Joan Ganz Cooney
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Joan Ganz Cooney is an American television writer and producer. She is one of the founders of Sesame Workshop, the organization famous for the creation of the children's television show Sesame Street,
Cooney in 1985
Joan Ganz Cooney, in her apartment, portrait by Lynn Gilbert, 1977, New York
Emil Ganz
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Emil Ganz was a German-born American businessman and two-time mayor of Phoenix, Arizona.
Joan Ganz Cooney
…Ganz, a banker, and Pauline (née Reddon), a homemaker. Her father was from Phoenix. Her father was Jewish and her mother was Catholic. Her grandfather Emil Ganz was a tailor from Walldorf, Thuringia, in Germany, who immigrated to the U.S. in 1858 and was president of the First National Bank of Arizona and mayor…
Ganz in 1915