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...McCall, originally a member of the class of 1957, returned to complete his undergraduate degree after a thirty-year hiatus. And if he makes it through the next year and a half without deciding to take more time off, he will be 52 when he graduates...
Required to withdraw for academic reasons after his sophomore year in 1955, McCall took some time off. Thirty years later, after after an "independent study" in Germany, a motorcycle trip through Africa and a flying career in the Navy, McCall reenrolled in school...
...McCall said that when he entered Princeton, he was burned out after finishing five years of prep school in four. He said freshman year was uninspiring, largely a repeat of his last year of high school. One semester he didn't buy any books...
...sophomore grades weren't abysmal, but McCall's cumulative GPA was low enough to prevent him from advancing to junior year. So he left, worked in Alaska for a summer, and spent the next year at the University of Washington...
...McCall is frequently reminded, though, that he is old enough to be the father of his fellow students. Fifty-six current undergraduates are children of his original classmates; 150 are children of men who were at Princeton while he was. And McCall's youngest son says he will apply to the university next fall...