Tom Brokaw joins Mayo Board of Trustees

Last update: February 18, 2008 - 7:51 AM

Award-winning TV newsman and author Tom Brokaw has been named to the Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees.

Brokaw, a native of South Dakota, joins the 31-member group of public representatives and Mayo Clinic physicians and administrators that is responsible for patient care, medical education and research activities at Mayo Clinic campuses in Jacksonville, Fla.; Rochester, Minn.; and Scottsdale and Phoenix.

Among the board's members: Former AT&T chief Robert Allen, the Carlson Companies' Marilyn Carlson Nelson, and Tom Daschle, former U.S. senator from South Dakota.

Brokaw was a White House correspondent for "NBC News" during Watergate and was anchor of "Today," from 1976 to 1981. He co-anchored "NBC Nightly News," and was named sole anchor in 1983.

His book "The Greatest Generation" details the heroics of Americans who fought and won World War II. The book title has stuck as shorthand for that generation, which also weathered the Great Depression and returned to America to fuel an economic boom in the years after the war.

--PAUL WALSH