Jennilou Nowlin Platt's Responses to the Questionnaire
Uploaded in January 2008 but responded years ago, sorry, I had lost it.
1. Current name you go by.
Jennie Lou Platt
2. If you are a female, please include your maiden name while in school.
Jennilou Nowlin
3. Did you have a nickname in high school and if so what was it?
None
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.
plattj at mtmission.org This is both my home as I live as house parent
to 26 teenage boys(WHAT FUN!) and work address!
(Webmaster note: Jennilou's email bounces now so I am assuming she and
her husband retired from this position and moved to their own home.)
5. Where do you live? City and State please
Grundy, Va.- the Southwest corner of Virgina in the mountains (near
Tenn., Kentucy and West Va.)
6. Your occupation or if you are retired, what was your occupation?
still teaching but for the 10 years that Paul was principal of
Mountain Mission School I was the Food Service Director cooking 2 meals
a day for the 350 of us that live on the campus full time
7. If you are retired, what are you doing now?
(I am going to do a search for Jennilou and her husband. They may
be retired now.)
8. Your hobbies and/or pastimes.
enjoy birds, flowers, the piano and reading
9. How many children do you have and where do they live?
(She forgot to answer this question.)
10. How many grandchildren do you have?
2 grandaughters and 2 grandsons
11. Did you hold an office while in high school, participate
in sports, the band, the Hussars, etc.?
no offices. the Maroon and Gold Band, playing the French Horn and
driving Mr. Badgett crazy!
(Jennilou accompanied me on the piano for the D.E. Banquet. She also
plays the piano.)
12. What were your aspirations when you were in high school?
I thought that I would be a nurse.
13. Did you accomplish most of the goals you set for yourself
back then or did you alter your direction?
A total change of direction after attending and graduating from
Dallas Christian College in 1962 and began teaching at the Mountain
Mission School, a children's home for about 250 kids
Visit our web site at http://www.mountainmissionschool.org
(webmaster note: I updated the web address for the school.)
14. What was your favorite song during your high school days?
I only remember the strange ones like Purple People Eater, Rock
Around the Clock, Monster Mash
(Webmaster note: The Purple People Eater is a vocal and dialup
will be too slow to download.)
15. What was your favorite movie back then?
None
16. What were your favorite hangouts? i.e. The Beehive, the
movies, the drive in, Pleasure Pier, etc.
movies and the DRAG down Proctor Street
17. Do you have photos of any of these events?
None
18. What was your favorite subject in high school and why?
Latin and English
19. Who was your favorite teacher or was there a teacher who
inspired you?
Miss Smyth, the Latin teacher with JCL and 3 years of Latin
20. What was your most embarrassing moment or your worst
nightmare during high school years?
Mr. Badgett and I didn't always see eye to eye!
21. Where did you meet your mate if you are married?
(not necessary to include previous mates if you are
divorced or separated)
met Paul in college; taught school for 2 yearsand returned to Dallas
and got married in 1964 still married all these many years later....
he is a teacher and minister
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.
None
23. What are your favorite websites. Please list no more than
three and please no “Adult” sites.
None
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.
world peace and have all the children of this world (no matter what
age they might be) to accept Jesus Christ as their personal Savior
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?
Hawaii - beaches and the beautiful ocean - Carolyn, I am so jealous!
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.
need more thought on this - I just appreciate your taking
this huge step!
27. Is there anything in particular you would like to see on
this website?
No response
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 would send copies through the mail to you.... maybe my son could
scan this summer as he is computer expert with the Toyota Company in Cinn
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.
Wow can you understand all of this -hope I made mysekf clear. If not
could write and I will try to correct!!!!!! Love you! jennie
30. Three part question: your favorite color, favorite number, and
your favorite movie of all time.
No response
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