Medford mail tribune., November 03, 1957, Image 38

At 24, Pat Is a Mighty Busy Young Man
Pat and his wife with
three little Boones Cherry,
Debby, and Lindy.
radio show in Springfield, Mo. The two teen-agers, almost insep
arable for four years, were to be separated. "There's only one
answer," Pat said. "We'll get married."
A few days later they broke the news to Mr. Red, who was
flabbergasted. Why, he protested, the boy hadn't even shown
he could earn a living.
When they persisted, Mr. Red gave in and even offered finan
cial help, but they declined it. Pat's parents, meanwhile, openly
opposed the wedding. Pat and Shirley married secretly in the
Church of Christ at Franklin, about 12 miles from Nashville.
Witnesses were Mack Craig and his wife. How Pat, only 19
and a legal minor, side-stepped the usual requirement of getting
his parents' consent is a matter he doesn't discuss
It's obvious, though, that parental tensions led him to move
to Texas when he was offered his first professional singing job
by a Fort Worth TV station. He enrolled at North Texas State
Teachers College. Shirley already was expecting their first baby.
Singing jobs on TV don't come easily, but this one did for Pat.
The previous year, he had entered and won the East Nashville
Talent Contest. Prize was an audition for Ted Mack's Amateur
Hour. In the Summer of 1953, Pat' went to New York and
became a three-time winner on TV. That got him the Texas job.
Soon he appeared on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts and
won. He returned to Texas and buried himself in his books, a
little more confident that his singing was good enough to finance
his way through school.
There followed a record contract, an amazing series of hits,
and an invitation to become a Godfrey regular. Pat Boone's
name became a household word.
Now, at 24, besides having his pockets full, he's got his hands
full: there are the TV show, movies," records, personal appear
ances, interviews; then there are his final semester of study at
Columbia, an ambition to repeat the straight "A" average he
earned last Spring, and a lurking hope he'll be invited to join
Phi Beta Kappa.
There are his wife and three almost four children; and
there's Pat's incessant concern with turning every action into
constructive good. For a fellow to whom decisions don't come
easily, some of his daily decisions could be fearful. But it's not
so, according to Jack Spina, who manages Pat's business matters.
"When Pat has to choose between his career and education,
he takes education. When he has to choose between education
and his home, he chooses his home. He's got a yardstick. That's
how Pat rates things."
And as for turning his career to constructive good, Pat seems
to be clearest of all about where to direct it.
"We are put on earth for a purpose," he said recently, in one
of his rare moments of contemplation, "and I know my purpose.
It's to try to leave the world a little better than it was when
I entered it."
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