Lifelong learners finish another odyssey
By Greg Kline
Sunday May 11, 2008
Robert K. O'Daniell
Ted Rowland of Champaign and Shirley Evans of St. Joseph sing a song at the end of a mini musical play in which their team, the a-MUSE-ments, explained how a Greek muse inspired Lewis Carroll to write "Alice in Wonderland" during their portion of the Senior Odyssey Tournament on Saturday at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana.
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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