It was 1952 and they were in the midst of a long-distance courtship that began at Rollins College in Florida. A letter she lost almost immediately in a flurry of excitement as she rushed to a pay phone to give him her answer: “Yes, yes, yes!”īoth 24, she just 11 days his senior, they were friends but not yet lovers. Fred Rogers proposed to Sara Joanne Byrd in a letter.
