What do you mean I researched the wrong school?!
Call it a Wheaton Whoops. TODAY anchor Ann Curry (“Good Morning. Good Morning.”) is “mortified” after confusing the nation’s two Wheaton Colleges while giving the commencement address in Norton, Massachusetts last weekend.
In an otherwise complimentary keynote speech, Ann lauded a list of distinguished alumni, including the evangelist Rev. Billy Graham, King of Fright Wes Craven, and former House Speaker Dennis Hastert.Only one problem: None of those men went to Wheaton in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts — they all attended the other Wheaton College in Illinois. In fact, Wheaton was an all-girls school well into the 1980s.
That’s why it’s a Wheaton Whoopsie.
On Monday, a shamefaced Ann sent a letter to Wheaton (Massachusetts) President Ron Crutcher and the student body apologizing for the gaffe and asking for forgiveness. In her apology, she misspelled the name of actual grad Lesley Stahl.