[Magdalen] Tuition

[cantor03 at aol.com]

I'm feeling really old to hear my neighbors discuss the cost of sending their kids tocollege.  For example, the neighbor boy who attends the Notre Dame branch locally(Kings, Wilkes-Barre) is paying $20,000 per year..  State colleges for residentsare a bit less, but still hefty.  If memory serves me, my freshman year at UW-Madison for my resident status was$89 per semester ('55 - '56)..  By the time I got my bachelor's degree four years later, thecost had increased to $225 oer semester.  Room and board for a year in theWisconsin dormitories was $680 in 1955 - 1956 and $850  my undergraduate senior year.  Then UW Medical School was $1,200 per senester, but it fell to $600 medical schoolsenior year semester because they paid us for drawing all the bloods at UW Medical Center.  I had a good summer job with the Wisconsin Highway Department, and paid for mostof the expense of tuition plus room and board.  I had no student debt.  This is all ancient history.  These current kids will have all this expense and NO FOOTBALL.  David Strang.