Talk:Joan Ganz Cooney

Barely literate
This article is barely literate, although full of interesting information. It stops abruptly. Can't some knowledgeable person fix it up?

This is a response to the unsigned comment above. I concur. This article is on a historically significant person and I regret that I am not the "knowledgeable person" who can fix it. Someone who is truly steeped in the history of CTW or PBS children's programming could do it. I am especially troubled by the sentence including the clause "she grew up more affluent than her family had money," which smacks of freshman English essays. Pressreleasecop (talk) 01:35, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

WSJ says award will be named after Cooney
Just a heads up, the Wall Street Journal says that the Sesame Workshop gala award will be named after Cooney from now on, 14 years in. -- Zanimum (talk) 14:08, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

Her father
"Her father, Sylvan Ganz, was a native Phoenician who was born in the U.S. so that his mother could receive medical care after his birth"

This is interestingly confusing. I read that her grandfather, Emil Ganz, was a German native, Civil War veteran, and a 3-time Phoenix mayor. It doesn't suggest that her grandmother (The article on Emil recites that "Ganz married Bertha Angleman of Kansas City, Missouri in 1883") was not a U.S. native or traveled to the Middle East at any point). So her father was adopted?  And was that part of the world (present-day Lebanon, I suppose) really called Phoenicia back then?

I guess I could listen to the entire video interview (n. 3, ~ 30 minutes), but I'd rather not. Terry Thorgaard (talk) 20:48, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

Uh, is it possible that Phoenician in this context refers to natives of Phoenix, Arizona? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.19.177.245 (talk) 16:44, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

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Correct surname
Some time back, an editor changed all references to Mrs. Cooney's surname to "Ganz Cooney", and even added a template to that effect at the top of the article. This is incorrect; see MOS:SURNAME. Consequently, I'm making the corrections now. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 05:49, 26 November 2019 (UTC)