THANKS TO ANTHONY. THOUSANDS OF NEBRAASK STUDENTS WILL MOVE THEIR TASSELS FROM RIGHT TO LEFT THIS WEEKEND AND AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA OMAHA ONE WOMAN HAS BNEE WAITING FOR DECADESO T COMPLETE WHAT SHE STARTED KETV NEWSWATCH 7’S WAVERLY MONROE TAKES US TO BAXTER ARENA FOR THIS SPECIAL GRADUATE. MADELEINE ADAMS HAS BEEN WAITING ROUGYHL SIX DECADES F TORHIS MOMENT. 80 YEAR OLD FIRST STARTED AT UNO WHEN THE MASCOT WAS STILL THE INDIANS BACK IN 1960. WELL LIFE HAPPENED. OKAY EXPECTING MARY. SECOND CHILD THIRD CHILD DIVORCE MOVED DOWN THE STATE ADAMS WOULD MOVE TO MISSOURI AND THEN WORK. 8 FOR 15 YEARS BEFORE ENDING UP IN HONOLULU AND TNHE ARIZONA BEFORE SETTLING WITH HER DAUGHTER ROBIN WRITGH DAUGHTER. WHO LIVES IN TEXAS? SHE’S HERE TODAY. SHE BEGGED ME TO COME VISIT HER AND WHILE GETTING HER MOTHER MOVED IN RIGHT NOTICE SOMETHING. I NOTEDIC THATHE S HAD 40 CREDITS FROM UNO AND I SAID MOM, WHY DON’T YOU JUST FINISHED ADAMS AND ROLLED AND DID ONLINE CLASSES CREDITING HER DAUGHTER FOR PUSHING. ACROSS THE FINISH LINE. SHE USED TO WIN BENEATH MY WINGS. SHE REALLY IS RIGHT AND SHE’S MY BIGGEST CHEERLEADER THOUGH RIGHT WOULD TELL YOU HER MOM’S FINGLY FINE ON HER OWN AND SHE WOULD ALWAYS JUST KIND OF JOKINGLY. SAY WE WERE THE SMART ONES, BUT I WAS LIKE MOM YOU MADE US YOU’RE THE ONE WHO TAUGHT US RIGHT CULTURE AND INSPIRATION BECAUSE I DIDN’T REALIZEHE T WHOLE THING WAS THAT, YOU KNOW THAT THEY WERE9 1WHEN THEY HAD ALL YOU KNOW, 22 BY TIME. THEY HAD ALL THREE SHE REAYLL DROPPED OUT TO WORK FOR US. AMAD SAYS SHE’S FINALLY PUTNGTI A PERIOD ON HER EDUCATION CAREER. ALWAYS STOP MY CHILDREN. DON’T START ANYTHING. YOU CAN’T FINIS SHO I HADO T BE AN EXAMPLE, RIGHT? ADAM’S PLANS TO TAKE HER DEGREE AND USE IT FOR HER V
80-year-old finally earns bachelor’s degree from UNO
“I always told my children, ‘Don’t start anything you can’t finish,’ so, I had to be the example,” Adams says
Madeline Adams has been waiting roughly six decades to walk the graduation stage. The 80-year-old first started at the University of Nebraska Omaha when the mascot was still the Indians back in 1960.”Well, life happened. (I was) expecting, married, second child, third child, divorced, moved out of state,” Adams said. She would move to Missouri and work in real estate for 15-years before ending up in Honolulu.Then she moved to Arizona before settling with her daughter, Robin Wright.”My daughter who lives in Texas, she’s here today, she begged me to come to visit her,” Adams said. While getting her mother moved in, Wright realized something. “I noticed that she had 40 credits from UNO and I said, ‘Mom, why don’t you just finish,'” Wright said. Adams enrolled and did online classes. She credits her daughter for pushing her across the finish line.”She’s the wind beneath my wings, she really is and she’s my biggest cheerleader,” Adams said. Though Wright would tell you her mom’s flying fine on her own. “She would always kind of jokingly say, ‘We were the smart ones,’ but I was like, ‘Mom, you made us, you’re the one who taught us,'” Wright said. Wright calls her an inspiration. “I didn’t realize the whole thing was that they were 19 when they had one and 22 when they all three of us and she really dropped out to work for us,” Wright said. Adams said she’s finally putting a period on her education career. “I always told my children, ‘Don’t start anything you can’t finish,’ so, I had to be the example,” Adams said. Adams plans to take her degree and use it for her volunteer work as a CASA.
OMAHA, Neb. —
Madeline Adams has been waiting roughly six decades to walk the graduation stage.
The 80-year-old first started at the University of Nebraska Omaha when the mascot was still the Indians back in 1960.
“Well, life happened. (I was) expecting, married, second child, third child, divorced, moved out of state,” Adams said.
She would move to Missouri and work in real estate for 15-years before ending up in Honolulu.
Then she moved to Arizona before settling with her daughter, Robin Wright.
“My daughter who lives in Texas, she’s here today, she begged me to come to visit her,” Adams said.
While getting her mother moved in, Wright realized something.
“I noticed that she had 40 credits from UNO and I said, ‘Mom, why don’t you just finish,'” Wright said.
Adams enrolled and did online classes. She credits her daughter for pushing her across the finish line.
“She’s the wind beneath my wings, she really is and she’s my biggest cheerleader,” Adams said.
Though Wright would tell you her mom’s flying fine on her own.
“She would always kind of jokingly say, ‘We were the smart ones,’ but I was like, ‘Mom, you made us, you’re the one who taught us,'” Wright said.
Wright calls her an inspiration.
“I didn’t realize the whole thing was that they were 19 when they had one and 22 when they all three of us and she really dropped out to work for us,” Wright said.
Adams said she’s finally putting a period on her education career.
“I always told my children, ‘Don’t start anything you can’t finish,’ so, I had to be the example,” Adams said.
Adams plans to take her degree and use it for her volunteer work as a CASA.
