Murdered Student Graduates ; Loved Ones Waited 16 Years for Degree

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In the end, not even death and a 16-year delay were enough to keep Dolly Hearn from getting the degree she earned from the Medical College of Georgia School of Dentistry. Her professors, her family and her "other family," her classmates from 1991, saw to that.

Dorothy Carlisle "Dolly" Hearn was awarded her Doctor of Dental Medicine degree Friday by MCG President Daniel W. Rahn in a ceremony that included more than a dozen family members and about 20 classmates. It was the first posthumous degree MCG has given.

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Murdered Student Graduates ; Loved Ones Waited 16 Years for Degree

Ms. Hearn was slain in 1990, just before starting her senior year, by an ex-boyfriend who tried to...

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