“I’ve learned that I’ve got to have patience with myself,
and that I could never give up, even when I was sick and I wanted to give up.” — Catherine Seward
Fulfilled a lifelong dream when she graduated from high
school while she was in her 60s; she was valedictorian of her graduating class.
Now at 80 years old, she has reached her next milestone — graduating from Carleton University with an English degree in June 2012. It
took her 11 years to complete her BA due to obstacles such as illness and
course load.
As a teenager, she became ill and had to stop attending high
school. She later took stenography courses and worked many years as a civil
servant and later moved to Toronto to work for a life insurance company. She
eventually moved back to Ottawa where she married and raised a family.
She has now finished her very first short story and plans to
keep writing and possibly publishing her work.
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