Name	Katie Couric
Height	5' 1½
Naionality	American
Date of Birth	7 January 1957,
Place of Birth	Arlington, Virginia, USA
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Katie Couric was born in Arlington, Virginia to Elinor Hene, a homemaker and part-time writer, and John Martin Couric Jr., a journalist at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the United Press in Washington, D.C. Couric's father was Episcopalian and her mother was Jewish.[1] Her maternal grandparents, Berthold B. Hene and Clara L. Froshin, were the children of Jewish immigrants from Germany.[2] In a report for The Today Show, she traced her paternal ancestry back to a French orphan who immigrated to the U.S. in the nineteenth century and became a broker in the cotton business. Couric attended Yorktown High School, in Arlington Virginia.[3] She enrolled in the University of Virginia in 1975, graduating in 1979 with a degree in American Studies. She was a sister in the Delta Delta Delta sorority. At the University, she served in several positions at the school's award-winning daily newspaper, The Cavalier Daily. During her third year at the University, Couric was chosen to live as Head Resident of The Lawn, the heart of Thomas Jefferson's academic village.