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Two Trine University graduates recently continued a family tradition that s been a century in the making.
Naomi Gollmer, a Flat Rock, Indiana, native .
ANGOLA â Somewhere, Mildred Gee has to be smiling.
Two of the 1921 Tri-State College graduateâs great-grandchildren participated in Trine Universityâs commencement ceremony on May 8, exactly 100 years after Mildred earned her teaching degree.
Great-granddaughter Naomi Gollmer, a marketing major from Flat Rock, was one of the members of Trineâs Class of 2020 who returned for the 2021 Commencement. Great-grandson Andrew Baughman of Rockford, Ohio, was a member of the Class of 2021, earning a degree in software engineering.
Family members took photos of both descendants with Mildredâs diploma, which had been passed down to Andrewâs mother.
âMy mother received Mildredâs diploma several years ago from Mildredâs oldest son Harold, my motherâs uncle, since my dad went to Tri-State and my brother was currently attending,â he said.