Ethelene Dial:  

After graduation, I went to work for the Autonetics Division of North American Aviation, Inc. (to become Rockwell International) in East Anaheim, and went to school at night at Fullerton Jr. College. It was a great job, and I had lots of friends from work since I worked for Field Engineering and Training (which consisted, for the most part, of Electrical Engineers right out of college). We worked hard, but had a very good time after work and on weekends.. I was married in 1964 to a very brilliant computer engineer who later became a programming consultant. We bought a home in Mission Viejo (when there was only about 300 people there) and lived there for 18 years or so. We did lots of traveling all over the world (with at least one or two trips a year to Hawaii). We decided that we wanted to retire in Hawaii, and decided to do it very early (I was 40). The retirement didn't last long -- and after about three years of unemployment for the only time in my life and showing many, many relatives and friends around Oahu, I began looking for work there. I ended up working for Hilton Hawaiian Village and eventually for the Hale Koa Hotel (where I was a Catering Manager/Wedding Planner). Fun but very stressful. But, it was paradise! I'm very sad to say that my first husband, who remained my best friend for a lifetime, passed away in July 2011. I was divorced and on my own for a while. Then I met my second husband who traveled to work at the Pearl Harbor Shipyard, and eventually he moved to Hawaii and we were married. Then, he went to work on Johnston Atoll (about 800 miles southwest of Honolulu in the ...Expand for more