Grandmother, 88, barred from graduating college due to pregnancy clinches diploma at Maine university 60 years later
Grandmother, 88, barred from graduating college due to pregnancy clinches diploma at Maine university 60 years later
“I didn’t realize that it would mean so much to me, but I now feel that a hole in my heart has been healed,” a grateful Alexander said.
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Grandmother, 88, clinches diploma at Maine university 60 years after she was barred from graduating college due to pregnancy.
Ftfy
barred from graduating college due to pregnancy
WTF?
Here we had and have programs to help women in that situation!
USA is such a shitty country.
It was 1959 and it was because the schools wouldn't let her be a student teacher, a requirement for graduation which is...
Very 1959 America.
OK then the headline is wrong, because 2025 -60 is 1965.
Incredibly backwards 20 years after WW2 where women became way more accepted in work and education.Anyways congratulations and kudos to her for taking it now. 👍