Ceiling Drums

• The clouds represent the orange industry, the water tower, and the Seminole schools.
• Bauder Elementary opened in the fall of 1971. While the school was being built, students were housed in the former Largo Senior High building Board where Seminole Junior HIgh students had classes a few years before while they were awaiting the completion of their school. Today, the Pinellas County School Board building stands on this site.
• Seminole Middle School opened in the fall of 1968 as Seminole Jr. High. The first class had only 7th grade. The following year, 8th grade was added, and the year after that, the school added 9th grade. It remained a jr. high until the 1973-1974 school year, when Pinellas County went to a middle school model (grades 6-8), and high school became grades 9-12. Many high schools in the county, including Seminole HIgh, went on double session to alleviate overcrowding. It was several years before all the high schools returned to single session.
• Seminole High School opened in fall of 1961. The first graduating class was the class of 1962. The school mascot, Wally Warhawk, was based on a caricature of the first principal, Stanley Moore, done by Ed Barclay. Mr. Moore had a rather large proboscis that was memorialized in the picture by Ed Barclay, an artist for the St. Petersburg Times.
• Seminole Elementary opened in 1915. Additional information can be found on the Seminole Elementary display.

Orange Grove Elementary opened in fall of 1960, and was on double session with Madeira Beach Elementary until it was ready to open in January of 1961.