James Woods responses to the Questionnaire:
uploaded on March 29, 2008
(Sorry, this was lost. He sent it March 25, 2002.)
1. Current name you go by.
James Wood
2. If you are a female, please include your maiden name while in school.
NA
3. Did you have a nickname in high school and if so what was it?
Jimmy Wood
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.
wood.j at cox dot net
5. Where do you live? City or State please
Oklahoma City
6. Your occupation or if you are retired, what was your occupation?
no response
7. If you are retired, what are you doing now?
Football and politics
8. How many children do you have and where do they live?
None
9. How many grandchildren do you have?
NA
10. Did you hold an office while in high school, participate in sports,
the band, the Hussars, etc.?
None
11. What were your aspirations when you were in high school?
To drink as much alcohol as possible in as short a time frame as possible
12. Did you accomplish most of the goals you set for yourself back then or
did you alter your direction?
I really had no goals in high school other than to try to look old enough to
buy "booze".
13. What was your favorite song(s) during your high school days? No more than
2 please. You may want to make one of them your courting song. :-)
I was always a big fan on "elevator" music instead of rock and roll but I did
like everything done by Fats Domino.
14. What was your favorite movie back then? movie theatre?
Almost never attended movies in high school because it reduced the time
available for serious drinking.
15. What were your favorite hangouts or past times? i.e. The Beehive, the movies,
the drive in, Pleasure Pier, etc. Pasty, Shirley, Melba and I occasionally hosted
parties on the weekends, taking turns at whose house and who brought what
refreshments. It was always a dance. (^.^)
Lakeside bar and Lu Ann's club in Louisiana
16. Do you have photos of any of events from our high school days, anything of
interest? I wish I had pictures of Patsy, Melba, and Shirley pushing my grandfather's
car across 16th street to the gas station. Remember gas being 19 and 25 cents
a gallon? We all chipped in a quarter each...LOL.
no response
17. What was your favorite subject in high school and why? Did it help shape
your future?
American Government.
Ended up as a Political Science major in college.
18. Who was your favorite teacher or was there a teacher who inspired you?
Charles McBee in Physics. I did terrible in the course but he was a great guy.
19. What was your most embarrassing moment or your worst nightmare during high
school years?
Getting driven home by the police after they escorted me out of a TJ football
game for being drunk and disorderly.
20. Where did you meet your mate if you are married? (not necessary to include
previous mates if you are divorced or separated
At a party in a private residence in Taegu Korea.
21. Do you know of any classmates that are deceased? If so, please relay the
information so it can be added to a memorial page.
Willard Youngblood. He was a retired Navy Chief living in Jackson Tennessee.
Also George Clayton who taught histtory in a high school in Houston.
22. What are your favorite websites. Please list no more than 3 and please
no “Adult” sites.
one that might be of interest is www.panews.com
23. 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.
A lot.
24. 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?
Sausalito, California -- my favorite town. Love the climate and the life style.
25. 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 – 1958 including Woodrow
Wilson Jr. High years.
1957. Don't know why.
26. Is there anything in particular you would like to see on this website?
no response
27. 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 response
28. How computer literate are you? Do you need help with any of this computer
stuff? I won’t mind helping. I can usually give a simple step-by-step list
of how to.
Probably a 6 on a 1-10 scale,
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