Famous Alumni

FILM  Lewis Abernathy Jr.  Actor and director; played Lewis Bodine in Titanic; also wrote many of the final scenes for the film  Joe Don Baker  Actor; movies include The Natural, Fletch, The Living Daylights and Goldeneye. Best known for role as Buford  Pusser in Walking Tall  Joan Blondell  Actress; movies include Public Enemy, The Blue Veil and Grease  Thomas Hayden Church  Actor; best known for role as Lowell Mather on Wings. Also starred in the movie George of the Jungle and Ned & Stacey on Fox.  Kim Flores  Director; accliamed for her short films Vocessitas/Little Voices and Maid! Madonna! Whore!  Ann Sheridan  Actress; movies include King's Row and Angels with Dirty Faces; played parts alongside Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Cary Grant and Errol Flynn  Peter Weller  Actor; starred in movies Robocop and Buckaroo Bonzai  Noble Willingham  Actor; plays Chuck Norris' lawman mentor on Walker, Texas Ranger  ARTISTS Jean Andrews  Author and artist; wrote and illustrated American Wildflower Florilium and Peppers: The Domesticated Capiscums  Kerry Gammill  Cartoonist; created Superman, Indiana Jones and ROM comic strips  G. Harvey  Oil painter and sculptor who specializes in Southwestern art; has sold more than $1 million worth of his works  Buddy Hickerson  Nationally syndicated cartoonist; creator of the comic strip The Quigmans  T Lewis  Illustrator for the nationally syndicated cartoon Over the Hedge  Jesus Bautista Moroles  Internationally-prominent granite sculptor; works are part of museum collections in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Osaka, Japan, and the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian, in Washington, D.C.  MUSIC Pat Boone  Singer; earned gold records in the late 1950s-early 1960s for "Ain't That a Shame" and "I'll Be Home" and stared in several movies, including State Fair  Brave Combo  Perform and record an eclectic mix of polka, pop, jazz, rock and other musical styles  Don Henley  Grammy-winning singer and musician; member of the band The Eagles and solo artist; environmental activist  Sara Hickman  Well-known Texas folksinger and songwriter  Bobby Fuller  Singer; songs include "I Fought the Law"  Ray Wylie Hubbard  Country western singer  Tom "Bones" Malone  Trombonist; member of the original Saturday Night Live band for 10 years; backed John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd in the Blues Brothers and Blues Brothers 2000; currently serves as the principal arranger and trombonist for the Late Show with David Letterman band; has also played with Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, the Supremes, and the Temptations; has recorded with Miles Davis, Steve Winwood, Lou Reed, David Sanborn, B. B. King, Diana Toss, Harry Connick Jr., Pink Floyd, Paul Simon, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Lou Rawls, Bette Midler, Aretha Franklin, David Byrne, and James Brown; has toured with Frank Zappa, Gil Evans, Billy Cobham, the Blues Brothers Band, and Blood, Sweat and Tears  Lou Marini  Saxophonist; member of the Saturday Night Live Band for 10 years; backed John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd for the Blues Brother act; also played in the band for Night Line with David Brenner  Lyle Mays  Composer and keyboardist for the Pat Metheny Group; won seven Grammy Awards with the group and has been nominated four times for his own work  Roy Orbison  Late singer and guitarist; songs included "Pretty Woman" and "Crying"  BUSINESS Byron Baird  CEO of Baird Bakeries in Fort Worth  Rhys Best  President of Lone Star Steel in Dallas  Mike R. Bowlin  Chairman of ARCO in Los Angeles  Bonnie Boynton  Owner of Boynton Enterprises, a fashion design company  Frank D. Bracken  President of Haggar Company in Dallas  Roy Gene Evans  President and CEO of First Bank in Dallas  O'Neil Ford  World-renowned architect; designed the Little-Chapel-in-the-Woods at Texas Woman's University  Tina Guiterrez  Children's fashion designer; owner of Top This, Baby!, a line of better children's wear  Norman Miller  President of Interstate Batteries; rose through the ranks from salesman  Linda Hefner Woltz  President and CEO of Sara Lee Hosiery  Wende Zomnir  Creative director for Urban Decay  AUTHORS David Lindsey  Writes gory mysteries; often compared to Stephen King; has more than 10 books in print.  Larry McMurtry  Wrote Lonesome Dove, which won the Pulitzer Prize and numerous other bestsellers including Terms of Endearment  JOURNALISM Mike Cochran  Journalist, author, Pulitzer Prize winner  Bill Moyers  Television journalist; former chief correspondent for CBS Reports and senior news analyst for CBS News; also served as press secretary for President Lyndon Baines Johnson  SPORTS "Stone Cold" Steve Austin  Former football player; now top bill wrestler with the World Wrestling Federation; real name is Steve Williams  "Mean" Joe Greene  Was defensive lineman for the Pittsburgh Steelers and helped them win five Super Bowls during the 1970s  Don January  Golfer; member of the PGA Senior Tour  Billy Maxwell  Golfer, member of the PGA Senior Tour  Ray Renfro  Football player; played for the Cleveland Browns  Ron Shanklin  Former All-Pro player with the Pittsburgh Steelers  POLITICS John Creuzot  District court judge in Dallas  Jim Hightower  Judge and politician; former Texas state commissioner for agriculture  Ray Roberts  Former U.S. Congressman CELEBRITIES Shirley Cothran Barret  Crowned Miss America in 1975  Phyllis George  Crowned Miss America in 1971 and appeared on television with NFL Today; has own show in New York