Madeline Adams has been waiting roughly six decades to walk the graduation stage. The 80-year-old first started at the University of Nebraska Omaha when the mascot was still the Indians back in 1960.”Well, life happened. (I was) expecting, married, second child, third child, divorced, moved out of state,” Adams said. She would move to Missouri and work in real estate for 15-years before ending up in Honolulu.Then she moved to Arizona before settling with her daughter, Robin Wright.”My daughter who lives in Texas, she’s here today, she begged me to come to visit her,” Adams said. While getting her mother moved in, Wright realized something. “I noticed that she had 40 credits from UNO and I said, ‘Mom, why don’t you just finish,'” Wright said. Adams enrolled and did online classes. She credits her daughter for pushing her across the finish line.”She’s the wind beneath my wings, she really is and she’s my biggest cheerleader,” Adams said. Though Wright would tell you her mom’s flying fine on her own. “She would always kind of jokingly say, ‘We were the smart ones,’ but I was like, ‘Mom, you made us, you’re the one who taught us,'” Wright said. Wright calls her an inspiration. “I didn’t realize the whole thing was that they were 19 when they had one and 22 when they all three of us and she really dropped out to work for us,” Wright said. Adams said she’s finally putting a period on her education career. “I always told my children, ‘Don’t start anything you can’t finish,’ so, I had to be the example,” Adams said. Adams plans to take her degree and use it for her volunteer work as a CASA.
Madeline Adams has been waiting roughly six decades to walk the graduation stage.
The 80-year-old first started at the University of Nebraska Omaha when the mascot was still the Indians back in 1960.
“Well, life happened. (I was) expecting, married, second child, third child, divorced, moved out of state,” Adams said.
She would move to Missouri and work in real estate for 15-years before ending up in Honolulu.
Then she moved to Arizona before settling with her daughter, Robin Wright.
“My daughter who lives in Texas, she’s here today, she begged me to come to visit her,” Adams said.
While getting her mother moved in, Wright realized something.
“I noticed that she had 40 credits from UNO and I said, ‘Mom, why don’t you just finish,'” Wright said.
Adams enrolled and did online classes. She credits her daughter for pushing her across the finish line.
“She’s the wind beneath my wings, she really is and she’s my biggest cheerleader,” Adams said.
Though Wright would tell you her mom’s flying fine on her own.
“She would always kind of jokingly say, ‘We were the smart ones,’ but I was like, ‘Mom, you made us, you’re the one who taught us,'” Wright said.
Wright calls her an inspiration.
“I didn’t realize the whole thing was that they were 19 when they had one and 22 when they all three of us and she really dropped out to work for us,” Wright said.
Adams said she’s finally putting a period on her education career.
“I always told my children, ‘Don’t start anything you can’t finish,’ so, I had to be the example,” Adams said.
Adams plans to take her degree and use it for her volunteer work as a CASA.
