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[SonC at aol.com (SonC@aol.com)]

In a message dated 8/30/2006 7:21:44 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
bd@bdcolenphoto.com writes:

So by  Feb. of my freshman year I'd landed a
part-time copyboy job at the  Washington Post, and that lead to a reporting
job, etc. etc. Had I gone to  BU, or Harvard, I doubt I'd have ever ended up
at the Post....So when all  is said and done, I'm glad things worked out as
they  did.....


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In my (Department of Defense) High School in Germany, mostly the kids went  
to home state Universities, or the University of Maryland campuses sprinkled 
 
across Europe.  Some went to "the academies."
 
We rotated stateside in the summer before  my senior year, the  month they 
built the wall in Berlin.  I was pretty clueless about higher  education, as 
no 
one in my family had ever gone to college, but I knew it was  one of those 
things you needed if you wanted to be an officer in the  military.  
 
I really wanted to be a photographer, and dreamed of Brooks Institute, but  
that was one of those things that my parents could not visualize.  First of  
all, it was in California, and in a town no one had ever heard of.
 
Northwestern State College in Natchitoches had a great Journalism program  
for a small school in the South.  Led by John C. Merrill, people were going  
to 
lots of big papers and even into *gasp* Television after graduation from 
this  
little program.
 
I got here in 1962 and Merrill moved to Missouri the same semester.   bleh!  
Anyhow, I lucked out and worked at a tiny, but important weekly  newspaper 
for 
a genius newspaper woman by the name of Ursula Walker.  
 
I might have enjoyed a bigger school. We only had 3000 students in those  
days, but now I'm really happy things worked out this way.  I came back to  
the 
University in 1991 to work on the staff. 
 
A number of my classmates are here too.  My (now) next door  neighbor was my 
best pal in those days.
 
Oh yeah;  tuition, books, room, board and laundry was about $300 per  
semester.  I had a VW in those days.  Gas was under 30 cents a  gallon.
 
 
Regards,  
Sonny
http://www.sonc.com
Natchitoches, Louisiana
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