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


photo of Tom riding a bike

The song: "What A Wonderful World" Louis Satchmo Armstrong recorded this song Please help save our planet.


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