(quoted directly from The Chronicle of Higher Education)
Retirement never quite agreed with Richard Smith.
“You move to Florida, you play golf, you go to the beach, and you get on your wife’s nerves,” he says. “I decided pretty quickly I had to do something else.”
For Mr. Smith, that “something else” turned out to be not a weekly bridge game or a model-airplane hobby, but a Ph.D. in American history. For the next several years, he chipped away at the required coursework, archival research, and finally, the grandfather of all academic projects: a book-length dissertation.
The effort paid off in August, when, at the age of 87, he received his doctorate from Florida International University, becoming the oldest graduate in the institution’s history.
(For the full article, visit The Chronicle for Higher Education)
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