Reply #38: "I'd rather be over the hill than under it."

[Breeze54]

"Do not regret growing old, it is a privilege denied many!"
-- Anonymous

Stories like the one below keep me going.
I read about a 90 yr. old woman who is still working, the other day!
Compared to them? You and I are babies! :P


Father, son to graduate college together in May

Thursday, March 22, 2007 — Time: 8:52:52 PM EST

By CHERYL R. CLARKE

http://www.sungazette.com/lifestyles/education/articles.asp?articleID=16031

MANSFIELD —

Paul Otruba was once a student of Richard F. Mason, an astronomy professor at the university
here in the 1970s; now he’s studying journalism under Mason’s son, Dan, at the same university.



Paul, 58, was a student of Richard Mason when he was in his mid-20s, Dan Mason said, but had
to quit school twice to support his family.

In May, Paul will finally graduate from college with a bachelor’s degree in liberal studies
and a minor in environmental studies, one step ahead in line of his 22-year-old son, Victor.

Victor studied filmmaking at Pittsburgh University for two years before transferring to Mansfield.

Paul needed 33 additional credits to graduate, and has worked part-time to complete them
over the last 30-plus years.

Paul is taking Dan’s magazine production class as part of his class load. There are nine students
in the class, Dan said, and Paul is the oldest.

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"Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives."
--Maurice Chevalier

"You're only young once. After that you have to think up some other excuse."
-- Anonymous

"I'd rather be over the hill than under it."
-- Anonymous

"Old age ain't no place for sissies."
--Bette Davis

"Please understand that no matter how old I get, I will always be a kid at heart!"
-- Anonymous

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty."
--Henry Ford

"Anyone who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn."
-- Anonymous