Allyson Reneau has spent the last couple of decades majoring in being a mom, but the mother of 11 from Oklahoma is resuming her academic career in style - at Harvard.
Reneau dropped out of the University of Oklahoma in 1981 to get married and raise a family, but the now-50-year-old Oklahoma City woman will begin graduate classes at Harvard on Monday. She'll fly to Massachusetts once a week to do her classwork. Her major: International Relations.
"Sometimes those dreams, you bury them," Reneau told The Associated Press. "You get so busy raising your family that you forget your identity." More...
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Reneau dropped out of the University of Oklahoma in 1981 to get married and raise a family, but the now-50-year-old Oklahoma City woman will begin graduate classes at Harvard on Monday. She'll fly to Massachusetts once a week to do her classwork. Her major: International Relations.
"Sometimes those dreams, you bury them," Reneau told The Associated Press. "You get so busy raising your family that you forget your identity." More...
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