Paschal High School Class of '56

	The starters for the 1956 Paschal Panthers basketball team. From left; Jerry Hartman, Tommy Turner, Bobby Tyler and Don Williams. The 5th starter was Chuck Fielder, who is deceased. They look like they could still fill the lanes on a fast break the way Coach Turner taught them
	The one and only Carlson's Drive-In
	The Parkaire
	Great article about Bobby Tyler and Morton Meyerson in a Sheila Taylor column
What we remember about those halcyon days
I remember: Fish Day when I was kissed by K. O. Rankin and made to carry several other boys' books. Great fun; The daily bus rides to and from school and singing "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" to our crabby driver; Receiving goose bumps from the "Silent Yell" during pep rallies; The friendliness of everyone - even the most popular kids spoke to me (a nobody) in the hallways; A big Thanksgiving Day game between PHS and our oldest rival, Northside. I had my mother drop me off at Farrington Field after dinner, by myself, as none of my girlfriends would go; Receiving my first homecoming mum, only to have my cousin ruin it in his rush to get past me and down the aisle; O. D. Wyatt giving me and a girl friend a ride home and stopping off at the building site of the new school on Forest Park Blvd; Sock hops at the gym and doing the Poly Drag and Dirty Bop. After one dance, L. E. tried to get me to ride home with his friend Don Sewell. I said no, I was not allowed to go on car dates, we'd just take the bus. Lucky thing, too, as my Father, unbeknownst to me, was standing there. He'd come to pick us up! I'd been in deep trouble if I'd gotten in that car. "Stardust" being played at the close of every school dance. It became "our song". (Mine, anyway. L. E. 's choice was "Honey Love"). Running out of gas in L. E.'s yellow Crosley and pushing it up the hill on Forest Park. (The gas gauge did not work and he'd try to go all week $1. He's still pretty "frugal".) Now I'm getting personal. Better quit. - Sandra Janes Robinson From Mike Tripp; I can remember going across the street to Ashburn's for a big strawberry malt after track workouts, walking home and eating a full dinner afterwards. Sigh, I only weighed 127lbs. then. I remember we had Interstate Movie Discount Cards so if your date had one too you could see a movie for 45 cents each. I'd buy a buck's worth of gas @ 17 cents a gallon, pick up my date, go to the movie and then to Carlson's and get a Root Beer apiece. A date for less than 5 bucks! Parking to neck wasn't dangerous then unless your cronies found your spot. One of the things that most impressed me was at the end of the year's athletic events O.D. took all the guys to Fuqua's for a steak dinner on him. I will always revere that good man. He loved us as students as if we were his own children. You know, I think that's why the Honor System worked. We would have died rather than disappoint that man and the idea of letting our peers down was unthinkable. - Mike Tripp - Trippin' Out (see pic with Wanda and Wilma) Richard Anderson by Mike Tripp: Richard was the first in our gang (John Caudry, Kenneth Summers, David McMath and myself) to get his driver's license so he became our ride to Paschal. We spent a great deal of time in Hubert Cherry's office because Richard would decide to take us sight-seeing and we would end up late to school. Well back to the present, Richard served as a counselor to the CA school system. Beverly Jones Spencer wrote: I remember: .......how wide the stairs were at the "old PHS" (before we moved to Forest Park). ....... how those same stairs were hollowed out from so many kids going up & down them over the years. ....... open windows in the whole building----long before A/C in schools. .......study hall with Miss Mixon (until I got out & got scheduled into 2 PE classes (unheard of these days!) ....... PE uniform check every Monday>>>had to be washed, bleached, starched, & ironed white shirts, shorts, socks and Keds. Shirt tails tucked in, of course!!! ....... bus passes...no "yellow dogs"! .......riding the bus to the library in downtown FW. ....... riding the bus to Forest Park for PE (tennis) the last 2 periods of the day after the tennis courts at the "old PHS" were torn out for the remodeling. .......the amphitheater (left over from McLean JH). ......."running for classes" our senior year. .......the first "Gifted & Talented" or "Accelerated" English class in the FWISD (maybe in the state) --with Miss Smith. .......going to Miss Mitchell's apartment house to sing Happy Birthday to her. .......being in Miss Doris Cheney's homeroom for 3 years. What a special lady! .......Senior class train trip to Amarillo. - Beverly Jones Spencer http://thebreastcancersite.com/ "Milner, Gail B." wrote: I remember sometimes Mr. Wyatt would play Stardust on the intercom instead of the ringing the last bell of the day.... - pep rallies at the old high school -- and trying to make the chandeliers sway with the sound of the student body yelling .... - going back over to look at the old building when it was empty after we moved to the new PHS. We would look in the windows and be sad remembering all the good times.... - the Vagabonds and the school plays and Mrs. Todd.... - Lois Ann Smith's English classes and Anna Gardner's Latin classes and dreading being called on to write out a problem on the blackboard in Algebra..... - checking to see if there was anybody at Carlson's.... - and the Sports Follies! - Gail Milner all right, which of you guys threw the pennies? Kay Tolksdorf wrote: I remember a few times that chandelier did sway ...or was it my imagination! I remember at the new school, during modern dance class the boys would throw pennies over the partition! I did love hearing stardust played over the intercom, it's still a favorite of mine ...every time I hear it I think of PHS... - Kay Tolksdorf