Charlotte Tahaney's responses to the Questionnaire:
Responses were March 2003, sorry but I had lost this one too.
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1. Current name you go by.
Charlotte Tahaney Warren
2. If you are a female, please include your maiden name while in school.
My maiden name was Tahaney
3. Did you have a nickname in high school and if so what was it?
Charlie
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.
cwarren1005 at yahoo.com
5. Where do you live? City or State please
Beaumont Texas
6. Your occupation or if you are retired, what was your occupation?
Administrative Assistant in the Trust Department of Hibernia National Bank,
Beaumont, Tx.
7. If you are retired, what are you doing now?
Not retired...don't know when/if I will retire...
8. Your hobbies and/or pastimes.
Oh my...walking...reading...writing...all kinds of artsy craftsy types of things...
I'm a volunteer at Christus St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont...participant in the
American Cancer Society's Annual Relay for Life, the Reading Is Fundamental program
at one of the local elementary schools, and the annual Beaumont Paint-a-Thon, a
program that assigns a group of folks to completely paint the home of a, oh,
low income family. The house is painted in one day...great fun! I recently
joined the Red Hussar Alumni Association and marched in the Mardi Gras parade...
what a hoot!
9. How many children do you have and where do they live?
I have two sons - Jason Dale Warren who is 29 and lives here in Beaumont,
but will be moving back to Houston in the very near future, and Joshua
Stedman Warren, 26, who is also here in Beaumont but will be moving to
Nashville, TN in a couple of months.
10. How many grandchildren do you have?
My first one is on his way...God willing he'll arrive sometime the latter
part of June! He will be Joshua's and I can hardly believe my good fortune!
My sons are adopted - they are biological brothers, but we did not get them
until they were 6 and 3...so I prayed for a little boy...just like his Dad...
and so it will be! It'll be the nearest thing to seeing and holding my son
as a baby. Great Big :-)
11. Did you hold an office while in high school, participate
in sports, the band, the Hussars, etc.?
Among other things I was in the Hussars...great times...
12. What were your aspirations when you were in high school?
College and teach...
13. Did you accomplish most of the goals you set for yourself
back then or did you alter your direction?
Well, my direction was altered...several times...didn't graduate
from college...so no teaching...but I'm always setting goals...
14. What was your favorite song during your high school days?
Didn't have ONE...liked anything by Buddy Holly...the Platters...
Johnny Mathis...any show tunes...
15. What was your favorite movie back then?
"Singing in the Rain"...
16. What were your favorite hangouts? i.e. The Beehive, the
movies, the drive in, Pleasure Pier, etc.
The Crown Drive-In after making the Drag...
17. Do you have photos of any of these events?
Nope
18. What was your favorite subject in high school and why?
English and history...
19. Who was your favorite teacher or was there a teacher who
inspired you?
My favorite teacher was not a school teacher...she was my piano
teacher...Mrs. Bussey...Lora Mae Bussey's grandmother. I can
remember so well sitting at that big piano, my feet swinging way
above the floor, and Mrs. Bussey sitting beside me listening to me
play and ever so gently correcting me...I loved going to her big
house filled with all those antiques...sitting at the card table
in the "den" completing my theory lessons and then at the grand,
or was it a baby grand, piano for practice lessons...there was no
way I'd ever make it as a pianist, but Mrs. Bussey didn't care...
she was patient and kind, and as a result, I have a wonderful
memory of those times, and an understanding and great appreciation
for music. She truly enriched my life.
(webmaster note: I dearly love this response, so sweet.)
20. What was your most embarrassing moment or your worst
nightmare during high school years?
You're kiddin', right? I was the most shy bashful kid in high school
and you want me to list ONE embarrassing moment or ONE WORST nightmare?!
'Don't think so...
(webmaster note: It's refreshing to be so honest. I love it!)
21. Where did you meet your mate if you are married?
(not necessary to include previous mates if you are
divorced or separated)
We were introduced by a mutual friend at a party in Houston. Larry
was a salesman with an oilfield service company and I was working
for an oil company at the time...we married six months to the day
after our first date and were together for 25+ years before he
passed away in September 2000.
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, I think you know all the ones I know.
23. What are your favorite websites. Please list no more than
three and please no "Adult" sites.
Gosh...don't really have any favorites...
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.
Change the world's history...don't think so...change my life's history...
don't think so there either. I've had, am having, a great life...
I have a wonderful family...If I died this moment, I would die happy...
I've done some really fun things...had some wonderful times...have some
friends who love and accept me just as I am...had so many blessings and
prayers answered -- prayers of pain and dispair answered by miracles --
met so many wonderful people... had two extraordinary men in my life...
reared two wonderfully kind, loving sons, and expecting a super grandson
;-)...nope...I wouldn't change a thing!
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'm happy being me...right now...it's enough. I'm looking forward to
going to Nashville to meet my grandson...I would like some time
within the next couple of years to go to Ireland to meet/find some kin,
find my roots...
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.
1958...It was fun, fun, fun...and way too fast and brief!!
27. Is there anything in particular you would like to see on
this website?
Pictures, pictures, pictures...
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?
I have a few...and I'll see what I can do about getting them to you.
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.
Oh...so/so...I get by...with a lot of help from my sons.
30. Three part question: your favorite color, favorite number, and
your favorite movie of all time.
Color - the one that looks best on me at the time :-)...
favorite number? 7;
and favorite movie of all time has to be "To Kill a Mockingbird"
(also my favorite book)
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