Hey, Pioneers everywhere.
Glad we're letting folks tell about their Wedding Bells University experiences.
Although Carolyn and I started dating when we were at Plainview High School, we married after my sophomore year and her freshman year - June 6, 1969 - and lived for a couple of years in the Collier Hall Apartments at 10th and Vernon.
Can you believe a one-bedroom in those concrete block apartments was $62.50, all bills paid, with stove and refrigerator furnished? I think we got our first bill of groceries - four big bags for about $20. Of course, minimum wage was $1.25.
I have more details - mostly humorous - about married life on the Wayland campus in my book, "Things I Have Saw and Did - 50 Years of Thinking Out Loud," you can purchase for a mere $25 by sending a check made to me to 1305 Itasca, Plainview, TX 79072. I'll get your signed book right back I the mail and you'll be eligible for a drawing for a big warm Wayland blanket. Proceeds benefit the general scholarship fund.
So, congratulations to all who know our institution fondly as "Wedding Bells University."
