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NEWS > U.S.A. > 95 YEAR OLD FINALLY GRADUATES FROM HIGH SCHOOL
95 YEAR OLD FINALLY GRADUATES FROM HIGH SCHOOL
May 28 2010
Falkville, AL -For most people the years spent in High School are one of two things; the best time of their lives or a time best left forgotten. Regardless of the quality of the experience, High School is something that no one can ever forget. First loves, 
best friends, and your first real step into adulthood, those years are cherished and cursed by most, but for everyone they are very much unforgettable.
Of course part of that experience is no doubt due to the encapsulated nature of the experience. Unlike your working years, High School lasts for a very short time and most of the experiences are new making them stick in a person’s memory much more distinctly than the day-to-day drudgery that overtakes most real lives. Whether cherished or abhorred, High School sticks in people’s memories, though for some they have done much more than that. Such is the case with 95-year old Earlene Harvey-Morris who just recently graduated from High School after being enrolled for more than 80-years. It was in the depression that Harvey-Morris began her tenure in school and now nearly a century later finally earned her diploma in what appears to be the longest amount of time ever spent in school by anyone anywhere.
“This is just something I never thought would happen. Some people had it very rough in the depression but I was never hungry or cold, but we didn’t have much. We were happy. We didn’t know any better,” Harvey-Morris told MSNBC. “I just simply didn’t get around to it. I’ve been preoccupied with other things over the last 80 years and I haven’t had as much time to focus on studies as I would have liked to have had. I’ve lived a good life though but I am happy to finally get it over with. Now I can get around to living my life without this hanging over my head anymore.”
During her tenure at Falkville High School Harvey-Morris has found time to marry and raise a family but has apparently been unable to focus on school work.
“I had trouble in High School. It was far from my favourite time in life but there are 
things that I certainly remember very fondly. Of course for me it was a lot less than this lady. I did it in four years with two summer school sessions. I do know a few people that took longer but nowhere near this long to get it done,” said Scrape TV Education analyst Ken Ridley. “Frankly, I just wanted to get it done and over with after the first year. I can’t imagine having to spend three quarters of a century doing it. That’s remarkably long but it does show her tenacity and will power. Perhaps not her intelligence, though I’m not judging her, but at least she has a significant amount of will and that goes a long way.”
Harvey-Morris stated that her favourite subject was math though she still had trouble with ‘new math’ which began almost fifty years ago.
“I like math as well though I excelled in English. I’ve always heard this thing about ‘New Math’ but I guess if you grew up with it, it wasn’t new to you. For this lady though if you have been doing it for thrity years in a particular way and then everything changes it could really have been a shock to the system. Perhaps that’s why it took her so long to get her diploma,” continued Ridley. “It must have been really difficult for her to get along with her classmates though. I think that must have been the most difficult part of the whole experience. More than education, High School is about learning how to be a grown-up and deal with the real world and as she aged, it would have been more and more difficult to interact with her peers. Hopefully though she can take the lessons she did learn and apply them to her life going forward.”
School officials were outwardly happy but were apparently ‘glad to be rid of the old bag’.
Mike Michaels, American Correspondent
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