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WILLIAM FROST

 Mr. Frost graduated from Texas A&M University with a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Technology Engineering.  After serving in the U.S. Army, he joined Southwestern Bell Telephone Company's management training program in Dallas, Texas.  He held various technical and marketing management positions with Southwestern Bell and AT&T.  Mr. Frost received his M.S. degree in Advanced Management (AT&T's Executive Masters Program) from Pace University in New York City.  While assigned to the AT&T corporate staff in New York City, he was responsible for managing and directing a non-legal management group assigned to the coordination of the Bell System's antitrust support activities related to terminal switching equipment.  In 1979, he was appointed to a General Manager Sales position where he was responsible for developing and managing a nationwide sales force that sold AT&T's large terminal switching equipment and network services to the nation's largest chemical and petroleum companies.  After twenty-five years with the Bell System and AT&T, Mr. Frost retired as a Sales Vice President in Houston, Texas where he was responsible for AT&T's network services over a five-state area.

 Mr. Frost incorporated Excelaris Corporation on May 1, 1987 with a corporate objective to help clients transverse into sophisticated voice and data telecommunications systems that would meet both their present and future needs.  On March 1, 1993, the name of the firm was changed to Excel Telecommunications Consultants.  For over sixteen years, Excel's clients have experienced success in implementing both large and small voice and data switching systems.  Excel has recommended and implemented many IBM AS/400 Systems, Compaq, Dell and IBM server systems.  Also, Excel has recommended and implemented diverse routing for intercity networks utilizing T1, DS1, Voice over IP topology and Internet access networks.

 Mr. Frost has provided management consulting to the Houston Chamber of Commerce, Perot Petition Committee, Perot Systems, Inc. and was a McCoy, Inc. Advisory Board member in Houston for fifteen years.  He has held numerous positions with various civic organizations during his career, e.g., Houston Chamber of Commerce Board, Houston Ballet Board, Houston Economic Development Council and other various Chamber of Commerce, United Way and YMCA Boards throughout the country.

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Hi!  After graduation I attended TCU and on most weekends dated Jack Vaughan who was attending Texas A & M.  At the end of this first year of college we married.  We lived in Fort Worth, I returned to TCU and Jack went to Arlington TCJC.  We then moved to Lubbock and attended Texas Technological College, where Jack graduated as a Petroleum Engineer.  We moved around while he got the experience he needed.  I substitute taught and continued ministry/charity work.  Finally, we moved back to Fort Worth where I Co-founded Southwest Christian School and visited the City County Hospital weekly and taught in the Women's Jail.  We have 4 children; Jack, Jr., Loraine Ann, Cheryl Elizabeth and Sheila Lynn. 
All are grown and married.  Loraine has two boys and Cheryl has a boy and a girl.

Jack died in 1992.  I moved to Kentucky, remarried and moved to Ohio.

I became a trained Counselor and enjoy people, sharing, caring and helping where there is the opportunity and a real need.  I am looking forward to moving back to Fort Worth soon and spending quality time with my family.  I'd like to travel and fellowship with my dear PHS friends as often as possible and just keep enduring, excited at every sunrise, catching every opportunity fully and being at peace when sun sets. I am not living to die, I am dying to live.

I am a member of The Daughters of the American Revolution, Pi Beta Phi Sorority and NAMI, if you share any of these same interests please email me, I will enjoy hearing from all Classmates and Friends

Ann's message to her friends from Paschal

 

Ray Eitelman

I'm worn out gettin' here on a bad leg. We're holed up in a camp a little south of Timbuktu. (I'm tellin' you this 'cause I knew you wouldn't want to hear all the good stuff.)

 After a little college in Santa Barbara, CA, and a degree from Texas Tech., I found Patsy Walker, the love of my life, in Canton, TX, where I was doing County Agent work. We had two girls, Laura and Julie, and went to work on some big ranches in New Mexico and west Texas.

 There, God touched me for the gospel ministry. We started over at the Baptist Seminary in Fort Worth. I was pastor in Cortez, CO, and Granite City, Ill. God called further afield to mission work in Africa. After language school in France we have been in Burkina Faso and Togo for nearly 30 years. We left behind us the grave of our first daughter and 160 new churches. The light hasn't gone out yet.

 Four languages later, I've still not learned how to talk. I'm reminded of the time back in the old Paschal building when a teacher told me she would pass me in Spanish I if I wouldn't take Spanish II. I've ridden a Honda bike, which I use for my work, the distance of 10 times around the world. In my old age I've begun writing poetry and composing songs. Life has been all I hoped. I give credit to the Lord. I remember my classmates with a great fondness.

 Ray Eitelman

B.P. 111

Sokodé, TOGO

(west Africa)

Pictures of Ray and Patsy Eitleman in Togo, West Africa

Mike Tripp

Born in Wichita KS in the winter of '37. Family moved to Foat Wuth in '41.
Went to George Clark Elementary with a bunch of future Panthers. Went
to Daggett Jr. Hi until my last year. Family moved into Rosemont Jr. Hi.
district where I finished before attending Paschal. Spent first year of
college at North Texas where I ran track and chased skirts. By the second
semester I was on schol-pro so Dad decided I needed to transfer to TCU so he could keep a thumb on me.

Met Sue Howell ('57) at a TCU Dance and we began dating.
We decided we wanted to get married and told our parents who nixed
the idea so we eloped. Not only a dumb idea but a bad idea. We went to
the Tarrant County Courthouse to get married by a judge. On the way out as
we came down the courthouse steps, who should meet us coming in? Coach Turner! Now coach Turner knew Sue's Dad. Bad enough? Worse; he comments " What are you two doin' here, gettin' married?"
 

It didn't get better. Next Sunday a lady at my church congratulates my Dad
on our marriage. This gives you some idea how stupid or naive Sue and I
were. We were going to continue to live with our parents separately and
continue at TCU. It never occurred to us that our marriage would be posted in the legal section of the Star-Telegram. That  Sat. morning I was rousted out of bed by my Dad and told my breakfast was ready. When I got to the table, sure enough there was breakfast AND a newspaper clipping with Sue and my names listed. Beside me to my right was a packed suitcase. Standing before me with his arms crossed Dad said; "Now that your a married man you need to go get a job and support your new bride. This will be your last meal here."

And that's how we started our marriage. I never finished my degree at
TCU. Sue went back and finished in '95 and went on to UTA and got her
Masters. We have three daughters, all married and we have 8 grand kids. Four of each.

I began as a commercial artist then a sales rep, a sales manager and finally
ended up representing 6 different types of print firms. Presently I'm down to one client; ironically it's TCU. I count myself fortunate in that I put two daughters  thru Baylor and one put herself thru UTA so I'm blessed with all four of my ladies being college graduates.

I toyed with going back and finishing after Sue, but watching her study........
....well I took a deep breath and got over it.

I'm a deacon at my church, teach teenagers in Sunday School and sing in
the choir. My hobby is and always was toy trains. I publish a newsletter on Toy Trains and publish a web site, www.toytrainstexas.com. My attic is the train room. Come see me anytime.

We reside at 2118 Stanley Avenue in Berkeley still here in Foat Wuth.

 - Mike Tripp  

Billy Tuttleton


 I was born in Fort Worth at St. Joseph Hospital on January 31, 1938. Two
 years Later my brother Don Tuttleton who also attended Paschal and graduated
 in 1958, was born and my sister Ann was born in 1944. We lived all over Fort
 Worth, but never in any other city. My parents bought a home in Morningside
 on Ramsey Street when I started the third grade at Morningside Elementary
 School, I attended Daggett Junior High and then Paschal. I went two years at
 the old Paschal and one year at the new one, where I first met my wife to
 be, Gayle Bassham. She ran the elevator for the school and played tennis. We
 were introduced on a blind date at a Paschal game with Poly High School,
 after we discovered each other at Evans Ave Baptist Church, and we were
 married on February 14th, 1959. We had already purchased a home and
 furniture.  While at Paschal, I wrote articles and poems for the Pantherette
 and worked before and after classes as a Star Telegram carrier. I was never
 able to realize my dream to be a fullback for the Paschal Panthers. I would
 have been playing with football greats Bubby Gaunt and Durwood Hudson. There
 was also a fullback,   Richard Lockridge.

 I graduated in 1956 and went to work as a mail person for Mid-Continent Oil
 Well Supply Company, which later became a part of Ken Davis Industries. I
 was promoted to the printing department a few years later and then to
 supervisor of the outgoing mail, shipping and, records. A year later they
 moved the incoming mail room to my supervision and I was promoted to offices
 services manager. I left Mid-Continent in July of 1969 and became a police
 officer for the City of Everman, Texas. In 1972, I was promoted to Sergeant
 and then to Chief of Police when the present chief resigned. I was later
 promoted to director of public safety over the fire, ambulance and police
 departments and started the first D.A.R.E. program in the Everman School
 District. Back then no one had ever heard of D.A.R.E. Through all of this, I
 never found the time to attend college, but I have about a million hours of
 criminal justice training.

 In October of 1981, I was offered a patrol position with the Westover Hills
 Police Department, which paid a better salary. I was promoted to Sergeant in
 1986 and then to Chief of police and city administrator in June of 1988. I
 now have a son Dale, age 40, a daughter Missy, age 38, and five
 grandchildren. I have a singing ministry with the Metroplex nursing centers,
 retirement centers and the senior citizens organizations for several cities
 including Everman, Forest Hill and Kennedale. I have entertained for AARP,
 the Tarrant County Health Department and several Alzheimer's units around
 Fort Worth. I sing old time county western, popular and gospel songs. I also
 double as Elvis, Johnny Cash, Willy Nelson, Marty Robbins, Jim Reeves, Eddie
 Arnold and a few other singers. I also play the harmonica with some of my
 songs. I write poetry and have won an award and been entered in the 2000
 millennium book of poetry. I write my families Christmas card poems each
 year and I have a book of my poetry going all the way back to the
 Pantherette. I know that it sounds like I am bragging, but this is my Bio.

 I have reached the ripe old age of 65 and can retire at anytime. However,
 the city council ask me to stay on for two more years. Gayle is the Church
 Secretary for Royal Oaks Church we have been married for 44 years.

 Thank You
 Billy J. Tuttleton
 Class of 56  whpdc100@swbell.com.
 I live at 916 Edna Drive in Everman, Texas 76140
 My phone number is listed, but my fax no. is 817-737-5202

    Sandra O’Donnell Perry

When I finished at Paschal, I continued the purple and white color theme and attended TCU, graduating in 1960 with a B.A. in history and Spanish along with a teaching certificate.

 After searching for a job (not many people believe a history major doesn’t want to teach but would willingly work as a secretary) for about 6 months, I went to work for the Equitable Society of New York as a receptionist.  Within the year, I was back at TCU as secretary to the Registrar.  I remained there until September 1963 when I moved to Washington, DC to work in the Foreign Service.  I was living in DC at the time JFK was killed.  I can still remember that day vividly, but that’s another story.

 When I returned to Fort Worth, I worked for an insurance company as executive secretary (big name for glorified secretary), eventually leaving to teach for the next 6 years at Brantley-Draughon Business College.  Best 6 years of my life!  I enjoyed every minute—and even the students. 

 In 1972 I married Carl R. Perry. We will celebrate our 31^st wedding anniversary in 2003.  In 1979 we established our own pest control company and remained in business until May 1999 when we sold the business.  At the time we first went into business, I also established my secretarial service (can’t sit still for a minute!), and in 2003, I still have my secretarial service.  Never say “retire”!

 Never really believing I could ever be a painter, I attended classes in “tole and decorative painting” in 1976 and found out that I can paint (in spite of what my elementary art teacher said)! Two of my Christmas ornaments are in the Smithsonian collection, as well as ornaments in the Society of Decorative Painter’s collection at their national office in Wichita, KS.  The ornaments in the Smithsonian collection were painted for the Christmas trees that are displayed in the Museum of American History, Washington, DC. 

 I am a member of the (International) Society of Decorative Painters; (current secretary) of the Fort Worth Decorative Painters (also a founding member); (current secretary) of Bluebonnet Chapter of NSTDP, Inc.; the United Daughters of the Confederacy; and the United States Daughters of the War of 1812 (past secretary).  I am also the editor of a quarterly journal published by the Stovall Family Association, Inc., which is a 40-page magazine and has subscribers throughout the US and in some European countries. (It won a second place in a national competition the first year I edited it.)   I have been involved in genealogy now for almost 10 years.  Now I get to apply my history training! 

 When Bill Frost sent me the first e-mail regarding the possibility of a website for PHS’56, I was quite impressed with his plans.  Now, I’m even more impressed with the website.  It looks like it will cover just about everything.

Sandra O’Donnell Perry

Shortly after graduating from good ole’ PHS, I married my high school sweetheart,

L. E. Robinson (class of ’54) More of you will remember him than me. I was working at Texas Electric Service Co. and L. E. was a summer hire at General Dynamics, intending to return to T.C.U. in the fall. But as luck would have it, I was pregnant before the summer was over and he stayed on at G.D. for the next 36 years, other than a brief layoff during the 1970’s aerospace recession.

Over the next five years we had two more children and I thoroughly enjoyed being a stay-at-home mom, doing all the usual things - except staying home-until 1972 when L. E. lost his job at G.D. I had always intended to go back to work fulltime using the secretarial skills learned in Mrs. Burden’s typing and Mrs. Lightfoot’s shorthand classes once my kids got older. For several years I had been working part time for Bill Hawkins’ (class of ’54) company and substituting as a secretary with the Fort Worth public schools. I was in the right place at the right time when Charles Franklin needed a secretary at Daggett Elementary School. I had gone to junior high at Daggett, so this was like a homecoming for me. After several years at Daggett, I moved to the Personnel Dept. of the administration building. It was there that I first started taking off-campus classes at Tarrant County Jr. College.

Leaving the F.W.I.S.D. in 1978, I went on to a series of more interesting (and lucrative) secretarial positions at Bell Helicopter, and Leonard Resources (Remember Leonard Brothers Dept. store?) I even worked a short time for singer B. J. Thomas (“Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head”) at his home in Arlington. During these years I continued to take classes at T.C.J.C. After nine years I finally earned my Associates Degree as a Legal Assistant. (I couldn’t decide what I wanted to be when I grew up, just knew I did not want to be a secretary the rest of my life.)

After working three years as a legal assistant, to attorney Kathryn Lansford, I passed the Certified Legal Assistant exam to become a C.L.A. I then began working as a contract Paralegal for a large law firm in Dallas that was “taking down” Savings and Loan Associations. From there I got on with the Legal Liability section of the F.D.I. C.

In the meantime, L. E. had retired from General Dynamics and was looking for land on which to build our retirement home. We found same acreage in the Lost Pines of Bastrop, 30 miles southeast of Austin and he dragged me kicking and screaming away from my beloved Fort Worth. I had never lived anywhere else in my whole life, nor had I wanted to. I may live in Bastrop, but I’m still from Fort Worth!

I finally got fed up with family law in Bastrop, and retired in 2001. Since that time I’ve kept busy with church work and other volunteerism as well as taking a cruise to Alaska and going to Italy with my daughter and granddaughter. I play bridge regularly. I also started a Red Hat Society in Bastrop, “The Bodacious Bastop Belles”. This is a dis-organization for women over the age of 50, who meet monthly for lunch and just have a good time. The only requirement for membership is that one must be willing to appear in public wearing a purple outfit with a red hat. If any of you ladies are interested, check out the national website www.redhatsociety.org for the location of a chapter near you or info on starting your own. This has really filled a void in mature women’s lives, as in five years the Red Hat Society has grown from one club in California to over 4,000 chapters worldwide.

‘Nough about me. My children are my greatest accomplishment. Our oldest son, Rob, graduated from Arizona State with a Ph.D. in Latin History and married a girl from Brazil last summer. They live in Austin where he teaches at Austin Community College. Our daughter, Shari, teaches junior English at Fort Worth Christian School. She has two daughters. Christina, a Texas A & M graduate, is teaching at Mesquite High School and is getting married this June. Stacy is a junior at Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas. Our youngest, Dr. Scott Robinson, has one daughter age 12, Rhiannon. He and his wife, Kathie, are restoring an old home in Gainesville, where he is Program Coordinator of Art over the three campuses of North Central Texas College.

Looking forward to renewing old acquaintances at our 50^{th Reunion. I’d especially love to hear from anyone who attended George Clark Elementary and/or Daggett Jr. High.}

     Adrienne Hendrick Groh

 I wouldn’t have written this had not my eldest daughter requested it, because I’m not a very public person. We do much for our children, no?   I am a wife, mother and grandmother which is what I have wanted to do since I was 7 years old.  My two adult daughters are Leslie, who lives too far away in New York with her husband and grandchildren Julia, Miles and Natalie, and Lynn, who lives close by in St. Louis. 

 In 1957 I came to Yankee land, as my daddy called it, to attend Washington University.  In my junior year I left college to marry, have children and live across the street from horses.  Seven years later I moved back to the “city” to live within a stone’s throw of WU where I graduated in 1970.  I’m still here.  Halfway through a master’s in counseling my son John, then 19, died in a car accident.  I didn’t return to graduate school, but now don’t regret not having an advanced degree, because I wouldn’t have the time or energy to work outside the home anyway!

 Gary, my friend-husband of twenty years, and I dated in college; then re-met and married in 1982.  I wondered if we would have anything to talk about since he had no children, but he since thinks I have a brain, do we ever talk!  He has a great sense of humor and is the kindest man possible…handsome too. Combining an art scholarship with business equaled advertising for him outside St. Louis for many years.  We have custody of Lynn’s daughter, who is now 13, so we need to stay in St. Louis.  Since everyone likes Gary and he writes and communicates well, he is now doing community relations and developing programs for a hospital here.

 Nichole has been with us from almost the beginning of her life and is a blessing beyond description.  She refers to our relationship as “blood”, and hers with Gary as “spirit.”   He is indeed her grandfather, caring for and adoring her from birth.  We benefit from his reading aloud on winter evenings, and I watch while they fish…but we all love potboiler operas!  When she was almost 2 years old I had breast cancer and a bone marrow transplant, so am a 12 year “thriver.”  Survival is just the first step.  In 2003 this tired 64 year old body is living the life of a much younger woman with a cheerleader- honor society child in the 7^th grade.   

 Yes, I’m a soccer-basketball-volleyball-riding lesson-grandmom and enjoying it fully. Nichole’s friend’s mothers are good to me!  Now that the third floor is remade into a teenager’s apartment, we’ll soon add on to our 1915 house so she can have parties for girls and boys, and so that a group of twenty-something's our youngest pastor is mentoring can have bible study/ hangout space.  God, being merciful, gives us so many chances to get it right.

 I return often to Ft. Worth to see my mother but St. Louis, with all four seasons, is home and has everything but mountains and the ocean…those are for visiting.  God willing, I’ll see you at our 50^th.reunion.  I do hope we’ll all have name tags!