105-year-old great-grandmother gets her Stanford degree after 83 years

 

Eighty-three years after leaving her master's program at Stanford University for love, 105-year-old Virginia "Ginger" Hislop returned to earn her degree, proving it's never too late to get an education.

Hislop's journey began in 1936 at Stanford University School of Education, where she pursued a bachelor's degree in education. She graduated in 1940 and immediately started working on her master's degree in education, aiming to become a teacher, reports Today. 

However, after completing her coursework and before submitting her final thesis, Hislop decided to put her ambitions on hold.

World War II was in full swing, and her then-boyfriend, George Hislop, a GSE student in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, was called to serve. This news prompted the couple to marry, and Hislop left her program.

"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," Hislop said, according to a release from Stanford Graduate School of Education.

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