Monday, May 10, 2010
Mom Awarded Degree After Her Death
KENTUCKY...
Here's a story that should make us feel good. A Jackson County woman who went back to college so her youngest son would return to classes has been awarded a degree after her death. Union College officials in Barbourville considered Marsha Banks' exemplary grade point average in waiving the final course she needed. Banks already held college degrees when she went back to school in August 2006 after asking her son Aaron what it would take to get him to complete his undergraduate degree. He had dropped out of Eastern Kentucky University in 2005. Marsha Banks died in February after being diagnosed with lung cancer in early 2008. On Saturday, she graduated with a major in sociology and a minor in psychology. Aaron is on track to graduate next May with two majors and a minor.
Here's a story that should make us feel good. A Jackson County woman who went back to college so her youngest son would return to classes has been awarded a degree after her death. Union College officials in Barbourville considered Marsha Banks' exemplary grade point average in waiving the final course she needed. Banks already held college degrees when she went back to school in August 2006 after asking her son Aaron what it would take to get him to complete his undergraduate degree. He had dropped out of Eastern Kentucky University in 2005. Marsha Banks died in February after being diagnosed with lung cancer in early 2008. On Saturday, she graduated with a major in sociology and a minor in psychology. Aaron is on track to graduate next May with two majors and a minor.
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