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LA VETA SCHOOLS 1872- First school built in La Veta. 1881- A.G. Boone owned the La Veta school building. Teacher was Melvina Hammond. 1882- Teachers at La Veta were Jennie Dunlap and Honora McQuisten. 1883- may- La Veta Election of officers, Treasurer S. L. Strange term had expired and President C. McComb had died. Eight votes were cast; 7 for Fred Pischel and one for J.C. Goss for president; seven votes for C.P. Noland and one for D.M. McCaskill for treasurer. 1883- La Veta Principal; Darius Conrad of Denver. Teacher Miss Fannie Davis. 1885, August 7- La Veta "We the voters of District #9, respectfully ask that your honorable body call a meeting of the legal voters of this district for the purpose of voting a special tax to assist in paying teachers for a 9 months school, also to vote bonds to build a respectable building for school purposes." Signed by C. Ritchey, Will Krier, F.R. Hill, F.A. Moore, C.L. Camp,
La Veta School, 1890 Teacher Mrs. IRWIN Fred EDMISTEN Charley ESTES Charley IRWIN "Poley" ERWIN Will ESTES Arthur DANKS Tom MARTIN Orvie FRANCISCO Frank
STAPLIN Dwight CLARK Charley RICHARDSON Frank
HAMILTON Charley MARTIN Aaron HARRIS Frank EDMISTEN Annie WILIS May ESTES Etta KIRBY Gussie KREUGER Annie McQuirter Alex KIRBY Asa ARNOLD Bert PRATOR Jim HAMILTON Maggie McCONNEL Edna BALLARD Julia
IRWIN Mollie CONWAY Maude HIGGINS Annie
McFARLAND Belle WILLIS Lillie EDMISTEN Lula CRUMLEY Louisa HARRIS 2 Unidenified boys
La Veta School, 1895 Ida CLIFFORD Jennie CRUMLEY Helen DOTSON Nillah EDMISTEN Ed ERWIN Horace ERWIN Clarence ESTES Dula ESTES Florence ESTES Myrtle ESTES Roma ESTES Nellie FEY Murry FRANCISCO Mable GRAHAM (boy) GROOVES Jessie GROVES Blanch HAMILTON Luther
KIRBY Cora KITCHEN Josie KITCHEN Ed
"Bunch" MARTIN Owen McQUIRTER Dusky NOLAN Charley
PHILLIPS Maggie PHILLIPS Ethel POWELL Charles PRATOR Frank PRATOR William PRATOR (girl)
ROADES WiIlie SMITH Eddie SPRINGER Willie SPRINGER Benton VORIES Ralph WHITE 2
unidentified boys 1 unidentified girl
First Graduating Class of La Veta High School, 1907 Teacher: A.R. KENT Blanche ALEXANDER (READ) Eva DAIGRE (BRENNAN) Grace RITTER Eugene VORIES
1907 October La Veta: Robert Fuzzell, the teacher at the school house above Bemen's sawmill, died of tuberculosis at the Springer Hotel.
Graduating Class of La Veta High School, 1908: Teacher: A.R. KENT Mae ALEXANDER (WILLBURN) Otto MACK Lela McFARLAND (POWELL)
Graduating Class of La Veta High School, 1910 Ruby CAPPS (VORIES) Margaret ALEXANDER (MAYER) Jemina HARRIS Lily CRUMLEY (FIRM)
First Football Team in La Veta Arch MAULDIN ---- CROSS Phil HARRIS Elmer SHOEMAKER George COLEMAN George
YOUNG Ernest RILLING Floyd MOORE Grover KIMSEY Art FOOTE Bill LENNOX Bak McLEVE Clarence ESTES
LaVeta Baseball Team, 1912 Albert TURNER Lyle THOMAS Harold
CRAIG Walt PRATOR Charles FIRM Leslie SMITH Roy MATHEWS Clyde ESTES Abe SPARKS, manager
1914 La Veta Union High School Graduation
Invitation
Class Motto
Clara Bates (upper right), Mary Stranger, Winnie Woodring, Flora Woodring, Lola Stewart, Nona Reynolds.
Principal: H.S. Brown Assistant Principal: Mrs. H.S. Brown Contributed by Theresa Bright 12-2005
LaVeta Baseball Team, 1920
Leslie SMITH Harold CRAIG Levine HAASE Lisle THOMAS Delmar SMITH Jimmy SANCHEZ Bryan DENTON, on far left Rene BRUCE Colin
BECKER Jimmy GHIARDI
Graduating Class of La Veta High School, 1927 Teacher: Mr. CURTIS Harold DANKS Orvil DUNBAR Ewell WOODRING Kelly BIANONI Lyle ESTES Jack KIRBY Alice BEAMER Doris WEBSTER Ina ERWIN Lily FALK Nina ALEXANDER Viva JARNIGAN Edith POWELL Genieva SMITH
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