{"id":2403,"date":"2023-01-24T19:21:53","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T19:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/?p=2403"},"modified":"2023-01-24T19:21:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T19:21:53","slug":"remembering-sesame-workshop-co-founder-lloyd-morrisett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/2023\/01\/remembering-sesame-workshop-co-founder-lloyd-morrisett.html","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Sesame Workshop Co-Founder Lloyd Morrisett"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2409\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2409\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/399\/2023\/01\/llyod-morrisett_credit-Joi-Ito-flickr-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2409\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/399\/2023\/01\/llyod-morrisett_credit-Joi-Ito-flickr-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2409\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joi Ito \/ Flickr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lloyd Morrisett, co-founder of Sesame Workshop and who famously founded the idea of &#8220;Sesame Street&#8221; has passed away at age 93. The Sesame Workshop Instagram account shared the news by saying in a statement, &#8220;Sesame Workshop mourns the passing of our esteemed and beloved co-founder Lloyd N. Morrisett, PhD, who died at the age of 93. A Lifetime Honorary Trustee, Lloyd leaves an outsized and indelible legacy among generations of children the world over, with Sesame Street only the most visible tribute to a lifetime of good work and lasting impact.&#8221; The statement continued by saying, &#8220;A wise, thoughtful, and above all kind leader of the Workshop for decades, Lloyd was fascinated by the power of technology and constantly thinking about new ways it could be used to educate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 1965, Morrisett had the idea of the hit children&#8217;s show &#8220;Sesame Street&#8221; after noticing how engaged his three-year-old daughter, Sarah, was with the family TV set. This caused Morrisett to wonder if there was a way to educate children through television shows. He pitched the idea to close friend Joan Ganz Cooney at a dinner party months later. In 1968, Morrisett and Cooney created Children&#8217;s Television Workshop, which has been rebranded to Children&#8217;s Workshop, which is the non-profit organization that would air the revolutionary TV show. Just one year later in 1969, the legendary &#8220;Sesame Street&#8221; began airing. According to Cooney, there would be no &#8220;Sesame Street&#8221; without Morrisett. &#8220;It was he who first came up with the notion of using television to teach preschoolers basic skills, such as letters and numbers,&#8221; said Cooney in the Sesame Workshop statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lloyd Morrisett, co-founder of Sesame Workshop and who famously founded the idea of &#8220;Sesame Street&#8221; has passed away at age 93. The Sesame Workshop Instagram account shared the news by saying in a statement, &#8220;Sesame Workshop mourns the passing of our esteemed and beloved co-founder Lloyd N. 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