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Message: [QUOTE="zymurg, post: 3491228, member: 667"] I neglected to mention that I started at $.75 an hour at the hospital. Not to worry by the time I left, I was making $1.09 an hour. While the cleaning the lab I got instruction on how to make a laboratory slide. I graduated from HS in 1959. My grades were decent, but nothing special. Back in that time I was in what was termed the "accelerated class." We received no extra boost to our GPAs for being in those classes. Fortunately, my SATs were considerably better. I did even better on the achievement tests. I took the AP test in Western Civilization. I received a 5. I went on the usual college trips. I ended up at Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tenn. I had never visited the school. They had an excellent reputation in History my best subject. The deciding factor was the offer of a full tuition scholarship, wait for it $750 a year. It's $49,816 now. That is a microcosm of how the college system has changed. Even with extensive scholarship help; tuition still runs $20,000 a year. I had some difficulties adjusting . I had been together with the same class of around 25 students for three years. I started a circulating letter to about 12 of those students. It worked pretty well. This group evenly split between the sexes did a lot of things together. We played bridge, went to movies, went to the Newport Folk Festivals, and many other activities. This close relationship lasted through Grad School and a little beyond. Things worked out at Vanderbilt. I became involved in activities, made friends, and had many opportunities. brI think we were all pretty optimistic. The first real wake-up call was the Cuban Missile Crisis in the fall of 1962. I was lucky enough to win a Fulbright Scholarship. As I mentioned I was in Sri Lanka when JFK was assassinated. I returned briefly to Vanderbilt to continue a project I started my senior year. In 1964 Vanderbilt held its first Presidential Nominating Convention. We were the only school to nominate Richard Nixon. [/QUOTE]

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