--- title: 103-Year-Old Wisconsin Woman Receives Her High School Diploma After 87 Years description: She's considering higher education too canonical: https://time.com/3821214/103-year-old-wisconsin-woman-receives-high-school-diploma/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-14T15:43:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T06:23:18.100Z article:section: U.S. og:title: 103-Year-Old Wisconsin Woman Receives Her High School Diploma After 87 Years og:description: She's considering higher education too og:url: https://time.com/3821214/103-year-old-wisconsin-woman-receives-high-school-diploma/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 103-Year-Old Wisconsin Woman Receives Her High School Diploma After 87 Years twitter:description: She's considering higher education too twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # 103-Year-Old Wisconsin Woman Receives Her High School Diploma After 87 Years ## Video: A 100-Year-Old Sex Therapist on Having Good Sex, Then and Now [Watch (HLS stream): A 100-Year-Old Sex Therapist on Having Good Sex, Then and Now](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/uJFYIrvP.m3u8) (3:13)  _Published 2014-08-20. A practicing sex therapist in New York City, Dr. Shirley Zussman has witnessed everything from the legalization of the contraceptive birth control pill to the AIDs epidemic in the 1980s to the rise of internet porn in the new millenium._ by [Kelli Bender/People](/author/people/) ## Kelli Bender/People Apr 14, 2015 3:43 PM CUT by [Kelli Bender/People](/author/people/) ## Kelli Bender/People Apr 14, 2015 3:43 PM CUT It’s never too late to graduate. Marie Hunt of Spring Green, Wisconsin, who would’ve graduated in 1928, received her high school diploma 87 years later, reports WKOW. The 103-year-old woman was given an honorary degree by River Valley High School at her assisted living center. Hunt completed middle school (up to eighth grade) but was forced to drop out of high school when she was unable to find a way to commute to and from class. Hunt spent her high school years helping to raise her eight younger siblings instead. While Hunt has led a happy life, she always regretted never completing her high school education. So Hunt’s nurse worked with River Valley to help make the milestone a reality. “It’s something I always wanted to do,” Hunt said. “And I didn’t have the opportunity to go and now, 100 years later, here I am!” Hunt is considering dabbling in some higher education now that she is a high school graduate, pondering whether she “might’ve been college material too.” _This_ [_article_](http://www.people.com/article/103-year-old-high-school-diploma?xid=IFT-Trending "undefined") _originally appeared on_ [_People.com_](http://www.people.com/people/ "undefined")_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3821214/103-year-old-wisconsin-woman-receives-high-school-diploma/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3821214/103-year-old-wisconsin-woman-receives-high-school-diploma/"},"headline":"103-Year-Old Wisconsin Woman Receives Her High School Diploma After 87 Years","datePublished":"2015-04-14T15:43:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T06:23:18.100Z","description":"She's considering higher education too","url":"https://time.com/3821214/103-year-old-wisconsin-woman-receives-high-school-diploma/","keywords":["Education"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kelli Bender/People"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/education/","name":"Education"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3821214/103-year-old-wisconsin-woman-receives-high-school-diploma/","name":"103-Year-Old Wisconsin Woman Receives Her High School Diploma After 87 Years"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"A 100-Year-Old Sex Therapist on Having Good Sex, Then and Now","description":"A practicing sex therapist in New York City, Dr. Shirley Zussman has witnessed everything from the legalization of the contraceptive birth control pill to the AIDs epidemic in the 1980s to the rise of internet porn in the new millenium.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/uJFYIrvP/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-08-20T13:40:15.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/uJFYIrvP.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3821214/103-year-old-wisconsin-woman-receives-high-school-diploma/","duration":"PT3M13S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3821214/103-year-old-wisconsin-woman-receives-high-school-diploma/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```