Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, March 7, 1991 TAG: 9103070275
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Fred Rogers, host and creator of television's "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood," will attend homecoming activities Friday at Rollins College, his alma mater in Winter Park, Fla.
The soft-spoken, sweater-wearing pioneer of children's television received a degree in music composition from Rollins in 1951. He will be honored with a stone placed in the private school's Walk of Fame, a campus pathway lined with stones engraved with the names of prominent people.
Rogers and his wife, Joanne, who graduated from Rollins in 1950, will meet faculty and students and visit the Rollins Child Development Center in addition to joining in class-reunion activities.
\ Michael W. Smith, the gospel singer, said he's amazed President Bush had time for a White House chat hours after announcing a cease-fire in the Persian Gulf War.
Smith, who was in the Washington area for a concert, met with Bush for about 15 minutes last Thursday. Bush announced the cease-fire late Feb. 27.
"To actually sit and talk with the president at such an historic moment - the day of the cease-fire - just blew my mind," Smith said.
Smith, whose latest album is "i 2 [Eye]," first met the president when he performed in a 1989 TV special, "Christmas in Washington."
\ Dana Plato, an actress on "Diff'rent Strokes," was freed from jail on armed robbery charges after selling her story to a supermarket tabloid to raise $13,000 bail, jail officials said.
The former TV star, who was released from jail on Monday, is accused of robbing a video store of $160 after threatening the clerk with a pellet gun.
Plato, 26, had been working at a Las Vegas dry cleaner's in recent months.
CORRECTION
PUBLISHED CORRECTION RAN SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 1991
Because of an error by the Associated Press, gospel singer Michael W. Smith's latest album was incorrectly identified in the People Column in the March 7 Extra section. Smith's latest album is "Go West Young Man."
Memo: correction