New college grad is 88. Here’s why it took 58 years to get a degree

Retired pastor Horace Sheffield kept the faith and received his diploma nearly six decades after first enrolling in a Georgia college. The 88-year-old may have been the oldest graduate in Shorter University’s class of 2017, but his youthful eagerness to finally earn his bachelor’s degree left university officials, friends and his family in awe. “This […]