'I was saying to him, 'Grandpa, you did it, we did it, college is over, you did it,'' his granddaughter Melanie said.
Rene Neira has been working on his college degree since the 1950s. Work and family took priority, so Neira enrolled in classes on and off. This year, his decades of hard work paid off.
In 2016, when Neira was 82 years old, he enrolled at Palo Alto College in San Antonio, Texas — the same school where his granddaughter was starting as a freshman. "We never had classes together, but there were times we would meet up for lunch in the cafeteria, or sometimes we would be studying side-by-side in the library," Salazar said.
Rene Neira was awarded a degree of recognition. He was able to attend graduation and cross the stage with his granddaughter, who pushed him in his wheelchair.Neira didn't officially earn the credits needed to graduate. But his granddaughter and family advocated for him, asking the university to honor him and his hard work in some way.
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