Glen Swearingen's responses to the questionnaire:
Uploaded iin 2004.
1. Current name you go by.
Glen
2. If you are a female, please include your maiden name while in school.
N/A
3. Did you have a nickname in high school and if so what was it?
Yeah, but I'm not tellin!
4. Your email address. If you have more than one, give only the one
you want to be published online.
photographybyglen at milehighpros dot com
5. Where do you live? City and State please.
Aurora, Colorado (Suburb of Denver)
6. Your occupation or if you are retired, what was your occupation?
Commercial Photographer
7. If you are retired, what are you doing now?
N/A
8. Your hobbies and/or pastimes.
Hunting, fishing, boating, camping, scenic photography.
9. How many children do you have and where do they live?
Never had any.
10. How many grandchildren do you have?
0
11. Did you hold an office while in high school, participate in sports,
the band, the Hussars, etc.?
No offices. Ran track (1/4 mile, mile relay, mile run).
12. What were your aspirations when you were in high school?
Be a medical doctor. After college graduation, changed my mind,
went into cancer research at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson
Tumor Institute (10 years).
13. Did you accomplish most of the goals you set for yourself back then
or did you alter your direction?
Get bored easily! Went from Research to Camera store chain manager/owner
to Sporting Goods store manager (Gart Bros Sportscastle) to Realtor
to Photographer, with a couple of years in the Army thrown in.
14. What was your favorite song during your high school days?
Almost anything by Elvis, Roy Orbison, Hank Ballard and the Midnighters,
or the Clovers.
15. What was your favorite movie back then?
Anything with Liz Taylor or Jean Seaberg in it.
16. What were your favorite hangouts? i.e. The Beehive, the movies, the
drive in, Pleasure Pier, etc.
Anywhere my girlfriend at the time wanted to go. Tried parking on
pleasure pier island a few times...way too many mosquitos!
17. Do you have photos of any of these events?
Wish I did. Didn't know what a camera was until I was 35!
18. What was your favorite subject in high school and why?
Biology. Who knows why. I was good at it?
19. Who was your favorite teacher or was there a teacher who inspired you?
Kiefer in math because I was terrible at math and as difficult as it
was, she taught me enough to get through college. Goldman in English
for the same reasons,
20. What was your most embarrassing moment or your worst nightmare during
high school years?
You gotta be kidding! Probably having to fight Banker Phares a second
time the day after he beat me up over $5. And yeah, he won the second
time too!
21. Where did you meet your mate if you are married? (not necessary to
include previous mates if you are divorced or separated).
She was in research at the University of Texas Dental School in Houston,
and moved into the apartment next door. I borrowed my room-mates camera
and pretended to take pictures of her around the pool. One thing led to
another, and we've been happily married over 35 years now.
22. Do you know of any classmates who are deceased? If so, please relay the
information so it can be added to a memorial page.
At the last reunion I attended, I remember Sherry Johnson's photo on
display. Do you cover only the class of '58?
(Webmaster note: Yes, however I am in touch with other classes and especially
the class of '56 because I am married to Alfred, class of '56.)
23. What are your favorite websites. Please list no more than 3 and please
no “Adult” sites.
New to computers. Like your site. Especially the live cam at Waikiki!
24. If you could change history, what would you do differently if anything
at all? Keep it brief and you do not have to share, you don’t have to
have anything you would do differently either.
Abolish disease, politicians, economists, and the laws against polygamy.
25. If you could go anywhere in the world and be any thing you wanted to be
at this stage of the game, where would you go and what would you do
and why?
Retire in Tahiti. Why not?
26. If you could go back to our high school days, which year would you go
back to and why? Considering our high school days were 1954 – 1958
including Woodrow Wilson Jr. High years.
Go back to '54 and
1) learn photography sooner and
2) treat some old girlfriends better (kinder).
27. Is there anything in particular you would like to see on this website?
More photos of people, then and now. Especially people 1 or 2 years
behind us (old girlfriends).
28. Do you have any photos of yourself then and now? If you don’t know how
to scan or don’t have a scanner, would you be willing to send copies of
the photos so I can scan them for use in the website?
Just as the cobbler's child had no shoes, the photographer has no photos.
I seem to always be standing on the wrong side of the camera! I'll work
on that though.
29. How computer literate are you? Do you need help with any of this computer
stuff? I won’t mind helping. I give a simple step-by-step list of how to.
I'm not talking instructions, just help if needed.
Semi-illiterate! So far I'm muddling through (I think).
P.S.- Funny you're in Hawaii. I was stationed there at Schofield
Barracks and Wheeler A.F.B. for 2 years (64-65) while I was in the Army
(guided missile electronics). Loved the place and almost took my
discharge there, but I got "rock fever" and changed my mind. Always
wondered "what if...?"
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