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Flashback: Before ‘Mister Rogers,’ Miss Frances and her hit show ‘Ding Dong School’ made children feel seen
Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune
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Educator Frances Horwich reads with children in 1959.
Frances Horwich was an obscure academic when her husband left Chicago to work for the military during the Korean War. When he returned, she was the icon of a paparazzi following albeit a pint-size one.
Reunited, Horwich and her husband, Harvey, boarded a plane for a romantic getaway and were treated to repeat choruses of a song Horwich knew well:
I’m your school bell: Ding, dong, ding! ....

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