Frances Rappaport Horwich (born Frances Rappaport, 16 July 1907–22 July 2001) was the host of the popular children's television program "Miss Frances' Ding Dong School". Events 622 - The beginning of the Islamic calendar. 1054 - Three Roman legates fractured relations between the Western and Year 1907 ( MCMVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 1099 - First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. Ding Dong School was a half-hour children's TV show which aired on NBC on weekdays from November 1952 to 1956 and on WMAQ-TV a few months earlier
Miss Frances was born in Ottawa, Ohio. Ottawa is a village in and the County seat of Putnam County, Ohio, United States. She earned her Master's degree in education from Columbia University and received her Doctorate at Northwestern University. Columbia University is a private University in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. She became the head of the department of education at Chicago's Roosevelt College. Roosevelt University is a private Institution of Higher education with full service Campuses in Chicago's Loop and northwest [1]
"Miss Frances' Ding Dong School" was developed by the show's producer, Reinald Werrenrath Jr. together with Judith Waller, director of public affairs programming for the NBC Central Division [2] and began to air in the Chicago area on NBC. The show quickly gained popularity among young children and was quickly broadcast nationally Mondays through Fridays in November of 1952. In this year she won the George Foster Peabody Award. The George Foster Peabody Awards, better known as simply the Peabody Awards, are annual international awards for excellence in Radio and Television broadcasting [3] The show at one time is suspected of having a 95 percent share on all pre-schoolers. In 1954 Miss Frances moved to New York where she supervised all of NBC's children's programming. She held this position until 1956 when the show was cancelled in favor of The Price is Right. Widely Known Facts The Price Is Right is an American Television Game show that is currently owned by the FremantleMedia Horwich owned the rights to Ding Dong School and syndicated the show until 1965.
By 1970, Miss Frances returned to Chicago and became involved with local programming once again. She eventually retired with her husband Harvey, to Scottsdale, Arizona. Scottsdale ( O'odham Vaṣai S-vaṣonĭ; Yaqui Eskatel) is a city in the eastern part of Maricopa County, Arizona, The State of Arizona ( is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. She died of congestive heart failure on 22 July 2001 at the age of 94. Heart failure is a Cardiac condition that occurs when a problem with the structure or function of the Heart impairs its ability to supply Events 1099 - First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar.
Miss Frances is famed for her uncompromising principles. In addition to resigning from NBC in protest of what she felt was commercialism over education, she would never advertise products a child could not use and would never advertise toys glorifying violence at all. She is also cited as inventing the approach of talking to the viewing audience like they were there with you. Other notable users of this are Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street. Sesame Street is an American educational Children's television series and a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard combining Miss Frances was mentioned by name in three different Peanuts strips. Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday Comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M Miss Frances was inducted into the Silver Circle of the Chicago Chapter of the National Academy of the Television Arts and Sciences, on June 2 2001. In 2006, an Ohio Historical Marker was placed by the local Daughters of the American Revolution chapter in her hometown of Ottawa, Ohio. Ohio ( is a Midwestern state of the United States. As part of the Great Lakes region, Ohio has long been a cultural and geographical crossroads Ottawa is a village in and the County seat of Putnam County, Ohio, United States. [4]
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