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Nellie Soash is interviewed by Grace May, Ginger Infanger, Tanna (Eck) Brock, and Bill McKelvie about her experiences as a student, teacher, and parent in Routt County's rural schools.
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Ruth Carver Lawrence is interviewed by Grace May, Ginger Infanger, Tanna (Eck) Brock, and Bill McKelvie about working as a teacher and as the county superintendent for Routt County rural schools. Bill May participates at the end of the interview.
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Frances and George Wheeler, along with Bill May, are interviewed by Grace May about their student and teaching experiences in Routt County rural schools.
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Nellie Soash is interviewed by Grace May, Ginger Infanger, and Tanna (Eck) Brock about her experiences working as a rural school teacher in Routt County.
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Frances and George Wheeler, along with Bill May, are interviewed by Grace May about their student and teaching experiences in Routt County rural schools. George and Bill also discuss ranching concerns.
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A photograph of Red Cliff Union High School, sometime during the 1940s.
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Dr. Andrew Gulliford, head of The Country School Legacy Project (a survey of rural schools over eight states, funded by the National Endowment of the Humanities) presents information from the project in a lecture at the Museum of Western Colorado. The lecture includes reflections from rural school teachers in Colorado, including teaching techniques, discipline problems, infectious diseases, and issues with poorly constructed buildings. Teachers also...
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Eagle County High School in Gypsum, Colorado circa 1916, the same year Alda Borah would graduate.
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The frame construction Antelope School building, completed in 1917, which replaced the original log school building completed in 1912. The log building became the teacherage. Some of the teachers at the Antelope School were "Leila Ferguson, Joan Funk, Mildred Sayre, Alma Slattery, Margie Harbaugh, Marion Conley, Maude Stratton Smith, Tracy Hatch, Yarbo, Gertrude McGlochlin, and Zola Sherwood." -- McCoy Memoirs p.47 The school was in use until 1950...
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Reuben A. Pitts talks about wars between cattle and sheep ranchers, about rural school life in Plateau Valley, Colorado, and about the Big Creek Reservoir flood. He also discusses his job as a typesetter for his father’s newspaper, The Plateau Valley Voice, in Collbran. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries, the Museums of Western Colorado and the Mesa County Historical Society....
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A photograph of Red Cliff Union High School on Monument Street in Red Cliff, Colorado. The school now houses town offices and the Red Cliff museum. The photograph appears to have been taken during the later 1970s.
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June (Frey) Britz and Rosabell Cordova stand behind their husbands (Aloysius Britz) at a reunion for Red Cliff Union High School held in July of 1977. June and Rosabell attended school together in Red Cliff, Colorado. The classes of students who graduated from RCUHS were so small that often the events included anyone from a particular decade or an open invitation.
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Joseph Dewey Allen stands on the stairs to Eagle High School in Eagle, Colorado, wearing some sort of hat. A girl is also pictured on the left side of the photograph.
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Four students stand with their teacher, Mrs. Morrison, who is fourth from left with short hair and a dark jacket. This was taken outside Red Cliff Union High School in Red Cliff, Colorado.
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A photograph of attendees, from left to right, Mrs. Owens, Jesse & Joyce Myers, at the Red Cliff Union High School reunion in July of 1977.
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A group of former graduates at the Red Cliff Union High School reunion, July 1977. Back row, left to right: Mary Frances (Bayer) Baldo, Gloria (Lucero) Trujillo, Audrey (Weber) Golden). Front row, left to right: Gwen (Jude) Fuller, Marvel (Ashlock) Barnes, and Ruby (Dump) Crye.
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Peggy Morrison, center, and Mae Erlandson, at right. Both were teachers at Red Cliff Union High School.,
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"Freshies at Eagle H.S. Sept. 10, 1915" Left to right: Merril Frasier, Mayme Long, George Ziegler, Hazel Harris, & Claude Peterson. The photograph is printed on a postcard, which also reads "From Buster (George Ziegler) to Mary Jane (Alda), the names we called each other September 29, 1915".
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Tom Reed is pictured in a white hat next to Eleanor Williams Beck at the Red Cliff Union High School Reunion in 1977.
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Red Cliff Reunion, July 1977. Russell Beck stands behind Angela Beck, Buster Beck, and Fred Golden, husband of Audrey Weber Golden.