| "Miss
Anne" Shadbolt graduated from the University of Illinois in Champaign where
she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech, Radio and Television. She
also attended the University of Missouri in St. Louis for post-graduate
studies in Radio and Television.
KSD Radio/KSD-TV
(St. Louis' NBC affiliate) provided her first on-air talent job in commercials
on "St. Louis Hop", as well as experience in all areas of production. |
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Miss
Anne's Romper Room from the WDCA-20 Studios
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| Relocating
to Colorado, Anne was a fashion model/commentator, free lance model, radio
talk show moderator and Adult Ed teacher for several years before taking
the job of Romper Room teacher on WKEF-TV in Dayton Ohio. |
Candid
Shot of Channel-20's Romper Room from June of 1968
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| Anne
returned to St. Louis for about a year... before accepting an offer from
WDCA-TV 20 to be their first
Romper Room teacher in the summer of 1967. |
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Another
Candid Shot of WDCA-TV 20's Romper Room from June of 1968
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addition to her teacher's duties, the pretty, blue-eyed Anne was drafted
as on-air talent for other productions as shown on the magazine
cover below. |
The
cover of The Communication User magazine, March-April 1970 Issue
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Miss
Anne did her share of personal appearances at DC area malls in support
of the program. As these photos show, her "do-bees" sure loved to meet
her.
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Click
to see more of the Sales Brochure for Miss Anne's Romper Room
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Anne
also helped raise public awareness of worthy causes, as evidenced by her
participation in the 1969 WDCA-TV Children's Hospital Telethon (below).
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(l
to r) Herb Davis, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Miss Anne Shadbolt,
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Captain 20 (John Kallimonis) Photo Donated By Dick Dyszel
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| "A
Chick-Chick Here & A Chick-Chick There..." Miss Anne and her students
are joined by Dr. Calvert, Mr. Bombard, and Mr. William Walker of the USDA,
and some groovy chicks from Mrs. Omstead and Hines Hatchery in Olney, MD.. |
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| Anne
Shadbolt (along with her familiy) moved from the DC area in 1977 to a major
city in the southwest United States where she's lived ever since... and
where she has a successful marketing company. She says that her memories
of Washington DC and Channel-20's Romper Room are among her fondest.. |
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Photos
and articles courtesy of Anne Shadbolt via her loving daughter Jennifer
Wynne Farmer
who
produces and directs family oriented films for theatrical release and television.
www.pumpkin-pictures.com
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