“These are our new customers:” colleges seek out retirees as students

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Ann Dahl had to be at her anthropology class by 8:40 a.m.—which, in the world of college students, is basically the crack of dawn. But she still took the time to add a little blue pin to her outfit.

“It says ‘Goucher Student,’ and that’s what I am right now,” she said.

Dahl is 86 and a 1960 graduate of Goucher, a private liberal arts college just north of Baltimore. Now, she’s back as part of a pilot program for a university retirement community. Dahl is a resident at Edenwald, a senior living complex right next door, along with her fellow classmate, 87-year-old Pat Blanchard, another Goucher grad.

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