Homeless couple strives toward brain potential with new degrees
Sometimes individuals go against all of the odds in order to pursue their life dream. Overcoming hardships is a significant point in anyone's life, particularly if they are used to receiving the short end of the stick.
Rosse Mary Savery and Gilroy Savery are set to graduate this summer after overcoming the odds. According to the New York Daily News, the husband and wife will obtain college degrees after spending more than a year and a half in a homeless shelter with their two children.
Rosse Mary will graduate with a sociology degree from Queens College in August, while Gilroy recently wrapped up his tenure at SUNY New Paltz as a history major.
It appears as though academic officials are impressed by the Saverys' determination to stay in school despite their less-than-stable home lives.
"Once in a while, you come across students like this that really amaze you," Sujatha Fernandes, assistant professor of sociology at Queens College and a mentor to Rosse Mary, told the news provider. "We were all just so moved by her story."
As the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the average individual with a bachelor's degree makes an average of $1,038 a week, it seems as though the Saverys are set on turning their fortune around.
