Show proud son sees widowed mother in cap and gown ITHACA N Y when the library tower chimes at comell university peeled forth their congratulations to midyear graduates jonathan hartwell harwood III aged 4 near burst with pride among the young women in aca demic robes was his mother vir ginia oake harwood few fellows have the privilege of seeing their mothers graduate from college jonny doesn doean t know it but he was the chief reason why his mother finished her course in the college of home economics jonny s father fought in the invasion of normandy june 6 1944 and he never came back jonny s dad graduated from cor nell too in 1942 and his mother whose parents live in lockport N Y left school in her sophomore year to marry him they didn dian t have much time together just a couple of summers while dad was training at fort bragg then he was sent to england to train as a ranger and was made a captain then came D day people thought I 1 was crazy when I 1 decided to take my two and one half year old son to ithaca with me in the fall of 1945 and jand continue col ege mrs harwood admits may be I 1 was a little crazy but I 1 had to have something to do something to occupy my time and my mind I 1 could be a better mother to jon ny I 1 felt if I 1 graduated from col lege and was prepared to earn my living the pension and insurance money made it possible for them to rent a small ithaca apartment add arid live in modest comfort and jonny went to cornell too jonny attend ed the college colleges s nursery school he also will be graduated this year from nursery school to kindergan kin dergar ten |