Keeping a promise: Mingo County native honors late wife by graduating from University of Charleston

Keeping a promise: Mingo County native honors late wife by graduating from University of Charleston

CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) -- This weekend, the University of Charleston celebrates more than 500 graduates receiving their diplomas. But for one graduate, this moment has been decades in the making. “Whatever success I had later in life started right here with the belief that being from Mingo County is not a drawback. It’s who I am," said Red Jacket native Glenn Kirk. "The people in this building and on these grounds gave me the confidence and coura…

West Virginia native to fulfill promise he made to his late wife 58 years ago

CHARLESTON, W.Va. –A soon to be 2025 graduate of the University of Charleston will be fulfilling a promise he made to his late wife on Saturday. Glenn Kirk, a Mingo County native, will be graduating with an associate’s degree in business administration, 58 years after he promised his wife, Joyce, he would do so. Kirk, along…