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From YouTube: #TBT: 1993 Mr. Rogers Proclamation Ceremony

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Welcome to City Channel Pittsburgh's Throwback Thursday series! We will upload a new episode each Thursday morning.

This week, we're going back to 1993. City of Pittsburgh's then-Mayor Sophie Masloff gives a proclamation to Mr. Rogers in celebration of his 25th anniversary hosting children's television programming.

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I can't tell you what a great pleasure this is, and I've gained stature, my grandchildren's eyes today by introducing Mister Rogers, but if there's one person that has brought international acclaim to Pittsburgh and public broadcasting just by being himself that's Fred Rogers. Mr. Rogers I want you to know from my heart that it's a great pleasure to take this opportunity to give you this proclamation and recognition of 25 years in public broadcasting, and it's 25 years of positive images and role models for children in 25 years of caring for our young people.

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You've done so much for our city and our children by letting them know that they are special and of themselves and that's a message we can all as well. I want to thank you and all the staff for family communications that produces mr. Rogers neighborhood for all of our citizens and for making the difference in generations of young people's lives. You've done so much for so many over the years and it's a pleasure to take time to honor all your good works.

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May you have many many years helping to set a positive tone for our young people for many years to come. Mr. Rogers, this is a problem.

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March, the 16th as mr. Rogers.

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From one grandparent to another, yes,.

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Thank you very difference. Difference in age, I.

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Thought brought pictures of of my grandson Alexander to serve me ramela this morning. There he is he's just become a big brother, I think he's four and a half and his brother is now two weeks old and we were driving home from the hospital.

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His dad and I had taken him to visit his mom and the little brother Douglas, and he said you know I need some more company at home and we said well, your mummy will be back in two more night nights and then his dad said he said he had an expression of that's exactly what I wanted to hear and then his dad said your mommy and the baby will be back in two more night nights and he said that's too much company.

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Really do have feelings that are so important for us to recognize and I can't think of a more nurturing City than the city of Pittsburgh to take to its heart. A neighborhood like ours I felt that for all the 40 years that we've been here and I've been to a lot of places, but there's something about this place. Something about this city that encourages us to.

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To help people realize that it's not the honors and not the title and not the power that is of ultimate importance.

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It's what resides inside and if we can help children to believe that they're.

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There's good stuff inside them and I think that's the biggest gift that we can give anybody and.

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You know for everybody at family communication and and certainly everybody in my family I. Thank you for this.

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Well, there's a usually a good deal of arm-twisting when it comes today. Where is David David said you know, I could have you in a different city every day, if I'd answer all of the the notices that are on my desk, but but I have not the chance to meet a lot of wonderful people and I.

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Think you must know that from your work, when you go to different places and meet people who are I mean the media sometimes gets a very bad name, but but when you consider the ministry and I think it can be.

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I just remember, Oh, 30 years ago, one of the Pittsburgh papers putting Daniels stripe and tigers picture on the front page. They were so proud that Josie and I were going to be able to do a Saturday morning program at NBC in New York there it. It just seems as if there's there's always been so much support and care I, don't know whether that would have happened anywhere else and that's what I was trying to say that I think that it's work is such a nurturing place.

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It certainly has unfolded me in its arms I'm grateful for that.

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Do you mean on the program itself? Well, we've had we've had kinds of blizzards in the neighborhood, we've talked about, II have more.

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More ways of dealing with the feelings of such an episode than the actual episode itself, I, don't know that there's enough snow at WQED.

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You can, with their home.

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My grandfather was such a an important person in my life and I feel now that I'm I'm a grandparent to many of the young children who are watching rather than just a parent.

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My grandfather was one the one who used to say we would visit him on his farm every Sunday afternoon and when we believe he would invariably say something like you've made this day a special day by gesture being you and I've had the opportunity and the joy of being able to pass that on to the other children for least 25 years throughout the country.

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Think it's just what you say: it is it's good-natured, there's some that are more whimsical than others and and the reason I told mere massless. The.

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I wore these today was not because of any tie with the.

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The program, but the reason we had to postpone our day today is that I had a very bad fall and had a cast on my leg a few weeks ago and.

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Some sweaters that a lot of people wear- and there have been some of those takeoffs that have not been a pleasure for us and they've, usually been on the one I think it wasn't was at West, Virginia or Virginia North Carolina South Carolina was it was a man who dressed up in a sweater and wore sneakers, and this was in the in the afternoon hours. He got on the air and thinking he was just speaking to mothers or house fathers saying that.

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He said he he spoke even more slowly than I. Do he said children take your mother's hairspray and your daddy's cigarette lighter and press the buttons together and you'll have a blue. So we called and Billy slurs here he can tell how that got stuck very quickly, but you know we have some wonderful people up: family, communicati, dros and there's Bill and slurp and there's a head of Sheriff.

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I remember mr. Carson once sang.

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Late-Night program.

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And he said mr. Rodgers, you know we wouldn't do these things. If we didn't care about you.

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Santori, what you think that some of the stations that are trying that are defining the flintstones, the Jetsons GI Joe, is Educational Television.

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Well, I'm sure that all television is in some ways, education, because it Educare a means to leave and if you're Lee you need people by the things that you give them. But I don't know that. That's what purveyors of any kinds of material that go to children.

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I just wished that we could remember our own childhood and go inside and know what was important to us when we were little and and build on that rather than try to rather than thinking of what would sell something.

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The television and radio have become, through the years, enormous hucksters, and we have to remember to whom the airways belong, and we must as great an emphasis on the nurturing of the human personality as we can. This sounds like lofty words, but we'll see the fruits of what we've given in the years to come.

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I think that what they have to deal with has change, but I, don't think that children themselves I, don't think that that species evolved that quickly. I think that we need to recognize that what we all have to have is a sense of the importance of.

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Being able to love and to be able to be loved that.

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If we can help another human being realize that that person has value I.

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Think we we've enhanced a generation because that person will then help somebody else to do the same. You know it's it's what's behind the eye of somebody that sees somebody else.

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So if the person feels as if he or she has valued himself or herself, then he can look through those eyes and see the value in his or her neighbor. But if there is a many value that inside, if nobody has ever helped, you to your mother, obviously help you to feel that you had real value.

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So when you look at somebody else, you can see what's valuable.

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Yeah this neck, this ankle has certainly slowed me down. I, don't know I've always been led in ways that I would have never dreamed. You know when I couldn't sleep with this. With this cast on my leg, I listened to people on the radio and saw programs, even programs that I had been on that I had never seen before and I think it's amazing what what happens in in those late hours of the night. There are a lot of lonely people in this world.

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I'd love to think that I don't know what I'd love to I, just love to think that I've been inspired to do something that was of value for as long as I'm. Given my help, a mere masloff says that I'm older than she is, and some.

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Think that that that's probably long in the past, but there have been times that we could have gone that route and made family communications much more lucrative than than it ever was or probably ever will be, but I felt that it was important not for me personally not to do commercials that children would see because I didn't want any child to ever feel excluded. I didn't want any child to ever think that, because I had said on television, you should buy.

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This particular shoe that if he or she wasn't able to that I didn't care about, but I sure wish you'd have your early morning program again.

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There's there's certainly nothing that's magic about bringing up children and then it's a lot of work, but also, if you can allow yourself to know that, there's a chance for you to grow right along with your children, then I think that the children's sense then I mean if, if there's somebody in the family, an adult in the family who has trouble getting up in the morning and the children are experiencing that too.

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If you can back off and figure out what it was like when you were a child at that age, you from a different perspective, have a chance of growing yourself through helping your child. Do that.

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An exalted state.

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Think that it might be your last chance to grow along with your own progeny, it has a feeling about it, which.

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Which is on I realized that I'm a part of a fabulous dream that I've.

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Stepped into for a little while and I heard the story and I know you all have to go, but I and this child wanted so much to be able to be alone with that baby sister and the parents.

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Afraid that he might hurt her, but finally he was insistent enough so that they said okay, so he went in to the baby sister's room.

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The crib and the parents were listening at the door, and all this child said to the baby sister was tell me what it was like I'm beginning to forget.

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Which just confirms it's just a little chapter in a very large book. There were some chapters before we were here and they're going to be a lot of chapters after we're gone and I'm grateful to have been able to participate in Pittsburg in the chapters that we are here.

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