As a 1969 graduate of UWI, I and many of my peers are the same age as the university and so I welcome this opportunity to reflect. The young adults that we were in 1969 are now turning 75!! That can’t be. The decade of the sixties was a very special time in Jamaica’s history. We were a very lucky group. Many of the students at that time had their education paid for. Cost did not weigh heavily on our minds. It seems worlds apart from the experience of many of the students that I read about now.