And with the benefit of hindsight, Waite says, Watson clearly doesn't deserve that C she gave him.

  "Goodness, he certainly proved he knew how to work the 
  Constitution and what it meant and how to be politically 
  active," she says. "So, yes, I think he deserves an A 
  after that effort — A-plus!"

  And that's exactly what happened.

  On March 1, Waite signed a form to officially change 
  Watson's grade. Thirty-five years after Gregory Watson 
  wrote his paper, he finally got his C changed to an A.