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Great-great-granny gets

Master’s Degree at 94
SYDNEY: A 94 years old Australian great-great-grandmother has become the oldest person
in the world to earn a masters degree, local media reported Thursday.
Phyliss Turner, Described by one of her sons as having:an amazing brain”, took her masters in
medical science at the University of Adelaide in South Australia.
Turner had been forced to lave school a the age of 12 to help mother care for the family after
her father abandoned them, the Daily Telegraph reported.
Nearly 60 years later she enrolled for a Bachelor of Arts degree in anthropology at Adelaide
and won a 12 month scholarship to study at the University of California.
“I entered university when i was 70 and i cane top inthe essay section when i did entry my
exam,” said the mother of seven, who has 23 great grandchildren and nine great-great-
grandchildren.
She graduated in 1986, did her honors in 2002 and then entered the university’s medical
schoolto do her masters.

(Source: The Jakarta Post)

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