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The Spreading Eagle was the student produced and edited newsletter of Eagle High School in Eagle, Colorado. The newsletter included sports scores, upcoming events, student achievements, and other updates concerning students and teachers.
This particular issue focuses on commencement and the end of the school year with details of the commencement banquet, highlights of the senior class, class will, sports updates, and a review of the senior play....
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In an interview from May 14, 1981 (audio only, no transcript), Basil T. Knight talks about his youth in Michigan, meeting his wife’s family in Palisade, Colorado and ultimately moving there, operating a fruit farm, and becoming a lifelong teacher and school administrator. He explains the mechanisms that originally funded the many smaller school districts on the Western Slope, including taxes on railroads, and the reasons for the consolidation that...
4. L. W. Green
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Studio photo of Mr. L. W. Green, superintendent of Eagle County High School. Photo was in the Pirates Log 1950 [yearbook] for the High School. Mr. Green graduated from Greeley State Teachers College, earning his bachelor of arts degree in education and his masters degree. He taught school at Eagle and later served for 17 years as superintendent of schools in Gypsum. In 1956 he moved to Rifle where he was superintendent for the RE-2 school district,...
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The first of two panels of ceramic tiles created by Kindergarten, First, Second and Third grade classes at Columbine Elementary School as part of a school-wide project during the 1997-1998 school year. The tiles are now displayed in the Mesa County Libraries Central Branch in an East Entrance hallway.
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Antonio Clark talks about growing up in Denver, Colorado, and the important role of youth sports in his upbringing. He speaks about his career in high school sports and about being a walk-on as a football player at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction. He discusses racism that he experienced as an African-American on the CMU campus, but also his view that diversity on the campus has increased, and that some attitudes about race have changed.
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A panel of ceramic tiles created by Fourth grade classes at Columbine Elementary School as part of a school-wide project during the 1997-1998 school year. The students made the panels with Colorado History in mind. The tiles are now displayed in the Mesa County Libraries Central Branch in an East Entrance hallway.
10. Lux Aquilae 1927
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A panel of ceramic tiles created by Kindergarten, First, Second, and Third grade students and staff at Columbine Elementary School as part of a school-wide project during the 1997-1998 school year. The tiles are now displayed in the Mesa County Libraries Central Branch in an East Entrance hallway.
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Philip Griebel talks about his life as an educator and a coach at Fruita High School. He remembers the fire that burnt down the first Fruita Union High School in 1934. He describes teaching topics in science and math for 28 years. He speaks about his career as a basketball, football, and track coach, remembers school and community involvement in the games, and rivalries between Fruita and high schools in Delta, Grand Junction, Gunnison, Montrose,...
15. Lux Aquilae 1939
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Lux Aquilae was the official yearbook of Eagle High School in Eagle, Colorado. The literal translation from latin means “light eagle”. Each yearbook contains photographs of students, teachers, administrators, sports teams, clubs, activities, and the school and town itself.
In this yearbook, hard copy photographs were used and glued to each page of each copy of the yearbook. Many photographs were removed or had experienced severe wear and tear....
16. Lux Aquilae 1938
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Photographs of students creating tiles for the Columbine Elementary School Tile Project, a school-wide project during the 1997-1998 school year. The tiles are now displayed in the Mesa County Libraries Central Branch in an East Entrance hallway.
The document also contains a brief history of the project, a photograph of Columbine Elementary School, and a history of the school from the book In the Beginning by Albert and Terry LaSalle. The document...
18. Lux Aquilae 1926
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The second of two panels of ceramic tiles created by Kindergarten, First, Second and Third grade classes at Columbine Elementary School as part of a school-wide project during the 1997-1998 school year. The tiles are now displayed in the Mesa County Libraries Central Branch in an East Entrance hallway.