Retired Engineer Is Loving Life as a 70-Year-Old Journalism Student
Ed Connolly commutes periodically with his wife Lyn from Whitehall, N.Y. to Oxford, Miss.
Here’s a perfect bookend to the recent coverage of 9-year-old Pennsylvania journalist Hilde Kate Lysiak.
Meet Edward Connolly, a 70-year-old journalism student at the University of Mississippi (a.k.a. Ole Miss). The Whitehall, N.Y. resident – a retired engineer and Vietnam veteran – decided to get a new degree in five-month on-site increments. His wife Lyn is also a concurrent mature student at Ole Miss, focused on history and music. From the hottytoddy.com profile by Jeff McVay:
“Subjectively I guess you would call me a junior based on the fact that I am taking 400 and 500 level courses,” Connolly said, “but I don’t have a schedule for a graduations date.
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