82 year-old Becomes Texas Tech's Oldest Graduate - KCBD NewsChannel 11 Lubbock

5/17/03

82 year-old Becomes Texas Tech's Oldest Graduate

Texas Tech held its graduation Saturday morning. Among the grads at Texas Tech, Saturday, was 82-year-old William Whitfill. Whitfill left Tech in 1942 to join the Air Force and was just 17 hours short of earning his degree. But Whitfill went back to school two years ago and earned 24 hours. William Whitfill will become Tech's oldest graduate.