One for each year Hilda Brown has been alive.
Brown turned 110 on Jan. 20. The Newfoundland native, who spent much of her life in Fort Lee and then the Bayville section of Berkeley before moving to Tallwoods six years ago, has beaten the odds in more ways than one.
Brown has joined the supercentenarian club people age 110 or older. There are about 75 in the United States right now, according to the website Gerontology Wiki. And she reached that milestone right after surviving COVID-19, which she contracted in November.
“We are absolutely amazed,” great-niece Kristen Howe said. “My entire family is amazed.”
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The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated New Jersey’s colleges, causing multimillion-dollar shortfalls that have forced layoffs, declines in enrollment, and financial and mental health difficulties for students, a number of college leaders, students and professors told a state Senate committee Thursday.
During a 2½-hour hearing, members of the Senate Higher Education Committee were told how schools pivoted to mostly remote learning, what their virus testing protocols are and how they relaxed grading policies. They also were told about the financial impact of the pandemic on the institutions more than $400 million in lost revenues and increased costs.
90-Year-Old Great Grandmother From Brick Honored on National TV
I m so happy to introduce you, virtually, to Marion Thomas. As you ll soon come to find out, she s filled with grit, wit, heart, and soul. This great grandmother from Brick, and former resident of Toms River, received a surprise from the team on NBC s Today with Hoda & Jenna this past Friday.
The surprise was a cake.but it was so much more. The 7-minute feature was a celebration of Marion s journey as an adult learner and the news that she had just graduated from Georgian Court University, fulfilling her life-long dream at 90-years-old! That s not a typo, yes 90.
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With each class she teaches at Brookdale Community College in Middletown, Gilda Rogers wants to make sure her students leave with the tools to sift lies from truth, fiction from fact.
But as she watched a pro-President Donald Trump mob storm the U.S. Capitol in a last-ditch attempt to overthrow a democratic election, the alarm sounded in her head. We’re at a reckoning right now in our society, Rogers, 64, of Red Bank, said. We can do the right thing and try to find some commonality in our differences, or we can operate from a polarized perspective and not try to sit down (and listen). This is when honest dialogue on a national level has to happen.