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We Got to Experience It Together : Four-time Super Bowl Champ Walks Purdue Graduation Stage with Daughter 41 Years After He Left School Short of His Degree

Purdue President Mitch Daniels enters graduation on motorized couch

View Comments WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. Zooming into Ross-Ade Stadium on a motorized couch cart, Nathan Peercy delivered Purdue President Mitch Daniels to center stage, as “Born To Be Wild” played above the heads of more than 5,000 of Peercy s fellow graduation candidates. Well, everything else about your senior year was different, we thought, Why not this? How about a little appreciation for Nathan Peercy and Ethan Cox and this latest demonstration of Boilermaker ingenuity, Daniels said before starting his commencement address. The May 15, 2021, ceremony was the first in-person commencement event since fall 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the first outdoor ceremony since the early years of the university.

A Family Affair: 49er great Keena Turner graduates from Purdue four decades later, alongside his daughter

A Family Affair: 49er great Keena Turner graduates from Purdue four decades later, alongside his daughter By Sharon Song WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Former San Francisco 49er, four-time Super Bowl champ Keena Turner has plenty of notable memories that have taken place in a stadium. But on Saturday, at Purdue University’s Ross-Ade Stadium, he celebrated a momentous achievement, with his youngest daughter, that might just top them all.   49er great Keena Turner and daughter Ella graduate together from Purdue University on May 15, 2021. (Purdue Athletics) Dressed in matching caps and gowns, Turner and his daughter Ella both received their college diplomas from Purdue together. 

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