R L Paschal High School - Panther Yearbook (Fort Worth, TX)

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Drum majors Taleesa Van Tassel and Mike McSwain lead the Homecominy snake dance through the halls. Tom Davis and the rest of the clarinet section concentrate on their performance at a football game. Swain, B. Yandell, D. Yandell, Gutkowski, Young, J. Thomas, Yates, L. Brown, Goldthwaite, Korenman, Sweeney, Sherman, Blakley, White, hla- nan, Bonilla, Gamble, Whisenant, M. Austin. ROW FIVE: Mr. Philip Hewett, DIRECTOR, D ' Acosta, Current, Schwartz, Neel, Pickard, Mike Hofstein, Trice, M. McSwain, Haas, Borum, Douglass, Bailey, Reed, Miller, M. Pehkonen. Smut, R. Smith, Hunt, Locke, Wright, Langos, Holum, Vinsant, Moody, Motley. BACK ROW: Harrison, Michero, Worden, Herring, Norman, P. Thomas, T. Austin, Gillispie, Magnus, Lawson, Sumpter, Sweely, Black. 121

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Band Captures Musical Honors By winning top honors in all fields, the Paschal Band showed itself to be one of the best bonds in North Texas. Besides marching at school football games, the march- ing band won high honors at the Hurst Marching Festival and the University Interscholastic League Marching Con- test. The concert band was invited to participate in a con- cert festival in Houston as well as in the U.I.L. and Castle- berry contests. In order to raise money to cover its ex- penses, the band held a candy sale in the fall and a spaghetti supper in the spring. The band had four mem- bers in the All-State Band: Preston Thomas, snare drum; Terry Norman, timpani; Mark Hofstein, clarinet; and Mike Korenman, baritone. Also many members participated in the U.I.L. Solo and Ensemble Contest at Denton in March. The band wrapped up the year by having a spring ban- quet at which letters were presented. Band members loudly perform their victory march after one of the football games. FRONT ROW: Mark Hofstein, Comeron, Shipley, T. Van Tassel, S. Van Tas- sel, Macleod, Martin, Rau, R. Bruce, Barker, Chessmore, Egan. ROW TWO: Summers, McGinness, Poison, Dupont, McCormick, Barnes, G. Harper, J. Brown, Killough, S. Self, Hare, D. Hays, Long, MacGorman, Miller, Scott, Sanford, F. Self, J. Hays. ROW THREE: Chase, Crump, E. Pehkonen, Crane, Ford, Davis, Geeseka, Forsyth, Gist, Peard, McCann, Carre!!, McCrorey, Schuessler, P. Yandel!, Hubbard, Wadlington, Cooper, H. Bruce, D. Smith, Beaty. ROW FOUR: Renfrow, Bridges, Pope, Thompson, T. Harper, P. Mc- 120

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Cross Keijs Restaurant WELCOME NATL CHAMPION ' PASCHAL STAGE BAND - - -o- The 1965 Championship Stage Band was honored at a dinner at Cross Keys on July 15, 1965, by the school through Mr. Berry. John Stuart, area representative of Century Records, presents Mr. Phillip Hewett, director, with a gold replica of the band ' s latest release. The Paschal student puts his pencil down, strains his ears, and listens to the Paschal Stage Band ' s soft rendi- tion of a Broadway tune or a shoe-stomping, swinging version of New Orleans jazz. Since its beginning in 1962, the Stage Band has risen to the National Championship, which it won in 1965. It has afforded skilled musicians the opportunity to display their talents not only to those interested in Paschal High School but to all living in the Fort Worth area. The band operates on funds it raises through school presentations and other projects. The contest season began with the the Doc Severinson National Championship in Pampa, Texas, which Paschal won, and then advanced to the Brownwood Festival. Next the Stage Bond competed in the Castleberry Festi- val, defending its 4A Texas Championship, and climaxed the season with an effort to preserve its National Cham- pionship title in the Heritage Square National High School Championship. Stage Band Defends Championship FRONT ROW: Mr. Phillip Hewett, DIRECTOR; Gamble, Hofstein, Beaty, Cooper. Scott, Brown, Long. ROW THREE: Yandell, M. McSwain, Thomas, Serrano, Bruce, White, Thomas. ROW TWO: Bailey, Borum, Douglass, Miller, Magnus, Hass, Norman, Current. BACK ROW: P. McSwain, Hofstein, Goldthwaite. 122 y