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A 105-year-old woman who started at Stanford University in 1936 recently returned to campus after an 83-year absence to receive her graduate degree — and she’s been inspiring people ever since.
Virginia Hislop graduated from the Palo Alto, California, university a few weeks ago with a master’s degree in education, Stanford’s news website said.
Daniel Schwartz, dean of Stanford’s Graduate School of Education, shared the details with Fox News Digital in a telephone interview.
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“I realized I [didn’t] have to worry about giving a graduation speech,” Schwartz told Fox News Digital about the experience. He said he would just “introduce Virginia – or ‘Ginger’ – and that’ll be enough to set the mood.”
Hislop first enrolled at Stanford as an undergraduate student in …