Nola Ochs took first college course in 1930; later became world’s oldest graduate

When 21-year-old Alexandra walked across the stage at Fort Hays State University in 2007 to collect her bachelor's degree, she had a rather unusual fellow graduate beside her. Her grandmother, Nola Ochs, was also receiving a degree that day. The difference was that Alexandra was 21 and Ochs was 95.For Ochs, the ceremony marked the end of a journey that had begun 77 years earlier, when she took her first college course at the same Kansas institution in 1930. She had started her education during the Great Depression, then spent decades teaching, farming, raising a family and eventually returning to the classroom. By the time she finally received her bachelor's degree, she had lived through some of the biggest events of the 20th century.But the extraordinary part of her story was not simply that she went back to college at 95.