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•Fred Rogers, beloved television neighbor to generations of children.
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Rogers was born to James and Nancy Rogers 40 miles (65 km) southeast of Pittsburgh in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. He had a sister, Elaine. The young Fred Rogers spent his free time with his maternal grandfather Fred McFeely, who was interested in music; Rogers began to play the piano when he was five and sang along when his mother played.He acquired a piloting license in high school and was a lifelong Republican. Rogers attended Latrobe High School and was very active in extracurricular activities. Rogers served as president of the student council, a member of the National Honor Society and was editor-in-chief of the yearbook; he graduated in 1946. He studied at Dartmouth College from 1946 until 1948 and then went on at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida to earn a BA in music composition in 1951. At Rollins, he met Oakland, Florida native Sara Joanne Byrd, born c. 1928; the two got married on June 9, 1952. They had two sons: James, in 1959, and John, in 1961. Rogers graduated from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and was ordained a minister of the United Presbyterian Church in 1963.Rogers returned to Pittsburgh in the 1960s and attended the Sixth Presbyterian Church, in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood. Rogers had an apartment in New York City and a summer home on Nantucket Island in Massachusetts.Rogers was red–green color blind. He swam every morning and neither smoked nor drank.[24] He became a vegetarian in his mid–40s, stating "I don't want to eat anything that has a mother."