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On November 10, 1969, I had stayed home from school with a sore throat. And that is how I may have been the only teenager to watch the very first episode of Sesame Street. I loved it from the first Wanda the Witch lived somewhere west of Washington animated short about the letter W. I had been hearing about the show for two years from my dad, Newton Minow, who was on the board of one of the program s initial funders, the Carnegie Foundation, and helped get the first federal funding for the show. I remember Dad telling our family that this was a show that was going to sell the alphabet and numbers to preschoolers the way commercials sold toys, cereal, and laundry detergent. A few years later, I would watch it with my own preschoolers and fell in love with it all over again. I remember telling my husband about the decision to let the humans on the show see Mr. Snuffleupagus and the time that Smokey Robinson came on the show to sing U ve Really Got a Hold on Me with a letter U t