CHICAGO (AP) - June 6, 2009 Eleanor Benz left Chicago Public Schools' Lake View High in 1936
during her senior year to take a job. Over the following decades
she moved to the suburb of Gurnee and had 15 children, 54
grandchildren and 37 great-grandchildren.
Benz attended night school for typing and bookkeeping, but she
recently told one of her daughters that never completing high
school was one of her greatest disappointments. Her children
contacted Lake View, and the school approved Benz's diploma.
This week, at her 90th birthday party, Benz's family presented
her with the diploma and a 2009 gown and cap with a 1936 tassel.
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Information from: the Chicago Sun-Times, www.suntimes.com
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