COSTA MESA
As Carolyn Beach prepared to go out Friday night, her daughter took one look at what her mother planned to wear, grimaced and issued a solemn command: Change.
The strange role reversal was reproduced throughout Costa Mesa that night as parents, giddy as 16-year-olds, preened and posed in front of the mirror, anticipating Costa Mesa High School’s first-ever faculty-parent dance.
The brainchild of PTA President Sheryl Slaney, the faculty-parent dance was conceived as a way for the school to make a little bit of money and offer parents a low-key, fun way to meet the teachers.
The school’s all-faculty band, Stagefright, quickly added the venue to its world tour schedule this fall (they even put it on their T-shirts). And Principal Andy Hernandez turned over the gym, which was decorated with balloons and posters screaming “Blast to the Past.â€
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