Ohio woman gets diploma 63 years after a half-credit of gym class kept her from graduation
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}An Ohio woman who missed graduation in 1952 because she needed a half-credit of gym class has received her high school diploma more than six decades later.
The Morning Journal (http://bit.ly/1HXAYHY ) reports that a graduation march played Thursday while 80-year-old Susan Bostik Reynolds was pushed in a wheelchair to a stage at Lorain's Clearview High School. She wore a blue graduation cap for the surprise ceremony in a new auditorium at her old school.
She says she waited a long time for the diploma and was glad her children could see it. She says she'd fallen short of graduation requirements because an appendix problem sent her to the hospital.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Guidance counselor Jean Branzel says the ceremony illustrated the importance of getting a diploma, no matter how long it takes.
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Information from: The Morning Journal, http://www.morningjournal.com