{"id":5063,"date":"2011-02-05T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=5063"},"modified":"2011-02-05T01:33:33","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T07:33:33","slug":"apsu-philosophy-department-honors-student-who-has-audited-courses-for-20-plus-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2011\/02\/05\/apsu-philosophy-department-honors-student-who-has-audited-courses-for-20-plus-years\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU Philosophy Department honors student who has audited courses for 20-plus years"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – Mildred Frensley may be the true definition of a \u201clifelong learner.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 1988, she decided to take the Critical Reasoning and Logic course at Austin Peay State University.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t want to stagnate,\u201d she said. \u201cI wanted to learn something else.\u201d<\/p>\n

More than 20 years later, Frensley has audited almost every philosophy course offered in the APSU Department of History and Philosophy \u2013 some even more than once.<\/p>\n

\"Mildred<\/a>

Mildred Frensley stands with her husband John in the office of Dr. Bert Randall, professor of philosophy at Austin Peay State University. She has audited almost every philosophy course in the APSU Department of History and Philosophy, and professors in the department recently awarded her an honorary Doctor of Metaphysics. (Photo by Melony Shemberger, APSU Public Relations and Marketing)<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cI liked that first course so much, I decided to take others,\u201d said Frensley, now 85 years of age. \u201cI will take the courses again because I find that I learn different things from different professors and even from different classmates.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her dedication to lifelong learning observed by many in the department, professors recently awarded her a departmental honorary Doctor of Metaphysics. Dr. Bert Randall, professor of philosophy, presented the framed certificate during his class in Harned Hall.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo often, she has been my teacher,\u201d he said. \u201cShe has the most creative mind I have ever known. She is a prized student.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Dewey Browder, chair of the APSU Department of History and Philosophy, attended the presentation. He recalled a study-abroad trip to Paris that Frensley took when she was 73.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe outwalked all the younger students,\u201d he said. \u201cAll of the students were saying she is just like the Energizer bunny.\u201d<\/p>\n

Frensley has a bachelor\u2019s degree from Florida State University, which she earned while raising a family of four children and working full time. Her husband of 62 years, John Frensley, was with her at the presentation last week, smiling as Randall spoke highly of his wife.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always have been proud of her,\u201d he said after the presentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clarksville, TN – Mildred Frensley may be the true definition of a \u201clifelong learner.\u201d In 1988, she decided to take the Critical Reasoning and Logic course at Austin Peay State University. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to stagnate,\u201d she said. \u201cI wanted to learn something else.\u201d More than 20 years later, Frensley has audited almost every philosophy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,6391,262,6393,6392,4065,6390],"class_list":["post-5063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-apsu","tag-apsu-department-of-history-and-philosophy","tag-austin-peay-state-university","tag-bert-randall","tag-john-frensley","tag-melony-shemberger","tag-mildred-frensley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-1jF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5063"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5066,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5063\/revisions\/5066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}