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Nola Ochs (née Hill) (November 22, 1911 – December 9, 2016) was an American woman, from Jetmore, Kansas, who in 2007, at age 95, graduated from college and was certified by Guinness World Records as the oldest person in the world to become a college graduate, until Shigemi Hirata in 2016.
In 1997 Mary Fasano made news by becoming the oldest person ever to earn a Harvard degree when she graduated from 1997: the extension school at the age of 89. Fasano worked as forelady at a sewing factory in Warren, R.I., where she met her husband, Arcangelo.
6 de feb. de 2024 · LONDON. A 95-year-old man from Surrey has become the oldest ever person to graduate from Kingston University. Previously trained as a psychiatrist, Dr. David Marjot decided to return to...
19 de dic. de 2023 · 90-year-old woman becomes oldest person to complete master's degree at Texas university. Payne was born to uneducated textile workers in South Carolina. Despite graduating high school in 1950, 90 ...
13 de dic. de 2022 · Ramon Antonio Vargas. Tue 13 Dec 2022 01.00 EST. Joyce DeFauw of Illinois has given a whole new meaning to the term super senior, used for students who take longer than the usual four years to get...
17 de jul. de 2021 · The oldest ever person to graduate was Japanese student Shigemi Hirata who was 96 and 200 days when he completed his art and design degree in 2016. Mr White, by comparison, was a sprightly 96...
At the age of 98, Ochs earned her diploma, and Guinness World Record holder named her as the oldest college graduate at the time. Princess Cruises hired her as guest lecturer on one of their cruises to the Caribbean. Not done with college yet, Ochs also earned her MA and went on to become a graduate teaching assistant.
