Hope VanBennekom has spent a lot of time thinking about Saturday afternoon’s walk across the commencement stage at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. “It’s been almost 20 years in the making,” she said recently. VanBennekom, who is taking part in a commencement ceremony for graduates of the College of Arts and Sciences, will earn her bachelor’s degree in communication while graduating summa cum laude with certificates in public relations and health communication as well as a certificate from the Pierre Laclede Honors College. That’s all coming nearly two decades after she received her associate degree in early childhood education. She’d known for a while that she wanted to return to school, but she kept putting it off while raising her two kids and helping support her husband Kurt’s budding military and legal career.
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