#TomBrokaw October 17
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October 2026 several of us are going to take on the 30-Day Celebrity Alma Mater Coach4aday Challenge. Each day we will identify a celebrity and share where they attended college. For Day 17 it is on TOM BROKAW.
Watching nightly news on America’s three big networks in the 1980’s and 1990’s featured Peter Jennings on ABC, Dan Rather on CBS, and Tom Brokaw on NBC. Brokaw authored the bestselling book The Greatest Generation (1998), which celebrates the Americans who grew up during the Great Depression and served during World War II.
Since Brokaw grew up in South Dakota I selected him to profile. He went to high school in Yankton SD and after graduating enrolled at the University of Iowa for a year. In his own admission beer and girls was his focus during his freshman year in Iowa City. After that misstep he enrolled at University of South Dakota where he actually graduated Phi Beta Kappa.
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Day 17-Tom Brokaw-University of South Dakota
Celebrity Tom Brokaw
Alam Mater: University of South Dakota
Why They’re Famous: Tom Brokaw is famous for anchoring NBC Nightly News from 1982 to 2004, becoming one of America’s most trusted and recognizable television journalists. He is also the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation, a book honoring Americans who endured the Great Depression and served during World War II.
College Connection: Tom Brokaw met his future wife, Meredith Lynn Auld, while they were teenagers attending high school in Yankton, South Dakota. They later both attended the University of South Dakota, and married in 1962 after reconnecting. Auld was Miss South Dakota in 1959
Interesting Fact: Brokaw was class president at Yankton HS and his wife was the class vice-president. He also has been diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma
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