ElderCollege to visit Boston
FREMONT – The ElderCollege program at Terra Community College is hosting a trip to the Boston area Sept.
28 to Oct. 4. It will include such sites as the John F. Kennedy library and museum, Harvard Square and
Plymouth Rock. The group will also visit Salem, Mass., the coastal city that was the site of Salem
Witchcraft trials of 1692.
A few seats are still available. Cost is $615 based on double occupancy for this seven-day, six-night
trip. For more information, visit www.terra.edu/learning or call (419) 559-2255.
ElderCollege is open to the public, adults age 50 and beyond who share a common desire to learn. No
previous college experience is necessary.
Ore. man who quit college in 1932 graduates at 99
BEND, Ore. (AP) – An Oregon man who dropped out of college just short of graduation in 1932 has earned
his degree at age 99.
Leo Plass, of Redmond, received his diploma earlier this month from Eastern Oregon University in La
Grande, KTVZ-TV in Bend reports.
Plass says he was less than one semester away from graduating from what was then called Eastern Oregon
Normal School and starting a career as a teacher.
But Plass says it was the Depression, and a teaching salary of $80 a month wouldn’t cut it. So when a
friend offered him a spot in a logging outfit at $150 a month, Plass says he couldn’t pass it up.