series was called MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD. In 1968 it was made available for national distribution through the National Educational Television (NET) which later became Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
Lifetime of Achievement
In 1968, Rogers was appointed Chairman of the Forum on Mass Media and C
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Mister Rogers' Neighborhood won four Emmy awards, and Rogers himself was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 1997 Daytime Emmys as described by Esquire's Tom Junod:
Mister Rogers went onstage to accept the award — and there, in front of all the soap opera stars and talk show sinceratrons, in front of all the jutting man-tanned jaws and jutting saltwater bosoms, he made his small bow and said into the microphone, "All of us have special ones who have loved us into being. Would you just take, along with me, ten seconds to think of the people who have helped you become who you are. Ten seconds of silence."And then he lifted his wrist, looked at the audience, looked at his watch, and said, "I'll watch the time." There was, at first, a small whoop from the crowd, a giddy, strangled hiccup of laughter, as people realized that he wasn't kidding, that Mister Rogers was not some convenient eunuch, but rather a man, an authority figure who actually expected them to do what he asked. And so they did. One second, two seconds, three seconds — and now the jaws clenched, and the bosoms heaved, and the mascara ran, and the tears fell upon the beglittered gathering like rain leaking down a crystal chandelier. And Mister Rogers finally looked up from his watch and said softly "May God be with you," to all his vanquished children.
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