Romper Room Reminiscing
Category: Local... TV & Radio...
Posted Tuesday, June 26, 2007 at 02:54 PM [GMT-6]

A couple of years ago, I posted about a local cartoon show from my childhood called The Admiral Foghorn Show. That post and another one about an artist who appeared on the show stimulated a number of comments and emails from folks who remembered the shows and/or the actors from the decade of the 1960s. A few people mentioned a similar show of that same vintage, Romper Room, the local version of which (the show was essentially a franchise that appeared in just about every market in the US, and a few overseas) featured Miss Judy.

I was a little older than the target demographic, and thus was more fixated on the cartoons of The Admiral Foghorn Show, but Miss Judy was still a part of the collective consciousness of anyone growing up in west Texas during that period. And so I was pleased to get an email from someone who'd found one of the aforementioned posts, although some of the content wasn't so pleasant. Here's an excerpt:

The email came from Doug DeBolt, who is the Newsletter Editor for GEMC / GEORGIA Magazine. Doug, who graciously granted me permission to post this, was born in Odessa in the 60s, but hasn't been back in almost twenty years. His mother, Judy Fulton, is now 67 and dealing with metastasized breast cancer. She's also an advocate for the implementation of electronic medical records as a way of sparing patients the trials of having to repeat their medical histories over and over to every new physician they encounter.

If you remember Miss Judy from your childhood, or if you had kids that watched her on Romper Room, you might want to add her to your prayer list. I'm sure that she and her family would appreciate it.

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