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| Ice Core Sample (Photo by Lonnie Thompson) |
At 81 years of age, he has enrolled in a master’s program at the University of Texas (UT) Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Study. Not long before, Orr had graduated from UT with a major in “classical archeology.”
His life experience has served him well in these endeavors.
Having directly helped to extract an ice core from Greenland, Orr learned that this sample was instrumental in determining the date of the Santorini eruption. The explosive event was previously dated 1525 B.C., but is now known to have occurred “between 1620 and 1600 B.C.
Unlike many of today's university students, Orr is in it for the sheer love of learning. So what
comes next? Orr answers: I’m just leaving myself open to whatever may
develop.
Resources
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good-news/81-year-old-former-bastrop-mayor-goes-back-to-school-%E2%80%94-again/ar-AAGe9hn?OCID=ansmsnnews11
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