PORTLAND, Ore. — Kathleen Rogers thought she was going to be on NBC’s ‘Today’ show for a segment called ‘Never Too Late To Educate’
on earning advanced degrees later in life.
Rogers, a grandmother, has just earned a doctorate in nursing the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. As host Hoda Kotb started the interview, she stopped as if an error was made.
She told a surprised Rogers that the segment was actually called ‘Thanks a Million, Mom.’
After a video tribute from her three sons, two of them walked on the set. They described how tough it was to keep it all a secret from her.
NBC also arranged for Rogers to stay gratis in a Dominican Republic resort called Dreams Dominicus La Romana.
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