Graduated Miami Beach High School

Byrd graduated from Miami Beach High School in 1959 before entering art college.

The 1959 diploma ends secondary school in the city where he grew up.

Poster Child records him as a self-described “big man on campus,” voted most popular in the 1959 yearbook.

Next comes Boston Museum School, then Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh. Childhood closes; college begins.

Chapter placement: Poster Child · Miami Beach (1959). This internal article expands the timeline card so “Read full article” never dead-ends on a teaser.

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Sources used for this article: Poster Child (2023); Wikipedia.

For magazine and trade obituaries covering the full career arc and February 3, 2025 Albuquerque death, open the imported Press articles (Playbill, Deadline, Hollywood Reporter, Ultimate Classic Rock, Amsel tribute, NYT record).