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Jan 3, 2007

"It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity." --Francis Bacon

A Graduate at Age 100

In 1925, Marvin L. "Hub" Northen, with $100 in his pocket, hopped on a train that brought him from his hometown of Holland, Texas, to Baylor University. Eighty-one years later, at age 100, Northen officially became a Baylor graduate, the oldest in the school’s history. When the Great Depression hit in the late 1920s, Northen was forced to leave school because he had to work to help his family get by. He had one chemistry credit left. Shortly after his departure, Baylor mistakenly mailed Northen a diploma, but despite having a diploma, Hub Northen refrained from claiming to be a graduate throughout the many years. "To me, it speaks a lot about his integrity because he could have put it on the wall and only him and the Good Lord would have known it," said Gary Northen Sr., his grandson.