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88-year-old grandmother graduates decades after being barred because of pregnancy
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1:34Now PlayingJoan Alexander was awarded a teaching degree by the University of Maine after being denied more than six decades prior. The 88-year-old says she was barred from student teaching, a requirement for her degree, because she was pregnant with her first child. Tom Llamas speaks with the recent graduate and has her story.
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