I graduated from Lamar State College of Technology "with highest honors." I was able to attend the mid-day ceremony because my job was 8 pm to 4 am. But then I quit my job, losing 7 years' seniority on the Kansas City Southern Railway, and taking a chance on a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship for a year at Northwestern University. So I drove north, without a job. but with the promise of $1800 over the course of a year.. 1,800, not 18,000.
Thursday, August 22, 2019
60 years ago today in Beaumont, Texas
I graduated from Lamar State College of Technology "with highest honors." I was able to attend the mid-day ceremony because my job was 8 pm to 4 am. But then I quit my job, losing 7 years' seniority on the Kansas City Southern Railway, and taking a chance on a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship for a year at Northwestern University. So I drove north, without a job. but with the promise of $1800 over the course of a year.. 1,800, not 18,000.
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