"I've been here 27 years, and the one thing I can tell you is when I tell someone that I work at South Miami Senior High, they'll always ask, 'Is Branstetter still there?'" says Danny Lavandeira, the school's activities director. "Everybody said he was the best and the greatest. He
is South Miami Senior High."
Branstetter's legacy lives on in the school's Wall of Fame, which he and Ferre filled with photos to honor students who made it big, and in the Little Theater, which bears his name.
A street near the school will soon be named after him, too.