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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.
"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 1936,
according to Stanford's Graduate School of Education. After earning her
bachelor's degree in education in 1940, Hislop remained at Stanford to pursue a
graduate degree while teaching, the university said on its news website.
But then love and war intervened.
By 1941, Hislop had completed her coursework and was preparing to turn in her
final thesis when the man who would become her husband was called to serve
during World War II, Stanford's news website reported.
So she put her educational plans on pause to get married and left campus before
graduating.
"I thought it was one of the things I could pick up along the way if I needed
it and I always enjoyed studying, so that wasn't really a great concern to me –
and getting married was," she told Stanford's news website.
After several years of moving around the country as an Army wife, Hislop
eventually settled with her husband and two children in Yakima, Washington,
after the war, she told the
Yakima Herald-Republic in 2018.
"I didn't return to teaching, but I feel I put my teaching certificate to good
use serving [on] committees and on boards and trying to improve the educational
opportunities every chance I got," she told the publication.
Thus began an educational career spanning more than 80 years at municipal,
county and state levels in Washington, Stanford's news website reported.'
Via Lisa Stranger and Kenny Chaffin.
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