The war was winding down and he wound up as an Air Transportation Technician at the Panama Air Depot through 1945 and 1946. From 1947 until 1969, he was employed with American Airlines, beginning as a ramp agent at LaGuardia, moving in 1954 to the Regional Personnel Offices in Manhattan, recruiting stewardesses, pilots, reservations and ticketing agents, and ground personnel. In Tulsa, he earned a Bachelor of Liberal Studies degree from the University of Oklahoma. From 1973 to 1977, he was a partner in a private consulting firm in Raleigh, North Caroline, specializing in personnel, human resources and organization development. In Tulsa, he created and was the first president of the Tulsa Employers Association for Merit Employment, an affiliation of major employers in the area working to bring equal employment opportunities to minority citizens of the area.
TEAM is still in existence.
In Tulsa, he also served as vice-president and board member of the Tulsa Urban League and as Metropolitan Director of the National Alliance of Businessmen, President Johnson's grand strategy to enhance minority employment among companies large and small. The Midwest Center for Human Potential, the midwest's Esalen. MIM is still in existence, almost twenty years later. In Sacramento, he began work on the series of histories of trolley transportation which will be posted on this website. Al's been a member of the Bay Area Electric Railway Association, the Texas Electric Railway Association, the Branford Museum, the Arden, Pennsylvania Museum and the Association of Railway Museums, the North Jersey Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society, The North Jersey Electric Railway Historical Society and the Electric Railroaders Association of New York.