After a Full Career, Entertainment Journalist Graduates From Penn State

Mary Ann Norbom, 67, got her diploma this weekend.

They don’t typically write graduation stories like this.

It starts in 1969. Halfway through her junior year, Mary Ann Norbom moved away with her husband to Philadelphia, where she began a job with TV Guide. Over the next four decades, per a lively write-up by Penn State, she would get to cover a lot of fun topics for a succession of other outlets, beginning with Star magazine in New York:

One of her most memorable stories was about Dolly Parton.

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