a true ICON.
when i was a young(er) man... i worked in Fred Rogers yard restoring his yard after pipelines went through Latrobe Pa. i was 15 or 16...and there he was in his full glory standing out in the yard. heres a WIKI write up on him.
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Fred McFeely Rogers was born in
Latrobe,
Pennsylvania, 40 miles (65 km) southeast of
Pittsburgh, to James and Nancy Rogers, who were of
English descent; he had one sister, Elaine Rogers Crozier.
[5] Early in life he spent much of his free time with his maternal grandfather, Fred McFeely, who had an interest in music. He would often sing along as his mother would play the piano and he himself began playing at five.
[6]
Rogers graduated from Latrobe High School (1946).
[7] He studied at
Dartmouth College (1946–48),
[8] then transferred to
Rollins College in
Winter Park,
Florida, where he earned a B.A. in Music Composition in 1951.
[9]
At Rollins, he met Sara Joanne Byrd, an
Oakland, Florida native; they married on June 9, 1952.
[10] They had two sons, James (b. 1959) and John (b. 1961).
[11] In 1963 Rogers graduated from
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and was ordained a minister in the
Presbyterian Church.
During the course of his career, he was awarded forty honorary degrees.
[6] Rogers was red-green
color blind,
[12] swam every morning, was a vegetarian, and neither smoked nor drank.
[13]
to remember Mr. Rogers, PBS put out this remix which I can't seem to stop listening to. Pretty cool stuff.
