{"id":255367,"date":"2025-09-26T05:18:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T05:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/255367\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T05:18:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T05:18:24","slug":"taylor-sheridan-to-be-inducted-into-fort-worths-paschal-high-hall-of-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/255367\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Sheridan to be inducted into Fort Worth\u2019s Paschal High hall of honor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cYellowstone\u201d creator Taylor Sheridan<\/a> has picked up several accolades over the last few years, but his latest honor hits close to home.<\/p>\n

Sheridan is among more than a dozen people who will be inducted into R.L. Paschal High School\u2019s<\/a> Hall of Honor next month. The award ceremony is set for 10:30 a.m. to noon on Oct. 20 in the school\u2019s auditorium.<\/p>\n

The honor comes nearly 40 years after Sheridan graduated from Paschal High School in 1987.<\/p>\n

After a lengthy acting career, Sheridan turned to screenwriting in the 2010s and wrote the films \u201cSicario,\u201d \u201cHell or High Water\u201d and \u201cWind River.\u201d In 2018, he created \u201cYellowstone\u201d and has gone on to create around half a dozen more shows since, including the Fort Worth-filmed \u201cLandman.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Taylor Sheridan inducted into high school hall of honor<\/p>\n

In addition to Sheridan, here\u2019s who else will be honored in October. Paschal is Fort Worth ISD\u2019s oldest and largest high school, dating back to the 1880s<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ginger Rogers (Attended in 1920s)<\/b><\/p>\n

Rogers<\/a>, an acclaimed actress and dancer, did not graduate from Paschal but she did attend some time in the 1920s. She died in 1995 at 83 years old.<\/p>\n

Thomas Pryor Thompson (Class of 1936)<\/b><\/p>\n

Thompson<\/a> was a former NFL quarterback who won two pre-Super Bowl championships with the Philadelphia Eagles in 1948 and 1949. Thompson died in 1989, he was 72.<\/p>\n

Dr. John Richardson (Class of 1948)<\/b><\/p>\n

Richardson<\/a> was a Navy veteran and pediatrician who worked in Fort Worth for over 40 years. He died in 2019 at 88 years old.<\/p>\n

Richard Alan Freling (Class of 1950)<\/b><\/p>\n

Freling<\/a> was a mergers and acquisitions lawyer who practiced in Houston and later Dallas. Freling died in 2020, he was 88.<\/p>\n

Harry Pila (Class of 1959)<\/b><\/p>\n

Pila<\/a> was born to Jewish parents in Nazi-occupied Belgium and later moved to Fort Worth. He wrote about his childhood in a book, \u201cThe Journey of a Hidden Child,\u201d which published in 2022.<\/p>\n

Gus Tom Bates III (Class of 1961)<\/b><\/p>\n

Bates<\/a> spent his life working in insurance and founded Gus Bates Insurance & Investments with his son. Bates died in 2024, he was 81.<\/p>\n

Dr. Britton R. \u201cBritt\u201d West (Class of 1965)<\/b><\/p>\n

West founded Fort Worth Colon and Rectal<\/a> in 1979 and served the community until his retirement in 2016.<\/p>\n

Tony Burgess (Class of 1966)<\/b><\/p>\n

Burgess<\/a> was a Vietnam veteran and professor of ecological systems at TCU for nearly a decade. Burgess died in 2022, he was 73.<\/p>\n

Lynn \u201cJeff\u201d Newman (Class of 1966)<\/b><\/p>\n

Newman<\/a> is a former MLB player for the Oakland Athletics and the Boston Red Sox. He also managed the Athletics and coached on a handful of other pro teams.<\/p>\n

Other honorees include James Dyer (Class of 1965), Andrew Hughes (Class of 2003), Jamey Ice (Class of 2003) and Cameron \u201cCam\u201d Sadler (Class of 2004).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cYellowstone\u201d creator Taylor Sheridan has picked up several accolades over the last few years, but his latest honor…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":255368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,1281,7371,7372,37770,1105,12045,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-255367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-america","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-fort-worth","tag-fortworth","tag-paschal-high-school","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-taylor-sheridan","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115268911309232031","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}