Melvin Borel's responses to the Questionnaire:
Uploaded in 2004.
1. Current name you go by.
Mel Borel though officially my first name is Melvin.
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?
N/A
4. Your email address. If you have more than one, give only the one
you want to be published online. The email address page is protected
by a password gate. Please only include one email address.
mborel at sbcglobal.net
5. Where do you live? City or State please
San Antonio, Texas
6. Your occupation or if you are retired, what was your occupation?
Retired. Director with Nortel Networks in Richardson, Texas and Santa
Clara, California
7. If you are retired, what are you doing now?
Working part time at my wife’s (Linda Oubre) cousin’s furniture store
here in San Antonio while enjoying some travel and spending time with
our grand children.
8. Your hobbies and/or pastimes.
Until this past year (2004) I spent the last ten years skiing a lot.
I even found myself as a member of the ski patrol while living in Canada
for a while. Again, prior to this past year, I played and coached tennis
while playing some golf. I enjoy spending some time keeping up with
technological items while spending time on the PC editing photos for the
family. Linda and I enjoy visiting historical sites around the state.
9. How many children do you have and where do they live?
I have three children and Linda has four children. Two of my children
live North and Northeast of Dallas while the third lives here in San
Antonio. Linda’s children live in Granbury, Texas, Houston, Texas,
Orlando, Florida, and San Antonio, Texas.
10. How many grandchildren do you have?
I have five and Linda has five.
11. Did you hold an office while in high school, participate in sports,
the band, the Hussars, etc.?
I didn’t hold office but I played baseball, football, and ran track.
12. What were your aspirations when you were in high school?
To go to college and get a degree in Math or Engineering. I was fortunate
to receive a degree in Electrical Engineering.
13. Did you accomplish most of the goals you set for yourself back then
or did you alter your direction?
I’m satisfied with the goals I accomplished.
16. What were your favorite hangouts? i.e. The Beehive, the movies, the
drive in, Pleasure Pier, etc.
Most of my time, while in school was spent either studying or participating
in sports. During the summers, I was involved in baseball.
17. Do you have photos of any of these events?
No.
18. What was your favorite subject in high school and why?
I enjoyed math and the various sciences because it was a challenge and
interesting.
19. Who was your favorite teacher or was there a teacher who inspired you?
The person who inspired me most was not in high school but in Junior High.
He was, Mr. Jordan, a math teacher.
21. Where did you meet your mate if you are married? (not necessary to
include previous mates if you are divorced or separated)?
Linda (Oubre – TJ Class of 1960) and I met when we were in diapers. Our
grandparents and parents knew each other. Though this is not our first
marriage, we did stay in contact through the years and finally got together
in 2000. We were recently married.
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.
Guess what! There is no way that history can be changed and to speculate the
what ifs of life is to not accept who you are today because we are a product
of our history.
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?
I am very content to be where I am and doing what I’m doing.
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.
I’m relatively knowledgeable about computers and much of the software they
use. I use to manage a technical staff of hardware and software developers.
30. Three part question: your favorite color, favorite number, and your
favorite movie of all time.
Blue.
7 – it was the first number that I had as a little league baseball player.
The movie is a tough one because what I’ve found is that whenever I rent
a movie that I believed was very good and interesting from years ago, it
didn’t live up to my expectation. Perhaps it is reminiscence of the adage
that you can never really go home. One that probable comes close is “An
Affair to Remember” with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. It seems to move
the romantic side of me.
(Webmaster note: Melvin has visited me. When he had surgery, I had one of
our classmates to visit him and Pat Sabo Oldham had a well known priest
to visit him too.)
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