Lifelong learners finish another odyssey

Yo, graduates – new diploma in hand and thinking school is out not just for the summer, baby, but for good – take one more lesson from folks like Doris Downs, 78, of Savoy and Mamie Brown, 49, of Champaign, who graduated after a fashion themselves this weekend.

"I'm probably going to be a lifer as far as going to school and getting educated," said Brown, who graduated Saturday from the Odyssey Project, a college-accredited course in the humanities offered at no cost to people living below the federal poverty level.

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