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Hugh Parmer

William James ∙ Polytechnical, 1957

Member, Texas House ∙ Fort Worth mayor ∙ Member, Texas Senate 

Asst. Administrator, USAID ∙ President, American Refugee Committee 

Fellow, Humphrey Inst. of Public Affairs

A.M. Pate Jr

Polytechnic, 1938

CEO/Board Chairman, Texas Refinery Corporation

Joe Nick Patoski

Arlington Heights, 1969

Former senior editor, Texas Monthly; author

Bill Paxton

Arlington Heights, 1973

Actor; Writer; Producer; Director; Best Actor nominee, Emmy Awards

Suzy Peacock

Westcliff ∙ McLean ∙ Paschal, 1962

Executive Director, Rainwater Charitable Foundation

Co-founder, REAL School Gardens 

Named a Great Woman of Texas in 2008, Fort Worth Business Press

Charles Frank Pendleton

Paschal, 1949

Korean War hero

Congressional Medal of Honor (posthumous)

Roy S. Petty

M.H. Moore, W.A. Meacham, Diamond Hill-Jarvis, 1976

Navy Cyber Defense Operations Commanding Officer; Naval War College Military Professor;

Navy Captain; National Security Agency Cyber Operations professional; Recipient of various distinguished awards

Claude Platte

James E. Guinn, I.M. Terrell, 1937

Tuskegee Airman; Texas Aviation Hall of Fame;

Tuskegee Airmen Congressional Gold Medal

Horatio Porter

Maudrie M. Walton, Dunbar, Polytechnic, 1988

Chief Financial Officer, North Texas Tollway Authority; CFO, City of Fort Worth, 2013;

Financial Excellence Award, FedEx; Five-time All-America sprinter, TCU

Hazel Harvey Peace

Fort Worth Colored High School, 1919

Teacher, vice principal, I.M. Terrell • Staff, Bishop College 

Namesake, Hazel Harvey Peace professorship

at University of North Texas • Civic leader

Veda Philips Felder

I.M. Terrell, 1928

Founder, United Christian Leadership School

Author • Civic leader • Civil rights leader

Betsy Price

South Hi Mount, Stripling, Arlington Heights, 1968

Fort Worth mayor; Tarrant County tax assessor;

businesswoman; Civic leader