On a Saturday in May, Peggy Alderman was the proud mom watching her daughter graduate college in Fort Worth. The next day she was back in Houston to don her own cap and gown and fulfill the dream she had deferred for more than two decades.
Alderman received a bachelor’s degree in earth science, finishing summa cum laude and earning the highest GPA of the spring 2007 graduating class of UH’s geosciences department.
She attended UH in the 70s but left to get married and start a family. When her oldest daughter went off to college, Alderman decided it was time for her to go back to school. She had studied business during her first stint in college, but the family’s travels through Yellowstone National Park and the Wasatch and Teton mountain ranges had sparked Alderman’s fascination with geology.
“I bought up every roadside geology book I could find,” Alderman said. “I was so awestruck at what I saw and wanted to know how it all happened.”
Alderman and her daughter graduated on the same weekend, but the mom and homemaker is not done with school just yet. She is now working on another geology degree and plans on pursuing a new career with the National Park Service. |
