Arthur Ross, a 71-year-old retiree, graduated Thursday after returning to the University of British Columbia to complete a degree he'd started 54 years ago.
“It’s unfinished business,” Ross, now 71, remembered thinking in 2016. “Let’s see what happens, one course at a time.”
Ross doesn’t mind the distinction. He was thrilled to rekindle — and properly wrap up — his time as a student, he told The Washington Post. “For most young people who get the acting bug, it is a bug you cannot let go,” Ross recalled. So he left the university after two years to enroll in a Montreal theater school, leaving an unfinished transcript behind.
In January 2017, Ross found himself back at school, on a campus that looked different from what he remembered. Ross had changed, too. He had to stop himself at times, he said, from speaking too much in discussion sections and bringing his trial lawyer experience to bear — “I had to learn to keep my mouth shut!” — but said that classmates and professors were supportive when he shared his unusual story.
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