Like most preschool or elementary school teachers, she brought joy, a love of learning, kindling wonder, and imagination in the lives of her students, some of them in Vacaville in later years. But to ...

Jean Durkee was a schoolteacher, and happily so, in the late 1950s when her mother saw a newspaper advertisement for a host of a children’s TV show and suggested she apply. “You’ve got to be kidding ...

CHICAGO — Of the many classic children’s shows on WGN-TV from back in the day, few were as long-running as “Romper Room” — preschoolers’ daily offering that ran from 1954 to 1960 (at WGN-TV’s Michigan ...

For baby boomers who were children in the 1960s and 1970s, the set of the "Romper Room" television show on WDEF-TV 12 brings back vivid memories. Across America, "Romper Room" was a franchised program ...

CHINO HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Mary Ann King, who peered through her “Magic Mirror” to host the children”s TV show “Romper Room” in Los Angeles, has died. She ...

Television was for a time the career of Barbara Bowen Plummer, but family was her life’s work, said the Rev. Alan Gates, rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. “She guided and nurtured most of all the ...

But 50 years ago, Lois Whitmeyer notes, that flickering, black-and-white TV show was cutting edge. And in a time when a Do-Bee meant something altogether different than today, Whitmeyer was one of a ...

CHINO HILLS (AP) — Mary Ann King, who peered through her "Magic Mirror" to host the children's TV show "Romper Room" in Los Angeles, has died. She was 82. Her daughter told the San Gabriel Valley ...