MORGANTOWN, West Virginia, May 4 -- West Virginia University posted the following news:

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Meet the grads: After 65 years, WVU Potomac State College student graduates

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Carl Smith is a man who believes in starting what he finishes.

But when he watched his children, grandchildren, and even his wife go off to institutions of higher learning and earn degrees that propelled their lives forward, he felt pangs of regret.