Daniel Whitten:
CLASS OF 1978
Princeton Community High SchoolClass of 1978
Princeton, IN
Princeton Community Middle SchoolClass of 1973
Princeton, IN
Lowell Elementary SchoolClass of 1970
Princeton, IN
Daniel's Story
Question 1. How do you hope old friends remember you?
Answer: I'm impressed if they do - lol.
Question 2. I always wanted to be a helicopter pilot when I grew up. My family and friends thought that was a good dream idea. As it turns out, they were right in believing I would do it, because I did it in the Army.
Question 3. How do you blow off steam? Describe your favorite way to relax.
Answer: I relax by playing my guitar in bands or at home. Writing songs and lyrics. But on the flip side I also enjoy hunting and fishing.
Question 4. What's the wildest thing you ever did in school.
Answer: During a football game, I received a concussion. The next day, I got up and walked off during English class for no reason and when a teacher tried to find out what was going on, I overtly began to ask her out on a date. She took me straight to the school nurse, where they took me to the emergency room for the diagnosis.
Question 5. If I'm going to work somewhere, I need to have?
Answer: Variety. Everyday needs to be 50% mental and 50% physical. Because I love to think, imagine, design and then build it with my hands.
Question 6. Do you have a hero?
Answer: Nope, never have.
Question 7a. Where have you lived.
Answer: LOL alot of places, like Indiana, Texas, Virginia, Connecticut, MIssouri, etc.
Question 7b. Why did you move?
Answer: For work or family needs.
Question 8. The one person from my past who I'd most like to see again is?
Answer: My ex-wife, so I could tell her to kiss my ass one more time.
Question 9. Share your obsessions.
Answer: Playing guitar, golf, hunting, fishing, camping, Nascar, NHRA, photography, computers.
Question 10. Life doesn't always turn out the way you expect. What's been your biggest surprise?
Answer: That I would have had 9 children before turning 25. And 9 grandchildren before turning 50.
Question 11. What is your dream home?
Answer: An A-frame on a lake.
Question 12. Share what you've learned from your kids.
Answer: I never had a sister, so raising girls taught me they can be very challenging. But I've learned that the love of a child is the most precious thing I could have, ever, imagined in my life. Thank you girls.
Question 13: Which teacher would you love to see again. Why?
Answer: Mr. Ziller. He was such a friend and most influential person in high school to me. He was one teacher who cared enough to sit and talk with me on whatever experiences I was going through. I most especially enjoyed his humor and wit.
Question 14. If I won $100 million, I'd give ____ of it to ___, then spend the rest on ___, ___, and ___.
Answer: some of it to charity, and then the rest on my family. As would most...Expand for more
people.
Question 15: Ever live in a dorm? Greek system? Talk about campus life.
Answer: Yes. Campus life was a good place for me in becoming who I am today.
Question 16. To be truly happy, you would be where, doing what, with whom.
Answer. Where? _ Texas. Doing what? _ Designing custom homes. With whom? _ Architectural firm.
Question 17. My current age is ___. When I was 12, I thought that people my age now would be ___. I was so completely____.
Answer: Age; 49, retired, wrong.
Question 18. Working hard? Reveal your career aspirations.
Answer: To own my own engineering firm.
Question 19. What happened to your first crush?
Answer: Julie Staley is (was?) married to someone else and has children (I used to know his name, but hell I done forgot. LOL).
Question 20. My best friend would tell you I'm ___, but people who don't know me very well would probably describe me as ___.
Answer: _ a fantastic guitar player, who likes to have a good time. _ A type A personality.
Question 21. Still dress like you did 10 (or 20) years ago? Talk style.
Answer: No, my style is casual.
Question 22. What's the weirdest job you ever had.
Answer: Never had a weird job. Sorry.
Question 23. I share my home with ___, which I find ___.
Answer: My grand-daughter. The most blessed I've ever been in my life.
Question 24. Got trophies on your mantel? Share a big victory.
Answer: NO.
Question 25. You get one do-over. What do you do differently?
Answer: Not marry that #$^%& of an ex-wife.
Question 26. In ten years, I hope to be ____. I'm going to get there by ___.
Answer: alive, living healthy.
Question 27. Talk about your oldest friend, how you met, and why you clicked.
Answer: My oldest friend is Rodney Dill. We met by growing up in the same neighborhood and walked to school everyday all the way into high school. We clicked because we just did everything together. Sometimes it is what it is.
Question 28. What about you would surprise everyone at your high school reunion?
Answer: That I have traveled around the world to work in different countries, and considered a formidable engineering leader in the custom revolving door and computer industry. My nickname at work is world traveler.
Question 29. My first job was at ____, where I got paid _____ to _____. What I remember most about it is _____.
Answer: Hurst Manufacturing in Princeton. Minimum wage to learn tool and die. I remember mostly the old man smoking his cigars arriving in his cadillac.
And at last finally...
Question 30. Share a childhood memory you'll never forget.
Answer: When I got my first real guitar at the age of 8, from my Uncle Cecil while visiting him in Ft. Worth, Texas.
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