H the K wrote:
Richard Casady wrote:
On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 20:11:59 -0700, "CalifBill"
wrote:

I was lots smarter than you. I went to school part time and made
more than the professors. But the average student did not make that
much. 1968 the median family wage was $8600. $9600 in major
metropolitan areas Only 14.7% made more than $15k.

In 1966 tuition at Iowa State was $95 per quarter.

Casady


I had great summer jobs, thanks to my dad and the union movement, and
earned more than enough to pay for tuition and books. Then, one summer
while I was still getting my B.A., I got hired by the KC Star as a
reporter for about $85 a week. Big bucks...heheh. By the time the summer
ended, I was up to $100 a week and the day city editor and I figured out
a way for me to work full-time at the paper (I worked for the morning
editions, and reported in at 4:30 pm) *and* continue to attend college
full-time. I managed to get all morning classes, did what "homework" I
needed to do in the late mornings and early afternoons, and then headed
for work four afternoons a week. I also worked Sundays. Since I was a
"starving student," the night city editor frequently assigned me to
cover a speech at an organization where dinner was being served. This
was KC in its agricultural-livestock heyday, so I got to eat a *lot* of
steak. Of course, in those days $3 would buy you a top-drawer steak
dinner, with all the trimmings, and I don't mean one of those cheap cut
Outback steaks, drowned in spicy sauce to cover up the fact that the
meat was mediocre.

Wow! You did all that and still managed to find the time to boff every
teenage girl in Kansas city? I'm impressed.