Education | Alamosa/Southern San Luis Valley

Graduation portrait of Erinea García (later Erinea García de Gallegos), holding her diploma and a bouquet of roses in her lap.  She graduated from Antonito High School in Antonito (Conejos County) in 1918.

Delfino Salazar, a resident of the San Luis Valley, shown as student at Jarvis Hall, a liberal arts, grammar, and military college in Denver, 1880s

The Sisters of Loretto ran a school for girls in Conejos, perhaps for Spanish-speaking children

Conejos Junior High School, class of 1926

Members of the staff of El Conquistador, a yearbook, sit at a table at the San Luis Institute of the Arts and Crafts in San Luis.

Rueben Pacheco, a student in the General Vocational Program at the San Luis Institute of the Arts and Crafts in San Luis, 1953

The San Luis Institute of the Arts and Crafts, San Luis, 1953

Students in the General Vocational Program, inside the San Luis Institute of the Arts and Crafts in San Luis, 1953

The President’s House at Adams State University, founded in 1921 as a “normal school” ( teachers’ college) in Alamosa

Freshman class officers at the San Luis Institute of the Arts and Crafts in San Luis (Costilla County). They are identified (left to right) as: Secretary-Treasurer Irene Trujillo, Vice President Gene Medina, and President Abie Duarte.

Women in a physical education class at the San Luis Institute of the Arts and Crafts in San Luis (Conejos County). The women are identified (left to right) as: Margie Cordova, Josephine Prezzia, Lucille Ortega, Sally Trujillo, Henrietta Lobato, Loyola Romero, Viola Garcia, Irene Arguello, Ninfa Romero, Delfinia Rael.