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I stand up: 96-year-old Italian graduated from university

A 96-year-old man graduated in Philosophy and History, with honors, at the University of Palermo, on the island of Sicily (southern Italy), and became the country’s oldest student.

Is about Giuseppe Paternò, born on September 10, 1923 to a low-income Sicilian family, who at 96 achieved his dream: to pass a university degree.

Don Giuseppe started working 90 years ago, at seven, helping his father in a brewery, and at 31 he obtained the surveyor diploma in a night school, which served to be hired by the state railway company, where he was 42 years old, until his retirement.

However, I had always wanted to go to university, so he took advantage of his retirement to pursue higher education.

Three years ago he enrolled at the University of Palermo and now he has a degree in Philosophy and History, with excellent grades.

Paternò finished the race in an especially difficult year, since – as a consequence of the coronavirus crisis – he had to take the last exams of telematically.

However, he was able to defend his thesis in person, accompanied by his two sons and four grandchildren.

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