Nola Ochs, 98 Years Old, To Get Master's Degree

HAYS, Kan. — A Kansas woman who at age 95 became the world's oldest person to graduate college is about to top that accomplishment three years later.

Ninety-eight-year-old Nola Ochs (Oaks) will receive a master's degree from Fort Hays State University in Kansas on Saturday.

Ochs, of Jetmore, set a short-lived record in 2007 when she graduated from Fort Hays with a bachelor's degree. A 96-year-old man in Taiwan broke the record last year.

The Hays Daily News reports that Ochs will reclaim top honors when she receives a master's in liberal studies with a history concentration on Saturday.

Ochs says she intends to apply for a graduate teaching assistantship in Fort Hays' history department for next spring.

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Information from: The Hays Daily News, http://www.hdnews.net

Comments

[AirViceMarshalPark]

03:37 AM on 05/13/2010

MA in History? Piece of cake when you remember actually voting for FDR.

Just kidding. Even surviving the GRE in her 90s is remarkable, not to mention completing the degree requirements. Somewhere along the way she, also, had to become computer literate.

I don't see anything standing in the way of her PhD. She can title her dissertation "As I Remember".

[MyrtleJune]

09:20 PM on 05/12/2010

Dang! I thought I was the oldest ever to get a bachelors!!!

Great inspiration, Nola!!! You go!!

Congratulations!

[Tressie Mc]

07:05 PM on 05/12/2010

Get it, Ms. Nola!!! I love it.

[morefromLA]

05:54 PM on 05/12/2010

F...ing remarkable. And wants to teach while she does more serious study? More power to her.

[seachange525]

02:59 PM on 05/12/2010

AWESOME, Ms. Ochs! Thank you for being a terrific role model! Do I see a PhD in your future...?

[Sunflo]

02:57 PM on 05/12/2010

Love it! Well done Ma'am.

[Smirk]

02:05 PM on 05/12/2010

Kudo, Ms. Ochs!

[Gladys1963]

01:47 PM on 05/12/2010

Go, Nola!

Congratulations!