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At 79, North Canton man gets his GED diploma

by Pat Coate | January 13, 2009
“Nothing ever happens when you say, ‘I can’t.’ ”
- Randall Wilt, septuagenarian college enrollee

North Canton, Ohio, USA - Randall Wilt grew up on a farm in rural western Maryland, where he fixed tractors and ran a thrashing machine by age 10.

This semester, he’ll sit in a college classroom for the first time, with students a quarter of his age.

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