“Worth Repeating” is a weekly feature on the EngAGE Blog that will bring you previous posts that we think are still timely, interesting, or just plain fun! From 5/6/12:
Two stories of mature college graduates:
CINCINNATI – “Clell Elliott knows what he’s talking about when he tells anyone wanting a college degree to never give up. The 89-year-old Ohio man will graduate Saturday [5/5] from a university in southern Ohio where he began as a freshman more than 50 years ago…He was the only one of a dozen siblings to attend high school, but his sharecropper father insisted he drop out as a sophomore in 1938 to work the 201-acre farm in Carter County where the family grew tobacco, corn and other crops…Elliot’s three children – ages 69, 62 and 59 – will be there to see their father graduate. ‘We’re very proud of him,’ said son Terry Elliott, also of Franklin Furnace. “It’s awesome to be 59 and preparing to attend your father’s college graduation.’” Read more here.
LISMORE, Australia — “An Australian who got into the Guinness World Records by getting a degree in law at 91 has done it again with a master’s at 97…Allan Stewart was to receive his degree in clinical science Friday [5/4] from Southern Cross University, The Australian reported. It is his fourth degree, achieved 72 years after he graduated from the University of Sydney with a degree in dentistry.” Read more here.
