Anne Purcell, at 93, returns to her beloved UNG - to graduate - Now Georgia

Anne Purcell, at 93, returns to her beloved UNG - to graduate - Now Georgia

DAHLONEGA, Ga. — If you’d asked the young bride Anne Purcell, when she left the University of North Georgia campus in 1950, whether she anticipated accepting her degree more than seven decades later in front of thousands of admirers, she knows what she would have said, “Never in my wildest dreams.” In robes and a sky-blue stole, just like those of the hundreds of 20-year-old new graduates sharing the stage in UNG’s gleaming basketball arena, the…