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Helen Wilson talks about the life of her father, Robert “Bob” Ross, co-founder of the Ross Business College, important educator in Fruitvale, Colorado, and an early settler of that area. 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.
*Photograph from 1936 Grand Junction High School yearbook.
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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...
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Studio portrait of Bud Guy [Arthur Guy, Jr.] for graduation from Minturn High School.
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Mary Cox talks about her education at the Bryant School and elsewhere in Grand Junction, about corsets and other aspects of school fashion, the history of the Riverside Neighborhood, attending community dances and Glenwood Springs’ Strawberry Days, and boys swimming in the Colorado River. She also discusses old downtown businesses, going to movies at the Majestic Theater, a brothel that advertised at the Mesa County Fairgrounds during a baseball...
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Frieda Miller talks about her pioneer ranching family’s arrival in Palisade, Colorado, and about the exploits of her colorful father, Eben “Mac” Miller. She speaks about her school days in Palisade and Grand Junction, and about childhood games she played (such as Duck on a Rock). She discusses her later life and marriage with farmer and carpenter George Weaver, and her long period as a vegetarian. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County...
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Students from the Minturn school, grades 6-8, around 1940-1941.
Back row (l-r): Henry Dittmer, Jr., George Roybal, Richard Day, Nathan Waibl, Jackie Palmer, Gerald Green.
Middle row (l-r): Gene Clark, Tony Hernandez, Norman Covalt, Harold Ginther, Buddy Norwood, Leslie Jenkins, James Sifers, Bernie Bowen, Keith Lynn, Marvin O'Neal.
Front row (l-r): Charlotte Perry, Shirley Winters, Raylene Palmer, Pauline Trujillo, Edna Cesko, L. Jordan, Leona...
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Gilbert Baylis explains his relationship with former United States Senate appointee Walter Walker’s son, Preston, who was a close friend of his growing up. Baylis describes Preston Walker as a very popular fellow and a friendly rival to him. Baylis also discusses his own education in politics, and Walter and Preston’s family life and social activities. This recording is made available via signed release by the Mesa County Oral History Project,...
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Levi Morse discusses the history of Mesa County, Colorado, including fruit growing, drinking water from the Gunnison River and its link to typhoid fever, the YMCA, and the creamery business. He also talks extensively about social events such as the Mesa County Fair, and gives a firsthand account of the first motion picture showing in Grand Junction. June Morse talks about teaching at Fruitvale High School, community organizations and social gatherings....
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Walter Gaddy talks about his childhood in Nucla, Olathe, and Montrose, and about his father’s barbershop and shoe repair shop. He also discusses his aunt’s honey production business and beekeeping in detail. 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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Emma (Berg) Nagel discusses life in early Fruita as a student turned school teacher, and talks about the farm life of her family (her parents were immigrants from Sweden who settled in Western Colorado), with an extended description of her mother’s homemaking tasks. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
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A class photo of students at McCoy High School.
Back row (l-r): Lenetta Blake, Ruby Lowe, Koy (Sheets) Wolverton, Janey Spitellie, Unidentified teacher, John Tipton, Dorothy Virden, Millie Seaman, Ellen Stark, ?
Front row (l-r): Mack Spitellie, Leonard Blake, John Saltzgaver, Robert Cock, ?, Tom Sawyer, Leo Tipton, Ernie Shue, ?, Mickey Maguire
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A class photo of McCoy High School's classes of 1958 and 1959. From left to right: ?, Terry Seaman, ?, Arthur Sheets, John Whiteley, Barbara Shue, Edith Bearden, ?, Rhoda Halle, Susan Booco, Sherry Brown
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"The Yarmony Park School under construction in 1918. The Carpenters are Claude Branson, Dave Clow, and Floyd Cates. Ben and Kate Butler are visitors from Conger Mesa. The building was finished and opened for the first term of school that year." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 49
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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William Raber talks about his family’s ranch in the Kannah Creek area of Mesa County, Colorado, and about the development of reservoirs and water projects, beginning with the city of Grand Junction’s diversion of water from Kannah Creek around 1910. He also talks about traveling by train with cattle that he intended to sell in Los Angeles, and about discrimination that he experienced during World War I as the son of German immigrant. The interview...
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Freshman Initiation at McCoy High School. The boys wore girls' clothes and the girls wore boys' clothes. From left to right: ?, La Vere Seaman, Emma Handley, Koy (Sheets) Wolverton, Lawrence Dooley
336) Steve Johnson
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Steve Johnson poses for a picture in the fall of 1951. He would be starting first grade that fall.
337) Class of 1941
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The Eagle High School graduating class of 1941 poses for a picture.
From left to right: Tom Hartman, Shirley Cox, Virginia Casselman, Arves Cofffee, Benny Meehan, Jean Allen, Ethel Mary Macdonnell, Maxine Casselman, Ida Mary Daugherty, and Karma Black.
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Third and fourth graders from the Eagle Elementary School take a class picture in the spring of 1933. Jean Allen is in the third row from the bottom, second from the right.
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Seventh and eighth graders from the Eagle Middle School take a class picture in the spring of 1936. Jean Allen is second from the left in the second row from the bottom.
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The Eagle Middle School eighth grade graduation in 1937. Jean Allen is pictured in the middle row, second from the left. Benny Meehan is pictured in the bottom row, far right.
