Lakemont
901 North Lakemont Avenue
Winter Park,
The
Leopards
Lakemont Elementary school built around 1954-55 has been torn down
and was rebuilt new on the same site.
We were small when we started, and we had a great eagerness. The
doors were tall and our feet didn’t always touch the ground when we sat. Every
classroom had a bathroom, we had recess and nap time.
They were already building a new wing for the second grade. Smokey Bear
(“Smokey the Bear”) was the same age as us. Everything was blossoming.
We would walk in lines to lunch, the library, and the back parking
lot where we learned Square Dance. By the middle of elementary school Barbara
Millicent Roberts (“Barbie”) was born (in 1959).
Leaving elementary school was a big and exciting step. It was also
scary and sad, some of us would go to Maitland and some of us would go to
Glenridge.
Off to junior high school!