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The picture above was presented to the Swink Public and School Library by Pattie Zimmerman and Peggy Gearhart in their parents' name, Ralph and Frances Kenagy.
After Swink became a town schools were built. In 1907 four teachers were hired. Swink School was built in 1921. In May 1923, Swink celebrated its first graduating class. That year four students graduated. The first four graduates of Swink School were: Galen Newkirk, Joseph Arraj, Alfred Arraj, & Clair Wasson. On June 13, 1955 the people of District 33 voted 175 to 56 to build a new building northeast of the school on the land the district purchased prior to voting. July 1st construction was started with Mr. Howard Kranz of La Junta contracting the concrete jobs. Mr. Kranz was also appointed by the Board of Education to supervise the rest of the construction. The building consisted of a gymnasium, school shop, mechanical drawing room, finishing room, two dressing rooms, music office, cafeteria, kitchen, janitors' utility room, coaches' office and officials' dressing room, lobby, two public rest rooms and a large storage space under the north side bleachers. The gymnasium seated approximately 875 people. |
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| Swink the "Tidy" Town Swink Absorbs Two Districts Fairview and Fairmont, Otero county rural school districts Numbers 15 and 23, came together with Swink Schools February 25, 1955. This was a very welcome move and one in which the people of the two districts "voted to help carry the burden of educating their children." The biggest single benefit of the vote was the relief of financial burden on the Swink district. Swink Schools have increased in number. It has also given the school plant an opportunity to improve and enlarge and also to lower the mill levy for Swink District. The new gymnasium which was a necessity with this new large district has been an addition. (April 22, 1956). |
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