William Johns:  

Life After graduation from high school, I worked in the mail room at the Newark Advocate newspaper, where I had worked part-time in my sophomore and junior years. I also worked at Levin's Clothing Store, Rockwell Axle and Gear and the Newark Ohio Company (later Roper's) before starting at Owens-Corning Fiberglas in April of 1960. I married my wife in 1962 and we had a son later that year. In 1964, I began an apprenticeship to become a Journeyman Machinist. My daughter was born in 1965. I became a Journeyman Machinist in 1968. I did programming of Numerical Controlled machinery from 1974 to 1977 at Owens. I became the tool room attendant in the mid 1980's and also did some Tool and Die work as well as purchasing of tooling. I also took classes in Electronics in the early 1970's and several computer classes in 1986 and 1987. In 1987, I went to work at General Electric Superabrasives in Worthington. While at GE, I also did some Computer Controlled Numerical Controlled machinery programming and worked 2 years in the Model Shop under Engineering. While in the Model Shop, I did NC programming and bought tooling. I continued taking computer software classes which included AutoCad to generate drawing for use in the Model Shop. I operated various machinery and also worked with v...Expand for more