Tom Giesen's responses to the questionnaire:
date: 3/9/2002 (sorry but had I lost some of these)
1. Current name you go by.
Tom Giesen
2. If you are a female, please include your maiden name while in school.
Not applicable
3. Did you have a nickname in high school and if so what was it?
No reply
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.
tom at giesen dot net
5. Where do you live? City or State please
in a condo close (.75 mi) from my office in downtown Eugene, OR
6. Your occupation or if you are retired, what was your occupation?
Current: consulting construction cost estimator - managing construction
budgets for owners and architects
Returning to school late '03 for graduate degree in forestry
(I will email for an update on this too)
7. If you are retired, what are you doing now?
See response to number 6
8. Your hobbies and/or pastimes.
Triathlon training; mountain biking on logging roads in the Oregon
coast range; forest activism
(see www.forestscience.org and www.respectresources.org);
bicycle touring; music, photography
9. How many children do you have and where do they live?
Brooke, 22, teaching in Berkeley, CA; partner Patrick is in law
school
Erika, 27, teaching part time at Rogue Community College; working
for Waterwatch (enviro. group); lives in Ashland, OR
10. How many grandchildren do you have?
zip
11. Did you hold an office while in high school, participate
in sports, the band, the Hussars, etc.?
zip
12. What were your aspirations when you were in high school?
zip is easy to live up to
13. Did you accomplish most of the goals you set for yourself
back then or did you alter your direction?
No reply
14. What was your favorite song during your high school days?
No reply
15. What was your favorite movie back then?
No reply
16. What were your favorite hangouts? i.e. The Beehive, the
movies, the drive in, Pleasure Pier, etc.
No reply
17. Do you have photos of any of these events?
No reply
18. What was your favorite subject in high school and why?
No reply
19. Who was your favorite teacher or was there a teacher who
inspired you?
No reply
20. What was your most embarrassing moment or your worst
nightmare during high school years?
Daily life
21. Where did you meet your mate if you are married?
(not necessary to include previous mates if you are
divorced or separated)
divorced x 2 - now single, w/ partner Laura
(Webmaster note:
this response was in March 2002, I will email for an update maybe)
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.
No reply
23. What are your favorite websites. Please list no more than
three and please no “Adult” sites.
Oregon Forest Resources Institute
(Webmaster note:
The website Tom referred to no longer exist. This is what I found
that could closely resemble the topic.)
and
Oregon Bioscience
(Webmaster note:
The website Tom referred to no longer exist. This is what I found
that could closely resemble the topic. I will email him and ask
him if he has new webaddresses for the topics he mentioned.)
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.
No reply
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?
No reply
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 to 1958 including Woodrow Wilson Jr. High years.
No reply
27. Is there anything in particular you would like to see on
this website?
No reply
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?
No reply
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.
No reply
30. Three part question: your favorite color, favorite number, and
your favorite movie of all time.
No reply
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