This 75-year-old has worked at Temple for 44 years. On Wednesday, she graduated.

At age 75, Peggy E. Moore officially became “Temple Made” on Wednesday.

That’s what the university calls its graduates, and Moore collected her bachelor’s degree in general studies during Wednesday’s commencement.

But Moore’s history with the North Philadelphia-based university is much longer than that of the young graduates who surrounded her.

The West Philadelphia woman has been working for Temple University for 44 years — she’s known as the “go-to” problem solver in the provost’s office. And she methodically chipped away at her degree while raising a family as a single parent.

“Temple is Peggy made,” said Dan Berman, former vice provost of undergraduate studies and Moore’s boss for eight years. “Anyone who walked into that office she would really help. She would actually solve people’s problems not just tell them how to do it. That really set the tone for our office.”

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Moore smiled when she heard what Berman said about her.

“I don’t know everything,” she said during an interview Monday, “but I do know a lot.”

And now she accomplished her own goal of finishing the degree she started in 1980.

“It means a whole lot to me,” Moore said, sporting a Temple University sweatshirt. “It’s something I’ve worked for throughout all these years and I’ve finally accomplished.”

Moore had the distinction of being Temple’s oldest graduate this year, though not its oldest ever. She is one of 62 people who were 75 and older when they received their bachelor’s from Temple in its more than 140-year history.

She said she was often the oldest person in her classes, even older than the professor.

Moore also was one of 138 Temple employees who earned academic degrees this year, not counting student workers.

A Philadelphia native, Moore transferred to Temple in 1980 after getting her associate’s degree from the Community College of Philadelphia. She started as a foreign language education major, aspiring to become a Spanish teacher.

But she left to raise her two young sons and needed a job. She found one as a receptionist in the Temple’s medical school admissions department, then moved to the university budget office and finally to the office of the provost in 1989.

Over the years, she has taken a course or two a semester. Employees get free tuition.

“When I felt myself getting stressed, I would stop like a semester or two, and then I would start back up,” she said.

There were a lot of late nights and group projects, she said. She often helped organize classmates to complete the work. She recalled once over a holiday weekend, her peers wanted to go to sporting events instead of doing schoolwork.

“I said, ‘come on, now. We’ve got to get this done,’” she said.

She took her final class, a writing course, last fall. Over the years, her favorite class was risk management and insurance.

“Everything is a risk,” she said. “You learn how to assess a risk and address it.”

An advocate of lifelong learning, Moore has no plans to retire or leave Temple or look for a new job.

“Retire for what,” she said. “I still have a lot of life in me.”

She said she intends to stay up-to-date on technology and is on the Artificial Intelligence task force at the university. She uses the shorthand she learned in community college to take notes during the meetings, she said.

“I don’t want to be left behind,” she said. “I want to stay in the know.”

Berman, who is a professor of Greek and Roman classics, said if he were still Moore’s boss he would advocate for her to receive a raise now that she has a degree. Moore said she had no idea whether a degree would make her eligible for a raise.

“That’s one thing I don’t know,” she said.

One of Moore’s granddaughters also graduated from Temple recently and the other from Drexel. Both planned to be at her commencement, along with one of her sons — the other died from a congenital heart defect. Her brother and niece also planned to travel from Georgia and North Carolina, respectively, to attend the ceremony.

After celebrating, Moore said she plans to start working toward a master’s degree, possibly in human resources administration.

But first she will speak on Thursday to her fellow graduates at the University College graduation ceremony — University College is Temple’s program for non-traditional age students. She is the group’s official commencement speaker.

“My theme is don’t give up,” she said.

Moore certainly never did.