by Jerome Paige | Aug 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
Today, I took my first Metro Bus ride since February 2020. The 79.For those of us in DC, we call that the Georgia Avenue route.Each city bus route has its special character.I use two bus routes in addition to Metro Rail. The other bus route I use frequently is the...
by Jerome Paige | Jun 1, 2021 | Conversations Across Generations, Featured, Guest Contributor, The 1960s Project, Voices of the 1960s, WOJM-SM
HASSAN BILAL To My Grandchildren: Lamar, Isa, Nasir, Ali and Blessing: There’s an old saying: “Youth is wasted on the young.” This adage rings truer to me each day. Unfortunately, the more I think about this maxim, the more youngsters I see who validate this...
by Jerome Paige | Apr 27, 2021 | Featured, Future Scenario Planning, Guest Contributor, The 1960s Project
JAMES E. PAIGE, JR. High School Class of 1963 Even people involved in direct services such as bus drivers, waitstaff, teachers, case managers, and cashiers will not escape automation. Dateline — June 1963: Witnessing Employment Changes In The 1960s Dateline –...
by Jerome Paige | Apr 11, 2021 | Featured, Future Scenario Planning, Guest Contributor, The 1960s Project
OKELLA PAIGE TRICE High School Class of 1962 https://youtu.be/CoFU7JiA_iI Okella Trice shares her future scenario planning centered on an education system that teaches the “whole individual”. “Along with my junior and high school classes in the...
by Jerome Paige | Mar 23, 2021 | Featured, Guest Contributor, HerStories of the 1960s, The 1960s Project
ESTHER MACKINTOSH High School Class of 1965 In June 2021, I will become the board chair of Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa. I graduated from Morningside in 1969. Attending Morningside was my first step off our family’s dairy farm. It was the second time in my...
by Jerome Paige | Mar 18, 2021 | Featured, Guest Contributor, HerStories of the 1960s, The 1960s Project
RITA JIGGETTS GOLDMAN High School Class of 1967 College Class of 1971 Lincoln U was a four-year coming of age experience. We look back in amazement and wonder how that experience shaped our lives and was a big part of making us who we became. I bit my bottom lip –...
by Jerome Paige | Mar 18, 2021 | Featured, Guest Contributor, HerStories of the 1960s, The 1960s Project
KATHY MARSHALL High School Class of 1967 College Class of 1971 After retirement, I’ve continued giving back and paying forward, developing personally, and traveling. And true to my Lincoln University experience, I’m having FUN! My name is Kathy Marshall. I’m a retired...
by Jerome Paige | Mar 9, 2021 | Featured, Guest Contributor, HerStories of the 1960s, The 1960s Project
PATRICIA READ I grew up the middle child in a middle-class family in the middle of the country in the middle of a period of significant social change. For me, the 1960s started with great optimism and excitement as we ran to see the young incoming President, John F....
by Jerome Paige | Feb 23, 2021 | Conversations Across Generations, Featured, Guest Contributor, The 1960s Project, Voices of the 1960s, WOJM-SM
DR. ANTHONY BROWDER To my daughter Atlantis and all the young people who view me as a role model: I was born in 1951. As I approach my 70th year, I trust my reflections of the 1960s will help you understand the legacy you are inheriting and why you must use, preserve,...
by Jerome Paige | Feb 9, 2021 | Conversations Across Generations, Featured, Guest Contributor, The 1960s Project, Voices of the 1960s, WOJM-SM
OKELLA PAIGE TRICE I’m one of my families’ genealogists. I have followed several branches of my families’ trees — Paiges, Saunders, Palmers, and Trices, among others. I also help others trace theirs. As is typical with many genealogists like me, we hold...
