Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When "Miss Barbara" picked up the Magic Mirror, her little friends at home so desperately wanted to hear their names. "Romper, ...

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 ...

There was Miss Lois on the floor, having just performed a Sleeping Beauty-like faint during Tell a Story Time on "Romper Room." Innocent enough. But her skirt hiked up in the fall, exposing a patch of ...

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 ...

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 ...