For a generation of children, a high point of their day was sitting in front of the television to watch “Romper Room,” hoping Miss Nancy would see them in her “magic mirror.” “Romper bomper stomper ...
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 ...
TAMPA, Fla. — June Hurley Young, host of the Tampa Bay Area edition of the hit children's television show "Romper Room," has passed away at the age of 87. Young hosted the show from 1965 to 1980. Her ...
Jean Durkee was a schoolteacher, and happily so, in the late 1950s when her mother saw a newspaper advertisement for a host of a children’s TV show and suggested she apply. “You’ve got to be kidding ...