Pasadena High School - Pasadena, TX

06/25/2022

I graduated from PHS in May, 1954 & I am proud to have a certificate of that accomplishment. We had many high quality teachers and administrators

12/16/2014

FYI: This appeared in the Dignity web site for Grand View Funeral Home recently:
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In Memory of
Carl Eugene Couchman
May 12, 1936 - December 13, 2014
Obituary

Carl was born on May 12, 1936 and passed away on Saturday, December 13, 2014.
Carl was a resident of Pasadena, Texas.
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Here is a recent picture of Carl Couchman taken at a Pasadena facility for Alzheimer/Dementia patients; also an old photo taken a few years ago with David West and me (Don Cole) at a PHS Alumni Reunion planning session:

02/10/2014

LAST NIGHT WHILE WATCHING TV COVERAGE OF THE 1964 INVASION OF THE "BEATLES", I REMEMBERED THAT 50 YEARS AGO I WAS IN A MUSICAL SKIT PORTRAYING THOSE "BEATLES" AT MY PHS'54 CLASS REUNION IN THE SUMMER OF 1964 IN A CLUB ROOM OF A PASADENA REFINERY. THE SKIT WAS COMPLETE WITH "BEATLES" MUSIC, MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, MICROPHONES & WIGS! .... I PORTRAYED JOHN LENNON (SHOWN IN THIS PICTURE). FELLA KNIGHT, VIC EWING & BONES McLENNAN PORTRAYED THE OTHER THREE "BEATLES". FUN!

02/09/2014

WHERE DID YOU SWIM AS A KID IN OR AROUND PASADENA FROM 1945-1955? I NEED YOUR HELP ON THIS FOR A POSTING! I only have some memories and have talked to some of our classmates about their memories of the original concrete swimming pool in the City Park near Vince's Bayou, which ran behind PHS and other swimming holes, tanks and pits where they went to swim as kids. We know that the first municipal/public swimming pool was built and opened by the City of Pasadena in about 1945. I have no materials (and can not find any pictures. photos or articles on the Internet) about these popular swimming places in Pasadena, circa 1950. If you have photos, stories, etc., about this subject, please send them to me ASAP to share with this web site and other such web sites about our Pasadena history. Thanks....Don R. Cole.

01/01/2014

01/01/2014

Jerry Davis (PHS'53) nailed it when he called our days at Pasadena TX High School "MAGIC".

05/28/2013

.....Dusty Carroll asked me recently: Were did they get that name "HONKY-TONK"? Well here's my answer:

The origin of the term “honky-tonk” is actually unknown, however I like this one I found on the Internet.

A honky-tonk is a type of cheap bar or saloon that provides country music to its patrons, which are common in the Southern and Southwestern United States. The earliest-known printed use of the word is a report in the Fort Worth Daily Gazette, January 24, 1889.

The word “H***y-tonk” was used as early as 1875 in reference to wild saloons in the Old West. Patrons of such disreputable establishments were referred to as "honkies", not intended as a racial slur but still a disparaging term.

The "tonk" portion of the name may have come from the brand name of an upright piano made in Chicago as early as 1881 by William & Ernest A. Tonk.

The fact that the early uses of the word in print mostly appear along a corridor roughly coinciding with cattle drive trails extending from Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas and into South-Central Oklahoma, suggest that the origin of the word may have been a localism spread by cowboys driving cattle to market.

It is interesting, however, that Fort Worth is currently the home of the self-styled "World's Largest H***y Tonk" and that I once lived in and around Fort Worth.

05/06/2013

This picture was taken in October 2003 of a group of PHS jocks as part of their 50th HomeComing Reunion. We gathered at the K&K Drive Inn in Pasadena, TX, to remember the great sport years of PHS in the early to mid 1950s. Of the 13 guys shown in the picture, 5 are deceased as of May 2013. Do you know or recognize any of them?

08/14/2012

Memorial Service Set for Elmer Bondy, Longtime Pasadena ISD Educator
Monday, August 13th, 2012
Elmer Bondy, whose 39 years of service to the Pasadena ISD ran the gamut from football coach to district administrator, died on Saturday at the age of 90.
Bondy joined the faculty and coaching staff at Pasadena High in the late 1940s. He went on to serve as assistant principal at Pasadena High and in 1963 was named the third principal in the history of South Houston High.
After four years at South Houston, he moved to the Administration Building as the district's Assistant Superintendent for Secondary Schools.
A highly regarded member of the Pasadena community, Bondy was honored in 1993 with the naming and dedication of Bondy Intermediate.
Elmer Glenn Bondy was born in Monroe, La., and raised in San Antonio, where he graduated from Brackenridge High School in 1940. He attended Southwest Texas State on a football scholarship, but his pursuit of a degree was interrupted by World War II.
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, at age 19, Bondy enlisted in the Army Air Corps. A combat pilot and second lieutenant, he served in the Philippines and Australia under the command of Gen. Douglas McArthur.
After the war, he re-enrolled at Southwest Texas State and earned a bachelor's degree in education. He married Isla Stockwell of Raymondville in 1947. The couple moved to Pasadena where Bondy began his career in education. He later earned a master's degree in school administration from the University of Houston.
Bondy was a past president and lifetime member of the Pasadena Noon Optimist Club, a Texas Life Member of PTA, a member of Pasadena Rotary Club and First United Methodist Church in Pasadena.
Survivors include his son Robert Glenn Bondy and wife, Brenda; and son Charles Stockwell Bondy and wife, Robbie.
A memorial service will be held at First United Methodist Church of Pasadena on Saturday, Aug. 18, at 10 a.m.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to First United Methodist Church, 1062 Fairmont, Pasadena, TX, 77504.