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	Joan Ganz Cooney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joan Ganz Cooney (born 30 November 1929 in Phoenix, Arizona) is an American businesswoman and television producer.
		Cooney received her B.A. degree in education from the University of Arizona in 1951.
		Cooney attended the Catholic girls institution Dominican College, before transfering to the University of Arizona, where she obtained her BA in Education.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joan_Ganz_Cooney (1592 words)

	Cooney, Joan Ganz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Cooney had an early interest in education, earning a B.A. degree in education from the University of Arizona in 1951, but she gravitated toward the mass media in part as a result of the influence of The Christophers, a religious group who emphasize utilizing communication technologies for humanitarian goals.
		Cooney, as Executive Director of CTW, established the guidelines, stressing the importance of exploiting the unique features of television to present a well defined curriculum designed to supplement rather than replace classroom activity.
		Joan Ganz Cooney has enriched children's television with her vision, has altered the public perception of and introduced record-setting audiences to public television, and has raised the level of expectation for children entering school.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/C/htmlC/cooneyjoan/cooneyjoan.htm (1260 words)

	3/26/2002, 2002 Sketches of the Honoary Degree Recipients - Almanac, Vol. 48, No. 27
		Joan Ganz Cooney is a visionary television producer and media executive who pioneered educational uses of television for children.
		Cooney received a B.A. from the University of Arizona and began her career as a reporter for a Phoenix newspaper before moving to New York to work as a television publicist.
		Cooney was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1995, the nation's highest civilian honor, and was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1998.
	www.upenn.edu /almanac/v48/n27/2002sketches.html (1675 words)

	Encyclopedia: Joan Ganz Cooney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Cooney received her B.A. degree in education from the University of Arizona in
		Joan Ganz Cooney is the one of the visionaries and the chief moving force behind the creation of Children's Television Workshop (CTW) and the most successful children's television show in the history of either commercial or educational television, Sesame Street.
		Cooney proposed taking advantage of commercial production techniques, such as the fast pacing and repetition of advertisements and the multiple formats of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In to give life to the curriculum.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Joan-Ganz-Cooney (510 words)

	Cooney, Joan Ganz. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Phoenix, Ariz. After graduating (1951) from the Univ. of Arizona, Cooney worked as a newspaper reporter and television publicist for ten years before becoming a producer at WNET, a public television station in New York City.
		There she developed the concepts for children’s programming that led to the incorporation (1968) of the Children’s Television Workshop (CTW; since 2000, Sesame Workshop); Cooney has been president since 1970.
		Cooney was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1995.
	www.bartleby.com /65/co/Cooney-J.html (145 words)

	The University of Arizona :: Dean of Students Website
		Joan Ganz Cooney received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the UA in 1951 and served as vice president to her sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta.
		Cooney is the cofounder of Children's Television Workshop and originator of the popular children's TV show Sesame Street.
		Cooney has received numerous awards including a Daytime Emmy for Lifetime Achievement in 1989, and in 1990 was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame and received the Founders Award from the International Council of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
	dos.web.arizona.edu /alumnifriends/alumni.html (2161 words)

	The Rich and the Famous: UA Style - November 7, 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Joan Ganz Cooney (Joan Riordan Ganz), an education senior in this 1951 Desert Yearbook photo, went on to create "Sesame Street" and was the president of the Children's Television Workshop.
		Cooney, a member of Kappa Alpha Theta and Phi Lambda Theta, received her degree in 1951.
		Cooney was honored with an Emmy for a television documentary on poverty and was named Woman of the Year in Communications by the Philadelphia chapter of Theta Sigma Phi in 1966.
	wildcat.arizona.edu /papers/91/54/91_1_m.html (912 words)

	tv98
		It was in 1966, at a dinner party at her house, when Joan was asked by Lloyd Morrisett, then the vice-president of the Carnegie Corporation, a longtime funding source of educational research, about her thoughts of using television to educate large numbers of preschoolers.
		Joan accepted the challenge, submitted the finished plan, and was awarded funds to finance the project as chief investigator.
		Joan’s goal was to attract inner-city children, the setting would be a realistic city street, complete with pealing paint, alleys, front stoops, and metal trash cans along the sidewalk.
	www.jcu.edu /communications/tv98.htm (9766 words)

	Joan Ganz Cooney-Peter G. Peterson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Joan Ganz Cooney, co-founder in 1968 of Children's Television Workshop (renamed, Sesame Workshop June 2000) and originator of the preschool educational series, Sesame Street, served as President and Chief Executive Officer until 1990.
		Cooney has received numerous awards including a Daytime Emmy for Lifetime Achievement in 1989 and, in 1990, was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame.
		Cooney was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, and in 1998, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
	www.hbscny.org /More/moreJGCooney-PGPeterson.htm (464 words)

	Industry Information: AEP Online: Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Cooney has impacted innumerable children around the globe with her innovative educational programming, her role as a pioneer for women in the business world has often been overlooked.
		Cooney fostered a diverse working environment in which everyone was encouraged to contribute.
		Cooney stepped down from her position as president of the Workshop in 1990 but, as chairwoman of the Executive Committee, she is still very much involved in the direction of the organization she helped found and nurture.
	www.edpress.org /industryinfo/newsletter/miscarchives/cooneyHOF.htm (500 words)

	Joan Holman Projects, Chief Enlightenment Officer
		Joan Holman is the author of "Hands That Touch, Hands That Heal," the biography of massage pioneer Sister Rosalind Gefre.
		Joan is responsible for the creation, writing, development and design of this book as well as the publishing, distribution and marketing of the book.
		Joan secured respected Christian distributor Faithworks to distribute the book and both she and Sister Rosalind have done a number of book signings and appearances and radio interviews.
	www.holman.com /books.television.film.html (403 words)

	Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Joan Ganz Cooney
		The visionary creator of Sesame Street, Joan Ganz Cooney, was the first recipient of the Nancy Dickerson Whitehead Medallion of Excellence in the Field of Mass Communication.
		In 1966, Joan began conversations with the Carnegie Corporation, regarding the use of television to educate large numbers of preschoolers.
		Joan and CTW also created several other educational shows geared toward children such as The Electric Company and Big Bag.
	www.medaloffreedom.com /JoanGanzCooney.htm (285 words)

	Media Center: AEP Press Room/AEP Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		NEW JERSEY--Joan Ganz Cooney, whose vision led to the phenomenally successful children’s television program, Sesame Street,”; and Joan Irwin, who has guided a line of professional publications to international praise, share a fundamental trait with Tom Snyder, who expanded his knowledge of computer programs into an award-winning software company.
		In 1995, Joan Ganz Cooney was presented with this nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
		Cooney, herself, has earned a Daytime Emmy for Lifetime Achievement and was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1990.
	www.edpress.org /mediacenter/04HOFRelease.htm (909 words)

	THE GRADUATE CENTER, CUNY: 365 Fifth
		On November 18, the Sixth Annual Graduate Center Foundation Dinner honored Peter G. Peterson, chairman of The Blackstone Group, L.P., and Joan Ganz Cooney, chairman of the executive committee of Sesame Workshop.
		Joan Ganz Cooney was co-founder in 1968 of Children's Television Workshop (re-named Sesame Workshop in 2000) and originator of the preschool educational series, "Sesame Street," which has been broadcast daily since 1969 on more than 300 PBS stations in more than 140 countries.
		She served as president and CEO of Children's Television Workshop until 1990, and has received numerous awards including a Daytime Emmy for Lifetime Achievement in 1989.
	www.gc.cuny.edu /about_gc/365_fifth/2005_february/peterson_cooney.htm (521 words)

	Joan Ganz Cooney, on the Evolution and Significance of Sesame Street (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Joan Ganz Cooney, on the Evolution and Significance of Sesame Street
		In a special evening, Joan Ganz Cooney, the extraordinary and influential innovator of education methodology for young children, comes to the Smithsonian to receive the John P.McGovern Behavioral Science Award.
		Cooney, co-founder, in 1968 of the Children’s Television Workshop (renamed Sesame Workshop in 2000), is the creator of the preschool educational TV series Sesame Street.
	residentassociates.org /otodec/sesame_street.asp (216 words)

	National Women's Hall of Fame - Women of the Hall
		Joan Ganz Cooney, as creator of Sesame Street, has benefited millions of young children.
		Not only has it enhanced their learning in the fundamentals of reading, but it has helped them appreciate the world and all the different kinds of people in it.
		Cooney's research on the impoverished, on education, and on childrenís inquisitive nature along with her creativity has led to a television program of unequaled success.
	www.greatwomen.org /women.php?action=viewone&id=43 (319 words)

	NameTraq \| Last Name: Ganz
		With support from local DJ Ganz, Chris Lum will take hit the decks when the vibe is right and just keep going for as long as he wants.
		Frank Ganz was my special teams coach for a couple of years in Jacksonville and we had multiple discussions about ball security because the terminology from...
		She began receiving vocal coaching from Dr. Isabel Ganz, who is now a voice professor at the University of Houston, and training in the theater from Lois Alba...
	nametraq.com /genealogy_jan04/G/Ganz.shtml (924 words)

	Van Cooney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Cooney, John W., Bonnie Van Ness, and Robert Van Ness, 2003, "Do Investors Claudio, John W. Cooney, and Leonard D. Van Drunen, 1991, "The Price.
		Cooney is the cofounder of Children's Television Workshop and originator of the popular children's TV show Sesame.
		The automaker, however, did not consider the GM spokesman Jay Cooney said there is no evidence that the rollover.
	www.99hosted.com /names17078.html (243 words)

	About Joan Holman, Chief Enlightenment Officer
		Joan has been a consultant to the Sister Rosalind Schools and Clinics of Massage and the Sister Rosalind Christian Ministries since 2001.
		Joan is the author of "Hands That Touch, Hands That Heal," the biography of Sister Rosalind.
		Joan is responsible for the creation, development and design of this book as well as the publishing, distribution and marketing of the book.
	www.holman.com /joanbio.html (1146 words)

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		We all know that Grover and Kermit reinforce rather than undermine the values we work so hard to teach our children, showing kids every day what it means to share, to respect differences and to recognize that it's not easy being green.
		Joan Ganz Cooney has proven in living color that the powerful medium of television can be a tool to build reason, not reaction, for growth, not stifling, to help build young lives up rather than tear them down.
		Gore have pointed out on so many occasions and as their recent family conference on media and the family demonstrated, the numbing effects of violence or the numbing inability to concentrate that comes from overexposure to mindless, repetitive programming are things that we have to fight against.
	clinton6.nara.gov /1995/09/1995-09-29-president-remarks-in-medal-of-freedom-presentation.html (3866 words)

	Henson, Jim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It was not until 1969 (and the commencement of a public television experiment called Sesame Street) that Jim Henson and his Muppets became a household word.
		Sesame Street was the brainchild of Joan Ganz Cooney.
		Frustrated by the lack of quality children's programming, Cooney proposed a television program especially for pre-schoolers which would incorporate the stylistic devices of advertisements (jingles, etc.) to sell learning.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/H/htmlH/hensonjim/hensonjim.htm (1259 words)

	Joan Ganz Cooney Biography / Biography of Joan Ganz Cooney Biography
		Although few know her name, parents and children all over the world love the work of Joan Ganz Cooney (born 1929), who founded the Children's Television Workshop and created some of the most famous educational programming in television history, including "Sesame Street," and "The Electric Company."
		Cooney, the youngest of three children, was born November 30, 1929, in Phoenix, Arizona, to Sylvan C. and Pauline Reardon Ganz.
		Early on, Cooney developed a strong sense of civic responsibility, which she credited to the influence of a priest named Father James Keller and his Christopher Movement, a 1950s Catholic group that encouraged Christians to work in communications.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/joan-ganz-cooney (246 words)

	Edison Schools Announces Election of Board of Directors
		New members of the Board include: Christopher Cerf, Joan Ganz Cooney, Reverend Floyd Flake and Jonathan Newcomb.
		Joan Ganz Cooney is the Chairman, Executive Committee of the Children's Television Workshop.
		Cooney created Sesame Street and co-founded the Children's Television Workshop as its Executive Director in 1968.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/11-30-2000/0001377019&EDATE= (928 words)

	SECRETARY-GENERAL SALUTES HONOUREES AT UNA-USA DINNER FOR DEEP DEDICATION TO IMPROVING WELL-BEING OF OTHERS
		It’s especially exciting to be here to pay tribute to this year’s honourees -- Oprah Winfrey, Joan Ganz Cooney and Pete Peterson. All of them are Americans who have demonstrated, through their lives and work, a deep dedication to improving the well-being of their own country and the well-being of people around the world.
		I am equally envious of Joan Ganz Cooney’s gift for using communication in the service of education, and I don’t think anyone has been more successful than Joan.
		Oprah, Joan and Pete, you are an inspiration to all of us in this room and to many, many others who are not here with us tonight.
	www.un.org /News/Press/docs/2004/sgsm9513.doc.htm (643 words)

	Jane Ganz Cooney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1969, Joan Cooney had a good idea for a TV programs.
		Today 14 million kids tune in each day for Sesame Street.
		Jane Ganz Cooney has made TV better for kids.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/womenenc/cooney.html (95 words)

	City Journal Autumn 1995 \| On Sesame Street, It's All Show by Kay S. Hymowitz
		Cooney had the revolutionary idea of teaching through the jazzy techniques of commercial television: quick cuts, animation, humor.
		Alert to all of these trends was Joan Ganz Cooney, the woman whom Carnegie Corporation president Lloyd Morrisett had hired to explore the potential of television for teaching children.
		Cooney brought to Sesame Street her shrewd grasp of the lessons of this still young and developing medium-its techniques both of production and of marketing.
	www.city-journal.org /html/5_4_on_sesame_street.html (4712 words)

	Children's TV creator tells how we got to 'Sesame Street'
		The idea for the show originated with Cooney, 75, now of New York City, who co-founded the Children's Television Workshop (now Sesame Street Workshop) in 1968.
		Cooney, a 1995 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, was also instrumental in creating shows such as The Electric Company and 3-2-1 Contact.
		She was in Phoenix last week to visit the new exhibit, Sesame Street Presents: The Body at the Arizona Science Center.
	www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/arizonaliving/articles/0521qasesame0521.html (772 words)

	Social Diary 10/04/04 - Dwelling in the Place of Possibility
		Honorees were Oprah Winfrey with the 2004 Global Humanitarian Action Award, and Joan Ganz Cooney and Pete Peterson (husband and wife in real life) were honored with the Global Leadership Award.
		Cooney is a co-founder of the Children’s Television Workshop that has now had a profound effect on two generations of children all over the world, most famously through their production, “Sesame Street.”;
		Peterson has had a long and distinguished career in finance and government, serving in Presidential Administrations including the second Nixon Administration as Secretary of Commerce and in business as head of a major investment banking house and later as a founder of the Blackstone Group, a venture capital firm which is hugely successful.
	www.newyorksocialdiary.com /socialdiary/2004/10_04_04/socialdiary10_04_04.php (2471 words)

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