I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.
I was class president, on the cheerleading squad, in a competitive show choir, and in, like, six different clubs.
I worked at Sir-Tech, and then when I got old enough to go to college, I went to college but continued to work at Sir-Tech to put myself through college.
My father was career military. He was a veteran, he was a doctor of political science, he taught at West Point and Air Command Staff and lectured at the War College.
My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.
I had professional stunt racers teaching me how to drive.
I got an assistantship in physics at the University of Illinois, and I tore up my steno books.
My father was a doctor, an army cardiologist.
Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects.
I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S.