John Aguilar:  

John (Juan) Aguilar, I actually belong to the class of 1966, I registered as alumni of class of 1964, because that was the last year I attend high school and I am pictured in the 64-yearbook. I was born in Yakima on Sept. 11, 1946, but raised and educated in Sunnyside. Like tipical Mexican-American families of the era we were a farmworker family, we worked and harvested all the local ag-crops grown at the time. I married Seferina Gomez, (she's in the 64-yearbook) in the fall of 1964, we made our home in Sunnyside, had two daughters back to back. On July 15, 1968, at the start of the Mint harvest I lost my right arm to the elbow in a mint-chopper accident. I was in and out of the hospital in two weeks and by August 15, I was hired to work for the Sunnyside Equal Opportunity Center in Sunnyside that started my career in social/public sector work. I took and passed with high marks the GED, test and progessed quickly in State employment, Employment Security and Dept. of L & I. In 1975, I was hired by the now infamous (W.P.P.S.S,) in the Human Resource Division, for five-years I was in the hiring team that took the Supply System from 300 to over 3,000 high tech employees to construct and operate five nuclear power plants. ...Expand for more