Among the thousands of high school graduates that walked across the stage over the last month or so, and one of them was 78-year-old Ted Sams.
Sams was supposed to graduate in 1962, though he was suspended five days before the end of the semester and missed a final exam.
Though he made up over the exam over the summer, his diploma was still withheld until he paid a $4.80 fine he owed at the school library.
Sams told ABC 7 of his time as a student, "When I went back with my grade, they wouldn't give me my diploma because I owed $4.80 for a book and so I just walked away and said forget it. Over the years, I complained to my kids a number of times about how $4.80 kept me from having my diploma."
60 years later however, his old high school San Gabriel High School, invited him to finally accept his diploma at this current class' graduation ceremony.
And the best part? The school had his ORIGINAL diploma on hand, as it had been locked away in a filing cabinet for the past 60 years.
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