Education
Keeping It All in the Family
By CC Thomas
W
hat made the May graduation
by her daughter, Kristi Goodwin, 21, and
Computers were hard; plus math had
at Indiana University Southeast
her mother, Loretta Rife, 71, just a couple
changed tremendously. If it hadn’t been
so unique was not necessarily the age
of years later.
for Kristi showing me how to do this,
of the oldest graduate but the family
I never would have made it.” All three
connection that went along with it. On
women had tough obstacles to overcome,
that May afternoon, three life-long
Each of the three
and all three graduated with GPA’s of .0
dreams came true when a grandmother, focused on different areas
or better. Kristi was a young mother, and
a mother, and a daughter all walked
of their degree: Loretta in
Trezenda went to school part time while
through the graduation line. Even the
business law and politics,
keeping a job and family intact.
smallest family member six-year-old
Elizabeth Goodwin, sporting a hat with
Trezenda in labor, and
Most of their classes were the
“Go Mama and G-mama,” was on board.
Kristi in math. same, and that helped the trio, too.
All three women graduated with the same
Trezenda explained, “Although we each
degree, Bachelor’s in General Studies, on
While Loretta probably had the had our own study groups, it made it
the same day.
longest wait for her dream to be fulfilled, easier when one of us didn’t understand
there is some discussion about which one something and another one picked up on
It wasn’t planned that way
had it the toughest. Loretta explained, it better and could explain it.”
though. Trezenda Moran, 41, was the
“I was absolutely scared to death. I
first to start on the path in 2002, followed
also was working 40 hours a week.
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