After getting married, gaining US citizenship, becoming a father and grandfather, at the age of 70, this man earns the long-awaited university degree.
Attending high school, a man who attended high school, had to abandon his studies to fight in World War II. Only at the age of 98, he was finally able to complete this stage of his academic life, being a true example of overcoming challenges and inspiration.
While attending high school, Margaret Thome Bekema had to interrupt her studies to take care of her younger siblings and her mother, a cancer victim. At the age of 79, she was awarded an honorary degree from the institution where she studied, in the US state of Michigan.
After seventy-two years of being involuntarily interned during World War II, this couple managed to achieve the difficult high school graduation diploma.
On the one hand, the 51-year-old father, on the other, the 25-year-old son, both completing graduation at the same time.
Alone and struggling, this woman raised her 5 children and only after taking care of her children, she managed to graduate in law.
“Seventy-three years old and it never stops. My aunt graduated today, and I'm so proud of her. If she can do it, so can we”, celebrated the niece.
Together with her son, this woman, after raising her 8 children, managed to reconcile her study routine with a strenuous workday.
A true proof that it's never too late to study. 93-year-old World War II veteran Glenn Holtz graduated from high school at the age of 93 at a high school in the US state of Illinois.
Thirteen years after her arrival in the United States, this Venezuelan emigrant celebrates her graduation from law school at the age of 55.
“My father just graduated at the age of 71. My mother wanted a beautiful image of him with the children,” reported one of them.
In a ceremony held in January 2019, Gaucho Simão Sklar, a resident of the city of Cachoeira do Sul, graduated in law at the age of 94. Enthusiastic about the diploma, the elderly man intends to take the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) test, and also start a postgraduate course.
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