1. Lloyd Morrisett was one of the founders of the Children's Television Workshop, the organization that created the children's television show Sesame Street, which Morrisett created with Joan Ganz Cooney from its debut on November 10,1969, until his death from natural causes on January 15,2023 at his San Diego home, at age 93.
Lloyd Morrisett assumed he was headed for a life of academia like his father, a professor at UCLA.
Lloyd Morrisett attended Oberlin College and received his BA in philosophy in 1951.
Lloyd Morrisett became an Oberlin College trustee and was chairman of the board from 1975 to 1981.
Lloyd Morrisett concluded that in the instance of dart throwing, it is not possible.
In 1956, Lloyd Morrisett landed a teaching job in the School of Education at the University of California at Berkeley, but he was having doubts about academic life.
Lloyd Morrisett first encountered the Carnegie Corporation, a philanthropic foundation focused on education, while he was at the Social Science Research Council.
Lloyd Morrisett joined Carnegie as an executive assistant to Gardner in 1959, later becoming vice president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Lloyd Morrisett became increasingly aware of the educational disadvantages of poor and minority children and wanted to find a way to better their access to preschool learning.
In February 1966, at a dinner party at Cooney's Gramercy Park apartment, she and Lloyd Morrisett talked about his work with early education.
Lloyd Morrisett initiated the foundation's program in communications and information technology, replacing the foundation's previous focus on medicine.
Lloyd Morrisett died of natural causes at his San Diego home, on January 15,2023, at the age of 93.