Trip to Wal-Mart Last Wed. News About High School Class Reunion. Christmas Decoration.

I went to Wal-Mart last Wednesday morning.  I had to get more food myself.  As I was about entering into the vegetable dept, guess who I ran into again?  I saw and recoginzed my high school classmate.  Her name is Selena.  She was a homecoming queen and a cheerleader.  Selena was with a lady and 2 girls as she was talking with her.  Those 2 little girls are so cute in their pretty, warm outfit.  We were hugged each other and talked little bit.  She was rushing cuz she was having a party that Wednesday night.  I noticed there's a cake under the cartwheel.  Selena asked me about the 20th high school class reunion.  I replied yes, I am going to be there.  I also said I am going to buy a new dress for a reunion next year.  I was glad to see Selena again since I saw her with female classmates of mine outside on the track field last late April when I went back to my high school for 100th anniversary.  And then after we had a talk, I was looking a plastic bag of salad and kept continuing to do a grocery.  I almost bumped into Selena with a lady and 2 girls few times while I was riding a cart as she was pushing the cartwheel.  I went home when I finished doing a grocery.

As I am mentioning my 20th high school class reunion next year, I just found out about it thru one of 2 different websites of Seabreeze High School after a classmate of mine sent this website to me in an e-mail 2 months ago.  It looks cool.  Wow.  So I signed it up.  It's free.  Greg, who was a homecoming king is doing the reunion plans.  I don't know where it will take  place but I will find out.  I will may be getting an invitation to the 20th reunion in the mail, probably next year.  The date of our 20th high class reunion will be on June 13, 2009.  I am so excited about going back there.  Yes, I am going to dress up pretty.

I started decorating Christmas in my huge suite yesterday but I am not finished it yet cuz I need to get a new Christmas tree.  My old one is broken.  I have to discuss Christmas tree with Mom and Joe when they get back first.  This morning, I put up a Christmas garland onto my computer desk.  It looks very pretty.  When I am finished decorating it, I will take a picture of Christmas stuff everywhere with my digital camera for all of u to see in my photo album.

I am Tagged by Suey About School Memories

Go to kindergarten?  I didn't know this word when I entered an elementary school in the Fall of 1976.  I didn't understand what grade I was in.  I was in the special education classroom with deaf kids.

Graduate from high school?  Yes, I did make it successfully.  See a picture of Mr. S, a
high school prinicpal, handed me a diploma at a graduation ceremony on the right.  This was taken by a professional photographer.  I could hear there was an applaud that was coming from my class and an audience as I was walking toward to meet Mr. S.  I will never forget that event.






Go to college?  Yes, I graduated with a major in Fashion Marketing Management.

Get straight A's in school?  Yes, I think so.

Go to prom?  Yes, I did.  I went to Junior and Senior Proms.  At my Junior Prom, I dated my brother, Joe, cuz I didn't have anyone at my high school.  I also wore my mother's college prom dress.  I invited my then boyfriend, Todd, to my Senior Prom.

Take part in extracurriculars?  I did play a violin in an elementary school.  Some clubs:  Big Brothers & Sisters Program at FSD in St. Augustine; and Sub-Debs, Society of Excellence, and Showstoppers at Seabreeze.

Play any sports?  I am not a sport fan.

Graduate in the top ten of your class?  I don't think so.  I was in the #70 as if I am
trying to recall, along with 360 graduates.  According to this newspaper picture on the right, u can't see me on the stage far.  I wore a red gown.  It was right before we headed to our project graduation party at the hotel that night.  A hotel is across the road from Ocean Center on the beachside.  We stayed there celebrating all night till morning. 


Miss a lot of school?  Yes, 7 months cuz I had between 3 hip surgeries and was sick few times at an elementary school and middle school in PA.  Few times I was sick during high school years.

Have a favorite teacher?  Yes, a few.  A special education teacher with sign lanugage at an elementary school in Modesto, CA cuz she taught me how to handwriting when she noticed my handwriting looked scrambling and made me learning new things in school.  A history teacher at FSD in St. Augustine during my freshmen year.  A special education with no sign language at Seabreeze.

Go to football games?  Not much.  Attended there at FSD few times including homecoming game.  Few times at Seabreeze, regluar and homecoming games.

Enjoy pep rallies?  Yes, I did.  Took a place in an auditorium at FSD; in the gym at Seabreeze.

Know what you wanted to be when you grew up?  I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up when I was in high school but thought about becoming a future restaurant manager.  Otherwise, my grades at college were failed so I've changed a different major, Fashion Marketing Management, a year later.

Pack your lunch or buy?  Both since elementary school days.

Like gym class?  Kind of.

Have a bunch of friends in school?  Yes, some at elementary and middle schools in PA.  Some at middle school in Texas.  Some in high school at FSD and Seabreeze.

Fit into a clique like jock, stoner, geek, etc?  With a good group.  A different from other kinds of groups at Seabreeze cuz I was the only one multihandicapped in there.

Have a nickname in school?  No, but most hearing and deaf kids call me "Kitty" by nickname since birth and after my mother's aunt.

Get picked on in school?  Yes, by hearing and deaf kids.

Have a favorite subject?  English and History.

Have a least favorite subject?  A math and gym.

Go to graduation?  Yes, I was sitting in the chair next to a class Co-Valedictorian on the stage and was waiting for my turn to receive a diploma from a high school prinicpal.

Have a crush on anyone in school?  Yes, I had a crush on Todd who was then a junior at FSD cuz he looked so cute and athletic.  I watched him jogging almost every afternoon after school.  Another crush I had on when I entered a sophomore year at Seabreeze was a senior guy named Brett.  He looked so handsome and was so nice to me.  He was also a homecoming king.  I did introducing Brett to my father at homecoming dance.  I did not tell Todd about Brett much.

Go To Any Class Reunions?  Yes, I did.  I went to a 5th reunion while I was in college; and a 10th one during married to Todd.  I invited him there.  I was alone in riding a scooter attended 100th high school class reunion at SHS on April 26, 2008.  Maybe there will be 20th anniversary next year.  Wait and see what it will happen.

May 7, 2008 8:30 am:  P.S.    About homecoming king, Brett, I received a congratulation card from him in the mail.  It was handed to me by Mr. J. when I was about picking up my real diploma at SHS right after I graduated.  I was surprised.  I didn't know that!  I guess Brett found out a newspaper article about me a month before.  How nice of him!

List of Famous People Who Went To SHS

Here are the list of famous people who went to my high school, Seabreeze:

Sebastian Janikowski, Oakland Raiders kicker, class of 1997
Duane Allman and Gregg Allman, of The Allman Brothers Band, class of 1965
Walter McCoy, Gold Medalist (4x400 meter relay) at the 1984 Olympics, class of 1977
Rich Gibbs, keyboardist for Oingo Boingo, class of 1974
Bill France Jr., president of NASCAR from 1972 to 2000, deceased.
Kerry Healey, lieutenant governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007, class of 1978
Jane Morgan, American popular singer during the 1950s and 1960s
J.R. House, Professional baseball player.
Ron Rice, Founder, Hawaiian Tropic.
Kelley Estes, Actress, Class of 2000
Marie Fajardo Ragghianti real-life character played by Sissy Spacek in the movie Marie, class of 1960
Laurie Davison, Emmy Award winning television news reporter, class of 1983
Jon Shook, Co-Star of 2 Dudes Catering on the Food Network, class of 1999
Xavier Lee, quarterback for Florida State University. Class of 2004
Rance Winn, Founder, Blue Moon Rising Kennels.

Not to mention John Tanner, a state attorney, (HINT:  J.T. in one of my SHS blogs.  I finally met him at a picnic table outside the gym) above.  Not yet to be posted in the Wikipedia about him.

I figured I saw Walter McCoy at a 100th class reunion party last Sat.  It must him as he was chatting with other people when they came up to meet him unexpectedly but I did not meet him in a person.  McCoy gave them an autograph.  I noticed he was wearing an Olympics Gold medalist necklace.  He's also a black.

Did u know about a man named Ron Rice, a suntan lotion company founder?  I met him at his manison on the beachside for a party one night several years ago.  His manison looks huge.  I didn't know Ron graduated from there until I saw his name have been mentioning on the list few days ago.  No sign of Ron Rice there.  Sorry.

When I went to look up in the website of Wikipedia for Seabreeze High School, there are no mention of "disability" in it cuz I was the first multi-handicapped to be graduated from there in 1989.  I guess no disabled students attending there before 1986-1987, that first year I was a sophomore when I entered Seabreeze High.  I was transferred there from Ormond Beach Middle School when I finished the freshmen year but actually I went to Florida School for the Deaf and Blind (FSDB) in St. Augustine for 6 months.  FSDB is where Ray Charles attended.  I was surprised and figured out why.

Seabreeze Centennial Celebration April 26, 2008 Part 8

I’ve decided it’s time for me to leave the gym cuz my bus would come to pick me up at 3 pm.  I waited in the front of high school outside longer.  My bus was late.  I waited and waited.  I told a high school staff that I was waiting for the bus and I don’t have a cell phone or a pager when he came up with a golf chart.  He made his cell phone to my bus service, Votran.  He got someone on the phone and informed him or her about me.  After he hung up the cell phone, he informed me that my bus would be there in 10 minutes.  I hope so.  And finally, it arrived several minutes later!  It turned out a mini-van, not a bus.  And then a black female driver took me back to my parents’ house. 

I had wonderful time at 100^th anniversary party for SHS.  I will never forget that weekend.  The weather was so nice.  Will there be a 20^th high school class reunion next year?  I hope someone will send an invitation to us in the mail about it.  I did attending 5^th and 10^th high school reunions in the past.  I’ll do it again.

The End

See a slideshow of SHS 100th Celebration below:

Seabreeze Centennial Celebration April 26, 2008 Part 7

When I saw Lisa again on the way to gym, her first baby, I think, will be due in September.  Lisa asked me if I signed the yearbook at the table.  I replied I did.  Then I saw Mr. J again as he was about leaving.  I asked Lisa if she remembers him.  Lisa had seen him during our high school days together.  After I chatted with Lisa, I went back to the timeline table to find any more pictures of my father as a young boy.  I found one yearbook, 1949, and there is a picture of Dad with his 8^th grade class (see the pic of it on the right).  That school picture was taken at the bandshell.  I wondered how he and his class got there.  I guess they walked to the beachfront.  And then I spotted Patti again as she was looking at the yearbook on another table.  We chatted.  Afterwards, I had an idea about David, my youngest brother.  David did go to Seabreeze in one year but he wanted to be transferring to Mainland High School and then later on to Flagler Palm Coast High School and then later returned to Seabreeze but David did not graduating from there.  I saw a senior photo of David in the 1997 yearbook (see a pic of him on the right).  He looked cute in it back then but troublemaker.

Seabreeze Centennial Celebration April 26, 2008 Part 6

After I took a picture of the fence that leads to McDonald’s, I saw Mrs. L. chatting with some people outside on the way back to gym.  What I learned from Mrs. L is that the building of old cafeteria turning in an auditorium (see pic of it on the right).  The cafeteria had moved to east of it, a new additional one story building.  Wow!  I noticed next to an old cafeteria I recall is that there are stairs and roof, but now they are all gone!  I also recall there was an old auditorium on the south, next to the gym.  I saw there is a new addition, an elevator.  It could be used for disabled student or staff. 

Seabreeze Centennial Celebration April 26, 2008 Part 5

At the rear of high school, the fence along with some trees is where many students walk to McDonald’s and mini-food store on their lunch break for years since the new school opened in 1962.  I guess it closed on weekends but I don’t know.  That is where I rode in scooter to McDonald’s on lunch break few times when I was a student there.  I do remember there was ramp, a wooden or sand pavement, but no more.  It turned out new steps.  I recall one of few times, I had to meet my then boyfriend, Todd, at McDonald’s on lunch break a day before my Senior Prom and a day after he flew in to see me from California.  My mother brought him there.  He was waiting for me.  We had a nice lunch together at McDonald’s.  And then it was time for me go back to school for my next class.  I will never forget I had good times at McDonald’s.  McDonald’s is still there today. 

Seabreeze Centennial Celebration April 26, 2008 Part 4

On the way to the food court, I recognized Lisa, another classmate of mine again since I saw her at Wal-Mart few months ago.  She’s pregnant with her first child.  We talked little bit.  And then I ordered a cheeseburger and a package of potato chips for my lunch.  And a can of coke at the other food court.  As I was eating it at the picnic table outside the gym, I got a unexpected visitor, a famous state attorney, J. T., who was graduated from SHS in 1957.  I couldn’t do talking to him cuz I am chewing the food at the same time.  He knew my Dad.  I shook a hand with him and then he left.  After I finished eating lunch, I ran into a woman named Patti again since the last time I saw her was at Barnes & Noble Bookstore in Daytona Beach last year.  Patti was graduated of 1988 Class.  She brought her son along.  He’s wearing a pair of sports eyeglasses.  LOL!  After I chatted with Patti, I went on to explore the high school.  Oh, wow, my high school is transformed into new additional places.  Some roofs above the hallway outside disappeared (see a pic of it below).  New steps and gardens were added up.  New picnic tables and benches. 

To be continued...

Seabreeze Centennial Celebration April 26, 2008 Part 3

After that, I went back inside the gym, I saw Mr. J (see a pic of him below) there.  He came up to hug me.  Mr. J. was an administrative assistant at the time I attended Seabreeze as a student.  I already know Mr. J was transferred to another high school for his new job years ago.  Mr. J took care of my old scooter during my high school years.  He picked it up from the storage room when I arrived at high school every morning.  Every afternoon, Mr. J put my scooter away into the storage room when I go home.  I gave him an award on the night of Senior Awards (that is the pic on the right).  That was few days before I graduated.  It was late May.  I didn’t know what’s going on until someone calling my name and wanted me to come up to the stage that night.  It was an unexpected surprise to me and him.  I made a statement about him.  And then I received a hall of fame award along with a huge framed Senior photograph of me (see a pic of me on the right).  I will never forget that night of Senior Awards.  Unbelievable!  Fast forward to the present, after I talked with Mr. J., I signed the yearbook at the table with a crowd of other graduates outside the gym.  I mean inside the building.  That was for time capsule I guess.  When I finished signing it, I went to get my lunch at the food court on the football field outside.  I felt hungry. 

Seabreeze Centennial Celebration April 26, 2008 Part 2

I was looking around at the audience and then I spotted few of my hearing classmates in the crowd.  I recognized them.  Then I sped up going over to where women were standing in.  I hugged Selena and was glad to see her again.  And Tara, too.  Selena informed me that she saw me riding in a scooter and pointed at our old high school principal, Mr. S. (see a pic of him on the right).  Mr. S. walked up to hug me.  He was glad to see me again.  I noticed and can tell that Mr. S is about crying emotionally but he’s wearing a pair of sunglasses.  I met his wife.  She’s pretty. And then they went back to their seat and watch the ceremony.  I told Selena Mr. S. looks changing alot.  He’s retiring since 1990.  I didn’t know Mr. S. came back there that Sat morning.  I was surprised to see him again and glad. I do remember Mr. S. rode my scooter #1 few times, not much, when I was a high school student back then.  LOL!  I saw a picture of him in it in the yearbook.  As I was watching the ceremony, I was surrounded by few classmates of mine.  Those ladies brought their own children along.  Selena has 3 girls.  She married to a high school sweetheart, Scott.   Selena was a homecoming queen and cheerleader.  Tara has a toddler son and is pregnant with 2^nd child.  Tara was also a cheerleader and Miss Seabreeze Contestant.  One of Selena’s girls was playing with my scooter.  She’s cute.  That little girl thinks my scooter is a toy.  I laughed.  We were leaving the football field when the ceremony is over.  I guess Dad already left there before us.  I went over to the stage and hugged Mrs. L   I was glad to see her again.  We were chatted little bit.  And then I was heading for the gym where historical display is located.  When I got inside the building of gym, wow, the gym looks changing from old to new and bright.  Beautiful.  I can’t believe it.  There was a timeline on both sides of the long table, from 1908 to 2008.  I found some pictures of my uncle in each yearbook.  And Dad’s, too.  A museum about this high school has a great information.  Interesting about it.  Afterwards, I went outside to look at my high school.  I heard some small planes flew over SHS.  I figured these small planes are honoring in the celebration of 100^th anniversary of SHS.

Seabreeze Centennial Celebration April 26, 2008 Part 1

Last Saturday morning, I went back to Seabreeze High School (SHS) in Daytona Beach for celebrating 100^th anniversary of Seabreeze.  I was the first multi-handicapped to be graduated from there.  I have wonderful memories of SHS days.  Dad picked me up at my place for taking me over to his house cuz I have to pick up my scooter from there so Votran, my bus service, is going over to my parents’ house for picking me up.  I didn’t want Votran coming over to my apt cuz the size of space doesn’t fitting in my apt and there’s a step in the doorway.  Votran got on time when it arrived at my parents’ house.  Votran bus driver was heading for the bridge and then onto the road of beachfront.  As the bus driver was about getting closer to my destination, I noticed my high school looks changing since I left there 19 years ago.  Wow!  I can’t believe what I saw.  I was speechless.  Votran bus driver dropped me off there.  Then I was heading for the football field where the ceremony was held.  I missed few parts of ceremony cuz I have had time to eat breakfast first at my apt and then went over to my parents’ house that morning.  The football field is south of SHS and looks huge.  A teenage girl handed me a program booklet as I was arriving at the football field in riding a scooter.  I had to find Dad there but can’t find him.  I was waiting for him to show up.  Minutes later, Dad did showing up when I spotted him.  I tried to wave him in the crowd with other attendees but he did not paying attention at me.  I guess Dad looking around to find me.  Few minutes later, Dad finally spotted me and then walked over to meet where I am at.  During the ceremony, I had to sign my name on the list of 1989 Class at a registration tent.  I recognized some women’s name on that list.  I was surprised to find out they are there.  I was excited.  Then I looked for them somewhere on the football field but I don’t know where they were.  There are so many old graduates and attendees crowding all over.  At the registration  tent, I chatted with a lady who knows Chuck, her ASL instructor at college and from my deaf club.  She’s nice.  The lady found out I am hard of hearing.  As I was watching the ceremony, I noticed Dad chatting with old classmates.  Dad went back to where he was from after he finished chatting with them.

Searching For Bathing Suit. Tomorrow Plans.

This afternoon, I went out with Mom in search for the right bathing suit.  First stop at JCPenney's in the mall in Daytona Beach, I tried some cute bathing suits out but they don't fitting me.  Couldn't find the right size of few bathing suits that supposed to be 4-6.  And then went to Beall's and tried another one out but it's a wrong size that my mother doesn't understand.  She doesn't understand fashion but I do cuz I took a fashion management class at college several years ago.  Also, couldn't find the right size of that same bathing suit.  Next time we will try at Macy's and Dillard's.  And then I went home.

Tomorrow Plans
That's the last time I saw differently below:


Tomorrow morning, I will return to my high school, Seabreeze, in Daytona Beach for celebrating 100th anniversary of Seabreeze with other graduates and students and old teachers.  There will be a party.  I will bring my digital camera with me.  I will show these future photos to u next week.  They will going to be a slideshow.  Anyways, my high school is getting bigger since I left there in 1989.  Wow!  It looks changing now.  Seabreeze High School have had 2 different other sites since 1908.  First, the building of high school looked a medium, like 3 floors house.  Several years later, it moved to a 2nd site on the corner of Grandview Avenue and Earl Street.  Earl Street is where my deceased paternal grandmother lived with my Dad and his brothers when those boys were young.  Dad and his brothers went there but 2 of them graduated from a different high school.  Seabreeze High School moved again to another site in 1962.  It's across the road from beach.  See a yesterday's online article about 100th anniversary of Seabreeze High School below:

April 24, 2008

Seabreeze plans 'huge homecoming' to celebrate 100 years

By RAY WEISS
Staff Writer

DAYTONA BEACH -- The yearbooks and memorabilia fill Ruth Labno's office at Seabreeze High School.
Inundate would be a better description.
"I started three years ago on this," she said, of planning Seabreeze High School's 100th anniversary. "It's going to be a huge homecoming."
The stacked and tattered early yearbooks, dating back to 1912, are small in size and content, filled with fresh-faced, well-dressed students starting out in life. They are now gone. Only their photographs remain.
Each yearbook captures a piece of history, a reflection of the styles and culture of a bygone era, from Rudy Vallee and Sinatra to Elvis and the Beatles to Gwen Stefani and T-Pain.
But on Saturday, starting at 10 a.m., all those students from all those years will be honored during a once-in-a-lifetime celebration of a school. At least 1,000 graduates and their relatives are expected.
"We're getting 20 to 30 e-mails, and five calls a day," said Labno, an administrator and fixture at the school for 37 years. "Word's gotten out."
Bit by bit, Labno found former students from as far away as Seattle, and digging through decades of yearbooks, old photos and stories, the event came together with the help of others.
"But I haven't found the oldest surviving graduate," she said, somewhat disappointedly.
Labno did find an original 1908 diploma, though, like the three handed out to the original graduates of Seabreeze High School.
"There were about 18 to 20 students then, depending on reports," she said. "There aren't a whole lot of records."
This year, there are 1,865 at the latest of the school's three locations, built in 1962.
The 100th anniversary celebration will include a specially produced school play honoring Seabreeze's past, alumni marching bands and historic mementos, athletic uniforms and photos on display.
A time capsule will be buried at 2:30 p.m. and commemorative yearbooks will be on sale for $70.
Meagan Strasser, the 17-year-old senior editor, helped decide what would go into the historic yearbook, something she considers an honor.
"I'm so glad to have been part of it. It's been incredible for me to have gone through 100 years," said Strasser, whose father, two sisters and brother also graduated from Seabreeze. "I don't think I would have known as much about the school otherwise."
Gayleen Snead, class of 1951, is looking forward to the school's big anniversary party, and recounting a very different time at the Daytona Beach school with former classmates.
"It was so small and nice, and we'd have a lot of sock dances, and after-the-game parties," she recalled. "Everyone lived around the school. It was on Grandview then, behind where the Ocean Center is now. Everyone walked to school."
She paused and laughed: "My brother-in-law, Walter Snead, almost got expelled for riding a horse to school."
All five of her children, her late husband, Edwin, and his three siblings attended Seabreeze. So did Bill France Jr.
"He was a character," she recalled of the late NASCAR patriarch. "All I can think about is the country music he was playing all the time. Bill was a loner. He didn't talk a lot, unless he'd make a comment."
She said another graduate, Deanna Lund, found success in Hollywood, best known for her role in the popular late '60s TV series, "Land of the Giants."
"I don't think she's coming," Snead said.
Organizers said other notable graduates such as Gregg Allman of the Allman Brothers Band, 1950s and '60s singer Jane Morgan, former Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Kerry Murphy Healey and NFL place-kicker Sebastian Janikowski aren't expected to attend either.
But ultimately, it's the memories, not the memorable, that will take center stage.
"Looking back, I feel blessed we had so many years of camaraderie and fun at the school," Snead said. "We all were born and grew up here. This is a landmark that's important, to have people stop and think, 100 years have passed."
Family boasts 3 generations of Seabreeze graduates
Lorraine Lewis, Lorraine Miklos and Jaclyn Miklos have much more in common than three generations of family lineage.
Each woman attended Seabreeze High School in Daytona Beach.
"We had a lot of fun. I remember Friday night dances at the pier," Lewis recalled, as she looked through a 1936 yearbook from the year she and 43 others received their diplomas. "I played piano on stage at graduation."
These days, Lewis, her daughter and granddaughter are looking forward to the 100th anniversary celebration of the school on Saturday at the beachside grounds where the school has stood since 1962. Nearly 1,000 graduates and their families from across the country are expected to attend.
Lorraine Micklos, a math teacher at Seabreeze and a 1973 alum, never questioned that she'd follow in her father and mother's footsteps, just like her daughter did after her.
"What we always talk about is how nice it is to have the history in the same place," she said, her mother and daughter sitting at her side. "We knew we were Sandcrabs before we hit school. I started going to the football games at age 5. So it was not a choice."
The family history wasn't lost on Jaclyn, 20, a 2006 graduate now attending Flagler College who finished at the same high school 70 years after her grandmother.
"Since I was in kindergarten, they said I was going to Seabreeze," she said, smiling. "It's amazing that my grandmother and mother went to the same high school."
Her brother attended Spruce Creek High School in Port Orange, which was OK with her mom.
"It wasn't Mainland," Lorraine Miklos said, laughing.
Lewis, 88, added: "It was just accepted that it was the way it would be for all four of my children who graduated from Seabreeze."
The three Seabreeze graduates are looking forward to the 100th anniversary celebration, where old stories and friendships will be rekindled with classmates from three very different eras.
"I think there's a sense of belonging when you come back to a place," Lorraine Miklos said. "What I remember about high school is all the administrators and teachers who knew my parents. I never left home, when I left home. I was just going to a different set of parents."
And in not too many more years, there should be a fourth generation of Seabreeze girls carrying on the family tradition.
"I have a granddaughter who lives in this zone," Lorraine Miklos said, smiling. "And she has no choice."  
Seabreeze High: 100 Years and Counting
· Seabreeze officially becomes a high school in 1908, with the graduation of its first senior class; formerly called the Memento School in the peninsula town of Seabreeze, starting in 1886 on the corner of Halifax Avenue and Ora Street.
· New concrete-and-steel building costing $58,000 opens in 1917 on the corner of Grandview Avenue and Earl Street.
· New building opens in 1962 at 270 N. Oleander Ave. on 23 acres. Construction cost: $1.25 million. The old school becomes Seabreeze Junior High School.
· Three-year school renovation and modernization completed in 2002 for almost $33 million.
Here is an aerophoto of huge Seabreeze High School below: