In 1930 she took her first college course during the Great Depression, in 2007, she finally received her Bachelor’s degree: How Nola Ochs became one of ‘world’s oldest graduate’?
When 21-year-old Alexandra walked across the stage at Fort Hays State University in 2007 to collect her bachelor’s degree, she had a rather unusual fellow graduate beside her. Her grandmother, Nola Ochs, was also receiving a degree that day. The difference was that Alexandra was 21 and Ochs was 95.For Ochs, the ceremony marked the…