Alan Bruchas:  

Life After DGHS-North, I went off to Kansas to attend a small college (Southwestern)southeast of Wichita where I obtained a B.A in Biology. I also took a class at the neighboring St. John's college and had friends from there. They also attended some of our classes, and field trips. My junior and senior years I was President of Pi Delta Sigma, which had it charter cancelled a couple years ago. After college I came home for about a year and a half, and tried to find a job and ended up a (seven days a week) Radio Shack Manager in Lombard, and then Glen Ellyn. I came back to Kansas for a college friend's wedding, and decided to move back to the Wichita area, where I did different jobs for a while (including aerial photography)and then went out to Boeing (at a friend's urging)) to accompany my room mate applying for a job there. Turns out he didn't get hired, but I did (Sept. 1978), and stayed 26 years. This was not what I had originally had in mind for a career,as I had never taken any business courses. The job paid well, it utilized my strengths in the sciences, and it gave me good health insurance coverage. I got to travel domestically a little, and help push computer database designs for purchasing (actually helped bootleg one behind management's back)when computer software became viable as a means to organize information on all the airplane parts Wichita bought for Boeing. I had little to no idea that Boeing built commercial airplane fuselages in Wichita and ships them by rail to Seattle for assembly. In 1978, Boeing was hiring anyone with any Liberal Arts degree, and I was very lucky, indeed. Anyway, looking back, my knowledge of art,...Expand for more