Eric Aune:  

my constant reading a book rather than doing the work I was supposed to be doing. It wasn't that I couldn't do the work, I just dislike math. I'm good at it, but I don't like it. Our "Democratic Convention" that Mike Farrell was a guest speaker during our senior year. Then Graduation and off to the world. One regret is that I did just enough to get by, well below my potential, since I was always on the Dean's or President's Honor list during college. Workplace I went into the Navy in the fall after graduation and was a Radioman. I attained the rank of P:etty Officer 2nd Class (same rank as a Sergeant, E-5). After I got out of the Navy in 1980, I worked at Disneyland for about 6 months, then cleaned pools for a year, before going to Cypress College. While going through college I worked part time at a couple of gun stores in Bellflower. After College in 1986, I went to work at Lehman Medical Centers in Orange County, as a Radiology Technologist. I started at their Orange office and after a few months transferred to the Garden Grove office, where I became a Nuclear Medicine Tech as well as being a Radiology and Fluroscopy tech. Eventually I became the Radiology Manager for all 8 offices in the medical group. In 1991, I went to work at Long Beach Memorial Medical Centers, because I wanted to get into a big hospital so that I could get the chance to learn CT Scanning. After 6 months there was an opening in CT and I transferred there. I worked in that department until 1998, I also worked part time in the Nuclear Medicine department. since I had a license for that discipline. In 1998, I was put in charge of the Radiology fileroom, then after 6 months, I became the Systems Analyst for the Radiology Department. During that time I also worked in the Nuclear Medicine department a few hours a week to fill in and occasionally in CT as a back up. In 2001 I was asked to be the PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) Administrator for the Hospital. Currently I am part of the IT department and hold the title of Clinical Applications Anaylyst. I have now been there for 31 years. Just a few more years and then I can retire. Military I went to boot camp in San Diego Recruit Training Center Oct 76. During boot camp, I was granted a brief leave to go home, because my dad had died from lung cancer. I graduated from it in Jan 77 and went to Radioman A School at the Training Center, followed by Morse Code Operator School. While there I ran into a schoolmate Paul Lipsohn, he had also joined the Navy. In July 77 I shipped out to the USS Proteus on Guam, a submarine tender and the forward deployment base for Submarine Squadron 7. My first week there, one of the chief petty officers was retiring and he had a fiesta. At the fiesta, I was given this meat, i'd never had before and found out later is was dog, it is kind of a delicacy over there, My ship took care of the ballistic missile and the attack subs that were keeping an eye on China and Russia and other places in the West Pacific. While on Guam I did lots of hiking, golfing and scuba diving. In Dec 78, my ship was ordered to Long Beach for a refit. We spent a little over a year at Long Beach Naval Shipyard refitting the ship in drydock. While in Long Beach I was sent on temporary duty to the the submarine base at Point Loma in San Diego for a few months. In June 80, we were back in Guam. I was only back in Guam a few days when I got word that my stepmother had died (no great loss to me, she did not care much for me or my brother Steve anyway, and the feeling was mutual). I was granted leave to return for her funeral and then was reassigned to Long Beach Naval Shipyard as part of Security and Honor Guard for military funerals (I was in charge of the armed Honor Guard that fired the rifle salutes over the soldier's graves). This reassignment was because my youngest brother was 14 at the time and I was the oldest. I was Honorably Discharged Aug 15, 1980.