93-Year-Old Ohio Woman Receives High School Diploma
Dorothy L. Liggett tosses her graduation cap into the air after receiving her belated high school diploma on her 93rd birthday on Wednesday, March 9, 2016, in Fairlawn, Ohio. She was joined by her children John Huston (left), Carol Weiner, Donald Huston, Diane Bailey and Jan Larkin for the celebration. Liggett was a few weeks from graduation from Akron's North High School in 1942 when officials discovered she was married. Liggett and her late husband, John Huston, ran away to Kentucky to get married after her husband was called into the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. (Michael Chritton/Akron Beacon Journal via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT
Dorothy Louise Liggett has lived through World War II and the Cold War, has read a biography or autobiography on nearly every United States president and each’s spouse, and has raised grandchildren and even great-grandchildren.
And, according to the Akron Beacon Journal, Liggett, the 93-year-old mother of five, graduated high school in 2016.
On March 9, Liggett’s birthday, Akron Public Schools Superintendent David W. James presented her North High School diploma to her, correcting a 74-year-old injustice.
To have invested 13 years in school, to have been a good student and still not receive a diploma because of that, was simply wrong.
— David W. James, superintendent, Akron Public Schools
