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.