Joan Hunter Dunn the engagement is sheer fantasy, but my life was very like the poem." She married Harold Wycliffe Jackson, a civil servant in the Ministry of Information, in January 1945, at St Mark's Church in Farnborough. Betjeman was invited, but was unable to attend. The poem was republished in Betjeman's book "New Bats in Old Belfries" in 1945, and was later mentioned in Flanders and Swann's "Tried by Centre Court". Joan Jackson accompanied her husband to Malaya after the war, where he ran a radio station. They then lived in Singapore, before returning to the UK in 1957. Harold worked for
Romper Room aired on KSTW (at the time as KTNT-TV) Channel 11, from Tacoma. She hosted the show from mid-1965 into the 1970s. Miss Joan (Jane Pirtle) hosted the St. Louis version on KTVI from 1957-1962. She was replaced by Miss Lois (Lois Witzig), who hosted during the 1960s and early 1970s. Constance Anne Bohlin hosted the D.C. version on WTTG Channel 5 from 1957 to 1967, as "Miss Connie". Miss Barbara Balay was one of the first hosts of "Romper Room" on KAKE. She later married one of the first producers on the morning show, David Carl Dunn. He later wrote