*I grew up hearing clichés like “it’s never to late,” mainly from well-meaning people who were good at talking the talk even if they didn’t walk the walk.  But I’ll save all of that for my therapist…
That particular cliché — it’s never too late — I took to heart, and re-enrolled in college after having dropped out a handful of years earlier when my eldest daughter was born.  There was almost a decade between my initial enrollment in college straight out of high school and my earning that BA…
…and I was pretty damned proud about all of that until I read about THIS gentleman: Â Horace Sheffield finished his degree at 88-years-old, 58 years after he started! Â
Sheffield enrolled at Shorter University in 1959. Â In 1965, having earned 115 credits, he dropped out to raise his daughters and take care of his family.
“I had some daughters…and I couldn’t go to college and put them through [school], so I dropped out with 115 hours,” Sheffield said.
He spent decades serving and supporting his family, staying by his wife for 68 years until he lost her to Alzheimer’s disease a few years ago.
Two years ago, Sheffield decided to do something for himself: Â he re-enrolled at Shorter University.
Read more at EURThisNthat.
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