Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Velna Graduates from the University of Wyoming in 1968
Nineteen Sixty Eight. Fifteen years after I graduated from the University of Wyoming. Velna receives her bachelor's degree in elementary education with honors from the University of Wyoming after taking courses at Penn State, Colorado State, U of Wyoming, and working while I piled up two Master's degrees and a Ph.D. and she accumulated four of her five children. Talk about perseverance. Mother received her bachelor's degree in 1957, I think, after years of correspondence courses, summer school, late night study and course completion after the milking was done and while she existed by herself in a lonely teacherage at Valley in South Fork above Cody for a long winter. We do persevere, don't we?
And the reward is far reaching, affecting more people than those who made the huge sacrifice to obtain those precious degrees.
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