A 90-year-old woman will finally walk across the stage and receive her diploma, 71 years after she first enrolled in college.
Joyce DeFauw, then Joyce Viola Kane, started her freshman year at Northern Illinois University in 1951 with a plan to graduate with a degree in home economics. But those plans changed when DeFauw met a special man at church who stole her heart, she told CNN Thursday. “I went to school for three and a half years, but decided to leave after I met him.” DeFauw said. The special man was Don Freeman Sr.
Instead of walking to campus to attend class, she did so behind a computer screen from her retirement home. “It was my first computer,” DeFauw said, “My children had to teach me how to use it.” Dooley added her uncle Don, DeFauw’s oldest son, helped set up the computer, get a camera for the computer and taught her how to navigate her school email. When the Covid-19 pandemic began in 2020, she was thankful for the computer, Dooley said.
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