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103-year-old Graduates High School

on Friday, April 17, 2015

At 103-years old, Marie Hunt has finally graduated from high school. Ms Hunt was unable to finish her high school education as a teenager in the 1920s, because of the tough 12-kilometre journey. 

“I was born in 1911, and there was no way that country kids six miles away could go to high school,” she said.

When she expressed that she always regretted not graduating, one of the nursing staff at the aged care home where she lives contacted the local high school to see if they could help make her dream come true.

With the support of her family and staff at the aged care home in the United States, Ms Hunt received an honorary diploma, 87 years after her classmates graduated in 1928.

“It’s something I always wanted, and I didn’t have the opportunity to go. And now, almost a hundred years later, here I am!” 

Watch the video of her graduation below. 

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