Lynn Briggs:  

Spent first 3 years of high school in Plainview, Texas. Then my father got a job as a flight instructor/charter pilot at Desert Airways at the Alamo airport. He got me on there too and I worked all my senior year there getting paid just in flying time. I got my private pilot's license the day of our senior prom. My dad issued my license as a newly ordained FAA Examiner. My license was the first he issued. Since we were agents for rental cars, I did get paid 5 bucks when we needed to return a car to El Paso that had been turned in to us. I would get a free ride back on one of our air taxi flights. If there were no passengers, I even got to fly (no commercial license). Somehow, I got to go wash a brand new Mustang rental car on the night of the prom. Somehow, I didn't get it back until 6pm Sunday!! My first year of college I attended Milton College in Wisconsin then I returned to Alamo and went to ACC until I got drafted. Did a tour in Viet Nam as a radio-teletypewriter team chief (Sgt E-5). Stationed at Camp Carroll (Charlie Two) right on the DMZ, Quang Tri, and also Khe Sanh. Took my R&R to Sydney. Returned to Albuquerque (family there) afterwards and started back in school. I was convinced by an architect who was teaching my drafting class to apply to attend Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. I took a portfolio out and was told I needed to have ALL my basic college classes completed before I could enter as they only taught design classes. The equivalent of 4 years of design classes. I got the credits I needed at UNM and then got my portfolio accepted and started in the Car Design program (Transportation Design, actually, part of the Industrial Design dept.). After my first semester, I was awarded a scholarship from Ford and later got one from Chrysler Corp too. Starting...Expand for more