Man graduates after 66 years

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85-year-old Harold Jones received his diploma after a 66-year from college.

19 July,2011 12:38 pm

Jones formally received his university diploma after having missed his 1945 graduation due to World War II. Jones was called to complete Royal Navy training in 1945 and was never able to collect his diploma. He studied at Cardiff in 1942, where his mother enrolled him in engineering classes. Jones went on to have a successful career in engineering, though, working in Wales, the Middle East, London, the Netherlands and South Africa.Now grandfather of eight graduated with students more than 60 years his junior. He says that he probably is the oldest student by 40 or 50 years but that is relatively unimportant and he found it nice to be back in school after so many years.