It was no accident that East Lake High visual arts ... She was named the school district’s top teacher in a ceremony Wednesday evening at Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg, one of 10 finalists ...

In the mid-1950s, when Elvis was king of rock 'n' roll, East Lake High School theater director Jerry L. Shaver was a boy nearing his teens. And by the time Grease, a musical set in the 1950s ...