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Verso: "Gilman school house where we went to school for a month. Later Mom and Perlita taught here -- Betty Jo Schmidt"
The Gilman School was in School District 6 in Eagle County, Colorado.
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MacDonald Knight standing in the playground area of the Gilman School.
Verso: "Gilman elementary school where Mom [Sophie Knight] and Perlita [Knight Gauthier] taught and BJ [Betty Jo Knight Schmidt] and Don [MacDonald Knight] went. Battle Mtn. behind 1938." Print stamp: Jan. 10 1936.
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MacDonald Knight standing in the snow on the Red Cliff school grounds. He went to high school in Red Cliff and received his master's degree from Western State College. Mr. Knight was a Fulbright Scholar to France in 1953-54.
Eagle Street is in the background and what is now the Red Cliff Community Church [396 Eagle St.] is at right.
Verso: "Don Redcliff 1936, going to RCHS" stamp: Jan 10 1936
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School Days 1945-46, photo of teacher, Sophie Hamrick Knight.
”She taught my daughter, Patricia, in kindergarten, Red Cliff. (First year we had kindergarten here.)”--Angela Beck
”Mrs. Knight began her teaching during a teacher shortage in World War II era. She went back to college and received her degree at Western State, then returned to Eagle County to teach. She has taught in the Minturn area for 16 years. Mrs. Knight plans to spend the...
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School Days 1960-61, photo of teacher, Sophie Hamrick Knight.
"Mrs. Knight began her teaching during a teacher shortage in World War II era. She went back to college and received her degree at Western State, then returned to Eagle County to teach. She has taught in the Minturn area for 16 years. Mrs. Knight plans to spend the summer at Marble, and beyond that her plans are not definite." --Eagle Valley Enterprise May 19, 1966 p.1
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School Days 55-56, photo of teacher, Sophie Hamrick Knight.
"She taught my daughter, Patricia, in kindergarten, Red Cliff. (First year we had kindergarten here.)"--Angela Beck
"Mrs. Knight began her teaching during a teacher shortage in World War II era. She went back to college and received her degree at Western State, then returned to Eagle County to teach. She has taught in the Minturn area for 16 years. Mrs. Knight plans to spend the summer...
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Red Cliff Union High School band getting ready to play at the viaduct opening. The viaduct carries Pine Street over the railroad tracks and the Eagle River.
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Kathy Schmidt, dressed for her role in the opera, "The Lowland Sea."
9. Tom Knight
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Tom Knight standing in front of his home in 1959. [print copy date June 1984]
"Thomas Knight was born near French Lick, Ind. May 28, 1886 and completed his education at Central Normal College, Ill. He first came to Colorado with his parents and brother, Robert in 1908. ... He first came to Eagle County in 1929 from Canon City and went to work for the Empire Zinc...until his retirement in 1949." --Eagle Valley Enterprise Aug. 11, 1960
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MacDonald Knight on left with Harold Stoner and pack burros. This was the first prospecting trip in 1939. Knight taught school during the year and had his summers free to prospect.
Front: "1st trip in '39 Gold Park, Don, Stoner"