Alfred Morones:
CLASS OF 1971
Artesia High SchoolClass of 1971
Lakewood, CA
Kennedy High SchoolClass of 1973
La palma, CA
Kennedy High SchoolClass of 1971
La palma, CA
Saint John of God SchoolClass of 1967
Norwalk, CA
Our Lady of Fatima SchoolClass of 1966
Artesia, CA
Alfred's Story
Well it certainly has been a long and trying road since 1971 for sure. Man has the world changed so much or what? After HS I joined the Air Force and was stationed in various places assigned to Military Intel Recon Groups. Long story short, I returned as a different person totally and the VA has been kind enough to take care of me and my PTSD. No worries though as long as I take my meds because I have a 85% disability rating. Mostly mental haha. I am now retired from military service.
Then after the military thing I went back to college and earned my degrees in Mathematics and Accounting. Those skills earned me a career with a small oil company at that time named Mobil Oil...lol
I retired from that career after 20 years and was tired of having nothing to do so I went back into the work force and contracted myself to the Ag business. I developed a computer program back 20 years ago or so that would track the commodity for the grower. This was important as a new safety feature was being implemented by the U.S. for recall of bad products. Before I developed the program, if the grower would get a recall notice for bad produce from a buyer like Albertson's, Vons's, etc., the grower had no idea where exactly that specific produce came from so the farmer/grower had to destroy acres and acres of produce which obviously cost millions of dollars. My idea was to barcode everything from the rows of the crops, each individual plant within the rows, each field, each truck carrying in the product, each picker/laborer, each warehouse rack in the cold storage and actually everything associated with the processing of getting that product from the...Expand for more
field to the store.
The barcode was already in use in 1974 when Wrigley had put one on their chewing gum products and by then stores were already scanning them into their systems at the checkout counter. This was the basis of my program. Now when a store/customer would have a recall item, the store would look at the UPC and give that number to their dealers which in turn would make its way up the food chain to the farmer/grower. Now with that information, we would not only be able to identify the specific plant but also everything else. Now the farmer/grower only had to destroy that row where the plant was and also the 2 closest rows to be safe. Here is where the program shinned by saving the farmer/grower money and lots of it. Right around this time the US Ag industry instituted the COO (Country of Origin) requirement which also helped in standardizing the bar code system with other countries that exported their goods to the U.S. My program is now widely used in many ag concerns but it started here in Kern County.
For me personally I have been lucky enough to use the skills I gained while at AHS which actually got me interested in numbers. This helped me not only in my military career, my oil career but also my AG career. I still can't just sit around and do nothing but I am totally satisfied at being fully retired until some AG company hires me for my services. For now I just restore old truck and cars. They are easy to work on and I love it.
I was married for a while, now single and I have 1 son who is a Master Electrician for the State of California. He is in the electrical union and currently contracted to Google upstate.
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