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Tomorrow, May 17th, West Virginia College will present diploma to the oldest student in United States history America. A man will graduate from high school in ninety-four years!
The institution’s press release states that Anthony Gross He began college seventy-five years ago, in 1940. His was nineteen years old. A year of study in those days was worth everything fifty dollars. Seventeen months later, the American became ill and was forced to stop studying. After recovering, he found a job and studied it for some time. When Anthony Wanted to Continue training, his mother fell ill, and he, caring for her, again did not I was able to attend classes. As a result, the young man got a job as a driver and did this job until retirement, continuing to dream of finishing college, as always considered education an important life stage.
Now, approaching a century of age, Gross finally performed his dream and became a bachelor in the field of art, finding himself a graduate of the same college, which he entered as a young man .. During an interview with reporters, an elderly man joked that Now she’s going to take a break, then she’ll take up a degree Master’s. Senior citizen has become not only the oldest among students USA, but also by the American who spent the most time for higher education.
Time
