Amazed by the device he first witnessed in his parent’s living room during a visit home while in his senior year of college, Rogers set out to be a part of the rapidly expanding and developing industry of mass communication.
Though religion would remain a compass throughout his life, it was television that allowed him a conduit and platform for his life’s work. 1961) he graduated from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary in 1963 and was ordained a minister in the United Presbyterian Church. It was at Rollins where Rogers met his wife, Sara Joanne Byrd, and the two would remain together throughout the rest of his life. That interest would eventually lead him to graduate magna cum laude from Rollins College in Florida in 1951 with a degree in music composition, and to writing and performing many of the songs featured on his show, including the famous opening tune ending with the iconic line, “Won’t you be my neighbor?” Rogers understood the influence of televisionīorn Fred McFeely Rogers on March 20, 1928, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, Rogers interest in music began at a young age and he learned to play piano. Mister Rogers on the set of "Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood" Photo: Fotos International/Courtesy of Getty Images So influential was the gentleman in the cardigan and sneakers that 2018 saw him celebrated with an hour-long special marking what would have been the program’s 50th anniversary, the issue of a commemorative postage stamp bearing his visage, a big screen documentary, Won’t You Be My Neighbor? and the news that Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks will slip into said cardigan and sneakers in the biopic about Rogers titled A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. Preschoolers and their parents or guardians became switched on to the gently spoken Rogers when Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood debuted in 1966, and generations continued to do so for the next four decades. “I thought there was some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen.” “I went into television because I hated it so,” Fred Rogers once explained of his decision to join the burgeoning medium in an interview with CNN.
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