The University of Iowa is making the materials donated to the school from retired journalist Tom Brokaw available to the public.   Brokaw, who graduated from Yankton High School, attended the school his first year of college and donated more than 90 boxes of materials to the school in November of 2016.  Library and Information Sciences graduate student Elizabeth Riordan took on the project of sorting through everything. She says it isn’t the largest collection they have, but took some time to go through.

 

Riordan says it was sometimes easy to figure out what each item was and there were sometimes when it took some research.

 

The collections is called “The Papers of Tom Brokaw: A Life & Career.”