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By JANE BANGLEY
Rappahannock Newa Staff Writer
Charles Platt did not always want to be a journalist. He originally went to Kansas State in 1934 with the intention of becoming a chemical engineer.
“After I had finished about a third of the degree requirements, I decided that chemical engineering was not for me,” Platt said. He then switched his major to journalism, and by going to summer school he still graduated in 1938.
Platt’s journalistic career actually began before he graduated. He edited the school paper and was the assistant editor of the local morning daily paper, the Manhattan Chronicle, through his senior year. “I worked from seven in the evenings until midnight or two in the mornings six nights a week while I was going to school,” Platt said.
Platt’s first job after graduation was as church editor with the St. Joel Missouri Gazette. After two months, he went on the livestock beat, but after a few months more he went back to Manhattan to become the managing editor of the Chronicle.
Diming his two years as managing editor, Platt married his wife, Helen, and she earned her master’s degree in home economics. “In the fall of 1940, she was offered a job teaching at Kansas State, and she supported me for a year while I got my masters in economics,” Platt said.
His varied career continued after he graduated in 1941 with his masters degree. He taught journalism at Kansas State for a year, then went to work for a private company editing the
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