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.
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