Hall of Honor
Charlie Mary Noble | 1895 | Astronomy teacher; the Noble Planetarium is her namesake |
Sue B. Mann | 1910 | Educator; Made Who’s Who in American Education in the 1941-1942 edition. |
Gladys Houston Parker | 1914 | Alpha State Treasurer of Delta Kappa Gamma |
Morgan Jones Davis | 1915 | President of Exxon 1957-61 |
Wilmer Lee Allison | 1921 | He was a National Intercollegiate Tennis Champion, winning 32 matches and becoming a top tennis coach at the University of Texas. |
Price Daniel | 1927 | Texas Representative (three times), Attorney General of Texas (elected three times), four years as a US Senator, three terms as Governor of Texas |
Samuel P. Asper | 1933 | Doctor, contributed to research on the thyroid gland. |
Earl Meadows | 1933 | Set Olympic pole vault record in 1936 (14’3”) and broke world record with 14’11”. He held the record until the fiberglass pole was invented. |
Ruby Lee (Hackney) Piester | 1933 | Made Who’s Who of American Women in 1968 and was social worker of the year in 1969. |
Charles Tandy | 1935 | Founder of Tandy Corporation. |
Howard M. Fender | 1937 | Attorney General of Texas 1963-1973 |
Lila Banks Cockrell | 1938 | First woman elected Mayor of a major US City – San Antonio in 1975. |
Ted Norman | 1939 | Entertainer on KXTX and later WBAP |
Melvin O. Dacus | 1940 | Singer, Actor at Casa Manana and Shakespeare in the Park and teacher at TCU |
Mary Elizabeth “Liz” Smith | 1940 | Journalist at New York Newsday and NBC’s “Live at Five” |
Horace W. Busby, Jr. | 1941 | Politician, Assistant to Price Daniel and advisor to Allen Shivers. |
Dr. Laura Lee Grogran Grane | 1943 | Director of Starpoint School at TCU |
Robert Jackson Robinson | 1945 | US Olympic basketball team in 1948; has PhD in theology from Southwestern Baptist Seminary. |
Elston Brooks | 1948 | Journalist, had “The Elston Brooks Show” on the radio from 1965-1971. |
Dan Jenkins | 1948 | Known as “the father of modern American sports writing, Mr. Jenkins wrote for Sports Illustrated for 23 years and also wrote several books. The typewriter he used to write Life its Ownself resides in a display case in Paschal. |
Charles Frank Pendleton | 1949 | Awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor; was killed in Korea on July 7, 1953 due to a choice to remain on the battlefield even though he was wounded. His widow sent the Medal to Paschal; it now rests in the Panther Hall of Honor case. |
Edwin Shrake | 1949 | Wrote Blessed McGill, which is in Texas’ top 50 best books, and wrote Willy Nelson’s biography. |
Robert Floyd | 1949 | Partner of multimillion dollar company Fitz&Floyd china, which is used in the White House. |
Dr. Aubrey Taylor | 1950 | Was President of the American Physiological Society and the Microcirculatory Society and was a chairman in the Cardiopulmonary Council of the American Heart Association. |
Captain Alan L. Bean | 1950 | Fourth US Astronaut to land on the moon; landed with Apollo 12 mission on Dec. 22, 1969 and took Paschal’s flag to the moon, where it still is. |
Frank B. Ryan | 1950 | Quarterback for multiple professional football teams and Director of Athletics and Professor of Math at Yale University. |
Don Eugene Bowden | 1950 | Developed freeze-dried food. |
Dr. James M. Dunn | 1954 | Specialist on Separation of Church and State |
Charlie R. Hillard | 1956 | Founder of Charlie Hillard Ford, Hillard Leasing, Hillard Rent-A-Car, and other companies. |
Morton M. Meyerson | 1956 | President of company Electronic Data Systems in Dallas; his namesake is the Meyerson Concert Hall. |
Sherwin M. Goldman | 1957 | Tony award winning Broadway Producer |
Martin Frost | 1960 | Member of Congress, US Representative |
Donald R. Kirks | 1960 | Considered the foremost pediatric radiologist. |
Dr. Rebecca Ann Naylor | 1960 | She created the Bangalore Baptist Hospital in India and the first women to graduate surgery residency program at University Southwestern Medical School. |
Gayle Hunnicutt Jenkins | 1961 | Movie actress |
J. Andy Sullivan | 1962 | Nationally known expert in pediatric orthodedics |
Richard E. Rainwater | 1962 | In charge of Rainwater, Inc. which owns Mira Vista Estates |
Dr. Bill J. Leonard | 1964 | Founding Dean and Professor of Church History at Wake Forest University |
Dr. Tom Delton Dillehay | 1965 | Discovered village (Monte Verde) built over 13,000 years ago. |
J. Henry “T-Bone” Burnett | 1965 | Grammy award winning Songwriter, Performer and Producer |
Robert Denn Fleer | 1966 | Member of Thunderbirds in the Air Force |
Bill Owens | 1969 | First Republican Governor of Colorado in over 20 years, top ten rising political stars. |
Donald Ray Curry | 1980 | Member of US Olympic boxing team. |
Ben Hogan | 2000 | Famous golfer, won many tournaments such as the British Open and the Colonial |
PHS Alums Head to Major League
Two former Paschal Panther baseball players were selected in the Major League Amateur draft in June. Second baseman German Duran, drafted out of Weatherford College, was picked up by the Rangers as one of the top draft picks. Tyler Bullock, a pitcher at Baylor University was drafted by the Atlanta Braves.
Paschalite Named to US Women’s 60’s Tennis Team
The United States Tennis Association has named Mary McLean Wilson ’63 to the United States 60’s Alice Marble Cup tennis team.
In Remembrance
Recently in Iraq, Paschal graduate Kelly Lewis Hornbeck (C/O ’85) was killed in action. Kelly Hornbeck was born in Selma, Ala., on June 28, 1967.