99-year-old graduates from US university with inspiring message for young
This is graduation season, and there are lots of good tales of perseverance out there. But it would be hard to top the story of Doreetha Daniels. You know how some people take some time off between high school graduation and the start of college? That's what Daniels did. And last Friday, Daniels, who lives in California, was due to receive her Associate of Arts degree in social science from College of the Canyons. Not bad for a 99-year-old whose high school years ended almost eight decades ago.
This is graduation season, and there are lots of good tales of perseverance out there. But it would be hard to top the story of Doreetha Daniels.
You know how some people take some time off between high school graduation and the start of college? That's what Daniels did. And last Friday, Daniels, who lives in California, was due to receive her Associate of Arts degree in social science from College of the Canyons.
Not bad for a 99-year-old whose high school years ended almost eight decades ago.
"I've had a few bumps in the road," Daniels told fellow students recently at the school's Canyon Country campus. "But I have overcome them."
Daniels was guest speaker in a class called, appropriately enough, Career and Life Planning. The bumps she referred to included a minor stroke, which left some paralysis in her right hand, and being forced, at 97, to stop driving.
"When the bumps come," she told the youngsters, "just pick yourself up and say, 'I'm going to go ahead.' And go ahead."
