As the University of Maryland’s graduating class prepares to leap into the next stage of life, Kermit the Frog left the students with a message of connection and love.

Fox News did not see the funny side. “Imagine being a 22-year-old student, who’s graduating with a degree in aerospace engineering, and a frog from The Muppets is telling you to stay connected ...

who famously crafted the original Kermit puppet from his mother’s old coat and a pair of ping-pong balls. “Our pride in Jim Henson knows no bounds,” said UMD President Darryll J. Pines. “It is an ...

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The college said Henson invented Kermit by building the original frog puppet with one of his mother's coats and a ping-pong ball cut in half.

Muppets creator Jim Henson graduated from Maryland in 1960. A home economics major, he fashioned the original frog puppet from one of his mother’s coats and a Ping-Pong ball cut in half ...

Muppets creator Jim Henson graduated from Maryland in 1960. A home economics major, he fashioned the original frog puppet from one of his mother’s coats and a ping-pong ball cut in half ...

Muppets creator Jim Henson graduated from Maryland in 1960. A home economics major, he fashioned the original frog puppet from one of his mother’s coats and a Ping-Pong ball cut in half ...

KALISPELL (AP) -- The frog puppet sitting in Herb McAllister's living room seems like an unlikely choice for a subject of a feature film being shot in Bozeman and Livingston this summer.

As a home economics major, he fashioned the original frog puppet from one of his mother's coats and a Ping-Pong ball cut in half, according to a statement from the university. Henson died in 1990.