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Born 17 October 1948, Chicago · attended Notre Dame, expelled · died 20 May 2025
The tie, stated exactly: George Wendt — Norm Peterson of Cheers — was born and raised in Chicago. He attended the University of Notre Dame and was expelled after receiving a 0.00 grade-point average in the first semester of his junior year; in his own later account he "sort of lost my focus," and "actually, I dropped out but I didn't inform the university." He finished at Rockhurst College, with a B.A. in economics in 1971, and his comedy was formed at The Second City in Chicago, whose alumnus he became in 1975. The Notre Dame tie is attendance without formation — the comedy is Chicago's — and it prints here at exactly that size, as the record's discipline requires: the expulsion is a documented fact of his biography, not a South Bend comedy credit.
Sources
- The Wendt biographical record — the Chicago birth and raising, the Notre Dame attendance and the 0.00 expulsion in the junior year's first semester, the Rockhurst degree of 1971, the Second City alumnus standing of 1975.
- Wendt's 1995 interview with Catholic News Service, as carried in his obituary coverage — "I sort of lost my focus"; "I dropped out but I didn't inform the university."