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Mister Rogers' neighbor: Meet the Springville reverend who was a classmates of Fred Rogers
The Rev. George Lower has met countless individuals throughout his global ministry, from Anchorage, Alaska, to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, but none are more recognizable than an ex-classmate from more than 60 years ago. While a student at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary in the early 1960s, Lower shared a Hebrew class with Fred Rogers — the host of the renowned children’s television show “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.” Sitting inside his Springville home on a sunny Wednesday afternoon, two days prior to Mister Rogers Day on Friday, 94-year-old Lower can happily recount the ...
