My mother, Mary Lou (Zander) Keating graduated from UW Madison’s Commerce School in 1939 with a degree in accounting, and my father, Joseph Keating with an engineering degree in 1940. The one message my 11 siblings heard loud and clear was that “your education is one thing that no one can ever take away from you.” Keep in mind, my Mom lived on a farm in the Depression and her father had to buy it back from the bank. An education, however, could not be taken away.
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