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Alex Friedrich

The post-graduation plans of a 73-year-old Lake Superior College student

Never too old to come out charging. (LSC)

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Never too old to come out charging. (LSC)

Seventy-three-year-old Dewey Pihlman tells the Duluth News Tribune what his plans are after graduation (with honors) from Lake Superior College with an associate's degree in computer design engineering and machine technology:

“I’m going to do my own job search. I want to find an exciting job where I’m going to want to be at work every day.”

The Navy vet may be a new graduate, but he's not green: He owned his own tool-and-die business for three decades, so he has been around the block.

Read the full article here.