Las Animas High School - Trojan Yearbook (Las Animas, CO)

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1870 )ent Gou i yJlnj i 1961 A private or subscription school was opened at Boggsville (one mile south of Las Animas) in the fall of 1869. by Miss Mattie Smith. That building, located on the corner of Vigil Avenue and Seventh Street - a two-story, three-roomed, adobe structure, was the foundation of our present school system. In April, 1870, Bent County was organized and on April 25, 1870, School District No. 1 was organized. In 1871 Bent County was 110 miles long and 84 miles wide. The first and only school district at that time was No. 1, which included Boggsville. The first public school was held in the fall of 1871 at Boggsville. The Las Animas high school students went to high school in the old Frey School building close to the site of Memorial School. In 1915, the new Bent County High School was completed and occupied for the first time. (Old section of present Bent County High) Today, Bent County High School has a fast-growing curriculum. The approximate number of students attending today is three hundred forty-nine. Because of the steady pace of growth and development, there is a demand for advanced courses which are being added, giving us a more rounded curriculum. Including 1960, two thousand four hundred sixty-three students have graduated from Bent County High School.

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I am Education. I bear the torch that enlightens the world, fires the imagination of man and feeds the flames of genius. I give wings to dreams and might to brawn and brain. From out the silent shadows of the past I come, wearing the scars of struggle and the stripes of soil, but bearing in triumph the wisdom of all ages. Man, because of me, holds dominion over earth, air and sea; it is for him I leash the lightning, plumb the deep and shackle the waves of ether. I am the parent of progress, the creator of culture and the molder of destiny. Philosophy, science and art are my handiworks. I banish ignorance, discourage vice, disarm anarchy. Thus have I become freedom's citadel, the arm of democracy, the hope of youth, the pride of adolescence, the joy of age. Fortunate the nations and happy the homes that welcome me. The school is my workshop; here I stir ambitions, stimulate ideals, forge the keys that open the door to opportunity, the master of human destiny. I am the source of inspiration, and aid of aspiration, for I am Irresistible Power.

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