by Jerome Paige | Dec 6, 2020 | The 1960s Project, WOJM-SM
It’s Day 3 of my weekend birthday celebration. On Day 1, I walked for 73 minutes to honor my 73rd birthday. On Day 2, I tried to acknowledge all the best wishes I received. That was fun thinking about you and our “friendships.” Also, Gina brought...
by Jerome Paige | Dec 5, 2020 | The 1960s Project, WOJM-SM
It’s Day 2 of my weekend birthday celebration. Yesterday, I walked for 73 minutes to honor my 73rd birthday. Also, I tried to acknowledge all the best wishes I received. That was fun thinking about you and our “friendships.” I’ll continue doing...
by Jerome Paige | Dec 1, 2020 | Featured, Guest Contributor, The 1960s Project
LOUIS HICKSClass of 1969“To get a good job, get a good education. Go to college.” This commercial repeatedly aired when I was watching my favorite television shows as an adolescent. I was born in Austin, Texas, and grew up in the Austin Housing Authority’s Rosewood...
by Jerome Paige | Nov 24, 2020 | Featured, Guest Contributor, The 1960s Project
ANNA BRELAND Class of 1969 I had no one to guide me on how to choose a college. Yet, I ended my career as a school counselor… I attended a tuition-free college. Yet, I ended up as the director of a college financial aid office…. I wasn’t actively engaged in...
by Jerome Paige | Nov 10, 2020 | Featured, Guest Contributor, The 1960s Project
JEROME PAIGE, PH.D. Class of 1965 In 1965 I graduated from Germantown High School in Philadelphia, PA, uncertain what life would bring. Now at age 72. I have no plans “to retire” in the traditional sense of that term. I’m looking forward to at least four...
by Jerome Paige | Oct 13, 2020 | Featured, Guest Contributor, The 1960s Project
JUDITH WINSTON Class of 1961 While I was growing up, I had always dreamed of going to college, even though my father and mother had never attended. The 1950’s musicals of coeds singing and dancing, hardly ever in classrooms, was my vision of college life. Of course,...
