![]() ![]() ![]() “Setting the Tone for Higher Education” fills some of the gaps in the University's history. It now serves as a symbol for this state of interconnected histories once it called Blanco Star students to their classrooms, and now it greets incoming freshmen at Texas State University convocation ceremonies. In 2008, the alumni donated materials related to their school to the Texas State University Archives, including their old school bell. In 1982, former Blanco Star School students started meeting for annual reunions organized by their former teacher. This story unfolds through oral histories with alumni, woven with details from articles and education theses. This two-room country school made such a mark on its students and teachers that nearly seventy years after its doors closed the last time, the alumni and former teachers worked to stay in contact. When the Blanco Star closed in 1945, the students transferred to San Marcos schools, located on the university’s campus, where many students remained through their college years. It was likely a training school for educators studying at Southwest Texas State Teachers College. Rural schoolchildren in Hays County attended the Blanco Star School from 1922-1945, located approximately three miles northeast of San Marcos, where the Hays County Jail stands now.
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