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Cherry is the older of the Pat Booties' two little girls. Not yet two, she already has a taste for music — country-and-western style, that is!
wants with a teacher's degree — in speech — it's simply a case of a man finishing what he started out to do.
Pat Boone never thought he'd turn out to be a singer. His object in life has always been to help people as much as he could, and long ago it occurred to him that teaching would afford him this opportunity. So he set his sights accordingly. Even though his career seems to have gone far afield from early intentions, Pat is determined to follow through on the preparation, at least, for those original plans. It certainly isn't that he's changed his mind about helping people . . . rather, it's that he's discovered that, through the medium of entertaining, he can accomplish what he set out to do.
"For lots of people," Pat explains, "life is no bed of
roses. And, if I can make them smile and enjoy themselves for even just a few minutes a day, perhaps I am helping after all. But there is one thing for sure: If I find my career as a singer and entertainer turns out to be simply mediocre, I'll go back to teaching so fast you won't be able to see me for the dust."
At the moment, a mediocre career for Pat seems hard to envision, for this is a young man with determination and with both feet on the ground. His present goals are three-fold: One, to finish college with good grades. Two, to be a success as a singer. Three, to have his own TV show someday.
Pat Boone started out life in Jacksonville, Florida, on June 1, 1934. He did not come (Continued on page 85)
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