Editing Jay Ward (section)

==Early life==
Jay Ward was born<ref name="CaliforniaBirthIndex"/> Joseph Ward Cohen Jr., the son of Joseph Ward Cohen (1890–1967) and Mercedes Juanita ([[née]] Troplong) Ward (1892–1972).<ref name="ancestry-1940-Mercedes-J-Clark">{{cite web |title=Mercedes J Clark in the 1940 Census |url=https://www.ancestry.com/1940-census/usa/California/Mercedes-J-Clark_2hjmlx |website=Ancestry.com |access-date=11 December 2021 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="animationwhoandwhere-jay-ward">{{cite web |last1=Campana |first1=Joe |title=Finding Jay Ward |url=http://animationwhoandwhere.blogspot.com/2007/04/finding-jay-ward.html |website=Animation - Who & Where |access-date=11 December 2021 |date=21 April 2007}}</ref> He was raised in [[Berkeley, California]], attending [[Willard Middle School|Frances E. Willard Intermediate School]]<ref>[[Frances E. Willard]]</ref><ref name="archive.org-historyofberkele00wate">{{cite web |last1=Waterman |first1=S. D. |title=History of the Berkeley schools ... an account of the school system of Berkeley from its establishment to date |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofberkele00wate |website=via: [[archive.org]] |publisher=Printed by the Professional Press |access-date=11 December 2021 |location=Berkeley, CA |date=1918}}</ref> as "J.&nbsp;Ward".<ref name="willardmiddleschool-jay-ward">{{cite web |title=Jay Ward |url=https://www.willardmiddleschool.org/jay-ward/ |website=[[Willard Middle School]] |access-date=11 December 2021 |quote=In Willard’s yearbook he is listed simply as “J. Ward.”}}</ref>

He obtained his [[undergraduate degree]] at the [[University of California, Berkeley]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Torrez |first1=P.G. |title=Fiat yuks: Let there be laughs |url=http://www.ucop.edu/ucophome/commserv/4cartoon.html |website=Office of the President |publisher=[[University of California]] |access-date=11 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19991008032127/http://www.ucop.edu/ucophome/commserv/4cartoon.html |archive-date=8 October 1999 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="scott6">{{cite book|first=Keith|last=Scott|title=The Moose that Roared|url=https://archive.org/details/moosethatroaredt00scot|url-access=registration|location=New York|publisher=[[St. Martin's Press]]|year=2000|isbn=978-0312283834}}</ref> In 1947, he obtained his [[Master of Business Administration|MBA]] from [[Harvard Business School]].<ref name="alumni.hbs.edu-4962">{{cite web |title=Re: Fred Newman (MBA 1978); John Giudice (MBA 1978); Rich Wailes (MBA 1977); Sue Dickie (MBA 1978); Linda Carlson (MBA 1980); Kerr Taylor (OPM 39) |url=https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/stories/Pages/story-bulletin.aspx?num=4962 |website=Alumni | date=December 2015 |publisher=[[Harvard Business School]] |access-date=11 December 2021 |quote=I put him in a special category of entertaining HBSers, including the late Jay Ward (MBA 1947), who developed and produced The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show. —Richard Wailes (MBA 1977) via alumni.hbs.edu}}</ref>