Barbara Noel's responses to the Questionnaire:
Uploaded in January 2008.
1. Current name you go by.
Barbara N. Brown
2. If you are a female, please include your maiden name while in school.
Barbara Noel Brown
3. Did you have a nickname in high school and if so what was it?
No nickname
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.
ladybrown at juno dot com
5. Where do you live? City or State please
Kenner, Louisiana (just west of New Orleans)
6. Your occupation or if you are retired, what was your occupation?
Presently a receptionest at East Jefferson General Hospital
7. If you are retired, what are you doing now?
See answer to number 6, not retired.
8. Your hobbies and/or pastimes.
Read, crochet, visit with friends,love music
9. How many children do you have and where do they live?
4 girls & 1 boy...Linn in Arkansas, Alice in Mississippi,
Scott in Alexandria, La., and Lexie and Barbie in suburbs
near me.
10. How many grandchildren do you have?
12 grands and 2 great grands
11. Did you hold an office while in high school, participate
in sports, the band, the Hussars, etc.?
I only started at TJHS in my junior year and was much too shy
to try out for anything.
12. What were your aspirations when you were in high school?
To do what was expected of me, become a wife and mother
(have loved being both, but have wider outlook now)
13. Did you accomplish most of the goals you set for yourself
back then or did you alter your direction?
Mostly, with a few alternate paths.
14. What was your favorite song during your high school days?
Twilight Time, by the Platters and all songs by the Platters
and most all othe music too.
15. What was your favorite movie back then?
Can't remember, but I liked to go.
16. What were your favorite hangouts? i.e. The Beehive, the
movies, the drive in, Pleasure Pier, etc.
Loved skating at Pleasure Pier
17. Do you have photos of any of these events?
Lost most of my pictures and treasured keepsakes in a fire
in December of 2006.
(Webmaster note: I am so sorry to learn of this. I've had things
stolen in my many moves so I understand the losses.)
18. What was your favorite subject in high school and why?
Loved French III, English (Mr. Parker) and Bookkeeping.
19. Who was your favorite teacher or was there a teacher who
inspired you?
Liked Mr. Pickard(?) in Social Studies (almost forgot, I also
liked Social Studies)
20. What was your most embarrassing moment or your worst
nightmare during high school years?
I've tried hard to forget that.
21. Where did you meet your mate if you are married?
(not necessary to include previous mates if you are
divorced or separated)
Blind date arranged by Sandra Riley, we went to a party.
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.
Have lost touch, but knew so many of the ones on that list
(cried wheh I saw Lenis on that list)
23. What are your favorite websites. Please list no more than
three and please no “Adult” sites.
Don't visit too many except this one, I visit it every day,
it has been a " lifeline" to me in difficult days.
THANK YOU Carolyn.
(Webmaster note: You are not the first one to say this and I thank
you so very much for your comments.)
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.
Would not do things differently, except my husband would still be here.
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 like where I am now.
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.
Senior year, even at that tim it was perfect.
27. Is there anything in particular you would like to see on
this website?
More picture of then and now.
(Webmaster note: Please visit our Kodak Gallery. If people would
send more pictures I would gladly add them to the Kodak Gallery
photo album. Our site has almost reached its limit to continue
to be a free site paying for domain name only. The Kodak Gallery
photo album would be in your free account with Kodak for as long
as you keep that account active.)
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?
a few, but am reluctant to be one of so few willing to share then and now pictures.
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 hel
"Learning all th time"
30. Three part question: your favorite color, favorite number, and
your favorite movie of all time.
Red, seven and "Lillies of the Field"
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