Commencement Is a Family Affair for a Family of Grads
The University of Cincinnatis Commencement ceremony will truly be a family affair for 50-year-old Margie Stayton and her two children, Tamara, aged 27, and Benjamin, aged 23. All are marching at Commencement on Saturday, June 14.
We lucked out. Were all in the same afternoon ceremony, says Tamara, whos earning a bachelors in health sciences.
Benjamin will march away proudly with a bachelors in mechanical engineering while Margie achieves a degree in nursing.
I originally started in 1977, but it only lasted one year, Margie jokes of first becoming a licensed practical nurse in 1980 and then earning her associates degree at UCs Raymond Walters College in 1995.
Mom hit the books again in 2005, the same time Tamara decided to enroll in the College of Allied Heath Sciences; Benjamin was just a few years ahead, starting a five-year engineering program in 2003.
The only difficulty that ever arose, they admit, was during times when they all lived together and had to share the one family computer. Its not fun when you all have papers due at the same time, Tamara recalls with a smile.
The Staytons are carrying on a long-standing UC family tradition. Margies father, Irvin Zipperstein, 82, graduated from the UC College of Law (class of 49), as did her father-in-law, Charles Kimmel Stayton, 80, with a degree in civil engineering (class of 54). Charles mother, Ethel Kimmel (deceased), graduated from the College of Music (the forerunner to the College-Conservatory of Music) in 1911.
Caps off to the Stayton family!
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