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Peter George Peterson
m. 1980 - 2018
- Tim Cooney
m. 1964 - 1975
Jan 26, 2023 · In 1966, he found himself at a dinner party and asked that same question of a TV producer there named Joan Ganz Cooney. Intrigued, she came up with a proposal for a show.
Jan 26, 2023 · He is survived by his wife, Mary; daughters Julie and Sarah; and granddaughters Frances and Clara. Morrisett and Joan Ganz Cooney worked with Harvard University developmental psychologist...
Jan 26, 2023 · He was 93. His daughter Julie Morrisett confirmed the death. Mr. Morrisett was a vice president of the nonprofit Carnegie Corporation in 1966 when he attended a dinner party in Manhattan hosted...
Jan 25, 2023 · Morrisett and Joan Ganz Cooney worked with Harvard University developmental psychologist Gerald Lesser to build the show’s unique approach to teaching that now reaches 120 million children. Legendary puppeteer Jim Henson supplied the critters.
After the Great Depression, the family moved to Yonkers, New York, and then to Los Angeles, where Morrisett met Julian Ganz, a middle school classmate who would later introduce him to Joan Ganz Cooney, the co-founder of Children's Television Workshop.
Jan 25, 2023 · Sesame Street was born out of conversations that took place in the late ’60s between Morrisett, then vice president of the Carnegie Corporation, and television producer Joan Ganz Cooney.
Jan 24, 2023 · Lloyd Morrisett, Co-Creator of ‘Sesame Street,’ Dies at 93. The onetime psychology teacher and Joan Ganz Cooney also founded the Children's Television Workshop and 'The Electric Company.'
