![]() Phillips then attended Hampden–Sydney College, a liberal arts college for men in Hampden Sydney, Virginia, dropping out in 1959. However, he resigned during his first (plebe) year. He played basketball at George Washington High School, now George Washington Middle School in Alexandria, Virginia, where he graduated in 1953, and gained an appointment to the United States Naval Academy. According to his autobiography, he "hated the place," citing "inspections," and "beatings," and recalls that "nuns used to watch us take showers." He formed a musical group of teenage boys, who sang doo-wop songs. Phillips grew up in Alexandria, Virginia, where he was inspired by Marlon Brando to be "street tough." From 1942 to 1946, he attended Linton Hall Military School in Bristow, Virginia. According to an article in Vanity Fair not substantiated by other sources, his biological father may have been Jewish. According to Phillips's autobiography, Papa John, his father was a heavy drinker who suffered from poor health. ![]() His mother, Edna Gertrude (née Gaines), who had English ancestry, met his father in Oklahoma. On his way home from France following World War I, Claude Phillips managed to win a tavern located in Oklahoma from another Marine during a poker game. His father, Claude Andrew Phillips, was a retired United States Marine Corps officer. Phillips was born August 30, 1935, in Parris Island, South Carolina.
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