Questionnaire responses by Vance (Dickie) Jacobs:
webmaster note: I went through 6 HP computers in one years' time
in Hawaii and this response got lost in my files. I found it today,
January 2, 2008, in a folder named find a place for. Sorry!
Vance has since retired.
1. Current name you go by.
Vance Jacobs
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?
Dickie
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.
vbjacobs at yahoo dot com
5. Where do you live? City or State please
Baytown, Tx
6. Your occupation or if you are retired, what was your occupation?
Teaching economics at Lee College in Baytown for the past 32 years:
will retire and become full time fisherman and duck hunter in
August, 2002
7. If you are retired, what are you doing now?
Hobbies and/or pastimes. See below...
8. Your hobbies and/or pastimes.
Hobbies and/or pastimes. Fly fishing, duck hunting,
birding, cooking and studying Japanese language and
culture.
9. How many children do you have and where do they live?
Older son age 38, married 2 daughters, Upland
California
Second son age 23 single, college student in Wichita
Falls Texas
Daughter age 21 single, college student in Baytown, Tx
10. How many grandchildren do you have?
2- see number 9 above.
11. Did you hold an office while in high school, participate
in sports, the band, the Hussars, etc.?
In high school I was as very devoted "supporter" of the
Red Hussars. (wink)
12. What were your aspirations when you were in high school?
My mother's aspirations were for me to become a doctor.
Chemistry and comparative anatomy classes at UT (I was only 17!)
soon convinced me otherwise.
13. Did you accomplish most of the goals you set for yourself
back then or did you alter your direction?
I shifted emphasis to Economics with the goal of becoming a stock
broker but found my way into teaching and loved it in spite of
the meager monetary rewards.
14. What was your favorite song during your high school days?
The song that stands out foremost in our senior year was
'Searchin" by The Coasters but I am still an avid "doo wop" fan
and the Platters and their whole album comes to mind as some
of my favorites.
15. What was your favorite movie back then?
"The King and I" and "Shane" are the movies stand out in my
memory the most from those days.
16. What were your favorite hangouts? i.e. The Beehive, the
movies, the drive in, Pleasure Pier, etc.
At Steve Hodges house because his mother let us smoke in the
house and across the street at Carol Ann Holmes house because
her mother was such a great cook. The Bowling Alley although
I did not bowl, the "Drag" on Proctor street, The Keyhole club
although I was never a good pool player, The Don Drive In,
and that great old all night restaurant on proctor street near
Houston Ave. the name of which I can't recall. (help!)
17. Do you have photos of any of these events?
I only wish I did !
18. What was your favorite subject in high school and why?
Physiology and biology because just liked the subject
and I thought I would become a doctor.
19. Who was your favorite teacher or was there a teacher who
inspired you?
All of my English teachers at TJ were so much better than they
were and are in most other places. I found out in college that
I was much better prepared than many of my class mates even
though I had not been a very conscientious study at T. J.
Miss Ara Goldman tried to help me and I have always regretted
that I did not work enough to meet her expectations.
20. What was your most embarrassing moment or your worst
nightmare during high school years?
Our senior year I faked my report cards after my father
threatened to ground me for a whole duck season if I made
bad grades. Then for the rest of the year I worried that
he would find out the truth. I had to keep the fakes in a
safe place and bring them home each grading period since
they had to be signed four times during the year. After the
first time I realized that I could not forge my mother's
signature to fool her so I had to worry that I would lose
the fakes.
Stupidly, I took home straight A's when my real grades were
barely passing. When the school published a list of "A" students
in the Port Arthur News, My father questioned me and threatened
to call the school. I convinced him that on the day we were
to turn our names in for the "A" list in home room, I was at a
Junior Red Cross meeting and that it was my fault that my name
was not in the paper. I am not sure he bought it but at least
he did not call the school.
As the year was ending it looked as though I would fail chemistry
and maybe not graduate. How would I explain that? I studied,
prayed, and cheated (in my haste to copy lab report I even
copied the name "Carol Ann Holmes" fortunately I recognized
my mistake before turning it in) I also begged Mr. Cell but
I didn't know until the last day of the semester whether I would
graduate or run away from home ( I had my bags packed!!)
webmaster note: Thanks for being so honest. This is funny now
yet serious back then.
21. Where did you meet your mate if you are married?
(not necessary to include previous mates if you are
divorced or separated)
My wife Joycelyn, was a graduate assistant working at the library
where I was writing my masters thesis. She is finishing her
27th year in the English dept. here at Lee College where I
also teach.
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.
The ones I am sure about are Charles Hoffpauir, Ronald Doty,
V.W Garten, Shelton Comeaux
23. What are your favorite websites. Please list no more than
three and please no “Adult” sites.
Waterfowler.com
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.
Over the years I have thought of things I wished I had done
differently but now I like where I am and if having done those
things means I wouldn't be here, I am glad I did what I did.
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?
At this stage of the game I am rather content with where I am.
I intend to move to Idaho in a couple of years and avoid the
big city hassle as much as possible.
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