Mature student
A US man has finally graduated after 50 years.
Clarence Garrett – who gave up his studies to concentrate on raising a family in the 40s – returned to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee as a full-time student last year and got a standing ovation as he collected his degree.
The black ex-World War II soldier – who was cheered on by his wife, children and grandchildren – said he loved his university experience.
The 87-year-old said: “After all my children went to college … I said, ‘Why shouldn’t I?’ And I have loved it ever since." University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Chancellor Carlos Santiago said: “We are not sure if Clarence Garrett is the oldest to ever graduate from UWM, but we do know that there had not been a graduate for some time who was born when the president was Woodrow Wilson.”
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