{"id":1031007,"date":"2022-03-22T19:02:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T19:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/22\/look-101-year-old-man-presented-with-high-school-diploma\/"},"modified":"2022-03-22T19:02:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T19:02:55","slug":"look-101-year-old-man-presented-with-high-school-diploma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/22\/look-101-year-old-man-presented-with-high-school-diploma\/","title":{"rendered":"Look: 101-year-old man presented with high school diploma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/101-year-old-man-presented-with-high-school-diploma.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 22 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A 101-year-old man who had to drop out of high school in West Virginia in the 1930s was presented with a diploma more than 80 years later.<\/p>\n<p>Jefferson County Schools in West Virginia said Merrill Pittman Cooper, 101, attended Storer College, a former high school in Harper&#8217;s Ferry, but he had to drop out during his senior year in 1938 when he and his mother relocated to Philadelphia for financial reasons.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Cooper expressed regret about never graduating during a 2018 visit to the former Storer College campus, leading relatives to reach out to Jefferson County Schools.<\/p>\n<p>Those efforts culminated this month in Cooper being presented with an honorary diploma by Jefferson County Schools in a graduation ceremony attended by his family.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jefferson County Schools is committed to helping every student, young or old, fulfill their dreams,&#8221; Jefferson County Schools superintendent Bondy Shay Gibson-Learn said. &#8220;For Mr. Cooper, that meant receiving a high school diploma. We are honored to help make that dream a reality.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 22 (UPI) &#8212; A 101-year-old man who had to drop out of high school in West Virginia in the 1930s was presented with a diploma more than 80 years later. Jefferson County Schools in West Virginia said Merrill Pittman Cooper, 101, attended Storer College, a former high school in Harper&#8217;s Ferry, but he had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1031008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}