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KANSAS CITY, Mo. —
A Missouri woman waited 50 years to take part in a cherished graduation tradition.
Connie Puett graduated from KU in 1972 but she never got to take part in the tradition of walking down the hill to the stadium on graduation day. That is until Sunday.
"Was walking down the hill everything you thought it would be?" sister station KMBC asked Puett.
"It was actually more than I thought it would be," said Puett, a retired teacher.
Puett graduated in 1972, but because of bad weather on graduation day, everything was moved inside to Allen Fieldhouse. There was no walk down the hill to the stadium like generations of KU grads have done before.
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