Peter Martin Stocks:  

Jumped eagerly into the world after graduation with a false start at Santa Ana College. Kennedy's death at the end of that year troubled me deeply and my mother's death in the spring of '64 seemed a crippling blow. Opted out of school right then. Worked as the warehouseman for the water company at Leisure World in Laguna Hills for a while and rode the crest of so many of the social concerns and musical trends that were brewing in the Sixties. Went into a Marine Reserve Helicopter Squadron in Oct. '65 . Served as as machine gunner, then crew chief. Honorable discharge (Sergeant, E-5) Spent a five year career in aerospace doing job set-up for illustrated parts breakdown manuals, first for Boeing's 300 series passenger jets, then for Hughes' radar tracking units. Mastered tech writing, systems analysis, and illustration formats Returned to Santa Ana College in 1971. Research assistant in sociology for professor Royal Martin, focusing on Spatial Relationships. Worked reviewing and evaluating in the credentialing program at SAC. Asked into into the Honors Program with its focus that year ('72-'73) on the concept of 'Freedom.' Awarded grants and scholarship to attend UCLA. Took A.B., Summa Cum Laude, at UCLA in English Literature. Research assistant in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century English Lit. Set up Qualty of Working Life library in the Graduate School of Management. Lab Assistant in the biochemistry labs of Professor Winston Salser, focusing on tracing DNA with radiation. Earned Masters in Philosophy at UC Riverside. Went in wanti...Expand for more