At age 95, she finally gets her high school diploma

There was a historic even at the Monday evening grad events of the Falkville seniors of Alabama. Marching alongside the young teens of the grad class was 95 year old Earlene Harvey-Morris, whose dreams of her own diploma we’re snatched away 77 years ago during the great depression.
“This is just something I never thought would happen,” Harvey-Morris told the Falkville class of 2010, who adopted her and made her an honorary class member.

She had a typical high school girl’s life, partaking in sports and school plays with friends. But the Depression hit the largely agrarian northern Alabama community especially hard, and the local school board was forced to close the school just a semester before Earlene’s graduation.
Opinion: I think this old lady is very determined and I think it’s a great thing that the school system could offer her especially because it sounds like she had a normal high school life until the great depression hit. This is a very upbeat story in a time where there aren’t to many upbeats stories so it really warms someone’s heart when they read about an old lady finally doing something she always wanted too.



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