Judy Gallien:  

To My friends, I finished my 1/2 PE credit at Baton Rouge High after leaving Pride. I still consider myself as being a Pride graduate, as that is were I spent most of my school years. I got married to a wonderful man, Joseph Gallien. Staying home however got boring. So for lack of more money I went to Draughon Business College. There I studied classes in IBM, which was the beginning of computers in the work industry. Remotely similar were the machines I studied there to the PC of today. After finishing my studies I got a job with the Baton Rouge City Police immediately and worked there for four years before making the move to San Diego, CA. Once here I went directly to working for Sol Price, who started Costco later. The job was boring so left there and went to work for the federal government. Worked with four other people helping to implement the 3M (materials, maintenance and management) program for the military. Loved the work and after the program was in place I went to work with secured data transmissions with the federal government. During this time I worked with paper cards, paper tape and magnetic tape. During my time with the federal government I attended San Diego Community College evenings studying programming and updating my skills for the computer industry. I stayed with the federal government until the unexpected death of my Mother in 1968. From 1968 through 1972 I did volunteer work at our local hospital, helping them with their computer work. In 1973 my daughter was born. I then stayed home for the next six years to raise my daughter. Once she began first grade, I went to work. First I would drop her off to school and then go to work. I would leave work at 3pm to pickup my daughter. During this time I worked for the "California Republican Newspaper" once again in data processing. I stayed with them until 1985 when their office was moved. Seeing that the P/C was beginning to move into the business world it was back to school again. During this time I had a friend and her husband was a State Farm Insurance Agent. She begged me to go to work for her husband. He had no computer training and badly needed to have someone with knowledge of the computer, since he knew the future would be with computers. I took the job after updat...Expand for more