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Friday. April 28, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Paula Hotaxer/KANSAM
Mother, son to share graduation after sharing campus, cafeteria
by Kris M. Bergquist Kansan staff writer
detty Lynn and her husband Chuck walked down the hill to graduate from the University of Kansas in 1964. Their 9-month-old son Randy was in the audience.
Randy and Betty Lynn
It's now 1989, and 47-year old Betty Lynn
and 25-year-old Rosebear, the two
friends, huddle in the hall together.
Betty and Randy Lynn said that with a
number of five students, it didn't seem too
unusual.
"We're really just normal people," Betty Lvon said. "This just kinda happened."
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Randy Lynn and Betty Lynn are graduating from KU. Another son, David, will be graduation from the University of Pennsylvania the same day. Chuck Lynn, the father who goes to University of Missouri-Kansas City, will attend Daly Lynn's graduation in Philadelphia. The Lynns' other son, Eric, is a ninth-grader at Shawnee Mission West.
"Everybody in the family is a student," Randy Lynn said. "There's a big, big, big, big emphasis on education in my family, and it's just carried over to all of us."
Randy Lynn will receive a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering. Betty Lynn received it during training in November. She said she originally wasn't going to walk down the
Everybody in the family is a student. There's a big, big, big, big, big emphasis on education in my family, and it's just carried over to all of us.
hill, but changed her mind after realizing that she and her son were graduating the school.
Skippy Savage, Overland Park third-year
new student, is engaged with Randy Lynn and is attending a summer camp.
"It's going to be a busy day," Savage said, laughing.
Although Betty Lynn and Randy Lynn didn't have classes together, Betty Lynn said they often met for lunch at Wescoe Terrace cafeteria.
"People would come up and see my mom and a backpack and I'd say, 'Hi, meet my mom,' and I'd really get some good reactions." Randy Lynn said, laughing. "Later, I see them and they'd ask me what my name is on the backpack. She's just going in school," I'd say.
"It's been really fun seeing her on campus and eating lunch with her," Savage said. "What was really funny was the strange reactions Randy would get from his friends
when he introduced her as his mom. There was a lot of double-taking."
Randy Lynn said that sometimes he and his mom saw even each other studying in the school.
"I don't think she ever thought I studied before," Randy Lynn said.
At their home in Overland Park, grade cards were posted on the refrigerator.
Betty Lynn graduated from KU with a secondary education degree in 1963. She said that her family's motto is "To be an educator."
"Mom always had the best grades," Randy Lynn said. "I'm always at the bottom or my mother David at Pennsylvania is. Now that dad is going to school, he gets the good grades."
"I went to (last Spring)'s) Ku Klux Klan randy with Randy and it was really reminiscent of the 1960s with the Union rallies". Betty Lynn said. "It was kinda like deja vu, but this was much more calm. I wasn't frightened at all."
Randy and Betty Lynn said they usually were the oldest students in their classes.
Randy Lymn graduated from high school in and dropped out of school for a while to pursue a career in accounting.
"I think I was about the oldest in the program," Betty said. "But it didn't matter to anyone else, and it didn't matter to me. It was wonderful coming back to KU."
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