Ray Strother's Responses to the Questionnaire:
Uploaded in 2004.
1. Current name you go by.
Ray Strother (Raymond to people who are angry)
2. Did you have a nickname in high school and if so what was it?
No nickname
3. 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.
RDSFilms at Mac dot Com
4. Where do you live? City and State please.
Bozeman, Montana; Washington, DC
5. Your occupation or if you are retired, what was your occupation?
Political consultant, writer.
(Webmaster note: there is a link to your business on our favorite links page.)
6. Your hobbies and/or pastimes.
I design and build furniture, write books, fly fish.
7. How many children do you have and where do they live?
Two children. Dane Aden Strother, 41, Washington, DC.; Kristan Elise
Trugman, Alexandria, Va.
8. How many grandchildren do you have?
Three. Two boys by Dane and one girl by Kristan
9. Did you hold an office while in high school, participate
in sports, the band, the Hussars, etc.?
I was captain of the track team.
10. What were your aspirations when you were in high school?
To be a writer.
11. Did you accomplish most of the goals you set for yourself
back then or did you alter your direction?
I tended to stay on course. I became one of the first political
consultants. Recently I wrote an autobiography, Falling Up, that
was published April 1, 2003. My novel, Cottonwood was published
in 1991. Waiting for the Trout to Rise will be published in 2004.
12. What was your favorite song during your high school days?
Stardust
13. What was your favorite movie back then?
Giant
14. What were your favorite hangouts? i.e. The Beehive, the
movies, the drive in, Pleasure Pier, etc.
I was a bit of a loner, parked at Pleasure Pier with Sandy (Class of 59)
fished for gar under the Rainbow bridge, water skied in Cow Bayou, and
was forced to attend North End Baptist Church by my mother.
15. Do you have photos of any of these events?
nope. Most of the time I could not afford both film and gas to get my
car to the Pleasure Pier.
16. What was your favorite subject in high school and why?
Social Studies--it gave me a view of a world I didn't know.
17. Who was your favorite teacher or was there a teacher who
inspired you?
Two: Coach Wayne Cornelius, track coach; and Doris Crisp, English.
18. Where did you meet your mate if you are married?
(not necessary to include previous mates if you are divorced or
separated).
We met on the back row of North End Baptist Church on Lewis Road.
We were married in 1959.
19. What are your favorite websites. Please list no more than
three and please no “Adult” sites.
Yours could become my only favorite. I use a computer to write and
do business. I seldom look up web pages except for wood working tools.
20. 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.
I'll play the hand I was dealt.
21. 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 think I have been almost every place in the world I wanted to go
and have done just about what I wanted to do. I guess I would like to
die looking at the green hills of Scotland with a glass of scotch in
one hand and the smell of peat around me.
22. 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 to 1958 including Woodrow Wilson Jr. High years.
I guess I would go back to the track trips out of town with Bill
Barrett, Jimmy Morgan, Bill Britt, Gary Dorsey, Melvin Borel, Billy
Litchfield and Alvin Etheridge.
23. Is there anything in particular you would like to see on
this website?
Some of our teachers and their backgrounds.
(I'll see what I can do about this. I had started an obit column
for our teachers but the input stopped. There was only one. However,
in time I may have a page for the compliments people have made
about our teachers. I'd like to know how many are still living.
Thanks, Carolyn)
24. 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 can write and program but hate to do research on a computer. I usually
have bright young people who do that for me in my firm. Also, Sandy is
great at the web.
25. Three part question: your favorite color, favorite number, and
your favorite movie of all time.
Color...Orange tending toward red.
Number...2
Movie...Grapes of Wrath
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