By Staff Reporter (staff@latinospost.com) | First Posted: May 30, 2014 01:38 AM EDT

Jessie Blanco, a 99-year-old woman, graduated in 1939 from Beal College in Bangor, but in order to get her diploma she had to pay a fee that she couldn’t afford back then.

After 75 years, Blanco’s friends were finally able to get her diploma by the current president of the Beal College, Alan Stehle, in a very special ceremony held just for her.