Peter Yarrow, one third of the 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, was born in New York City on May 31, 1938. As a teen, Yarrow attended New York’s High School of Music and Art, which would later become known as LaGuardia High School. His school would become immortalized in the 1980 film “Fame.” As a child, Yarrow was imbued with a passion for political activism by his mother. In Scott R. Benarde’s book “Stars of David,” Yarrow explains how his mother’s beliefs would later influence his own work. “My mother was an idealist who believed there should be greater economic fairness in the world. I grew up with that value system,” he recalls.After graduating from Cornell University in 1959, Yarrow returned to New York where he connected with Noel "Paul" Stookey and Mary Travers. The trio quickly gained a following in New York’s folk revival scene. They were signed to Warner Brothers Records in 1962 and would go on to record one of the signature hits of the folk revival movement, “Puff The Magic Dragon.”