The plan is for Barger to be first of nearly 3,100 students to walk across the stage to receive their diplomas at the university's Glass Bowl stadium Saturday morning.

Ghanbari said he'll be by the veteran's side to help him do that.

"I will just put one foot in front of the other and keep going, I guess," Barger laughed.

Barger, who has four grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren, said he looks forward to celebrating the milestone with family and friends.

"My grandson graduated from UT, and he no longer can say he is one up on me," he said in a statement through the school. "I have a degree, too, just took me a while!"
The chief executive officer of Starbucks will mentor the two black men who were arrested at the coffee chain's location in downtown Philadelphia last month, after the men reached a settlement with the company and the city.

Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson will now "have a seat at the table," they said alongside their attorney, Stewart Cohen, in an exclusive interview today on ABC News' "Good Morning America."

"The CEO of Starbucks is going to personally mentor these two young men going forward. After they met, he was so impressed and they were so impressed with one another that they're going to have a continuing relationship," Cohen told "GMA" co-anchor Robin Roberts. "So not only do they have a seat at the table and not only do we have this settlement, but we have the beginning of a relationship."


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