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Darlene Faye Gillespie is a former child actress, most
remembered as a singer and dancer on the original
The Mickey Mouse Club television series on ABC from
1955 to 1958.

Original run on NBC-TV: September 12, 1959 – January 16, 1973

Willard Scott in his Ronald McDonald costume.

Willard Herman Scott, Jr. was born in  Alexandria, Virginia.

Scott is best known for being a television weatherman on the NBC 
show Today. He was also the creator and original portrayer of
Ronald McDonald, the primary mascot of the McDonald’s fast-
food restaurant chain.

Dr. Seuss was born Theodor Seuss Geisel in Springfield, Massachusetts
(March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991)

Author and cartoonist Theodor Geisel wrote forty-six immortal children’s books
under the pen name of Dr. Seuss. His most notable works include The Cat in
the Hat (1957), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1957), and Green Eggs and
Ham (1960).

In his early adulthood, he attended Dartmouth college, where he became the
editor-in-chief of the school’s humor magazine, the Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern.