From left, Maureen Baker, 76, Adriana Peters, 80, and Cathleen Eddison, 89, wait to receive their high school diplomas during a graduation ceremony in Agassiz, B.C., on Wednesday June 19, 2013. The three completed an alternative high school program at the Agassiz Centre for Education. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
June 19, 2013 - 1:00 PM
VANCOUVER - A great-grandmother who has waited 56 years to get her high school diploma says she can finally cross that dream off her bucket list after her grad ceremony today in Agassiz (aga-SEE), B.C.
Maureen Baker says she has attended several high school reunions with her classmates from the 1950s but felt like an outsider because she never finished school.
Now, the 76-year-old will finally walk across a stage with two other seniors who have become like grandmothers to about a dozen teens who attend the same alternate school.
Baker says her granddaughter graduated from the same program last year and another granddaughter just got her high school diploma in Qualicum Beach on Vancouver Island.
Math was Baker's toughest course and English was the easiest because she's been a lifelong reader.
She says anyone who has regrets about not graduating high school should go for it because life is just too short to pass on something that important.
News from © The Canadian Press, 2013